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NEWS: DC Comics CEO on CMX, Tenjho Tenge Editing

"We probably have a more limited range of what would be at the far edge of R-rated to X-rated content than some publishers. We don't want to do material that is beyond the range we'd publish ourselves in our own lines. That affects the range that we look at as well. The Japanese culture is comfortable with any number of things in manga that American audiences are not necessarily comfortable with. We're probably not going to be the company that is going to push the limits to the extreme there. "

Apparently, the violence in TenTen is somehow more extreme than what's found in Infinite Crisis. Going by what Donna M. described above, I would think there isn't that much of a difference between the violence portrayed in Infinite Crisis and the violence in TenTen. This also brings up another point that has always bothered me about the TenTen edits. Most of what is censored is the sexual content and nudity. So showing nudity and sex is somehow worse than showing someone getting their head chopped off? Is this one of the "cultural differences" between Japan and America that Levitz was talking about? That tearing off someone's arm is perfectly acceptable by American standards, but showing a pair of breasts is not? I would think that seeing someone being cut in half would damage a young person more than seeing a nipple, but I guess Paul Levitz does not.

I agree 100%. I recently started really getting into comics again, and I finished reading the infinite crisis series about a month ago. All I can say is, wow. How can DC/CMX say they want to edit things when they put stuff out like this weekly with no labels, warnings, or shrink wrap? Do they think that only adults read comics now, and only kids are interested in manga? If so, they are sadly mistaken.

And about DC's Vertigo line, I just finished reading up to volume #45 of "Y The Last Man". Its got a lot more nudity, violence, and profanity than most of the manga or adult comics out there.

What happened on Tenjho Tenge is we did a series of changes in conjunction with the artist and the publisher of the material in Japan to give it the widest possible distribution in the U.S. The unedited material would not have been able to reach as many points of distribution.

Dark Horse sure the f--- is willing to try to make a market for adults. Berserk and Hellsing are clearly adult titles.

Screw Infinate Crisis. That's nothing compared to Vertigo. Though at least those are labeled. The great thing about Vertigo is that it shows how comics are not just for kids and there is a market out there for comics for adults. Manga should also be able to do this, yet DC fails to understand this. They have this 'manga is for kids' attitude and says there's no market for adult manga which is insane as they publish a line like Vertigo which proves that wrong. Plus I would think Vertigo fans would be very open to many mature Japanese titles.