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NEWS: Viz Media Reprinting JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Manga


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doomydoomdoom



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PostPosted: Sun May 04, 2014 2:40 pm Reply with quote
My hope is that the censored "dog gore" and shit-eating or whatever will be restored as well. The mosques I don't care about; nothing that can be done there.

I think I'll just grab the end of the series with the Vanilla Ice\Dio fight though.

WAIT: I have volume 3, reprinted last year, censored dog is still there. Unless these are ALL NEW reprints again, which I doubt.
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prabb



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PostPosted: Sun May 04, 2014 4:25 pm Reply with quote
Araki was more than okay with censoring a live being set on fire when he was asked to redraw it. The publishers aren't stifling anybody's creativity so I don't see why the absence of animal cruelty would keep someone from legally buying a comic book.

I'd personally be more wary of the mosque changes in the OVA/manga but even then the original creator was okay with the changes made so it's hard to get too upset. These miniscule changes have no effect on the story whatsoever.

JoJo's Bizarre Adventure isn't a video nasty that will get you sent to jail for distributing/enjoying. Viz/Shueisha aren't anything like Margaret Thatcher. It's gonna be okay. Buying stuff like the reprints of the manga and ASB is the only way to get more JoJo licensed.
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GATSU



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PostPosted: Sun May 04, 2014 5:14 pm Reply with quote
Restless:
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My concern is primarily over what VIZ had him change.


They probably get enough bad press over manji in Pokemon and Naruro. They don't need PETA breathing down their backs, too.
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PostPosted: Sun May 04, 2014 7:15 pm Reply with quote
It's more like Araki made changes because he didn't want to bite the hand that feeds him. Obviously he's going to be "ok" with censoring religious material and what not, if he wants to keep publishing Jojo. One can argue that every bit of the original creative output is part of the story, the only difference is degree. Sadly, Shueisha and Viz by extension, are pretty craven, like many Asian companies.
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AgitoZ



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PostPosted: Sun May 04, 2014 8:46 pm Reply with quote
trunkschan90 wrote:
RestlessOne wrote:
...But didn't they censor the original run?

If they aren't, I'll buy 'em all. Until I have that confirmation, however, I'm watching from the sidelines.


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In May 2008, both Shueisha and studio A.P.P.P. halted manga/OVA shipments of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure after a complaint had been launched against them from Egyptian Islamic fundamentalists, after noticing a scene in the OVAs that has the villain, Dio Brando, reading a book depicting pages from the Qur'an. This recall affected the English-language releases as well, causing Viz Media and Shueisha to cease publication for a year. Even though the manga did not feature that specific scene, Shueisha had Araki redraw scenes that depicted characters fighting on top of, and destroying, mosques for later printings of the series


Yep, we can blame the fundamentalists for this one.

To add insult to injury the fan who noticed it was watching a bootleg.
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PostPosted: Sun May 04, 2014 10:16 pm Reply with quote
doomydoomdoom wrote:

My hope is that the censored "dog gore" and shit-eating or whatever will be restored as well. The mosques I don't care about; nothing that can be done there.

prabb wrote:

I'd personally be more wary of the mosque changes in the OVA/manga but even then the original creator was okay with the changes made so it's hard to get too upset. These miniscule changes have no effect on the story whatsoever.


Heh, wonder what if it's a church, and it's the Vatican who complained..............
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PostPosted: Mon May 05, 2014 10:48 am Reply with quote
doomydoomdoom wrote:
My hope is that the censored "dog gore" and shit-eating or whatever will be restored as well. The mosques I don't care about; nothing that can be done there.

I think I'll just grab the end of the series with the Vanilla Ice\Dio fight though.

WAIT: I have volume 3, reprinted last year, censored dog is still there. Unless these are ALL NEW reprints again, which I doubt.


Wait, the shit-eating was removed? How?
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doomydoomdoom



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PostPosted: Tue May 06, 2014 9:52 am Reply with quote
enurtsol: HUEHUE, Too bad I'm Catholic, so I would be just fine with having that removed too...although if there was nothing ado in Vatican City over the church shootout in The Killer (fun-fact: pro-Christian symbolism abounds in that movie), then nothing can faze us.

GV: Ehm...I believe there was some sort of alternate angle redraw\cropping thing going on there.
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