It goes far deeper than a simple piece of blue paper covering up the top of a cross. Yeah a piece of blue paper, that's why Luffy's hat looks like it has a chunk taken out of it. It's like they can't even screw over a series well....
There is a whole list of things 4kids have done to Americanise the series and I absolutely hate everytime an excellent series goes down the crapper.
Another example of editing done is that there is a character named Sanji. Sanji smokes. So what do they do? Turn his cigarette into a candy cane. So now it makes absolutely no sense when he gets thrown through a wall flat on his arse, he reaches into his pocket and goes for a smoke while laying on his back and he goes for the 'cool' 2 fingered approach as well.
Then of course, these is no blood.
<a href='http://arlongpark.com/?page=dubepisode1' target='_blank'>Episode 1 Dubbed Change List</a> <a href='http://arlongpark.com/?page=dubepisode2' target='_blank'>Episode 1 Dubbed Change List</a> (Aka olo we didn't get the rights to his proper name of Zoro, so we called him Zolo)
Oh my favourite change of episode 2. <b>At the end, Luffy was shot with "Super Soakers"</b> That's right folks. No guns here, super soakers. Yes, we better not make references to guns incase some child wanders into Walmart and buys them in a public shopping centre. WON'T SOMEBODY THINK OF THE CHILDREN!
They've also changed Marines into Navy, so I do hope they enjoy editing the word Navy onto every single Marine ship from now on...
Urgh. PAINFUL DEATH. After I finish work today, I'll come back and write up a list of other crap American companies have done to good series.
<!--QuoteBegin-h20+Sep 28 2004, 01:36 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (h20 @ Sep 28 2004, 01:36 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> People here in america i feel are too sensored. For example-those shampoo commercials? They always show the head of the women in the shower, in italy they will just show the whole women. Over there its just no big deal to see a naked women in a shower on the commercials, in america the fcc would go crazy.
<!--emo&::nerdy::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/nerd-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='nerd-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> Adverts are annoying enough as it is without nudity being allowed. I don't care if some woman strips down and grunts EROTICALLY while washing her hair, I'm not going to associate that with your shampoo. I'm just going to think, "That obviously contains some major potent crap that I don't want. All I want is to wash my hair, not work myself up for a bout of mad passionate sex."
God, I hate adverts almost as much as I hate cold callers. Almost.
I remember back in the day on cartoon network, during the day they showed the edited, kid friendly versions of stuff like DBZ and Gundam Wing...then at night they gave us the completely uncensored ones. Cussing and all.
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There is a whole list of things 4kids have done to Americanise the series and I absolutely hate everytime an excellent series goes down the crapper.
Another example of editing done is that there is a character named Sanji. Sanji smokes. So what do they do? Turn his cigarette into a candy cane. So now it makes absolutely no sense when he gets thrown through a wall flat on his arse, he reaches into his pocket and goes for a smoke while laying on his back and he goes for the 'cool' 2 fingered approach as well.
Then of course, these is no blood.
<a href='http://arlongpark.com/?page=dubepisode1' target='_blank'>Episode 1 Dubbed Change List</a>
<a href='http://arlongpark.com/?page=dubepisode2' target='_blank'>Episode 1 Dubbed Change List</a> (Aka olo we didn't get the rights to his proper name of Zoro, so we called him Zolo)
Oh my favourite change of episode 2.
<b>At the end, Luffy was shot with "Super Soakers"</b>
That's right folks. No guns here, super soakers. Yes, we better not make references to guns incase some child wanders into Walmart and buys them in a public shopping centre.
WON'T SOMEBODY THINK OF THE CHILDREN!
They've also changed Marines into Navy, so I do hope they enjoy editing the word Navy onto every single Marine ship from now on...
Urgh. PAINFUL DEATH.
After I finish work today, I'll come back and write up a list of other crap American companies have done to good series.
<!--emo&::nerdy::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/nerd-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='nerd-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Adverts are annoying enough as it is without nudity being allowed. I don't care if some woman strips down and grunts EROTICALLY while washing her hair, I'm not going to associate that with your shampoo. I'm just going to think, "That obviously contains some major potent crap that I don't want. All I want is to wash my hair, not work myself up for a bout of mad passionate sex."
God, I hate adverts almost as much as I hate cold callers. Almost.