In the states every anime or movie shown on tv is so afraid of showing nudity and swearing, so if countries in Europe don't care than why should the states care?

-- Anonymous, April 19, 2003

Answers

It's because most Americans have a different perspective on those kind of things than people in other countries. While you or I may not be offended by such things, a lot of other people might. Remember the thing with The Lion King, when someone saw the word sex in there. There were people all over America boycotting Disney. It's the same way with anime. The companies that edit the anime try to talior it so that it appeals to the largest audience. Also, not only adult content is edited out. Editing companies also think that parts of the story line that are very Japanese will not be understood by American audiences, so they edit out these too. Pokemon is a very good example of this type of editing.

So to answer your question, American companies are so uptight about editing for TV because there are a lot of Americans that are uptight about what they watch on TV.

-- Anonymous, April 19, 2003

Very true. Reviewers are very fanatic in the U.S. They are always looking for a chance to criticize.

-- Anonymous, April 19, 2003

in my opinion i think its because they're jackasses. good thing i dont live in the us will just outside of the us .

-- Anonymous, April 19, 2003

I'll explain

Networks in this country got the belief that animation is just a kids-only format beginning in the late 60s/early 70s, around the time that Peggy Charren and the Action for Children's Television group she founded became ZEALOTS (fanatically committed people) Basically, ACT's mission of industry censorship called for boycotts on networks that airs programming they feel is corrupting the youth. ACT also gave the network guidelines to set their programming by. The head of Viacom networks Nickelodeon #1 children’s entertainment and animation for kids, also owners of MTV, MTV2, Comcast - on demand, Blockbuster Video, CBS, TNN, Comedy Central, half of UPN) and the head of kids WB-TV got ibvolved and strongly believed animation was a kid only medium. Action for children’s television was a missionary of zealots (fanatically committed people) that believed in censorship. Parents relied on Nickelodeon to shelter kids because when exposed to programming with inappropriate dialogue, sexual situations, guns and violence, racism against religion, It was most likely to corrupt youth. Kids involved with this kind of programming were most likely to have sexually transmitted diseases, be involved in gun usage, or be racist to other ethnic backgrounds. So the head of Kids WB-TV and former VP of Viacom/nickelodeon Jamie Kellner had decided to pass a law in the FCC/Congress called the Children’s Programming Act that limited certain networks and distributors to edit animation during the day. And only allow some adult programming at night. Forcing networks and distributors, to, in a sense, take out the parts of the story inappropriate for children. In a sense commercializing animation for kids, rather than free marketing it like in Japan. Nickeldeon regards that people care about kids safety. And prints and researches the insane stories of how kids get caught of gun violence, Aids/HIV etc. They also spread this idea globally. Media groups started giving campaign donations or in this case use bribery and extortion in this case to politicians in the FCC to get their vote on censorship laws, to extort and limit the rights of freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and freedom of expression restricting the rights that distributors are entitled too.

-- Anonymous, April 26, 2003

What I don't understand is why people make such a big deal about editing anime shows when in real life we have shows on hbo and encore and movie channels like that that are ten times worse in matters regarding violence, sex, language, and all that other stuff. I guess the American society believes that by limiting things like sex and violence in animation, we'll stop doing it in the real world, but look where that's gotten us...

-- Anonymous, April 30, 2003