Funimation and Censorship

Duatizer said:
It's funanimation, that's your answer,
They literally censor everything, if they thing it's damaging for children.
FUN animation , it must always be fun you know :P.

Duatizer said:
It's funanimation, that's your answer,
They literally censor everything, if they thing it's damaging for children.
FUN animation , it must always be fun you know :P.

Comic_Sans said:
This is why fansubs always will be better

The fansubbers don't censor this kind of stuff

GEO9875 said:
Highschool dxd on home released was censored by them? it was not.

(im talking about bluray and dvd, i know the brodcast one is censored)still, they dont censor everything

Comic_Sans said:
This is why fansubs always will be better

Fintan said:
It might have to do with meeting rating requirements, which are different in North America.

Someone told me they edited out that scene from Vampire Bund where he puts the gel crap on the loli character. Personally I thought that scene was not needed what so ever, so it didn't bother me. That scene alone kept me from recommend that show to people. I was surprised that Funi picked it up and dubbed it.

Dracokun said:
Recently I watched Freezing and Freezing Vibration on Netflix. Both licensed by Funimation. I watched Freezing dubbed and the nudity wasn't censored. Freezing Vibration however, only had the subbed version and yet all the nudity had been censored.

salman35 said:
Funimation is trying to act pure as if they pray Jesus 24/7, tbh its so lame that they censor this type of BS. Shame on them, their staff who modifies the lewd scene first gets to enjoy the lewd scenes whereas we don't.

Also guys if anyone can tell me other than Funimation is there any other way to watch uncensored version?

DontCallMeOtaku said:
As a subscriber on their site, I actually forgot that Funimation does this, but yes, they do censor content for non-subscribers.

Comic_Sans said:
This is why fansubs always will be better

The fansubbers don't censor this kind of stuff

Fintan said:
Someone told me they edited out that scene from Vampire Bund where he puts the gel crap on the loli character.

Hoppy said:
Fact: Funimation is a cover for a right wing religious group who brainwashes children.

Fact: Known political tyrants on the right have their hands in Funi's pockets.

DateYutaka said:
if its tv anime i go by brodcast version of the anime in question

Zalis said:
Even when fansubbers are using the exact same censored Japanese TV broadcast version as Funimation, they're somehow better on censorship?

Oh, the depths people will sink just to smear the R1 industry...

Though Funimation didn't re-edit Strike Witches ep 7 to add uncensored lower-body nudity where none existed in the Japanese version, so I guess the fansubbers win that one.

Zalis said:
Probably because Freezing S1 was dubbed and out on DVD/BD at the time, so they had the uncensored version available, but Freezing Vibration was still using the Japanese TV broadcast version. Let's see if there's a theme to these comments...

Their staff doesn't modify any lewd scenes; they stream the Japanese TV broadcast version before the home video version comes out. If you want a chance of getting uncensored, either subscribe to Funimation's site, use Netflix, buy the DVDs/BDs, or download the DVD/BD-rips. Afaik CR and other streaming sites rarely if ever change out the broadcast versions for the home video versions.

Again, they're not modifying any content, they're streaming the Japanese TV broadcast version.

TL;DR: Blame the Japanese TV broadcasts for censorship, not Funimation.

Even when fansubbers are using the exact same censored Japanese TV broadcast version as Funimation, they're somehow better on censorship? Oh, the depths people will sink just to smear the R1 industry...

Though Funimation didn't re-edit Strike Witches ep 7 to add uncensored lower-body nudity where none existed in the Japanese version, so I guess the fansubbers win that one.

Well, that ever-reliable "someone" told you wrong; Funi did think about editing it, but they eventually decided to release it unedited.

And these right-wing tyrants accomplish this brainwashing by sneaking left-wing gun control rants and anti-GamerGate insults into their dubs?

So you still consider MoonPhase to be a badly-animated show with a bunch of incomplete scenes, even though all that was fixed for the DVDs? Something tells me this "go by broadcast version" is less of an ideology and more of a convenient way to generate anti-R1-industry talking points.

DrCoppelius said:
Censorship feels a bit childish to me. If one is old enough to watch a show that contains the sorts of scenes that can potentially be censored, one should be old enough to watch those scenes without censorship.

RainHeaven said:
Funimation has always been a shitty company.

DateYutaka said:
i just want all dubs to be as clsoe as possiabkle to the Japanese so people get he same expreance as i got with the anime


note i said cultural censorship ie remoivng japanese things b that worse than animation censorship cuase that can be removed

while cultural censorship of a script cannot be

Zalis said:
Well, that ever-reliable "someone" told you wrong; Funi did think about editing it, but they eventually decided to release it unedited.

Hoppy said:
For those who don't think Funi is on the right wing

The original exposure from last summer

aikaflip said:

3 questions:
- Why?

aikaflip said:
- Is content censored for pay subscribers as well?

aikaflip said:
- How do you feel about this, and censorship in general?

aikaflip said:
I noticed something really lame in Funimation's stream of the latest Shimoneta episode. In their version, the drool from a particularly sloppy kiss was edited out (or, maybe, with cooperation with JC Staff, that animation layer was turned off). Here's a comparison between their release, and the uncensored version that aired on AT-X in Japan.

Mild spoilers.

Funimation:

AT-X:

3 questions:
- Why?
- Is content censored for pay subscribers as well?
- How do you feel about this, and censorship in general?

Zalis said:
Again, they're not modifying any content, they're streaming the Japanese TV broadcast version.

TL;DR: Blame the Japanese TV broadcasts for censorship, not Funimation.

Comic_Sans said:
Schhh, quiet

You don't want to cause a shit storm, do you?

Comic_Sans said:
Yes, because they don't have the power to fix it unlike FUCKETERYmation which is a big company with lots of $$$

SeibaaHomu said:
Wow. You REALLY don't understand anything about the industry or how it works do you?

Comic_Sans said:
I thought you were going to stop taking me seriously? Lol

Agafin said:
Censorship is necessary. Not everybody wants to see excessively or gratuitiously lewd, hardcore or graphic scenes in a show just because they have the age to. It's only bad if it impedes on your viewing experience like in Tokyo Ghoul, but well, that's why we have BDs.

Hoppy said:
Fact: Funimation is a cover for a right wing religious group who brainwashes children.

Fact: Known political tyrants on the right have their hands in Funi's pockets.

Should you support them? No.

Nigerianbucket said:
I'm sorry, but it's clear that Funi is doing this to sell the BD.

SeibaaHomu said:
So after all that you're just going to turn back and say 'it was just a joke guys!'

It's far from the stupidest thing you've said to tell the truth.

Comic_Sans said:
Not at all, but I don't see why I should bother arguing with someone who changes his attitude towards me like twice a day

SeibaaHomu said:
My opinion about you has largely stayed the same since that one time you called me a Tokyo Ghoul fanboy when I hadn't even seen the show.

Comic_Sans said:
I am talking about your ATTITUDE, not your opinion

SeibaaHomu said:
I don't think I've ever acted nice towards you.

Comic_Sans said:
I never said you acted nice towards me

SeibaaHomu said:
You're saying I'm acting different towards you. I'm not really.

I've never took anything you've said to heart and I'm certainly not starting now.

SeibaaHomu said:
Jesus, not this shit again. If Santorum really had that much influence then chances are he'd have some clue about the sort of content they produce. Which, in Funimation's case, happens to be English language versions of borderline pornographic shows featuring underage girls. Including a little show called High School DxD which got banned in New Zealand for the 'sexual exploitation of children'. Not very conservative if you ask me.

Next you're going to tell me that Spike Lee is using his movies to cover up his secret alliance with the Ku Klux Klan.

What in God's name are you apologising for?

The fansubbers got their raws from a subscription based channel that aired it uncensored. Streaming sites just use whichever version got subtitled first which, in this case, was the uncensored version. The raws that the guys up in Japan gave to Funimation were the censored version that aired on every other channel.

Comic_Sans said:
Yes, because they don't have the power to fix it unlike Funimation which is a big company with lots of $$$

Oh, the depths people will sink to insult ''sub purists'' of being weeaboos although they almost never have a reason for resorting to ad hominem, but there's no reason whatsoever to complain about them, right?

EDIT: just realized you replied to the same comment in July. LOL

Nigerianbucket said:
I used to defend Funimation with the whole they only take what Japan broadcasts stuff but now I am CERTAIN that they edit shows that air uncensored.

Prime, very recent example, Valkyrie Drive: Mermaid.

It was announced to be on their simulcast on Oct 2. a week before it aired. The show airs, and it takes them 3 days to post the episode online, why? They took the time to censor the show that was aired UNCENSORED in Japan. Go watch any random stream/torrent of the show and it is uncensored, where as Funimations stream for it has the white glare of doom.

I'm sorry, but it's clear that Funi is doing this to sell the BD.

Feniksrises said:
Funimation is a American company. You signed up for censorship by default TC.

Wait for BD.

DateYutaka said:
no its not

its Called TV ANIME for a reason simple as that that not bais its how i ivew everything

i rate movies by theater cut too [ i even of i own multiple versions of the movie] like say watchmen i use the theater cut ot rate the movie

i use the first version there was just to be fair ie the first verion most people watched

Zalis said:
Based on your replies to SeibaaHomu, I'm going to chalk this up as "trolling" rather than "delusional."

Except I didn't say anything in that post about sub purists or weeboos, ad hominem or otherwise...

Yeah, that's on me, I should've known, or checked back through page 1. But hey, if the spammers thought it was worth quote-chaining, I figured it was worth responding to again.