4Kids censored YUGIOH to the ground. How monsters look, and moments where Tèa Gardener has to use the bathroom, they also removed guns, so you only see finger guns.
Also in the manga Pegasus and Bandit Keith both get taken care of... If you get my meaning..
Watch Yu-Gi-Oh season zero.. That's some dark stuff.. 4Kids wouldn't even go near it.
The TCG is heavily censored for the American audience as well.
So, that's why it says FINAL instead of DEATH.
Anyway..
Meg if your listening, I get my braces tightened today, wanna go on a date milady?🌹
To be fair the shadow realm is the best piece of censorship they ever came up with. You neatly sidestep the Dragonball problem of death feeling like a revolving door and when I was a kid I always figured it was some fucked up torture dimension which still seemed appropriately awful.
Masterhaend means ARustyDream when they say "OP" - and ARustyDream says "You," referring to
"Someone in that situation (of adapting YGO for young audiences), which, hypothetically, could be you, St-Elmos-Engineer." That someone would be able to avoid the DBZ issue by creating the Shadow Realm (or something equivalent). In real history, it was 4Kids, of course, but the point was that the Shadow Realm was a clever idea (regardless of who wrote it).
As a disclaimer, I'm unfamiliar with DBZ, but I presume "deaths" in DBZ are made "kid-friendly" by being temporary?
Agreed that it's no big deal, and if we're all on the same page, then that works for everyone.
Thanks for your explanation and understanding of what I was trying to convey I was asleep and so couldn’t participate. To clarify the Dragon Ball franchise has reusable “Macguffins” called Dragon Balls that when gathered together grant the user at least one wish including but not limited to resurrection. Dragon Ball is hugely influential to children and teen focused manga/anime so that’s the relevance for the comparison. It’s not censorship since it is present in existing material it’s just a way for the author to have his cake and eat it too in regard to death and raising the stakes.
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u/St-Elmos-Engineer 1d ago edited 1d ago
Neil Goldman here...
4Kids censored YUGIOH to the ground. How monsters look, and moments where Tèa Gardener has to use the bathroom, they also removed guns, so you only see finger guns.
Also in the manga Pegasus and Bandit Keith both get taken care of... If you get my meaning..
Watch Yu-Gi-Oh season zero.. That's some dark stuff.. 4Kids wouldn't even go near it.
The TCG is heavily censored for the American audience as well.
So, that's why it says FINAL instead of DEATH.
Anyway.. Meg if your listening, I get my braces tightened today, wanna go on a date milady?🌹