Oh that’s a excellent point. I’ve been told about people trying to edit out lgbt issues in anime too. A official example of this is how 4kids removed the relationship in Card Captor Sakura.
Sorry - that whole thing just ended up roo rant-y for my tastes, so I deleted it.
Broadly, for those coming into the thread, it was about the asshole translators and their asshole employers who insist on “localizing” literally everything, including culture-specific things like honorifics that cannot ever actually be “localized.”
And yes - eliminating lgbt issues is another problem. That one particularly irritates me because it’s an issue regarding which the Japanese, traditionalists though they might be, are very open and tolerant - there have been lgbt characters in anime and manga, entirely non-contoversially, for as long as the mediums have existed. Then along come the Americans, who get all twisted out of shape over it.
Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune is a pretty famous example of this as well. I haven’t watched the Crystal remake, but I understand that the lesbian relationship was preserved in that version.
Oh that’s a excellent point. I’ve been told about people trying to edit out lgbt issues in anime too. A official example of this is how 4kids removed the relationship in Card Captor Sakura.
Sorry - that whole thing just ended up roo rant-y for my tastes, so I deleted it.
Broadly, for those coming into the thread, it was about the asshole translators and their asshole employers who insist on “localizing” literally everything, including culture-specific things like honorifics that cannot ever actually be “localized.”
And yes - eliminating lgbt issues is another problem. That one particularly irritates me because it’s an issue regarding which the Japanese, traditionalists though they might be, are very open and tolerant - there have been lgbt characters in anime and manga, entirely non-contoversially, for as long as the mediums have existed. Then along come the Americans, who get all twisted out of shape over it.
Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune is a pretty famous example of this as well. I haven’t watched the Crystal remake, but I understand that the lesbian relationship was preserved in that version.