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Old 2012-06-15, 13:05   Link #94
GreyZone
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In Germany Animes used to be quite popular with teenagers .... But then.... "something" changed...

At some point the companies responsible for the localisation suddenly thought, that most animes are not good for children because they have blood in them...
They got to the conclusion that anime is not for the audience they wanted to appeal (note: anime usually ran from 13:00 to 16:00) which they wanted to be 6-12 year old. They realized that animes are in most cases for (older) teenagers and not for kids.
So now guess what they did, when they localized Naruto? No they were not just not showing it because its inapprotiate, or putting the anime into an evening timeslot.
Instead they decided to make Naruto into a show for kiddies.
How you ask? hehehhehe...

ok I list what they changed:



1. They NEVER use the words "death", "dead", "dying", "killing", "slaughter", "murdering" or any words that refer to someone dying.
So what do they do instead? They replace these words with things like "beaten", "defeated", "won against", "knocked uncouncious", "abducted" or "disappeard".
Example: In the German version Itachi didn't wipe out the Uchiha Clan... instead he "abducted" them.



2. Any form of blood becomes censored.
In the German version blood is either edited away, or edited to look like drool/sweat/water.



3. The 2 things mentioned above are strictly executed,
Even when it changes the story completly.



4. In Germany the spelling of Japanease names is changed in a ridiculous way...
When someone says 'Sasuke' in Japanease, it is spelled like "Sas-Ke", but in the German version they say "Sa-SUUU-Ke"



Well you can imagine how many people >15 years would want to watch this: none.
But it seems the localisation reached it's goal. Apperantly there are some stupid kids that really watch this censored s**t.

Last edited by GreyZone; 2012-06-15 at 15:34.
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