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Originally Posted by Guardian Enzo
I confess I really don't understand the importance folks place on seeing real blood in anime. Isn't the way the scene is written more important than whether we see the actual gore? It's not like we don't know exactly what just happened.
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Eh, a bit. In the manga he actually chews on a flab of loose skin of his own arm, which reinforces just how batshit insane he is. I'll agree that the actual blood doesn't matter, but the way they censored it just screams "obvious censorship." Using camera angles or shades, or even just a lack of leaking blood would have looked better than the sparkles. Sometimes leaving things away (in this case, just the blood) works better than outright changing them. The sparkles reinforce the censorship, which causes people to pay more attention to them.
In short, for me it's not the censorship itself that matters, it's the antiquated way of doing it. Shining blood went out of style years ago.