(CR) Hunter X Hunter Anime (2011)

[Arkeus]

Originally Posted by SHINOBI-03

Spoiler for Censored fan service:

The dancers in the manga were pretty much nude with the exception of wearing their bunny tails. You can tell that because one: we don't see them detailed from the front and two, when we do see them from the front it is from a distance but you can spot some navels here and there. The anime changed their outfits with these one piece swimsuit leotards thingies.

Actually, in the manga it seems that the dancing dancers weren't nude (you can clearly see leotards), just the cowering ones were... which was weird.

[SHINOBI-03]

Originally Posted by Arkeus

Actually, in the manga it seems that the dancing dancers weren't nude (you can clearly see leotards), just the cowering ones were... which was weird.

They look nude to me.

Spoiler for larger size:

[Dengar]

Either that girl is wearing just a thong, OR she's wearing a leotard. It's hard to say. No such luck for the girls in the background though.

[freeofgreed]

Yeah the dancer thing is strange I think it could go either way. Also thanks for the comparison Shinobi, I never knew the first prints of the manga were censored that way, but honestly if they wanted to censor it I feel like they could've been more creative than just using a black box.

[Arkeus]

Originally Posted by freeofgreed

Yeah the dancer thing is strange I think it could go either way. Also thanks for the comparison Shinobi, I never knew the first prints of the manga were censored that way, but honestly if they wanted to censor it I feel like they could've been more creative than just using a black box.

Using a black box is Togashi making sure people know this IS censuring, and it also means that he could try, in reprint, to take it off.

[Maxtro]

The human king reminded me a lot of Kim Jong-il. I wonder if that was intentional back when the manga was drawn.

I seriously hope were going to actually see Killua's fight next week. This show has recently started getting to an issue of not actually showing the fights.

So far we haven't seen

Kite vs cat girl
Gon vs Knuckle, Killua vs Shoot (ending)
Knuckle and Shoot vs Kite

I'll be really annoyed if this next fight isn't showing to completion.

[Arkeus]

Originally Posted by Maxtro

The human king reminded me a lot of Kim Jong-il. I wonder if that was intentional back when the manga was drawn.

Yes. there are a lot of anagrams with north korea and so on, to the point that's it's pretty much explicit.

[freeofgreed]

Originally Posted by Arkeus

Using a black box is Togashi making sure people know this IS censuring, and it also means that he could try, in reprint, to take it off.

Okay I see, I was under the assumption that it was Jump doing the censoring and not Togashi himself.

[Guardian Enzo]

Originally Posted by SHINOBI-03

-EPISODE 93-

Spoiler for Part 1:

Manga: Last third of chapter 216, 217, 218 (minus last four pages), first two pages of 219

Spoiler for Censored fan service:

The dancers in the manga were pretty much nude with the exception of wearing their bunny tails. You can tell that because one: we don't see them detailed from the front and two, when we do see them from the front it is from a distance but you can spot some navels here and there. The anime changed their outfits with these one piece swimsuit leotards thingies.

Spoiler for Blood bath:

In the manga we got this one page of a blood shower! Why we didn't see that in the anime?!!

Spoiler for The king is hungry!:

Now this change I don't mind!

The quick montage is add in.

Spoiler for First instance of censorship in the manga:

Now I'm pretty sure some of you heard of instances of gore censorship in the manga. Well, here's our first thing.



You can notice the dark screentone used to cover the intestines. In the first manga run it didn't have the screentone, but it was obscured by the logo


Even though before that it wasn't that censored

Spoiler for More censored gore in the manga:

I mean.... wow!

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Spoiler for A bigger threat is coming:

Spoiler for And this is why:

you don't befriend a Sadako girl... ever!!

Spoiler for Can Palm get cuter than this?:

Stay tuned folks...!

Spoiler for But not now!:

Admit it... he got balls of steel!!

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Spoiler for At the gym:

Not sure if you'd like to see something like this next to you... do you know how bad it'll feel like? To be outdone by two kids standing next to you?!!

Spoiler for And some questionable content!:

Notice in this scene when Gon says he was taught "things" you can hear him say "ero ero". And if you've been an anime fan for enough time, you'll get what he means... and it'll raise a lot of questions in your head about his past life and dare I say sexuality and if he knew what he was doing back then!!




On a side note, Viz used two different phrases at the end. Killua says "He's so... experienced!!" instead of "He's a grown-up", and Gon calls the ladies he went out with "Cougars" instead of "Fanatics".

Happy Gon is happy!

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Spoiler for Part 2:

Spoiler for An answer to my question from the previous episode:

So the monster is still there, but looks like you need gyo to see it.

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Spoiler for More manga censorship:

So in the first run of the manga, the hands were censored using solid black squares, but they removed that in the reprint. The fingers on Cheetu's palm however were not totally uncensored. In the first run it was a solid black square and the reprint used a dark screentone. Now some of you might ask yourselves: "Self, didn't I see that panel uncensored somewhere?"



Well, to answer this confusion is this: The fingers were censored in all printed versions (magazine and volumes), but from what I could tell, the scanlators edited the panel to remove the tone. And since the reprint used the screentone, it's not that difficult to do you are good in photo editing. But you can notice the edit because the outlines around that area are thicker than the rest of the drawing. Hope that cleared something for you.




Now in the anime we see the hands in a fuzzy black & white point of view and we do see Cheetu eat the fingers, but we don't see them on his palm.

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Spoiler for Gon after shower:

To be honest the first time I saw that panel I did not recognize him!

Umm, is Killua reading JoJo's Bizarre Adventures?!

Spoiler for Behold:

The magic of makeup!!




Ditto!!

Spoiler for Where's Killua:

The arrows were present in the manga as well

Look forward to the next episode.

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This episode was one that I've eager to watch animated just to see how the censored parts would be handled. It wasn't bad though.

8.5/10

So next week there's no episode, right? But hey if there's a break I'm a happy guy!!

Two thoughts on this:

First, as much fun as it is to think Gon said "ero" what I heard him say was "iro iro" which means "various things". Realistically, I think it's more likely that's what he said, in the anime anyway.

Second, on what Killua says about Gon's worldliness, while I haven't got a raw of the manga handy in the anime Killua says "otona" which means "adult" or "grown-up". Again assuming Madhouse used the same wording, I think that's the best translation.

[HandofFate]

With the kind of training Killua and Gon are used to, I feel a regular gym workout isn't going to do anything...

[Guardian Enzo]

Originally Posted by HandofFate

With the kind of training Killua and Gon are used to, I feel a regular gym workout isn't going to do anything...

Well, basically I think it amounts to Gon not being able to train with Nen. He's 12 years old, which means he needs to keep busy or he'll go crazy. It also means if he wants to keep those ridiculous muscles, he needs to keep using them.

[Maxtro]

Originally Posted by Arkeus

Yes. there are a lot of anagrams with north korea and so on, to the point that's it's pretty much explicit.

Ah, I was starting to thinks as much.

[SHINOBI-03]

I found another difference in censorship between the first run and reprint!

First run:


Reprint:

[Dagger]

No episode this week? That's disappointing.

[Moeterum]

No episode this week?

[hamazura]

no saint seiya omega... no uchuu kyodai... and no hxh... what a sad sunday...

[Moeterum]

Originally Posted by hamazura

no saint seiya omega... no uchuu kyodai... and no hxh... what a sad sunday...

What about Hakkenden?

[Dagger]

Such a pleasure to see Killua get his groove back. A lot of mood whiplash in this episode, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. I enjoyed every minute of it.

[MCAL]

Damn! Two weeks without HxH is the equivalent of torture. Even moreso, when I have been anticipating this moment for a while and it did not disappoint. Excellent performance by Mariya Ise as Killua. I was even more impressed that it finally gave us an explanation of what happened during the hunter exam finals.

Oh and Palm. Stay crazy, you ravenous yandere, you...

[FlareKnight]

That was pretty cool. Surprised there was actually a physical reason for why Killua was having so much trouble. Some of it might have been mental, but just amplified thanks to his brother implanting that in his head before. Was fun to see Killua back on top of his game. Frankly all that suffering he went through will probably be good long term. Got his mindset focused on where it needs to be.

Palm is just nuts. Knove can keep that headache.

Somewhat surprised the Cheetah is actually outspeeding Knuckles. Should be a better fight than I thought. But if all that guy has is speed they should be able to take him by using their Nen abilities well.