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Viz Censors Flame of Recca

It's just nipples(ugly ones at that ), who cares if they're there or not, unless the crux of Flame of Recca lies in those nipples....which I doubt. Definitely not worth boycotting or anything lol.

That seems so unlikely as they have had plently of nipples on girls in the past in Flame Of Recca.

bahamut623 wrote:

It's just nipples(ugly ones at that ), who cares if they're there or not, unless the crux of Flame of Recca lies in those nipples....which I doubt. Definitely not worth boycotting or anything lol.

It's a matter of principle. Consider this: how far can the editing go once they start? Will it just be a few nipples or will it be whole scenes altered? Maybe entire plot lines altered by removing key references to events? (Don't think this can happen? Take a look at a few of the majorly edited titles like Tenjho Tenge.)

The point is, once the companies start editing, they may not stop. Manga has been treated very badly in the past in an effort to make it more marketable to the "masses" and as fans we should all try to keep the mistakes of the past from being repeated.

Also, regardless of the actual importance of the edit overall, what does this say about Viz as a company? Since when is censorship something to just wave away? As Americans, we have a right to protest content we don't like. We also have a right to stand up for the protected rights of free artistic expression even if that expression is from a foreign country and being sold for commerical profit. Viz should listen to us, the people buying their products, not to a few whiny bookstore people who are trying to bully them and bluffing anyway. (Oh yeah, like Borders wants to pull product off it's shelves that sells well. )

We saw that in Tenten (which, to be honest, had nothing but fanservice and a pointless rape scene edited out) that fans don't tolerate mass editing, and no company in english is stupid enough to edit something to that degree right now.

So your point is that fan outrage convinced the companies not to do mass edits but fans have no reason to get worked up over minor ones? You actually believe that if we completely ignore minor edits that they won't eventually start doing major ones again?

Where you see pointless fanservice and a scene which I think can be argued to be important to the plot, I see the vision of an artist being altered for no reason other than a desire to water down something so that losers who don't have anything better to do than complain won't be offended. I hate that sort of PC crap and I find it shameful for a corporation to succumb to such insipid nonsense.

You don't agree with me, that's just fine. Just remember that they can edit your favorite series at any time, in any way, that they want. I hope that they leave your favorites alone but don't assume they will and don't assume that no one will pull a 4kids! on a manga series.

I do find it kind of odd that they pull this now. Flame of Recca is more than halfway finished. If they think they can pull in new readers at this point (especially by making minor nudity edits) they are incorrect. People aren't gonna say "Hey, Volume 20 of Flame of Recca, I think I'll buy it and start really far into the story." That obviously makes no sense. Regardless of the overall importance to the story, it is just a strange thing to do.