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Regarding profanity in anime

we'll bleep out the word "God"

Code001 wrote:

we'll bleep out the word "God"

Huh...we do...please explain where

What anime has the highest swearing? For me, I counted Akira having 78. Also, why is gratuitious swearing involver in some? For example, in Akira, Tetsuo falls off his bike and says (Joshua Seth's Tetsuo) the f-word. However, in the original Japanese, it's the s-word. Anyone disturbed how unnecessary some swearing is?
P.S., in the Evangelion movies, after Shinji's "infamous scene", he says he's so f-worded up. What's more closer to the line in English?

Code001 wrote:

we'll bleep out the word "God"

Huh...we do...please explain where

omar235 wrote:

Code001 wrote: we'll bleep out the word "God" Huh...we do...please explain where

It's followed by the word "damn." You can say the words alone, but not together.

"Hole."

Does that make them swear words? Another example is what was already said. Late-night TV allows for more freedom of expression than normal daytime TV. A show like Dr. Phil might not say the word "Shit," but you'll hear it on Comedy Central late at night.

Really I never noticed that they didn't...must be because of religous problems so it doesn't really affect curse words in general. Even though I only know a few words, mostly due to fan subs, of the Japanese I would think that every culture has its own form of "bad" word somewhere in there language so not sure what you guys are fighting about though. I mean the examples you gave of bad words in the Japanese language seem like equivilents to me in their language as far as the seriousness of the word to them. I don't think you would find a direct equivilent of it or maybe you would...I don't know but its not worth getting all fired up or jumping on a guy about.

Edit: Also did you mean Holy when you said this , as in "Holysh*t".

Do you mean just T.V. shows...I think you did just making sure since I hear alot of curse words during the day on movies but they do bleep out certain shows like Jerry springer and such.

I didn't mean that you mentioned it but they don't bleep out "hole" so I am confused why you said they did. Thanks for the links.

At certain times in the day, they'll block out the "hole" part when they say "*sshole." Stupid, I know.

The FCC has gone insane ever since the Janet Jackson incident.

It's worse to be an ass**** than just an ass. Common sense.

The FCC hasn't gone anything. They fined CBS $550,000 for the infraction, which was justified. Then broadcasters went nuts trying to avoid all objectionable words/images because they suddenly remembered that they can be fined for big money if the FCC gets enough complaints to look into something. Also, some groups used the JJ incident as a rallying point in lobbying for stricter standards and more family-friendly content on TV. No one in the FCC ever went insane.

They do bleep out "hole" on basic cable and broadcast. Not standalone of course, but you can say "ass", you can say "hole", but if you try to combine the two you get "*Bleep*-hole".

Likewise, you can say "God", you can say "damn", but combine the two and it's "*bleep*-damn".

The FCC and the networks' S&P departments all need to die and go to hell where they belong.

Since most people would agree that ass**** is more offensive by at least threefold than simply calling someone an ass, by cutting the audio on the last part, the strength of the insult is diminished. Sometimes they'll just dub over it with a "jerk" or something.

AirCooledMan wrote:

The FCC and the networks' S&P departments all need to die and go to hell where they belong.

Very mature. The FCC is only an extension of the concern parents have for their children hearing/seeing certain things on public television, governmentalized to provide an authority that stations have to respect. S&P departments are solely there to prevent the networks from getting into trouble. It's good business sense.