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  • lol yeah. They didn’t edit out all the flirting though or all the embarassed or indignant reactions by the characters around them, which presents those “cousins” in a really interesting light ;)

    The US version of Sailor Moon was also censored and edited in different other ways. IIRC:

    • All Tokyo references were changed to New York. So they’ve changed where the whole thing took place.
    • They changed all Japanese writings (Hiragana, Katakana, Kanji)
    • Multiple characters had their gender or sex changed as to avoid homosexual relations.
    • The music was completely changed for some reason
    • They took out many scenes or even whole episodes if they thought, they might vaguely get into conflict with the FCC.
    • They scrapped a whole season, because the Sailor Starlights (I think that was their name?) changed gender in their magical transformation.

  • The most infamous would be South Park episodes S14E05 and S14E06 named “200” and “201”. The central theme of the episodes: Censorship. Something South Park had been subjected to ever since its inception. And this time, they centered around the limits of what is allowed around depictions of the Islamic Prophet Muhammad. For context: These episodes aired after controversies around such depictions in media around the world had people killed.

    So in an attempt to protect themselves, the network engaged in censorship of the episodes and it is sometimes unclear, what was intentionally in there as a plot point from the creators and what was added by the network. Although some egregious examples are clear, such as the complete bleeping of Kyle’s “I’ve learned something today” monologue at the end. While Stone and Parker inserted clear plot points like characters like Moses of all people asking, whether something was OK to show or say. I’m still uncertain whether the huge censorship bar over the Prophet is a plot point, or censorship or both.

    The kicker: Prophet Muhammad had been shown in earlier episodes already, without sparking controversy and in “200” and “201” they even reference those episodes. As expected, they received death threats after the airing of the episodes and later pulled all five episodes with Muhammad depictions from their streaming sites (Super-Best Friends, Cartoon Wars 1+2, 200, 201).