Censorship marketing anime Rosario + Vampire Capu2 continues to experience a plague of bats, and, lately, bears. The brazen and utterly pointless censorship seems rapidly to be eroding the positive reception (such as it was) the series received from fans.
As we saw before, each episode seems to be averaging about 80 panchira shots; it’s not clear how may this, the fifth, receives, but a count reveals no less (or more) than 21 censored scenes, with 11 by bat and 10 by kuma.
The remainder, as you see below, seems not to bother even censorship maniacs such as Osaka TV.
By now, it seems practically certain that these marks are put in solely to give a boost to DVD sales, assuming the series has any fans left by its conclusion. What other explanation could there be?
Via Princess Note.
darn them for censoring. in my opinion it is kinda irritating when there is such Censorship. it is one of the main reasons why i prefer the first season to the second.
Reminds me of Kodomo no Jikan. Besides, isn’t ecchi + “intentionally added censorship for TV VERSION” kind of pointless anyway? I’m waiting (still…) for the DVD release, but it had better be worth it (as in ALL THOSE KUMAs and BATs HAD BETTER BE GONE) In b4, “pedobear appearance in ecchi anime?”
Ive already dropped this show from my viewing list. Its not like it was a particularly good anime to begin with, the whole point of watching it was really for all the stuff they are blocking out. Either way no big loss, there’s way better animes out this season.
Yeah, honestly they should’ve made it like the manga, or they pull a Hellsing on us
Really they should do what they did with Hellsing
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wtf at the censorship. covering up a girl who is wearing a bikini? man censorship sucks for anime. i do agree that the flash/steam is better than bats/bears
yah, it’s idiotic. That’s why I’ve wholly given up on the show. I mean, I’m not going to lose sleep over it because, while it has it’s moments, it’s not really that great of a series in the first place.
i think the censorship is a ploy to get the fans to buy the dvds.
It pushes me in the other direction and I wouldn’t buy the #$@! DVDs because of it.
That aside, who in their right mind would run out to purchase the DVDs just so they could see the bikini and panties that the bats and bears covered up?
I wonder if it’s not a ‘quiet protest’ on the animation / production company to get the fans in an uproar…
Minor censorship in Animes that don’t focus on fanservice is alright (though I still hate it.), such as the popular shower scene in Code Geass.
However, censoring a show whose main (only) attraction is the fanservice is like taking away the show’s purporse. Famous examples are Kodomo no Jikan…
Somewhere under all that fanservice, Kodomo no Jikan has a few compelling elements. But we’re probably talking 95% fanservice to 5% thought provoking content.