

Body-hugging clouds of steam and vapours which obscure with geometric precision are the latest extremes in TV censorship, taking the practice to surreal heights, but also noticeable is the fact that only the characters with small breasts, irrespective of age, are the recipients of this treatment.
The girls of Omamori Himari are sporting some fine coats of steam this season:



For some reason this more curvaceous scene was deemed acceptable for broadcast:


Ladies versus mysteriously shaped clouds of steam:







Once again it is only flatter characters who are the recipients of steam.
Hypothetical Blu-ray version:

Not a title censors are likely to forget soon.
DVD marketing sham or puritanical TV moralists? Could anime and manga be censored based on breast size and the assumption that small breasts are childlike and anyone seeing them must be a malevolent child-predator in waiting?
It's a selling point to the DVDs.
The companies wanna milk you dry (in both senses of the word).
Exactly. Sad thing is, it's a marketing tactic that probably works.
Anyways, I think "drill" should have her hair censored. =P
Yeah, I'm certain this is just a terrestrial broadcast for Ladies vs. Butlers, because I'm pretty damn sure I've seen tits many times during it.
it's a good anime, sum1 will rip the DVD for us, if u can't wait then buy the DVD.
Then the censors win if we buy it.... Ill wait
But there are as many (if not more) fans of average+ breasts out there as there are DFC lovers. If it was just DVD marketing, leaving larger breasts basically uncensored wouldn't make any sense. There must be more to it.
recently Australia banned small breasts, maybe its actual "supermorals" than marketing strategy...
So now I need to pay for my lolis but big-breasted women are for free?
The censors think about the australian market. ^_^
Either that, or the Japanese broadcasters are doing the old 'Roll Over And Show Our Bellies So They'll Think We're Harmless' Censorship Shuffle because of the recent Australian Governmental (emphasis on mental) Meddling.
WTF? Just half the anime is broadcasted, this is a new low.
We don't wanna watch half a show!
Omamori Himari is such a terrible show
Pretty much agree, I got tired of it after episode 3. Only really still watching Armed Librarians, Baka to Test and LvB now.
As for these censors, I'm not really bothered by the fact it's censored, but it's pretty dumb how lazily they've done it. Obstructing foreground objects > random white gradients all over the screen.
This is doubly annoying because I really like the manga.
But the anime adaptation is about as much of a fuckup as Vampire Bund is. >_>
Lol, because ep4 is what made me watch this show. If you can, just watch that chapter.
ahahaha.the news is so simple.but its sure make me lolled
I still cannot believe they censour such shit, after all is just DRAW for fuck!
Nowdays 7yo watch HARDCORE PORN w/o ANY censoring at all!
Thank you!
I have to agree, because it is the truth.
And that makes it right because...?
Because they grow up to be just fine!
But 7yo watch hardcore porn with big breasts. so they are used to it.
Why do they need to censor half the screen like that? They should just mosaic out the parts of the body that they can't show instead of censoring the whole body.
Or they could just not drawn nipples on them, it worked ridiculously well in the past for avoiding the need to censor.
I can just imagine Cowboy Bebop with this loli filter, every downward shot of Ed cultivating an impenetrable white mist down her top.
ed's too boyish looking....so I wouldnt think they'd censor her...
Why is that damn mist all over the body? Those loli boobs sure don't hang down to the knees...
The mist... it has a mind all it's own...
ALL HAIL THE MIST, OUR NEW GOD!
inb4 let's not.
Yeah this is really stupid.I can understand the steam censure but what is this? Is she made out of magnesium and set on fire or something?
She could be evolving but her trainer keeps pressing the B button.
Okay, now the censors have failed big time!
they always fail
now they just went a whole new level of it
Dammit Australia! leave Japan out of this anti-flat thing of yours
NOW I hate Qantas, Crocodile Dundee, Foster's Beer, Neighbours, Bananas in Pyjamas and rugby!!
Has nothing to do with Australia. Australia did not ban small breasts you fool. Do some research next time before assuming everything you read on some website is true.
Australia didn't exactly ban them (yet), but it's a fact that they confiscate all material with a-cup and smaller in it as it enters the country...
Since when did Japan hire an Australian censorship board??
Blame australian government.
What a fucking joke.
MAKE ME LAUGH!
Hrm...do these shows air in Australia? If so then that might be the cause of the censorship (given that they don't like small boobs and all).
*facepalm*
honestly that's.......really a stupid thing to say
of course they dont.....they havent even finished airing in japan
That joke is getting old. They wouldn't censor it for some shit county that eats kangaroos.
Yes. There's no suggestion whatsoever this had anything to do with that. Someone suggested they might have had a complaint...
This is bull shit. They're not even children! Breasts aren't even sexual organs! Men have breasts too (without milk production abilities)! The "steam" doesn't even look convincing!
... etc.
Not true, men can lactate as well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Male_lactation
That's not exactly normal. If your dick bleeds, you don't have a period ;)
Really? Hmm. Guess I better see a doctor.
omg! and I thought I'd just reached puberty.
It's Australian Rules Censorship.
LOL, LvsB is uncensored on AT-X
Amen!!
thank haruhi!