History Bowdlerise / AnimeAndMangaAToI

* The earlier Italian dub of ''Manga/HonooNoAlpenRose'' heavily edited every episode to hide the fact that the series is set during World War II. The series later got a second dub that had no cuts.

** Kagura threatened Kyo with [[ChildhoodMarriagePromise marriage as a child]] using a knife in the ''Manga/FruitsBasket'' manga but used a rock in the anime.

** An interesting example from the Arabic dub of ''Adventure'' and 02: To get past some extremely strict media regulations in a few countries its network, Spacetoon, served, the concept of Digivolving ''does not exist'' for this dub. Instead, the higher forms of the basic Digimon are their older siblings who live in an unseen base and "switch out" with their younger ones to fight evil. Also, in Tamers, the symbol on Calumon's head is digitally removed. Their reason? Because it looked too much like the Star of David.

* ''Anime/DigimonDataSquad'' was intended to be DarkerAndEdgier than previous series and was aimed at teenagers in Japan, but in the US it was rated TV-Y7 and Creator/{{Studiopolis}} made many changes reminiscent of 4Kids as a result. One of the most glaring was in the episode "A Birthday Kristy Will Never Forget!", where they changed [=BomberNamimon=] (a Digimon shaped like a giant bomb) to "Citramon" (a giant orange), as well as changing its threat to blow up an amusement park to drowning it in juice after several bad citrus jokes.

* Animax Asia's airing of ''Manga/CellsAtWork'' had all instances of leukocytes killing any virus with [[AlienBlood highly blood-like cytoplasm]] spewing out of it discarded wholesale. Episode 3 of ''Manga/CellsAtWorkCODEBLACK'' had almost five minutes cut out due to the depiction of an erection.

* In one version of the ADV-translated ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh'' manga, the "hello, little lady" game where [[LikeFatherLikeSon Tomo's Dad]] spun her around by the yukata sash and Yomi's [[DysfunctionalFamily subsequent reaction]] was changed to [[DubInducedPlotHole both of]] Tomo's [[MissingMom parents]] participating and Yomi wondering how old Tomo was. The UnfortunateImplications (if you know what the "game" [[AttemptedRape implied]], at least before [[BookDumb Tomo and her father]] [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Completely Missed The Point]]) are astounding.

* The Shonen Jump manga ''{{Manga/Is}}'' received some censorship in its American publication to get an "Older Teen" instead of the more-restricted "Mature"; when the Photoshopped nude photo of Iori went around, her nipples were censored with stars, and similar scenes throughout the series (up until volume 12, where the rest of the series has a "PARENTAL ADVISORY: EXPLICIT CONTENT" sticker, still strangely with an Older Teen rating) received CensorSteam or DigitalBikini. The preview in the actual Shonen Jump magazine rated Teen was even more censored, with the opening photoshoot on Iori edited to a PG-rated level and scenes of fondling/groping removed or covered. Considering Viz had published other series with female nipples at an Older Teen rating, this appeared to a double standard for the Shonen Jump label.

** A robot (animated in a completely different style) was inserted to pad the running length because so much had been cut. He would usually provide AnAesop at the end of the show.

** The USA English dub of ''Fusion'', opts to give Lilithmon an [[SpecialEffectFailure MS Paint-worthy]] undershirt instead.

* ''Anime/DigimonDataSquad'' was intended to be DarkerAndEdgier than previous series and was aimed at teenagers in Japan, but in the US it was rated TV-Y7 and Creator/{{Studiopolis}} made many changes reminiscent of 4Kids as a result. One of the most glaring was in the episode "A Birthday Kristy Will Never Forget!", where they changed [=BomberNamimon=] (a Digimon shaped like a giant bomb) to "Citramon" (a giant orange), as well as changing its threat to blow up an amusement park to drowning it in juice after several bad citrus jokes.

** An interesting example from the Arabic dub of ''Adventure'': To get past some extremely strict media regulations in a few countries its network, Spacetoon, served, the concept of Digivolving ''does not exist'' for this dub. Instead, the higher forms of the basic Digimon are their older siblings who live in an unseen base and "switch out" with their younger ones to fight evil. Also, in Tamers, the symbol on Calumon's head is digitally removed. Their reason? Because it looked too much like the Star of David.

** One Brazilian channel aired ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist'' in [[AnimationAgeGhetto their kids' block]]; naturally, there was some serious editing done to make it acceptable. All blood (with the exception of the drops the Elric brothers used for their human alchemy attempt) was cut out or badly edited out digitally (in one case, [[spoiler: Tim Marcoh's death]], very cheaply, MS Paint-like), as were fanservice shots and entire scenes deemed too violent (the last episode particularly was ripped to shreds, and left more than one character's fates ambiguous). Fortunately Animax Brazil aired the series uncut, and the previously mentioned channel never aired ''[[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist Brotherhood]]''. (Strangely, although the first three DVD box sets were released uncut, the fourth and last was released with the TV edits. Very unfortunate, especially since those were undoubtedly the most edited episodes, and the box outright states the show to be completely uncensored).

* In the ''Manga/{{Bokurano}}'' manga one of the protagonists was raped by her teachers friends and ended up [[TeenPregnancy pregnant]] as a result. In the anime she had a consensual [[TeacherStudentRomance romance with her teacher]] instead, though he was still only using her.

* Animax Asia's airing of ''Manga/CellsAtWork'' had all instances of Leukyocytes killing any virus with blood spewing out of it discarded whole. Additionally, Episode 3 of ''Manga/CellsAtWorkCODEBLACK'' had almost five minutes cut out due to the depiction of an erection.

** The Hebrew dub for ''Cardcaptor Sakura'' removed [[YaoiGuys Yukito's love for Touya]]. So after Sakura confesses her love to Yukito, the Israeli viewer learns that he doesn't feel the same way because he already has Touya as ''a very close friend''. Also, for the rest of the episode, the words "a very close friend" are repeated again and again. Because Touya is Yukito's very close friend. They also censored Syaoran's crush on Yukito, and tried to pass it as "admiration". Then they gave Syaoran lines like "why do I feel this way about Kinomoto? I admire Yukito!"

* ''Anime/BattleOfThePlanets'' transformed ''Anime/ScienceNinjaTeamGatchaman'' into a chiildren's show: