Comments on: Censorship in a Nutshell (Updated)

By: AstroNerdBoy

AstroNerdBoy — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:52:28 +0000

I believe FUNimation was pressured into this by the progressive movement. See my article for detailed analysis of the situation.

By: Jura

Jura — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:20:39 +0000

Funi isn’t going after someone’s life to destroy it.

By: MikeyDPirate

MikeyDPirate — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:52:27 +0000

@Lheage

I wouldn’t boycott Funi completely. Just boycott the release of the Dance in The Vampire Bund. When you boycott Funi completely you are just don’t more harm then good to the anime business all together. It would hurt them more and let them know that we support edit-free stuff if they see that this doesn’t do good. Funi seem to know what is being said on the internet and I am sure they can connect the two together if the see Dance has low sales but notice that all their edit-free stuff has high sales.

I understand why Funi is doing this but I don’t understand why people are willing to boycott Funi all together. I think that is just a stupid idea. Just boycott this series and that is all. No need to make all other good animes suffer because of this one anime.

By: Lheage

Lheage — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:34:41 +0000

I completely agree that censorship is wrong. But I’m honestly up in the air as to whether or not I will boycott Funimation. I had full intention to buy the Dance in the Vampire Bund DVD release when it came out, but when I found out that it was censored, I’m completely put me off of it. And then the fact that Funi would censor something on a DVD release that costs a decent amount anyway has really made me very angry at the company. They have a lot of Funi DVDs as they seem to license shows I like, and I like to own things that I like. But, as it stands now, I may just keep fansub versions of anime that Funi licenses instead of buying from them. I guess I’ll make my final decision on it if and when we get a better response from Funi.