Censorship

Patreon Begins Suspending Adult Anime Artists, Claiming Artworks Show “Sexualized Depictions of Minors”

Patreon Responds To Adult Anime Artists Claiming They Are Being Suspended For Artwork Showing “Sexualized Depictions of Minors”

March 16, 2020

Multiple adult hentai and anime artists have reported that their Patreon accounts have been suspended after the crowdfunding website’s administration deemed some of their artwork to be “sexualized depictions of...

Sentai Filmworks Changes Dialogue to Explicitly Reference Misogyny in Dub of To Love Ru Anime

Spencer Baculi

March 6, 2020

Anime, Censorship

Sentai Filmworks changed a line of dialogue to blatantly state a statement’s misogynistic implications, rather than leaving them to be inferred from the original statement, in their newly produced dub of To Lov...

Funimation Censors Mild ‘Butt’ Pun Joke in Nekopara

Spencer Baculi

March 2, 2020

Anime, Censorship

Funimation, the anime production and distribution company, has altered a joke containing a mildly crude joke during their subbing and dubbing of an anime series, this time in their dub of Nekopara. In Episod...

Funimation Edits Joke To Remove Light Sexual Humor In ‘BOFURI: I Don’t Want to Get Hurt, so I’ll Max Out My Defense’

Spencer Baculi

February 18, 2020

Anime, Censorship

In their continuing tradition of altering the scripts of original anime productions during the dubbing process, Funimation has changed a line in their dub of BOFURI: I Don't Want to Get Hurt, so I'll Max Out My...

Western Release Of Persona 5 Royal To Censor Scenes Featuring Two Gay Men

Drew Taylor

February 18, 2020

Censorship, Video Games

Persona 5 Royal, the latest game in the Persona series, which adds quite a bit of new content to the previously released Persona 5, will censor multiple scenes featuring two gay men. In an interview with Gam...

Letterboxd Inexplicably Bans Black Libertarian Film Critic Jacob Smith and His Society Reviews Account

Drew Taylor

February 6, 2020

Censorship

Letterboxd has banned film critic Jacob Smith's Society Reviews account. In a post to Society Reviews earlier this month, Smith revealed that Letterboxd banned their account which included over 500 reviews o...

For Second Time, Funimation Promises “Uncut” Release of Tsugumomo, Delivers Censored Version Instead

Spencer Baculi

February 2, 2020

Anime, Censorship

Fans have discovered that Funimation’s recent release of Tsugumomo on Blu-ray presents viewers with a censored version of the series despite the promise made on the back of the box that the release would be “un...

Commandos 2 – HD Remaster Removes Swastika and Rising Sun Imagery: “It’s About an Attitude – and the Moral Responsibility”

Spencer Baculi

January 29, 2020

Censorship, Video Games

The recently released Commandos 2 – HD Remaster has been scrubbed of all depictions of Nazi Swastikas and the Rising Sun of Imperial Japan, with the game’s publisher citing outdated censorship laws and a “moral...

Groyper Army Leader Nick Fuentes Has YouTube Channel Temporarily Demonetized and Receives One Week Streaming Ban

Spencer Baculi

January 14, 2020

Censorship

Nick Fuentes, the 22-year old conservative YouTuber and leader of the “Groyper Army” political movement, has recently had his channel America First temporarily demonetized and his streaming privileges revoked f...

China’s “Healthy China 2030” Initiative Aims to Protect Children by Bringing Further Monitoring of Online Content & Games

Spencer Baculi

January 12, 2020

Censorship, Video Games

Chinese regulators have introduced a new initiative, “Healthy China 2030,” which will bring further scrutiny and surveillance of video game and online content under the guise of protecting the mental health of ...