Overseas anime censorship gives the Love Live! girls gigantic dick arms

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Trying to clean up the show has made it look much, much dirtier.

As we’ve seen in the past, anime censorship can be a very difficult thing to do subtly. Being such a visually driven storytelling form means creators are often packing every frame with things for the eyes to take in and enjoy, so when concerned distributors go back in and try to remove or obscure something, sometimes it’s painfully obvious.

Things only get trickier when anime makes its way overseas. Cultural differences can shake out such that what’s totally innocuous in Japan has the potential to offend in other markets, which has Japanese Twitter users snickering over what they say is a German edition of idol anime Love Live!

The incident is kind of surprising, since Love Live! is actually a pretty classy show, treating its cast of teen vocalists with chaste respect and leaving more lascivious depictions to certain subsets of its fanbase. As a matter of fact, Love Live! is usually so squeaky clean that the censorship ends up making the show look about a thousand times dirtier…

…by making it seem like the young ladies have gigantic penises growing out of their shoulder sockets. That’s instantly what many thought they were seeing in Japan, where a mosaic effect is placed over genitalia in adult videos.

As you’d expect, Love Live! is heavy on musical scenes, and idol choreography involves a lot of outstretched hands, which help promote a feeling of oneness with the audience. Unfortunately, Japanese pop idols aren’t the first group to show enthusiasm for posing with a raised arm.

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▼ Sieg idol?

German law expressly forbids the display of Nazi symbols such as the swastika, and the Love Live! choreography seems like, at worst, a gray area. All the same, it seems the local distributors decided it was a little too close to the Nazi salute, and that it was better to appear pornographic than fascist. So once again, you can blame the Nazis for causing problems for modern-day Japanese artists and visual designers.

Source: Jin
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