Why is To love ru darkness censored?

Nov 13, 2012 8:53 PM

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Is it just me or is everywhere i look to love ru darkness is censored. Does anyone know why? Not like it is a problem but i like to watch animes how they are made in the first place without any modifications.

Nov 14, 2012 3:08 PM

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Because you would have to buy the blu ray to see it uncensored. They make more money off of blu ray if they do it like that.

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Nov 17, 2012 10:41 AM

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OHHHH i get it thanks guys :)

Nov 17, 2012 1:57 PM

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I thought it was because of japanese censorship laws but I guess selling more blu rays with the uncensored stuff makes more sense.

Go ***k yourself.

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Nov 17, 2012 6:44 PM

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Because Darkness. They used beams of light though >.<

No, really, just think about how 'wholesome' people would react if this gets shown uncensored on TV... dunno how other uncensored TV anime manages to air on TV though...

Nov 18, 2012 3:49 PM

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MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEY YNOEM

Nov 18, 2012 5:57 PM

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HauntingShock said:
Because Darkness. They used beams of light though >.<

No, really, just think about how 'wholesome' people would react if this gets shown uncensored on TV... dunno how other uncensored TV anime manages to air on TV though...

I believe there is a separate channel that runs the more adult series (High School DxD for example). It may be a premium service. In the early days of cable tv in North America, they actually ran soft-core porn on the "community channel" late on Saturday nights. (That ended after a couple of hard-core videos were shown by mistake.) Now of course you have to pay a monthly subscription fee to watch the sort of fare that airs on regular channels in Europe and other markets. Of course it's all relative--some middle eastern countries are much more restrictive.

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Nov 23, 2012 10:02 AM

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because God hates anime lovers :(

Nov 23, 2012 10:27 AM

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WrathSC said:
because God hates anime lovers :(

Nah, Ishihara and his new political party doesn't want kids seeing tits and pantsu even though a show like this isn't for kids at all.

Nov 23, 2012 11:12 AM

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lightXTC said:
I thought it was because of japanese censorship laws but I guess selling more blu rays with the uncensored stuff makes more sense.

Its both actually. I believe Japanese censorship laws still prohibit the showing of the pubic hair (funny story there, the law was actually stated that way, so some smart AV director had his female actors shave, and then argued that he hadn't broken the law. The regulators though were not amused and said that normally there would be pubic hair there, so the law still applied. Makes one wonder if an actress naturally had no hair what the would have done). This is why Japanese AV has the infamous cloud.

This applies to hentai animation as well, which is why most of it also is censored.

Now it used to be that breasts could be shown on TV late at night (I still believe this is true, but I haven't looked into this for quite a while), and this would apply to animation as well. True Love originally was a "child's manga", it was published in Shonen Jump as well, so while panty flash and teasing was okay, showing actual nudity would be unacceptable. To-Love originally followed this formula, but when the transfer to Jump Square nudity became acceptable.

Now I am not sure what time To_Love is broadcast. If it was late enough they probably could show some nudity, however to do so would greatly restrict when it could be shown. Given the popularity of the show, this would be unwise commercially, hence they use the censorship to maximize broadcast revenue potential (some network may want to show it outside of the pure nudity time, or maybe re-broadcast it during the afternoon).

Of course the added advantage is that they can sell the DVDs uncensored and sell far more than they otherwise could, and this does play a factor in this decision, but even without this factor, I think they would still censor for the reasons I stated above.

Nov 24, 2012 8:32 AM

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Does anyone here have any clue when they will release the BD's?
I just can't watch it with censorship... -_-

Nov 24, 2012 2:33 PM

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It's like that with (almost) all ecchi anime series... you have to wait for the blu-ray before the cencor gets cut, otherwise as said earlier, there would be no reason to buy the blu-rays :P

Personally i don't see the "lights" as a bad thing, since i'm here for the story and humor, and not for the ecchi parts (Only the ecchi jokes XD)

Here's a good image showing the difference between tv and blu-ray

Sander9847 said:
Does anyone here have any clue when they will release the BD's?
I just can't watch it with censorship... -_-

Dunno, sometimes it's a few days, sometimes weeks, and sometimes a few month... guessing from the ova, i would say a few weeks after the final episode?

O'Hai :D

Jul 10, 2015 7:38 PM

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This ridiculous. Dose anyone know, if the censorship will be lifted, after the blue rays go on sale? It's in watchable like this. I love this series but can't watch it censored. As most of the jokes center around the specific formula of boobs and pabtsu.

Feb 1, 2016 2:26 PM

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Where can i find this anime CENSORED?!?! i watch it on gogoanime and i cant take all the nakedness....im trying to watch an anime not hentai...

Aug 15, 2020 7:13 PM

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natalyinflorida said:
Where can i find this anime CENSORED?!?! i watch it on gogoanime and i cant take all the nakedness....im trying to watch an anime not hentai...

thank you kind stranger

Aug 23, 2020 6:24 AM

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I mean you buy eroges to be aroused, not be cockblocked by lights. So obviously it's a marketing strategy for more profit. And also censor laws for airing this on TV. Also, this is the most ecchi To LOVE Ru season to date.

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