Sailor Moon Forum

I also just noticed it happened in the annoucement section. I clearly pressed post and yet it isn't showing

Maybe even clip out any scene showing the thorns in him.

I dunno. While Krillin's torture session with Freeza was edited considerably, Nicktoons might only take out Nephrite's blood or see that DiC was fine with it and take the chance if they know the circumstances. It's hazy at best with their often on and off censorship (nobody gets strangled excepted Tenshinhan by #17 and the news reporter by Cell). Then again, censorship tends to be inconsistent in the strange world of entertainment.

Funimation WAS rather inconsistent with editing. They couldn't even decide whether or not to censor out mentions of death and, in spite of recoloring non-red blood to skin color throughout the series, Cell's blood wasn't censored when he was taking damage from Gohan. It was still purple and it very much contrasted with the skin around it.

Yeah, those Nephrite's death would be hard to edit. At the very least, they'd edit the part where he's pierced. Although, I saw Nephrite's death in DiC's dub before I entered sixth grade and it barely had an effect on me then since I was aware of death then. If I, an kid with asperger syndrome, could handle it then, I see no reason why others couldn't.

Honestly, if soccer moms believe their precious little angels (at age 10 or so) will be traumatized, why don't they ask their kids if what they saw bothered them and how? Is it so hard for them to act rationally?

I think it's mostly the impaling part that would get the censors in an uproar. Dying characters, nowadays and Y7, seems no problem.

Ironically, I can't imagine the Senshi deaths would even be censored since they're bloodless and not at all gruesome.

Oh most definitely, but you need to think of it from the viewpoint of an overprotective parent or young kid. An overprotective parent would be greatly disturbed by it, and not realizing that they come back next week would cause a huge fuss over it. What's even worse, depending on the age and type of kid who saw it, they could possibly be equally upset, which would only give said parent more fuel for their case. Then again you never know though; and even if Dic had left it in I'm sure they would have done something to tone it down or something. What I said is just one of the many possibilities of what might have happened had it been left in tact.

Make it a double episode feature the first airing in that case if possible?

The problem is the parents freaking out probably wouldn't bother to watch the rest of the episode.