Is this thing for real? In my experience while censorship In Chinese media has been getting worse since the souland guy threw a tantrum, it’s still much less than in Japanese or american media. Chinese authors and anime get away with so much shit that wouldn’t even get published in the west.
Here in Mexico we have something called “libro vaquero” they are extremely misogynistic and male coded erotic comic books about cowboys, and you would see your grandpa reading them, a lot of Chinese web novels remind me of that type of literature, and from what I hear you can also see grandpa reading them In public. While japanese anime seems more aimed to kids and young adults and thus more censored.
China does seem to have a record of reducing the booba waifu content of imported anime, but my guess is that it’s specifically part of rules for what gets broadcast on certain TV stations at certain times of day rather than some kind of blanket ban on all erotic media everywhere.
On the other hand I have seen the opposite, were the boba wifus in the English translated Chinese comic strip get censored but in the original or the Russian or Spanish version they don’t.
So I think you are right that if there is censorship it probably has to do with broadcasting times.
Kind of, yeah. I’m not big into donghua but you can look it up on google and check out images. use this search term 漂亮的女主角动画 which roughly translates to “beautiful female protagonist donghua” to get an idea of
i do watch a lot of cdramas especially the costume dramas. i will say they are VERY conservative in what they show. never any tongue kissing. no sex scenes at all. no cleavage. a gay relationship can be implied but never featured. they are even super skiddish about showing a sexual relationship outside of marriage and if they do the people are pretty much already engaged formally anyways. all that said there are some great romances in some of these shows but its a lot of lustful gazing and longing like 30 episodes to get to a kiss sometimes kinda shit.
as a matter of fact this show (which my wife and i didnt care for) showed the most risque scene we’ve seen in a costume drama yet and by western standards its practically pg. https://youtu.be/OVN1y6LPWD4?t=1614 (timestamped on the scene its actually sfw its so tame)
The censorship is done most at the market level in Japan. If you get published by one of the big magazines you get assigned a producer who is basically going to manage the story from start to finish on top of the filter that’s already deciding who gets picked for that in the first place.
So is Chinese censorship, it’s the publishers and copy rights holders that decide wether a series is cancelled or not.
Technically so is stormfront but we knot it tows the state department line.
It ultimately does not matter if the censorship is market based or if there is a commissar telling you what to do like in Disney, or if the authors have the boot all the way down their throats they can’t even begin to think of anything subversive. All are forms of media control.
In the end, there is much more diversity of both subversive thoughts and unsavory things in Chinese media. Partly it’s because they are more literate so they produce more slop, but mostly they have less censorship be it self imposed, at the market level or by the state.
Is this thing for real? In my experience while censorship In Chinese media has been getting worse since the souland guy threw a tantrum, it’s still much less than in Japanese or american media. Chinese authors and anime get away with so much shit that wouldn’t even get published in the west.
Here in Mexico we have something called “libro vaquero” they are extremely misogynistic and male coded erotic comic books about cowboys, and you would see your grandpa reading them, a lot of Chinese web novels remind me of that type of literature, and from what I hear you can also see grandpa reading them In public. While japanese anime seems more aimed to kids and young adults and thus more censored.
China does seem to have a record of reducing the booba waifu content of imported anime, but my guess is that it’s specifically part of rules for what gets broadcast on certain TV stations at certain times of day rather than some kind of blanket ban on all erotic media everywhere.
On the other hand I have seen the opposite, were the boba wifus in the English translated Chinese comic strip get censored but in the original or the Russian or Spanish version they don’t.
So I think you are right that if there is censorship it probably has to do with broadcasting times.
Kind of, yeah. I’m not big into donghua but you can look it up on google and check out images. use this search term 漂亮的女主角动画 which roughly translates to “beautiful female protagonist donghua” to get an idea of
i do watch a lot of cdramas especially the costume dramas. i will say they are VERY conservative in what they show. never any tongue kissing. no sex scenes at all. no cleavage. a gay relationship can be implied but never featured. they are even super skiddish about showing a sexual relationship outside of marriage and if they do the people are pretty much already engaged formally anyways. all that said there are some great romances in some of these shows but its a lot of lustful gazing and longing like 30 episodes to get to a kiss sometimes kinda shit.
as a matter of fact this show (which my wife and i didnt care for) showed the most risque scene we’ve seen in a costume drama yet and by western standards its practically pg. https://youtu.be/OVN1y6LPWD4?t=1614 (timestamped on the scene its actually sfw its so tame)
Hehehe the reaction of the guy in the tall hat seems fitting for this discussion
I guess broadcasting for general audiences does change things.
haha, yeah and the bodyguard. the two genders
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
The censorship is done most at the market level in Japan. If you get published by one of the big magazines you get assigned a producer who is basically going to manage the story from start to finish on top of the filter that’s already deciding who gets picked for that in the first place.
So is Chinese censorship, it’s the publishers and copy rights holders that decide wether a series is cancelled or not.
Technically so is stormfront but we knot it tows the state department line.
It ultimately does not matter if the censorship is market based or if there is a commissar telling you what to do like in Disney, or if the authors have the boot all the way down their throats they can’t even begin to think of anything subversive. All are forms of media control.
In the end, there is much more diversity of both subversive thoughts and unsavory things in Chinese media. Partly it’s because they are more literate so they produce more slop, but mostly they have less censorship be it self imposed, at the market level or by the state.