Bleach got censored
(boundingintocomics.com)
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The worse thing is that they didnt just change the subtitles they also got the voice actor to change the dialogue for the streaming version for the international release.
This is why we need fan subs and to get things directly from Japan and not through a middle man
Japanese companies hate talking to Western fans most of the time. Like, often the best you can hope for is they tolerate your presence as long as you keep giving them money.
The only time this censorship ever matters to them is when it gets backported to Japan itself, such as in the case of Tokyo Mirage Sessions FE. Whatever happens to us is irrelevant to anyone but the biggest suits at the top who get the international profits.
That is only half true. i've actually have seen that they sometimes genuinely think they are "catering to local standards of overseas" and dont realize the true anime fans/Japanese games fans overseas hate these changes. I've seen Japanese people arguing about this that they "need to cater to overseas standards" not realizing the true anime fans/Japanese games fans hate them doing that. This is an arguement that Japanese otaku hate when dealing with woke Japanese that want to "cater to overseas standards" of course these Japanese that are saying things like that really just have bad intentions and want to change otaku culture and they use "catering to overseas" as an excuse
In this case i heard that the Japanese streaming version got censored as well but not the TV version but im not 100% sure.
The change is very subtle and it only contains one word. I would not be surprised if some advanced AI tool not avaiable to the public was used.