It is not a novelty that in China they censor scenes of some anime, this time, it was the turn of the new anime Yoru no Kurage wa Oyogenai received a modification in the attire of one of its characters and of course, fans immediately protested on the internet. This is something that has happened to popular franchises such as Chainsaw Man and Kimetsu no Yaiba. In general, it usually annoys the anime community, since many times it is not even done in a good way or it is simply done in a quite ridiculous way. In this article we tell you what happened and how Yoru no Kurage wa Oyogenai fans reacted.
Yoru no Kurage wa Oyogenai receives censorship in China
Recently, the original anime of the animation studio Doga Kobo was released. Yoru no Kurage wa Oyogenai and after its first episode, the anime community was already talking about it, since one of its main characters, Mahiru Kōzuki suffered a censorship in one of the scenes. In this scene, Mahiru is wearing a set of suspenders and when she is in an angle where she is a little bent over, her breasts are slightly visible. Well, in the Chinese censorship, they took care to cover this part very well so that it was not visible at all.
Clearly, fans of Yoru no Kurage wa Oyogenai reacted immediately to this and expressed themselves through social networks generating memes and commenting on things like “But… she’s a girl” “When the Chinese discover in vpn, their minds will explode” “China sucks”, among others. And let’s remember that this is not the first time that this happens and anime are transmitted with some modification by this Asian country, which usually generates annoyance among the community for the bad work done or simply because they are absurd censorship according to the fans.
Precisely, Yoru no Kurage wa Oyogenai is not the first anime that is in this situation, previously others like Chainsaw Man or Demon Slayer have already suffered censorship in this country, due to the nature of their stories that usually have fight scenes and, therefore, something bloody, so these are usually omitted being modified by something else. This issue about censorship in China is so well known that even some time ago it became popular an alleged censorship that had been made in Spy x Family, in which Yor instead of having blood on his face, it seemed that he had another substance, but in the end this turned out to be false.
If this note generated your interest about Yoru no Kurage wa Oyogenai and you don’t know what it’s about, we tell you that in this story we have four girls consisting of “Mahiru Kouzuki” an illustrator who has stopped drawing, “Nonoka Tachibana” who used to be an idol and wants to challenge herself by singing, “Nox Ryūgasaki” who has self-proclaimed herself the strongest vTuber and “Kimura-chan” a songwriter who wants to support her favorite person, who will form a group called “JELEE”, with the purpose of fulfilling their artistic dreams by supporting each other. The whole story takes place in the popular Shibuya.
This original anime was produced by Doga Kobo on the occasion of its 50th anniversary, has been directed by Ryōhei Takeshita who invited to participate in this project to other members of the production, such as the screenwriter, Yūji Kaneko and the art director and editor, Kashiko Kimura. Finally, Masaru Yokoyama is in charge of the music. It began airing on April 7, as part of the spring 2024 season.
