Her Bra Is Pastde On Boo!
[Much love and cheese to the mousie on Wank Report who posted this]

There is much crying and gnashing of teeth in the On the Dark Horse Comics forum.

An upcoming volume of the manga title Cannon God Exaxxion has apparently been altered to remove a sex scene between main characters Gun and Akane, and the scenes leading up to it altered by drawing in a bra on the originally naked Akane.

The fans... They are not pleased.

NotSamurai: I asked about this in the Dark Horse forum (actually thought I posted here and was ready to complain about the message being deleted before I found it), but haven't seen a reply yet.

In any case, this volume has been censored by Dark Horse. The chapter invovling their first time has missing pages, missing panels, and a badly drawn bra added.

Sicne I won't support censorship, I won't be buying any more of this series (I stopped with volume 3 until volume 5's fate was known).


Buyer beware...

ONEZ! THEY TOOKEN TEH S3XX0RZ!

Chris Warner, editor at Dark Horse, is the first to respond:

...In the case of Exaxxion, work with very strong adult content was created in Japan long after the series began running in the States, content much stronger than what had been established when the license was secured. Publishing this more adult content unaltered would have pulled the book into an adults-only category, which would have cut it off from a large number of its regular readers. This situation was presented to the creator, who authorized editing the work to allow it to continue to reach its established audience.

...Again, we never censor anything. We present the marketplace realties to the creator and then let the creator determine how we, as his or her publisher, should proceed.

Sounds kosher, right? They made a decision, got the okay from the original creator, and took action that would keep the title available to the highest # of readers? At worst, this should be a case of "I accept it, but I don't have to like it" right?

Wait, that's speaking from the perspective of too much Earth Logic and not enough fanboy entitlement. (A perspective which is obviously wrong.)

While many pile on with the "Screw the masses! I want my untouched sex!" whining (must... resist... virgin... crack...), other forums chime in on the DH entry, starting with Anime on DVD. Pay particular to Mortimer (starting towards the bottom of page 2) as he displays his ability to multitask being dense, condescending, and insulting.

But wait! There's more!

Manga Blog (Holy Crap! Reason!), Love Manga, and Anime News Network (can't discuss manga without scanlation wank, can we?) have all chimed in on the subject.

Seems to have died down on AODVD, Manga4Kids, and Love Manga, but the other two appear to be going strong.

I, for one, would love to find scanlations comparing censored and uncensored versions.

ETA: It seems that part of what's fueling this wank comes from the fact that Dark Horse has been down this road before, with a manga called "Shadow Star."