Today, I am addressing one issue: Shonen Jump. I know it was a redeeming magazine for Yugioh back when it first came out, but I have come to realised the times have changed and the tables have turned. Now that Yugioh is being released uncut, is Shonen Jump the new 4Kids? Lets reflect on the past 2 or so years. Yugioh was being edited to no end, angry Otaku were enraged, and 4Kids didn't show any signs of wanting to change.

    That's when Shonen Jump came along. Yugioh was finally seen in the form it should have been seen in from the start. Cussing, vices, violence, and everything that was cut from the dub was present for the first time in any american Yugioh release. Now fast forward to 2004-5. Yugioh is finally being released uncut. The uncut dub is not only unedited, but has a very accurate script and all original music. But hows Shonen Jump doing? Now that the manga and the show are more aligned in america, how is Shonen Jump reacting? They react, by turning completely around. I don't want to enrage any Yugioh Uncensored fans who read Shonen Jump, but look at it for a second.

   Back when it was first released, there was cussing all over the place. Now, we are lucky to see a "bastard" or a "damn" in every chapter in the issue! The only thing back in the day that Shonen Jump did that even came close to art censoring was translating any Kanji in the picture and translating the SFX, and they made an effort to make sure that the new SFX didn't interfere with the art in the panels, considering that Kanji and American writing have a huge difference in terms of size and shape, making it possible for translated sfx to interfere with the art in the panels in a way the Kanji did not.

   Nowadays, not only are the translated sfx FREAKING HUGE AND APPEAR EVERYWHERE, but are also being used as a way to censor things that may be deemed inappropriate, mostly violence, such as the scene in the last issue where Kurama cut several demons into pieces with his rose whip. Not only that, but Shonen Jump, as of the last issue, has officially started censoring art. In Shaman Kings, a tanuki takes a piss on Manta's head. They censored it so it had a fire hose instead. Plus, it is official, every character that appears after Monster world has a name change to correspond to 4Kids dubs. I could go on forever about what they have done, but I have already done so so many times, I think you already get the message. So I think we should speak out. Don't let SJ go downhill!