From: tnaran@no-more-virii-please.direct.ca   
      
   S.t.A.n.L.e.E wrote:   
   > Thu, 8 Dec 2005 2:46pm-0000, Ping Kuo :   
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   >   
   >>In article , Travers Naran   
   >> wrote:   
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   >>   
   >>>For the record: I don't mind if the original authors agree to changing   
   >>>things for domestic decency rules, and even help out (Shirow does that   
   >>>all the time).  I just wish DC wouldn't be so ham fisted about it sometimes.   
   >>   
   >>it bugs me when western publisher used the "hey the author's ok w/ the   
   >>changes." to hide behind the censorship issue, look, the Japanese   
   >>authors will only agree to the changes of  the originals because the   
   >>western editor went to them, and tell them, "if you want to sell more   
   >>copies, we have to censor those parts."  otherwise why won't them draw   
   >>differently in the original in the first place?  so the   
   >   
   > What about the mangaka "agreeing" with their Japanese editors   
   > to make "changes" to their original drafts if they want to sell   
   > more copies of Shounen Jump, etc. before the publishing?   
      
   That's the editor trying to make the story better.  This was just "Hey!   
   We don't wnat to get arrested!"   
      
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