Nipples can be exposed briefly in "mature" comics, and even comics which are assumed to be mature without having a mature warning. Examples include early Predator comics, and Sandman and other Vertigo titles.
Nipples can be exposed in PG-13 movies, as long as it's brief. Any long term exposure of nipples would be an R.
For a teen to adult audience, a brief nipple shot is exactly what one can get away without the work being considered pornographic or adult. Manga uses this guideline effectively, having a well placed nipple in the middle of an otherwise nipple-less story. While cleavage is meant to reside at the boundaries of nudity, the nipple shot declares brief nudity, just as in teen anime where a nipple may appear for a few seconds with nothing further.
So why has localised manga become so nipple shy? Why would manga, so deserved of its nipplage, have stars, hearts and blue diamonds placed over them? A random bra? Or an entire page removed?
It makes no sense. The nipple shot is purely PG-13 / "mature reader" material, regularly used by mature comic publishers like DC and Dark Horse.
This is not a free country when our right to view official, legal, legitimate nipples is removed.
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Anonymous2005-08-05 7:38
Uhh, i think that you have a very wrong meaning of 'free country'. Manga and Anime is usually considered either Child (under 13) or adult (over 18) and would probly come under attack if a Soccermom saw her child looking at a manga of 'pokemon with nipples'. I think they take out stuff just so they dont have to go through the hastle of dealing with the bastards that instantly notice this stuff and blow it WAY out of proportion (Same with games, same with movies).
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Anonymous2005-08-09 13:40
All of Masakazu Katsura's nipple shots are integral to the plot. Or at least make it more fun.
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Anonymous2005-08-31 15:47
nipple
in Japanese "beechiku"
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!ToapeXDoGs2005-09-03 23:44
What I want to know is why these manga companies, after gaining their success through translation, suddenly feel the need to compulsively edit, sanitize, and rewrite the products that got them where they are! (Well ok, CMX and ADV are pretty new to it, but Viz? C'mon guys, cut it out! Have you forgotten Ranma 1/2?!)
II's, Video Girl AI, Shadow Lady, and DNA^2 all use brief PG-13 level nudity that would not place it under the "adult" category. It would be 16+ at the most.
Then you have manga localized like Street Fighter that's afraid to show just one page of nipplage.
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Anonymous2005-09-08 22:35
Zomg, so II's wasn't censored?
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Anonymous2005-09-08 23:07
>>10
there's a localized street fighter manga? you sure you don't mean udon's comics?
Protestants sucks. Yay for hipocritical catholics.
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Anonymous2006-03-13 18:27
Could someone tell me what is so dangerous in seeing nipples? Do they shoot some invisible rays that destroy young people's morals or what?
As a side note, I come from a country where people spend time in very hot rooms and whip each other with birch twigs, all this while they see each other nude, so clearly I come from a far more morally decrepit country than Amerika. So please help me see why this is wrong!
Those are fine. But Taki's nipples were edited out of a "girls in videogames" feature.
Tengo Tenge has extensive clothing over the original breasts in the US manga courtesy of DC.
And I's/Video Girl Ai/DNA2/Shadow Lady? Forget about it.
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Anonymous2006-03-16 1:40
i saw a penis on norwegian tv and nobody was phased...
i think nipples are significantly less damaging than penises. what say you? i say lift the ban on nipples and let it all hang out; i've got nipples, so do you. what's the matter with seeing them?
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Anonymous2006-03-16 18:11
Because they destroy society. When Janet Jackson showed a half covered nipple on television, it DESTROYED American society, which is why the US is in such a shitty state today.
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Anonymous2006-03-16 19:35
What a frigile society...
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JohnnyAssholeSeed2006-03-25 18:07
>>24
What the hell are you talking about? I dont remember the riots because of a nipple.
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lol sega2006-03-28 21:00 (sage)
>>24
u have been troled
u have lost
have a niec day