Cuts, cuts², cuts³ in the German Naruto version

[chochajin]

Well, as I´ve already told you in this post Naruto is now on German tv.
A lot of people have been complaining about the German version.
The voices are not fitting, they pronounce some of the names wrong.
And the German opening which isn´t even in German is horrible, too !!

You can have a look at the German opening here:

Comments

[scarlettfan84]

interesting. i think the problem is culture? in the us and europe they think cartoons are only for children?

[chochajin]

I´m not sure. I would say that the USA is much more critical with those things than Germany. This is the FIRST anime that has so many cuts !!! And I just don´t get why NOW and why with this series ?!?
Well Dragonball Z for example was broadcastet around 7pm, so there were only little cuts.
And I don´t think that they think that cartoons are only for children. But the tv station that is broadcasting Naruto IS, but why are they buying series as 'brutal' as Naruto in the first place then ? (x__x;) Ayah~ ...

[quoting_mungo]

Can't really generalize "Europe" -- I know there used to be really violent and creepy cartoon shows on public service television here (Sweden), and aside from Pokémon/Digimon/Beyblade (ie obvious things) they're releasing a lot of fairly violent anime domestically here. I think even Ninja Scroll is in the lineup, though I could be misremembering.

-Alexandra

[euploeamulciber]

... and here in Finland they don't cut anything. :P I think it's a german culture thing in this case, since at least in Finland and Sweden the series shown are really uncut. And we have stuff like Neon Genesis Evangelion, Hellsing and Samurai Champloo - I guess Full Metal Panic! should be counted in that too, since there's naked people running around. So, duh.

[chochajin]

Finland has Naruto ? That´s interesting.
Well, I don´t think that it´s a cultural thing.
We also have Hellsing and Samurai Champloo and they were UNCUT. They were only shown on another tv station than Naruto !