October 27, 2009

Princess Lover DVD

It's a fact of life in the anime industry that DVD/BD sales are an essential ingredient in a profitable series. The studios lose money on the original broadcast. So obviously they want to encourage DVD/BD sales as much as possible. BD offers higher resolution than is usually used for broadcast, though the material may not benefit from it. But DVDs are lower resolution than typically used for broadcast these days. How, then, to encourage people to buy them?

Obviously, by offering things that weren't in the broadcast, and the easiest way to do that is censor the fan service in the broadcast version. That used to be exceptional, but these days it's pretty much expected, at least for shows which have fan service.

The latest example of that is Princess Lover. The first DVD just hit the streets, and hit the torrents. When the show was broadcast originally, it was marked that the boobs were huge, plentiful, and bouncy, but the up-skirt shots were all massively censored. So are they, in the DVD version? Check the NSFW pictures below the fold to see for yourself.


The first picture of each pair is from the broadcast version. The second is DVD. (I didn't strain myself to find exact matches, so they aren't always exactly identical.)

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This one they didn't bother censoring in the broadcast version.

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Her nightgown is rather more diaphanous in the DVD version. I do believe that if you squint, you can see her nipples.

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That thing's hardly there.

Moving on to the second episode:

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This scene was particularly surrealistic in the broadcast version, because Teppei comments on the colors each is wearing, and you couldn't see them. In the DVD version, his comments make sense.

The ED has pictures of the four girls in the harem, alternating between two versions of the same poses differing only in the clothing. But they aren't the same, at all. First, the two versions as broadcast:

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For the DVD version, they started with the bikinis.

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...and then...

You know what? I think I rate Charlotte a full 1.0 Rushuna.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste in General Anime at 09:48 AM | Comments (2) | Add Comment
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1 Seriously, some of the censoring is pathetic. Why not just pour ink over the frames?

Posted by: Jaked at October 27, 2009 01:26 PM (sR1SY)

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Mostly because they're digitally crafted instead of hand-drawn, and pouring ink on a computer screen would be even more counterproductive.

It actually takes a lot of careful effort to make soft-edged shadows like those, without having them seem to "jitter" due to changes in how the selection feathering algorithms operate. Kind of an odd thing to spend so much effort making it look like they poured ink on a hand-drawn cel, when a mosaic or even a barely-adequate censor bar would have looked better.

Posted by: Tatterdemalian at October 28, 2009 06:31 PM (4njWT)

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