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The third season of Sword Art Online recently premiered across the world, with it being
shown on Japanese television and streamed in other countries via services such as Crunchyroll.
10 episodes of the show have currently aired and, unlike previous episodes, it has been
discovered that the latest was censored across most Western streaming platforms.
Not only was it censored, but Crunchyroll viewers were greeted with this new content
warning message at the start of the episode - something that Crunchyroll appears to have
started doing following controversy earlier in the year over the show Goblin Slayer and
its graphic nature.
The censored scene shows sexual assault being depicted for narrative purposes and the minute
long scene has many different edits during its Western broadcast to tone down the shocking
nature of the scene, and a full comparison of the censored scene can be found by searching
the web if you are interested in seeing the differences.
A Crunchyroll employee has confirmed that the changes were not down to them and the
scene has also been altered on competing platforms Funimation and Hulu.
This puts the blame down to the Western publisher Aniplex USA, who are responsible for providing
the show to the streaming platforms.
It also turns out however that this scene was strangely not censored on the European-based
streaming platform Wakanim.
Wakanim provides streaming for France, Germany, Russia and Nordic countries and can only be
accessed from these countries or through the use of a VPN to change your IP's location.
Interestingly, Wakanim as a platform is owned by Aniplex, who are the parent company and
Japanese side of Aniplex USA.
As for why Aniplex USA made the decision to censor this scene, this is not currently known
and the company has not currently commented on the matter.
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