Anime ratings

CaTaClYsM · Post by **CaTaClYsM** » Thu Apr 03, 2003 3:36 am

I just found out that Spriggan was rated R, and before I found out that I heard about the CB movie getting an R rating. Exactly what is the typical rating an anime gets and how often is the rating something it truly deserves? I can see VHD Bloodlust with an R rating, but the CB movie and Spriggan? Just for shits and giggles I want to know what they do for the rating of anime series and stuff like that. And A place to find out what anime movie (or anyhting anime related) is rated. It isn't like I can go over to animenation.com and see since they don't list the ratings.

He Thor01 · Post by **He Thor01** » Thu Apr 03, 2003 1:21 pm

Since most Anime only makes it to video as an import it porbably recieves no rating. It would just show up as "Not Rated".

kyosukeshin · Post by **kyosukeshin** » Thu Apr 03, 2003 4:49 pm

They pretty much rate anime the same way they rate live-action movies. Since American censors tend to be really touchy, something as mild as a gunshot wound or profanity is enough to warrant an R rating.

SSJVegita0609 · Post by **SSJVegita0609** » Thu Apr 03, 2003 6:20 pm

I was surprised about Spriggan too, then I watched it again and saw how much mass death there was... Plus its an extremely anti-american movie.

CaTaClYsM · Post by **CaTaClYsM** » Thu Apr 03, 2003 7:04 pm

And I would bet that the anti American aspect had NOTHING to do with the rating.

TallonKarrde23 · Post by **TallonKarrde23** » Thu Apr 03, 2003 7:44 pm

well CB's being rated R i believe was due to the fact they smoke and its a new law....atleast in Cali, i dunno if its national, that if theres smoking its an automatic R rating. This is because when i went to the official site for it like a few weeks ago it said it was something lower, i dont remember exactly but it wasnt R. But whatever im probably wrong --;

CaTaClYsM · Post by **CaTaClYsM** » Fri Apr 04, 2003 12:06 am

It is rated R due to 'some' violence. I guess the clip of hte guy reading the newspaper and getting it right between the eyes was too much for the people rating the movie.

jonmartensen · Post by **jonmartensen** » Fri Apr 04, 2003 1:10 am

SSJVegita0609 wrote:I was surprised about Spriggan too, then I watched it again and saw how much mass death there was... Plus its an extremely anti-american movie.

Spriggan: If you had as much blood, death, and all around violence (especially with him killing as a child) in any non-animated movie, it would easilly get an R rating

Savia · Post by **Savia** » Fri Apr 04, 2003 3:26 am

Well, speaking as a Brit (different ratings), I'm surprised that most of Eva is PG (Parental Guidance, no real inhibitent to anyone buying and watching) rated. including the one where Unit-01 punches in Unit-04's head and there's rivers of blood dripping from the traffic lights and everything. I thought that that was one of the most disturbing scenes I'd seen in a long time, animated or not.

I think that the censors everywhere tend to think that animated media can get away with more because "'it's not real". Sure, they say, Mononoke-Hime has people's heads getting shot off, but it's a cartoon so it doesn't count.

UncleMilo · Post by **UncleMilo** » Fri Apr 04, 2003 3:30 pm

Here's how much sense ratings make:

If you say the F word once, the move is PG-13

If you say the F word more than once the move is rated R.

If you say the F word once, but use it as a term connected with sex, then it's R.

So...

If you say... "What the f--- are you talking about." and it's the only time you use the word. It's PG-13

If you say "What the f--- are you talking about you f---er?" Then the movie is R.

If you say "I was talking about how I f---ed her last night" and it's the only time you use the word... it's still R.

Aren't ratings fun?

-Uncle Milo