A question as to what is "excessively violent."

inthesto · Post by **inthesto** » Sun Apr 18, 2004 7:54 pm

If anyone's seen the Battle Angel Alita/Gunnm anime, in Alita's (or Gally, if you prefer) first fight scene, she punche's a dude's head off, and his severed head it lying on the ground with blood all over the place.

Is that too over the top?

Gee, when I write it like that, it does sound really bad, but I swear it's not too gory in the actual video. Or maybe I'm just ridiculously desensitized from reading the entire manga, where brains get mangled on a regular basis.

inthesto · Post by **inthesto** » Sun Apr 18, 2004 7:58 pm

On a side note, my grammar sucks balls right now.

TobinHood · Post by **TobinHood** » Sun Apr 18, 2004 10:17 pm

Sounds too gory, and it's been said that the Kenshin OAVs are too gory so if it's worse than those, it's too gory. The only anime with decaptitation i can think of off the top of my head that isn't too gory is X.

downwithpants · Post by **downwithpants** » Sun Apr 18, 2004 11:44 pm

Kenshin OVAs vids aren't too gory, or else there are over 300 videos violating this rule.

I think the criteria was if it showed innards then it's too gory. so i guess if you see his brains or blood vessels, it might be too gory.

godix · Post by **godix** » Sun Apr 18, 2004 11:48 pm

The way I always understood the rule is that if looks like something from a slasher flick then it's to gory but if it looks like something from a Schwarzenegger action flick then it's fine. IIRC the sceen you're talking about is much closer to Schwarzenegger than Jason although it's been awhile since I've watched Battle Angel. I do recall that the manga for that was much darker than the anime though.

DemonSpawn · Post by **DemonSpawn** » Mon Apr 19, 2004 4:27 pm

I think "too gory" is a matter of perspective. Personally, I don't think the concept exists, although gore is like special effects, a time and place for everything.

If I was a government or FCC employee, my perspective would be told to me.

pen-pen2002 · Post by **pen-pen2002** » Mon Apr 19, 2004 4:44 pm

I think your ok. The manga was definatly more over the top (and much better IMHO) but but I don't recall that scene in the anime to be that bad. And this is coming from someone who hates gory slasher movies.

DDramone · Post by **DDramone** » Mon Apr 19, 2004 4:50 pm

i wanted to do a video to the anime part of kill bill (to either dont drag me down by social distortion or joey ramones cover of what a wonderful world). but im confused on wether or not to submit it because of the gore rule. i've seen an AMV to dead bodies by rancid, and it was gory as all hell. dont know what the show was... some guy in a big red room having to chop off his own arm... killing all these bad guys... it was just as gory as the kill bill thing i wanna do.

Org Profile · Post by **Otohiko** » Mon Apr 19, 2004 4:59 pm

Yea, but you can have AMV's as violent as you want - IF they're NOT hosted on the Donut. This is only a donut rule. You're welcome to provide your own hosting for videos as gory as you like.

Kill bill... hmm, no, I think that would be too violent. You'd have to check with the 'authority' to make sure, but knowing how far it goes - I'd say a good lot of it is not appropriate for local hosting.

godix · Post by **godix** » Mon Apr 19, 2004 5:02 pm

So umm, Kill Bill is considered anime now is it?