Comment on The Latin American dub of 'Ghost In The Shell' was censored and all country names were removed
Shipgirlboy@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Considering that Ghost in the Shell isn’t real, I do wonder, Why does it matter? It’s all make-believe anyways.
MoogleMaestro@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Because in some respects the original ghost in the shell was saying something about these nations. The entire significance of the back end political theater is a bit meaningless if the places talked about are abstract considering it has to do with one nation faking a terrorist attack in order to perpetuate a war against another nation. This isn’t even touching how, in the world of GitS, the United States is supposed to be a tyrannical empire on the quest of taking over the entire Americas and a bit of a malicious ally to Japan. Gee, I wonder why they censored that. 🤔
The goal Science Saru had was to adapt the manga as is. The censorship of it, unfortunately, has undermined the goal. I still enjoyed it but I hope that an eventual blu ray release untainted hy Amazon restores the intended names. It really hurts the world building of the original GitS which, yes had plenty of fake names, but did try to ground those fake names as evolutions of existing nation states.
Shipgirlboy@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
The original GitS Manga was from the 1980ies and at least this show, and I assume the Manga as well, takes place in the late 2020ies to early 2030ies, so basically NOW. And I don’t see any Fujikomas whizzing about out there, much less cybernetic implants of any sort being common. Again, it’s all made up. For any political or other messaging it does, it does not need real life place names.
Did they change names to avoid some superficial controversies? Possibly.
Does it actually matter? Not really.
Except to those who read Macbeth only in the original Klingon, I guess.