Thing is, you're trying to make a joke out of it, but it's probaly true. :(
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I read about that on Wikipedia. :P
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...nigiriEdit.jpg
Terrible. Just terrible. There is no need. Kid's didn't know about riceballs, and only half knew Pokemon was Japanese, but Pokemon is fictional, riceballs suit it better!
Censorship is terrible. What sucks the most is when they edit the entire plot and make it something totally different from what it's intended to be, however. Poor Robotech.
In the case of Robotech, one part of the three-part series, The Super Dimension Fortress Macross, was originally aired in Japan as a weekly series. Harmony Gold USA, the American company that produced Robotech, decided to combine it with two other weekly series, The Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross and Genesis Climber Mospeada, in order to make a show that had enough episodes to market it as a daily series on American syndicated television.
...and I can't believe what they did to Yu-Gi-Oh!
In the second season (the Battle city arc) of Yu-Gi-Oh!, there had been change of plot through dialogue. In the original, Marik wanted to kill Yugi because he thought that Yugi killed his father. In the dub, Marik wanted to possess all three Egyptian God Cards so he could rule the world. This was changed to censor one character wanting to kill another.