Censorship thus tends to take place both on the visual and the verbal levels: scenes considered inappropriate are removed from the story, the plot is often changed, the text is frequently domesticated in its references to the Japanese culture, and the language is flattened. In Italy, on the contrary, cartoons are generally considered a product targeted exclusively at children, and even those anime which were originally designed for an older audience are broadcast during the protected time slot and therefore have to comply to certain standards regarding their content and the type of language spoken. Japanese anime are not designed only for an audience of children, and there exist different types of products aimed at viewers of different ages consequently, in Japan anime are shown at various time slots according to their characteristics.

Such a practice is quite common all over the Western world, and Italy is no exception. Editing of anime (Japanese cartoons) is a process through which the product is altered in order to make it appropriate for the public.

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