Here is how it looks like in the TCG
And for some unknown reason, in the OCG, this is the same card and this card is called 死者蘇生, read as Shisha Sosei which literally means "Raise dead"
Some of you might not even know the reason why they did not print the same picture in both cards. The reason for that is partially because the TCG is marketed towards the younger kids. A huge chunk of the parents over at the US are conscious of what to let their child play with, and since the original Japanese picture depicts an ankh, there might be certain religions that would be affected by the picture and Konami thinks they will surely be pressured by the parents for teaching their kids about magic and other anti religion practices. This is also true for Dark Magician. The true name of the card is Black Magician but that sounded too evil for kids over at the US so they changed it to what its name is today. Why its called Monster Reborn instead is because they did not want necromancy terms with their cards and Raise Dead sounded something like that.
The problem with these naming conversions, apart from they screw up the names, is that they affect gameplay of these said cards. One of the most common and early conversion problem is with Summoned Skull. This card is supposed to benefit from the effect of the Archfiend Archetype like Pandemonium, but since its named as Summoned Skull without the Archfiend name, most players will assume that the card won't affect Summoned Skull, where its supposed to. Although Konami stated that it should in their website.
Another card naming disaster is Sonic Chick. Because Road Runner is already a trademark over at the US, they had to change its name to something that sounds unnatural.
I also hate to see how they will mangle Savior Star Dragon on the upcoming SOVR set. Since savior references religion, its name is going to be undoubtedly mangled.
Konami is forgetting the fact that not only kids play their card game.
Censorship appears in the TCG mainly because of places like America, who makes a great effort to protect their children from what they feel isnt right.
ReplyDeleteDespite the fact that people other than young kids play the game, the fact is, that young kids DO play the game, and ARE influenced by it. TCG doesnt want this influence to lead kids onto necromancy, dark magic, etc etc etc, which is why they censor cards.
Interestingly enough the average age of the YGO player is the same in Japan and around the world(ish), yet in Japan they dont hesitate to non censor anything.
Also Summoned Skull came before Archfiends, so yeah...
Yea, Savior To Majestic feels abit wrong to me lol.
ReplyDeleteSavior=>cool, bad ass name, heroic like
ReplyDeletemajestic=>your a ballerina or something?
good read bro