[SideswipePrime]

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Originally Posted by Switchblade

Probably because Shin was very much a pet project for Ishinomori. It was kind of his ultimate vision of what he wanted Kamen Rider to be - more monstrous and insectoid. He even has a cameo in the film.

Oh...so it's basically The Skull Man.

[Blade Raider]

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Originally Posted by SideswipePrime

Oh...so it's basically The Skull Man.

No, Skullman is completely different from Shin. It's kind of an insult to even compare them.

[SideswipePrime]

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Originally Posted by Blade Raider

No, Skullman is completely different from Shin. It's kind of an insult to even compare them.

But...wasn't Skull Man what Ishinomori originally intended, but Toei requested he change it to a bug theme to be more kid friendly?

[Sentai]

I've been thinking. There is so much in KR you could never get away with on American television. Before you even get to the cuss words. Cops dying, people dying, the mature subject matter of the dialogue and plots.

Though some part of me does hope, one day, some how, we get Hibiki as an import.

[RiderSkyward]

I assumed the swearing was always like poetic license for subbers. They obviously know the audience/downloader is going to be older than the original intended market so why not make it a bit more edgy and real. That or it's a Japanese idiom that does roughly mean that 'swear word'

[Sentai]

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Originally Posted by RiderSkyward

I assumed the swearing was always like poetic license for subbers. They obviously know the audience/downloader is going to be older than the original intended market so why not make it a bit more edgy and real. That or it's a Japanese idiom that does roughly mean that 'swear word'

No, it's the word. Japan is more liberal than America, remember.

[RiderSkyward]

Hmmm , maybe. I'm going to have dig into this issue at some point for my dissertation anyway. But it can't just be that the Japanese let their kids run around calling each other bastards.

[Sentai]

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Originally Posted by RiderSkyward

Hmmm , maybe. I'm going to have dig into this issue at some point for my dissertation anyway. But it can't just be that the Japanese let their kids run around calling each other bastards.

No one's saying that. But Japanese television can get away with aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaalot more than we can.

[Brainchild]

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Originally Posted by Sentai

No, it's the word. Japan is more liberal than America, remember.

Definitely, through all of the strict social norms and conservatism.

[Matrixbeast]

There's nothing wrong with the words.
You have to remember, there is no almighty Webster going around telling other countries that certain words are taboo.
The connotations of a word here doesn't hold the same weight in Japan. There it's just a word. It's not Japan being lax, it's just our culture assuming that curse words here are curse words there, too.
It's kinda like a Jamaican assuming bumbaclot is a curse word everywhere.

Basically: Curse words aren't universal or multilingual things.