>>57948101I had screenshots of Gold fan meltdowns, and of course I lost them when I needed them most. But yeah many of his newer fans completely lose it if you imply Gold is (or was, past tense) a pervert. They'll insist you're wrong and say
>read the manga!!!!but post 2014 westoids read one of the most censored and defanged localization of the series in the whole fucking world (gen 1-4 VIZ). A series which has been translated into a billion different languages besides English by now. So even if VIZ readers "read everything" they miss out on more context than the average localization has, then insist the rest of the world are the ones who didn't read the manga.
But desu a lot of VIZ's censorship doesn't matter much in the long run, like fine nobody's gonna miss Blue(f)'s Pokeball boobs, Sapphire sniffing butts or Emerald pissing on people. Anyone can tell Crystal's mom is actually insane and the likely reason why Crystal tried to be the opposite of her
without the random slapping scene. I can even forgive the Green/Blue name swap because of circumstances at the time RGB was being localized. But with regards to RS at least, major things like
Norman punching Ruby being removed affects the story a lot
because Norman is SUPPOSED to be morally ambiguous/controversial, he is the main reason why Ruby ends up with the same "ends justify the means" approach to problems which he keeps using until ORAS. And if you ask me even some seemingly minor things nobody talks about, like Sapphire saying her dad would scold her for sleeping with boys, getting removed by these Westoid localizers is a genuinely suspicious choice.
It's either evidence of a poisoned "culture" or maybe I'm just a schizo 