Censorship in BEMANI: Difference between revisions

BEMANI is notoriously notable for its censorship when the arcade games are ported to console or overseas, specifically South Korea and the Americas.

This list is here to point out various BEMANI-related things, such as songs or jackets, that were changed over-time to circumvent it or to keep the demographic for general audience.

* The videos for [[Last Message]] and [[Sense 2007]] were removed and both songs were replaced with the 6th RAVE generic video. Last Message was edited likely due to its shot of Meg's cleavage, while Sense 2007's video featured multiple skimpy-dressed women in its video. Both videos got axed to keep IIDX GOLD's A-rating with Japan's Computer Entertainment Rating Organization Video Game Rating System (CERO) rating scheme.

** Curiously, Last Message had earlier appeared with its video in [[CS 7th style|7th style CS]], despite the game also getting a CERO rating.

* [[satfinal]]'s overlays, which featured [[Acty Aries]], had the jiggling of her breasts removed to keep the game's A rating.

* The ARCHIVE MODE, which features result screen artwork from past beatmania IIDX games, excludes the bikini images from [[CS 5th style|5th style CS]] through [[CS 9th style|9th style CS]] to keep the game's A rating.

* Korean arcade versions of beatmania IIDX from [[AC tricoro|tricoro]] beyond remove the videos for [[Click Again]] and [[New Decade IIDX Edition]], replacing them with the generic videos for tricoro CYBER and 7th TECHNO respectively. This is due to both videos featuring images of the [[Wikipedia:Rising Sun Flag|Rising Sun Flag]], which is de-facto banned in South Korea.  

* [[Maware! Setsugetsuka|回レ！雪月花]]'s video was edited in BeatStream, with [[Takahashi-san]] (タカハシサン) added in the video to cover the shot of a naked bust scene halfway through the song.

== [[CS DDR KONAMIX|DanceDaceRevolution KONAMIX]] ==

* Like with the original CUTIE CHASER in KONAMIX, [[CUTIE CHASER(MORNING MIX)]]'s background also censored/removed the bullet holes, red blood, and pistol. Its modified background was also used when the song made its arcade debut in DanceDanceRevolution EXTREME, and the song's Japanese PS2 debut in [[CS DDRMAX2 JP|DDRMAX2 JP CS]].

* The background for [[TRIP MACHINE ~luv mix~|TRIP MACHINE～luv mix～]] was edited by changing the word "mammy" to "mommy", due to negative connotations with the [[Wikipedia:Mammy stereotype|Mammy stereotype]], an American historical stereotype depicting black women working in white families.

* [[Giudecca]] was given different vocal soundbites, likely due to the original soundbites sounding too much like swearing.

== [[CS DDR SuperNOVA2 JP|DanceDanceRevolution SuperNOVA2 CS (Japan)]] / [[CS DDR SuperNOVA2 JP|DanceDanceRevolution X CS (America)]] ==

* [[ZERO|零 - ZERO -]]'s video was edited, removing two shots of blood from the original beatmania IIDX video. This edit also carried over to the North Aemrican PlayStation 2 [[CS DDR X2|DanceDanceRevolution X2]] home release.

** In [[AC DDR A|DanceDanceRevolution A]], the purple variant of the Replicant D-action stage is used, though the monitor displays become black for the song's entirety.

** From [[AC DDR A20|DanceDanceRevolution A20]] onwards, the BOOM DARK dance stage is used instead without any visible monitor displays.

* The jackets for three songs, [[dreaming can make a wish come true]], [[New York EVOLVED]], and [[Until the End]] were all edited: the first adds clothes to the once naked woman, the second replaces a skeleton with a picture of a woman's eyes, and the final removed human skulls' eyes and noses from its jacket.

** The modified New York EVOLVED jacket would later be used in the arcade series beginning with [[AC DDR X3|X3 VS 2ndMIX]], while the other two songs use their uncensored jackets from the [[CS DDR PS3|PlayStation 3]] release.

In an update on December 28th, 2017, many of the songs from HEAVENLY HAVEN were censored and replaced with generic jackets credited to '''-''',  in accordance with Korea's Game Rating and Administration Committee (GRAC). Between July 24th and August 9th, 2018, songs added after the November 16th, 2017 update were temporarily unplayable, also due to GRAC. Songs added after the July 24th, 2018 update were added on August 23th, 2018. This soon spread to other BEMANI games as well censoring jackets for content.

* [[Aurora (Latinized Style)]]

The following songs are not censored in SOUND VOLTEX, but are in other BEMANI games, due to their crossovering after GRAC stepped in: