Why are they censoring the Boruto movie?

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It's usually the other way around, where the manga is bloody and gruesome but the TV/movie tones down the violence to reach a broader demographic. But here we see the opposite.

In the movie when Kinshiki breaks out of Tsuchikage and Mizukage's trap the skin of his arm gets completely torn off and his exposed muscles are clearly visible as well as a pool of blood forming under him as he stands next to Momoshiki before getting turned into a chakra fruit. In the manga, he simply breaks out of the trap through Momoshiki's ability with no physical damage.

In the movie there is a scene where Sasuke gets trapped inside Momoshiki's lava chibaku tensei, melting away half the flesh of his face before Naruto applies his regenerative chakra to save his life.

In the manga version though, this scene is removed entirely and replaced with Momo attacking with wood dragons. Sasuke is caught in one's mouth but is saved by Naruto, not taking any physical damage. He uses this technique in the movie also, just it doesn't really have much effect and is shrugged off by Bijuu Susanoo.

Overall the movie version (at least up until this point) has had more raw action and bloody wounds, which imo is important for an action story such as this.

On the contrary, Momoshiki's redesigned transformation is much more threatening and reminiscent of occult imagery, so why make an edgier design but cut away the violence? I don't understand their thought process.
 
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Well one reason imo is to stop this non sense that Sasuke is faster than Naruto. The other could be the author doesn't want to show Sasuke taken down by Momo's attack. So all in all he's trying to maintain a balance.
 

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Well one reason imo is to stop this non sense that Sasuke is faster than Naruto. The other could be the author doesn't want to show Sasuke taken down by Momo's attack. So all in all he's trying to maintain a balance.
Sasuke still got taken down he needed to be saved still
 

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Because the dude didn't feel like drawing all that crap.
 

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Because the dude didn't feel like drawing all that crap.

Well the first part was important cuz it showed how dedicated Kinshiki was to serving Momoshiki that he would selflessly put himself through exruyiating pain just to be a sacrifice. They also missed a quote from Kinshiki when he said "let me be a sacrifice like the guardians from long ago".

The missing parts of the battle showed Momoshiki's strength and efficiency with ninjutsu to establish him as a threat in the manga he doesn't use nearly as much ninjutsu and doesn't seem like he has much variation in his ninjutsu like he does in the movie.
 

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The entire fight is being retconned for that transformation. I think it's less about censoring and more about the retconning.
 

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I agree, it also felt like ikemoto is trying to rush this.

Because all the impatient Naruto fanboys keep *****ing at him. If you let him go at a natural pace maybe he could have made the fight longer and shown off more of Momoshiki's rinnegan powers. Naruto and Sasuke didn't seem to be struggling nearly as much as they were during the movie version. Movie Momoshiki just seemed way more wild and god-like, while this version LOOKED more wild and demonic but turned out to be less impressive.
 

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Because all the impatient Naruto fanboys keep *****ing at him. If you let him go at a natural pace maybe he could have made the fight longer and shown off more of Momoshiki's rinnegan powers. Naruto and Sasuke didn't seem to be struggling nearly as much as they were during the movie version. Movie Momoshiki just seemed way more wild and god-like, while this version LOOKED more wild and demonic but turned out to be less impressive.
You can't blame em', they want this recap to end. It's already been nearly a year since the damn thing started. Besides, this is speculation if ikemoto was pressured or if he intended the fight to be like this.
 

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shouldnt your title should say the opposite?
 

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Well one reason imo is to stop this non sense that Sasuke is faster than Naruto. The other could be the author doesn't want to show Sasuke taken down by Momo's attack. So all in all he's trying to maintain a balance.

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***** every taijutsu sequence but Naruto's and the little shit he did was gone. Including the badass part with Naruto using the sword.
 
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