User blog comment:Lemursrule/Bleach episode 271 (SERIOUSLY FANS NEED TO CALM DOWN!)/@comment-1351982-20100524023049

Adult Swim Airs the anime unedited, what viz means by uncut is that the episodes are left in their original run time as in Japan(opening, episode, ending, omake) In the Adult swim broadcast they have slimmed the endings down and cut down edited out the next episode preview and omake, because BLEACH gets a lot of sponsors(Gamestop,KGB, Playstation to name a few) and they need time to advertise the commercials. Actually I have started to notice this a little but I think they add more blood to the Adult Swim broadcast than the original Japanese Broadcast. What airs on adult swim I think is the uncensored Japanese dvd version of Bleach, not the Japanese broadcast version, a.k.a the fansub version. Plus since Bleach airs in the US much later at night, it is geared more towards the 15+ crowd, than say Japan where it is 13+. The dub version has a lot more adult humor and is geared much more towards older teens and young adults than say young teens, so the dialogue is a lot more raunchy. I have not had access to region 2 Bleach dvds but I have a feeling they re-edited Harribels reveal without the "victoria secret knockoff" judging from the recent dvd covers, so I am assuming what's on the Japanese DVD's is what airs on adult swim. We might actually see Bleach totally uncensored on AS because FMA brotherhood which is the most gory anime I have seen in years is completely uncensored blood, guns, and all. So if they can air that with a TV-PG through TV-MA rating, certainly they can get away with murder with BLEACH. Hope I have answered some of your questions. @Prophet of Sanghelios the $1,000,000 is the complete budget, not just the animation budget. I got those figures from a few people who are familiar with the industry and I made a chart based on the increase in production for seasons 1-2($250,000 an episode) seasons 3-4 ($300,000 an episode) seasons 5-6 ($325,000 to $330,000 an episode) seasons 7-8 had a big jump on budget from $400,000 to $425,000 an episode. Then they started producing bleach in the 16:9 widescreen hd format(yes Bleach episode 168+ is made in HD I checked into some of the production details from dentsu, plus I have been getting insider word from Warner Brothers(viz's dvd distributer) that they are considering releasing Bleach in the Blu-ray format either late this year or early next year, unfortunately, if they do release bleach in blu-ray, they would only be releasing episodes 168+ in that format, because episodes 1-167 were made in the 4:3 standard definition format and would need to be re-encoded to be 16:9 on blu-ray and would cost a lot of money and not look right(Allah funimation's ouran high school host club). So season 9 increased to about $650,000 an episode, and from 2008 they have increased the budget about $75,000 to $100,000 per year.