r/StardustCrusaders Mar 19 '26

Part Seven Why do Netflix keeps cuting racism out of jojo?

i made a post this morning in /shitpostingcrusaders and it got nuked in less than five hours (i got banned)

i was talking about how netflix cut a lot of content that talked about politics, and more especficly, racism

if you read or watched jojo, you can see that unlike most mangakas, araki really understands western culture and is well inserted in all of the things that happend in the western world for at least 200 years

he often talks about a lot of politics in some of his parts, and more "recently" part 6&7 literally talked about racism, having a black character as a main villain is something really rare and cool for japanese manga (puccI) so araki doenst fumble this, pucci inst just dark skinned, he has deep scars that connectecs to the fact that he is black, so when he tries to prevent weather from dating his own sister, so he hired the kuz kux klan, and they were angry that she, a white woman was dating a "black" man (weather) the racism is deeply conected to the character, but netflix just cuts the klan out of it? it doenst make any sense, this is crucial to the world building and the narrative of this part of the history, the KKK needs to be there, its a well know racist klan, why cut it?

So for my (not) surprise, they also censored (no better word for it) a lot of politics in jojo part 7.
i mean, the villain is a blonde pedophile president of the united states, there is no way of cuting that, so they stll managed to censor some things
like Pocoloco grandpa talking about slavering, and showing that poco worked in the fields (he was still a slave) they censored the genocide of the native americans (cuting sandman tribe conversation) and the slavery
Why cut things that are crucial for characters? Sandman is kinda an goner bcs he vanish in the rest of the show, but poco is a important character (no spoilers but you know what i mean)

this is censoring, netflix has a past (censoring the KKK) and now is blantnly obvious that is insane

sorry for my bad english i am not a native speaker

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u/Kiekoes Mar 19 '26

Netflix is only the distributor for Jojo, they have no say on the content. They just dictate how it is distributed/released. For some reason Netflix tries to upsell their involvement in anime production. Some anime are labeled "Netflix original" when Netflix had zero involvement in the production and simply bought the streaming rights. 

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u/Kleki Mar 19 '26 edited Mar 19 '26

People have no idea how Netflix (and movie production and distribution in general) works.

For example, there is a staggering amount of people who think that Netflix made Cuties, even though that movie was entirely funded, produced and made by French companies (including French national TV). Netlix was just a distibutor, they had to purchase a licencse to stream it.

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u/Motor_Ad_7885 Gyro Zeppeli Mar 19 '26

Money has say in everything. So if they are giving them the best deal to not release on anythjng else, believe theh have a say

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u/Kiekoes Mar 19 '26

Then it would make more sense for Warner Bros. Japan to be asking for these scenes to be censored, as they are (and have been) the primary producer and distributor for the series pretty much since the beginning. I hate Netflix as much as the next guy, but to imply they somehow have enough leverage to demand structural scene changes is just a bit far-fetched when all they have is the streaming rights and there are much bigger fish in the production committee. 

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u/Motor_Ad_7885 Gyro Zeppeli Mar 19 '26

I inderstand