Draven looking like he's going to make out with a literal trophy still seems pretty in character. 😂

Draven with a beard looks weird, but Draven flirting with a trophy has to be the most in character thing ever for him.

Removing thresh from one of his cards cracked me up. It's like being kicked out of your own party.

Few things I hate more than censorship. It doesn't protect anyone from anything, it only limits creativity and creates taboos that then have a worse impact.

Dude I cracked up at the one where they entirely removed thresh from the art

Ah yes, the Lean legion, brought back by the powerful Leanomancers, my favorite piece of lore

"Obviously killing the monster with a crossbow is too much so she is going to accuse it!" I haven't laughed like this in ages omg😂😂😂

Ok but I laughed waaaaay too hard at the censorship that didn't just remove the blood at 4:32, but also some of the pigeons at the top. NO PIGEONS ALLOWED IN MY GAME

“What you have a skeleton inside you? Unacceptable!” *violently removes skeleton “And is that blood inside you? How horrid!” *Gives you a grape juice transfusion

Okay the Zaunite Diner is actually super cute though. It's such a contrast to normal Zaun stuff that I could see it working as an actual bit of lore!

"Also i want a pillar in this spot specifically" that sentence got me so good. It's so random i love it

I swear someone could make a "spot the differences" book with these uncensored/ censored artworks

i mean replacing the woman with a trophy is the most draven thing they can do other than giving him a mirror

they add a random pillar, remove some pigeons randomly, and lots of stuff randomly change. at this point it's obvious that the censorship team is just having fun lol

Imagine if Riot only got told they're breaking censorship rules but had no clue on what they were actually breaking.

Ok, the pillar is funny, but actually makes sense, as it was probably added by the artist as a framing device, since with the spear absent, composition center has much less visual weight. So the artist probably added the pillar to make a more cohesive negative space for Kallista to occupy, which would be a pretty clever trick. ...Or Chinese government just really likes pillars, who knows!

*MASSIVE* respect for the artist who do such a convincing coverup- if they werent exposed to the original content, nobody would ever know- amazing job, stupid though the reasons for it may be

So, for Draven, the reason his mustache is changed is because the type of 'stache he has is called a Fu Man Chu and was/is a caricature style of mustache used by "bad guy Chinese" in older Hollywood Westerns/Crime/Action movies. You could tell a character was a bad guy Chinese person, if they had that, and if they were a good guy Chinese person, if they were either clean faced, or had a long thin beard and that stache.

Necrit saying "Ah booba!" was unexpectedly hilarious.

8:52 That literally kills the entire point of the splashart 😂

The Draven edit is honestly hilarious

I'm trying to do my nails and it requires precision and then I hear Necrit going "AAAH BOOBA" and I lose it 🤣🤣

As weird as the reasoning for some of these censorships might be, you've got hand it to the artists, some of these are very creative ways of dealing with whatever the issue was, and in some cases I think it even looks better (like Shellfolk with those jellyfish-esq 'ripples' in their torsos). Thanks for another great video Necrit!

Honestly as an asian in Asia, the censorship does nothing to "protect the children". We have TV dramas and cartoons that show more gruesome stuff than what is depicted in these games, yet they're still broadcasted publicly lmao.

It's both funny and tragical after watching TB Skyen's splash art analysis videos and realizing every single element is there for a storytelling reason. Seeing all those details being ripped off hurts like *-hell-* shadow realm.

9:07 Sexy fish?! Not in my game! Sexy deer?! Not in my game! Sexy guy?! ...Not in my game! Sexy kraken man?! ... Ok he can stay but he can't drink

"I'm sorry Varus the Pride month is over" absolutely cracked me up.

i actually like some of the changes. Like the Zaun bar changing to a resturant. That one is weirdly very detailed in its changes. Like that the background becomes clearer. The ligth source at the top gets dimmer, wich changes a a lot of shadows and reflections. A new ligth source with warmer ligth gets added. I abosultly love this. Also the idea that people in Zaun put chemtec stuff on there pancakes instead of syrup makes me giggel.

I think the worst part about censoring all things red with purple is that... Purple already means something in the LoL/LoR universe: it's void-y. So it misconstrues things that are supposed to represent Noxus/hemomancy/Black Rose maybe into looking like it has to do with the Void. Why couldn't they make it like... Orange? Orange juice would be less confusing lore-wise than grape juice. I can understand wanting to censor blood but using purple just screws with the lore and I'd be annoyed with that if I had to always deal with the censored cards.

I think many of the censors are not just to abide to other countries rules, but also to lower the age restriction in these countries, hence removing people in danger and too pointy objects.

The original art of Merciless Hunter was also censored in all regions. The original had slightly fewer clothes. Which makes sense considering it's in the middle of the desert.

Noxus: *exist* Censorship: YOU get grape juice and YOU get grape juice. GRAPE JUICE EVERYWHERE

Ohhh, i cannot wait Necrit to cover the new expansion cards. I feel like he's gonna have a field day with Ryze's rune cards alone.

It's amazing how Necrit is able to find content from weird places and make them good....

8:44 The way they just removed him-

Okay I will say fair enough to the pair of axes

yeah ive always hated censorship like this, especially when this kind of censorship bleeds into regions where its not suppose ot be censored, think like how evelynns splash art is still censored in NA region (they claim its a bug and will be changed but its never been done yet) yet in the loading screen its uncensored

3:20 Aaah, the Classic "Replace weapon with pointing finger" trick, I remember it well from 4-Kids Yu-Gi-Oh

dravens censor just puts him more in character loving himself and his axes

10:30 lmfao

Somehow censored Aatrox looks more rigid and sharper than the original one. Like the censored one actually feels less censored wtf

I think about Draven's facial hair, it could be easily mistaken for an Asian stereotype of the "Fu Manchu" mustache?

actually draven with a trophy is pretty lore accurate because the only person he love is himself

I had so much fun with this video, I love this kind of format

The reason for random changes (beard, pillars, etc), from what I’ve heard, is that some cards got censored before they were finished for western version, so they just forgot or didn’t bother adding details to censored ones

I just imagine the censors asking Yorick to clean up all the corpses around the shadow isles

I love whenever Necrit says grapejuice so I timestamped them 1:32 2:40 4:08 4:33 4:48 9:42 9:48 10:27

i also like how in some art where there is only parts changed, they also edit other parts that are not part of the censorship, but probably done cause they saw something and they want to edit that too i saw it in 6:52 where not only were the cigars taken away, there were also some almost unnoticeable clean up like tweaking or adding highlights and shadows

Necrit giving more promotion of Legends of Runeterra than Riot itself😭😭😭

at 12:29 the wolf is clearly happier after the censorship, they just wanted to help him.

I would guess that some of the more random backgroundchanges happened because the coverup artist got a version to work on and than the original was changed for some reson and those changes were obviusly not added to the cencored versions. The log in the butcher art for example could habe been missleeeding in the cropped card form and was toned down later. Really just a guess but it feels very possible

Why is that the og sion looks menacing, and angry, but the censored one looks more like an alcoholic, who is just done with life

I just checked my version and HOLY SHIT it’s actually censored. I really never knew the original art, it just looked natural to me. Mind blown

That smile at 12:11 is hilarious

4:30 I can't believe the birds got yeeted out of existence in the censored version.

This was actually a really good video @necrit Very entertaining and informative! Thanks for keeping up the good content of the vids.

"how about you charmed them with your personality?' is such a Gem! Just dragging that succubus whole carriere with one sentence

10:48 "the pride month is over" I'm dying xD

Vayne accusing the monster was too much for me 😂

"...so now he's grape juice" I love your sense of humor 😂

Came for the censorship, stayed for the funny.

That Draven edit is because of the Fu Manchu style, you see Fu Manchu was a villain from the the famous novelist called Sax Rohmer. Fu Manchu was your stereotype Chinese villain so most likely Riot was trying to avoid any correlation to that.

"But screw those pigeons" cracked me up.

I love the way you say "tentacles". Ten-TOCK-els.

I've been awake for more than 30 hours now and when Necrit said "...and replace them with bread" i thought that maybe I'm already starting to hear things but it turns out, it really is bread. So I guess I can stay up for one more Necrit vid before I finally go to sleep.

In my opinion the skull adjustments were really well done, but yeah, it misses the whole point of the Shadow Isles

Gave me a good chuckle, I love videos like this

The only reasoning i can come up with for the weird ones is that someone somewhere needs to fulfill a censorship quota and they will only get paid for the X amount of censorship they've made - and so, they just come up with bs reasons to censor some things that make no sense xD

They turned Draven into gigachad. Not caring about women but about winning.

OMG i died when you said "We cant have dangeroous things so she is just going to accuse the monster"

"Also Screw that hole in particular" and your reaction got me killed :D

This was a pleasure to watch 😂

dont worry smiling vladimir isnt real he cant hurt you smiling vladimir: 12:11

5:11 Aaa boooba Got me 🤣🤣

8:52 best tresh skin in the life. You can't change my mind

9:15 dumbs is crying in the club rn

Censored Vayne is simply Bounty Hunter's "Mark for Death" from Darkest Dungeon . I can't unsee this .

The good part about all of this censorship is that they really succeeded in making Eastern cultures not be turbo-addicted to stuff like porn or gambling. Otherwise there would be a massive market of gacha games involving waifus with absurd body proportions to satisfy their thirsty population over there. Whenever somebody wants something, not giving them any of it will always make them less addicted, works every time.

Okay, I need the reference of those countries of the censorship of those picture just to make sure my country isn't on the list.

1:58 "the Fu Manchu moustache then became integral to cinematic and television stereotypical depictions of Chinese villains. The facial hair style is often used to stereotype Asian, more specifically Chinese, ethnicity"

Funfact: the card Harrowing Return uses the censored version of Rhasa even in the western version. Supposedly theres a uncesored version but its not used.

I love the vlad one where its just his face with blood dripping from his mouth ( 12:11 ) and how its changed to him just being happy

"so now he's grpe juice" fucking killed me XD

I love that smug smile they gave to the Vladimir spell

This video made my day Necrit! I laughed so much during it even though the subject was a serious one but your commentary was spot on :D

Bruh i cried of laughter when i saw what they did to thresh ... or didn't rather

Ok ngl Elise in that all black looked cool lol

Thanks for covering LOR as always necrit 🙇🏻‍♂️

I remember when reading a fairy tale about a hunter cutting open wolf's stomach and getting out of it a grandma and a child alive was a normal kids book

I surprisingly didnt know alot of these lol Nice to you giving lor a spotlight btw.

Now that I think about it, the Draven art was probably changed due to invoking the Mongolian look from the days of Ganges Khan. That coupled with the lady probably would have raised some big red flags in the east.

the though that Vayne casually running around Damcia accusing monsters killed me, oh wait ill be censured , made me sue my self.

11:52 that censoreship is understandable they just made her swords look like the in game ones

It's impressive the ammount of censorship games get through when they go from west to east or east to west I hate censorship especially when they sacrifice the meaning for it The 3ds fire emblem is the worst case of censorship to this day for me

the transition of Vlad With Blood On Mouth to Vlad Who Is Smiling Like A Normal Man is so fucking funny

I can just imagine Draven playing out the Tank trophy scene from 'Surfs Up'. Very fitting.

Special shout out to Ashe, who's censorship so good it became her original design, but only in level 2!!!!!

Are You planning on reviewing the new set of card's in Legend's of runterra , they seem really linked to the next darkin event, also we got to see a aspect ( kayle and Morgana mother).

"So now he is grape juice." Best line ever

8:44 bro I did NOT expect that at all, I literally burst out laughing and it's 2 am send help