{"id":5249,"date":"2002-08-30T12:54:00","date_gmt":"2002-08-30T16:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/2002\/08\/30\/another-name-censored-in-american-dbz\/"},"modified":"2002-08-30T12:54:00","modified_gmt":"2002-08-30T16:54:00","slug":"another-name-censored-in-american-dbz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/another-name-censored-in-american-dbz\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Name Censored in American DBZ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saiyanz-rage.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Saiyanz Rage<\/a>, FUNimation has confirmed plans to alter the name of Vegeta&#8217;s and Bulma&#8217;s daughter Bra to &#8220;Bulla&#8221; in the English dub of Dragonball Z. The name change (actually closer to a very loose translation) avoids criticisms of sexism or the inclusion of inappropriate sexual references in a children&#8217;s cartoon, but also eliminates part of the running joke with Bulma&#8217;s family being named after clothes: Bulma as in &#8220;bloomers&#8221;; Professor Briefs; Trunks, as in shorts, underwear or swim trunks; and Bra.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Saiyanz Rage, FUNimation has confirmed plans to alter the name of Vegeta&#8217;s and Bulma&#8217;s daughter Bra to &#8220;Bulla&#8221; in the English dub of Dragonball Z. The name change (actually closer to a very loose translation) avoids criticisms of sexism or the inclusion of inappropriate sexual references in a children&#8217;s cartoon, but also eliminates [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}