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Regulating Japan: The Role of Indian Broadcast Censorship in Shaping Anime Narratives for Domestic Viewers

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: Japanese anime continues to gain popularity with global audiences, including India. At the same time, its reception and glocalisation in India reveal crucial insights into the mechanisms of cultural mediation and institutional control. This paper examines Indian broadcasting censorship and regulatory practices that change and redefine Japanese anime stories, visuals, and thematic elements during their official adaptation, with a special focus on popular titles such as Doraemon and Crayon Shinchan. It will also analyse how Indian television networks, such as Disney Channel India, Sony YAY!, and Hungama TV, exercise content moderation to align anime with Indian domestic cultural values and broadcasting regulations, and the result of such sanitization on the final glocalised product.

Source: The Journal of Anime and Manga Studies

DOI: 10.21900/j.jams.v6.2124

Author: Khushboo Bansal

Institution: University of Delhi

Language: English

Topic: Asian Culture and Media Studies

Subfield: Cultural Studies

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

Funder: Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology

OpenAlex ID: W4415459222

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