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In vomiting scenes, the liquid is censored by rainbow, mosaics or bright
light. Why do they censor puke? Blood shedding, killing, fighting, taking
alcohol, bad language, nudity (without showing genitals), vandalism, etc are
almost never censored. Why is vomiting treated like this?

### Examples

Mosaic censor in Gintama.  
[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/idHs9.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/idHs9.png)

Rainbow censor from Nichijou.  
[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/aCJrp.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/aCJrp.png)

White light censor from another show.  
[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Zzdc7.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/Zzdc7.png)

Old shows (the ones aired before 2010) usually don't censor vomiting.  
Golden Boy (1995-1996)  
[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ep7oB.gif)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ep7oB.gif)


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anime-production censorship
Why do they censor vomiting in anime?


Simply put, nobody wants to see the vomit of anyone as it is so creepy and
disgusting that even children will not like it.

There can be many reasons behind this:

### 1\. Gross and disgusting or creepy

According to me, no one wants see any character who is simply vomiting and
taking out all his food.

### The vomit chain reaction

It's like when one character vomits then those standing near them also start
vomiting. Like as shown in this
[link](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/VomitChainReaction),

> This is Truth in Television, since vomiting has been known to inspire
> vomiting, as part of a prehistoric instinct: if someone from your same tribe
> vomits because he ate something harmful, chances are you ate the same thing
> and therefore it's best if you hurl it too.

And this thing happens in real life. There are many people who really vomit in
this situation and there is this [link](http://health.howstuffworks.com/human-
body/systems/digestive/why-vomit-when-see-something-gross.htm) which shows why
we vomit when we see something gross. Which perfectly defines that there are
some people who don't like watching some vomiting scene and for the safety of
viewers they censor it just because they are creepy and disgusting.

### 2\. For comedy

Since it is disgusting, that's why to make it a bit funny or comedic, they add
rainbow puke which looks kind of fine.

### 3\. For safety viewers and broadcasting restriction

Also there might be the possibility of broadcasting restrictions as they don't
want any unnecessary problem. They might think that vomit scenes might not be
good for children, so to make it safe for viewers, they censor it. I am not
sure but they may have shown vomiting scenes in late night anime.

> Still, there are so many anime which [shows characters
> vomiting](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/VomitIndiscretionShot),
> like in:
>
>   1. Before the deployment in Episode 5 of Attack on Titan, soldiers are
> shown to vomit due to stress.
>
>   2. In the un-edited versions of Dragon Ball Z, Gohan kicks Cell in the
> stomach so hard he causes him to puke up Android 18, along with lots of
> acid.
>
>

>
> And there are many more.

As far as killing someone or blood is concerned, then nowadays these things
are pretty much common and only few people are afraid of these scenes. And if
they start censoring these scenes of blood and killing, then there is no
action (until and unless it's not harsh).

If it comes to nudity, then there are some [Vanilla
series](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanilla_Series) anime which don't censor
anything as they are categorized as adult stuff or late night anime (I am also
not sure about anything regarding this). They don't censor late night anime
only because no children are watching them at night time.


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These are all memes, or else a progression and mutation of a single meme.
There's no requirement to censor vomit, but it's done both for comedic effect
and to maintain the aesthetic (no visceral imagery).

The mosaic barf was an extension of the meme where mosaics are used to hide or
even just imply something too gross to look at. That meme is still used for
bad cooking sometimes. That in itself isn't really funny, but eventually
someone came up with colored sparkle barf (I think it was korezom first?) and
full on rainbow barf followed very soon after, rapidly becoming a successful
meme.


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