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In [11:25 of episode 6](http://www.crunchyroll.com/no-game-no-
life/episode-6-interesting-653173), there is a bleep sound, but I don't know
why is it being censored. Jibril and Steph are surprised by it, so would it be
a dirty joke or something else?

![bleeped sound 11:25](https://i.stack.imgur.com/fjAY5.jpg)


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Why is there a censoring sound in episode 6?


There is a reason why Jibril and Steph are surprised in this situation. As you
should know Steph and Jibril are girls, so the question would be "what is a
girl's nether region?". It is obvious that a girl's nether region would be
their:

> Vagina

From [otaku - Censorship](http://otaku.wikispaces.com/Censorship):

As this is considered as a dirty joke, it is censored because `ま☆こ` in direct
translation does mean "Nether Regions". If there is no censorship in this
scene, it would violate "Japanese Censorship Law". When it is uncensored the
word would be `まんこ` (romanized as "manko") which directly means vagina.

Hence, the censorship in episode 6 of No Game No Life.


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The Japanese text there is ま★こ _ma*ko_ , which (to someone who knows Japanese)
is obviously a censored form of まんこ _manko_ , which does refer to the female
genitalia, as Sukeibe points out.

The key insight here is that _manko_ is in fact **vulgar** slang for the
female genitalia, which is why you will see it censored. The translation
"nether regions" fails to capture this vulgarity, I suppose because it's
constrained by the rules of word chain (can you think of a vulgar term for the
female genitalia that begins with "n" and ends with "s"? I can't...). If a
technical/medical term for the female genitalia were used instead (e.g. 女性器
_joseiki_ lit. "female sex organ"), it would probably not have been censored.


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