User blog comment:VedranTheII/Pretentious Diaries 2: What tricks would you teach your Aura?/@comment-9464517-20150718101343/@comment-4010415-20150718141211

The USA is pretty okay with violence as long as there's no blood, but we can be really iffy on guns. I mean, just this week, we got a new Steven Universe episode where a woman was carrying a shotgun or something because people were trespassing in her garage. And yet 4Kids preferred to have people point menacingly instead of wielding guns in Yu-Gi-Oh.

Kids' entertainment can contain cartoon violence (read: No blood, and if someone loses a limb, it has to be cartoonish with no hint of gore), subtle mature jokes or moments that kids won't fully comprehend (though, the above mentioned Steven Universe episode had a kid play a VHS of his birth, but the screen wasn't visible), and mildly scary/creepy/disturbing moments. There are exceptions, of course. I mean, Mulan had blood in one scene, and they weren't shy about talking about death, but it's still considered a kids' movie.

But God forbid a piece of kids' entertainment have a clearly same-sex couple. Steven Universe got around it by having the gems technically have no actual gender because they're aliens. Meanwhile, MLP had Lyra and BonBon give each other bedroom eyes while calling each other "best friend!!"