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SpiritedDreaming wrote:

It's very obviously a stylistic choice to censor the effect, but the fact that they made it the colour of Yang's aura means that it can be seen as her aura suffusing and cauterising the wound rather than just an "Oh no, we can't show blood here! We'd better make it another colour!" moment. Dismembering is something that really shocks some people for whatever reason, more than other acts of violence I mean. So it is possible that they just censored it.

For example, at the very beginning of One Piece they censored the blood coming out of Shanks' mutilated arm in the anime. And it wasn't even that crude in the manga.