Censoring in Shining Bonds

In order to make sure the series is a "ture kids' show" outside of Asia, a lot of changes, censoring included, had been made.

## Characters

* Oversizing is removed.
* Necrosis's strapless black dress is changed to a more modest dress, although her terrifying appearance and name are not edited. Ironically, Event Horizon wears a skimpier outfit than Necrosis despite being 15 years old, but her outfit is not edited. Strapless dresses/crop tops worn by the heroes are not edited, either, so it is unknown why only Necrosis is the only one wearing a revealing outfit to be edited.
* In the original, when Nijiko is Angel Wing, she is nude besides the wings, her Harmony Mark, and the star marking on her forehead, to symbolize her purity of heart and role as the guardian of hope. The English dub edits her to wear a dress and barefoot sandals, as the Pokémon Company International, upon being presented with the final character designs, ordered the producers of the show to either edit her to wear clothes in the English dub or the PCI would not dub the show into English at all. This is despite the fact that even in the original Japanese version, she is not drawn with any inappropriate details.
* Hinoiri's/Alessandra's Harmony Mark positioned just below the neckline of whatever outfit she is wearing, an orange sun setting behind two green snow-capped mountains, has the white snow caps removed in the English dub due to the dubbers thinking the mountains looked too much like breasts and them thinking the snow on the mountains looked too much like nipples.

## Episodes

* In SBALM027, the birthing scene is heavily toned down. In the original, Shitasakan-chan's whole body is seen while the heroes try to calm her down, while in the English dub, the camera zooms in to focus on her panting, screaming face.
	+ Earlier in the same episode, when Event Horizon storms into the Pokémon Center dorm room she is hiding in in order to attack her, a blanket is edited over her in the English dub.

* In the Christmas episode, the heroes' eggnog (despite it not being alcoholic due to them being kids) is changed to hot chocolate due to the dubbers thinking it was alcoholic. Haruka's/Helen's Harmony Mark of a glass of eggnog with whipped cream and cinnamon, however, is not edited.
* The raisin cake that Nanette's mom makes in the same episode, however, which is quite obviously a rum cake as the heroes have to send Jotaro to buy one of the ingredients (as Bloom points out, "we're not old enough to get one of the ingredients yet") and Elis is seen pouring some of it into the batter, is changed to just a raisin cake and the dub tries to cover it up by having the heroes send Jim to buy the raisins and trying to call the rum "apple juice for flavor." However, the scene where Jim shows the clerk his ID in order to buy the "apple juice" is kept, and so is the entire liquor section.

## Powers

* Angel Fieldflower's (Angel Poppy's) primary power, firing sap at the enemy that causes the enemy to act erratically, is cut in the English dub to avoid asocciations with drugs.

## Other

* Swearing is censored, but sometimes replaced with Pokémon-related idioms.
* Weapons are edited. This includes knives, except when characters are eating, even to cut something like a box or a net. However, weapons that are a natural part of a Pokémon's body or otherwise produced by the Pokémon are exempt from this rule. This sometimes results in the writers instead just having the characters ask a Ninja Dragonet if they can borrow her water/mucus blade in order to cut stuff as a loophole.
* Characters saying "I love you" is limited to platonic relationships only, such as between a Trainer and Pokémon, siblings, a parent and child, best friends, or opposite-sex friends who are clearly established to have a platonic relationship, as the dubbers for some reason thought the words "I love you" were only appropriate for those categories. It is unknown why this is the case.