Crystal Jewels/Parental Guide

## **Sex and Nudity**

**Both versions:**

* Dustin and Sakuro are good examples of being girl-crazy and perverted throughout the series.
* Characters wear bathing suits whenever they're at the beach, however, the female characters' outfits might be revealing.
* Male characters are seen shirtless at times.
* There is kissing and romance throughout the series
* Elliott has a gay crush on Kouchu. His crush is implied in earlier episodes, and are more explicit in later episodes after he came out to Kouchu.
* Depending on the level of nudity, characters are sometimes shown in their underwear, panties, and bras.
* Pregnancy is talked about and seen in much later episodes.
* In Season 31, Kazamo's mother is pregnant.

**Japanese version only:**

* Dustin and Sakuro, the perverted characters of the series, sexually harasses attractive girls and women, flipping skirts, and watches them naked in the bath or shower. They sometimes mistaken underage girls as adults because of their beauty.
* Brief nudity occurs in the original version, male characters shows bare buttocks, and on rare occasions, the female characters' butts are shown, however, genitalia and detailed breats are not shown.
* Women wear skin revealing and tight outfits. Also male characters as they are shirtless at times and they wear speedos, tight pants, and G Strings
* When the characters kiss, they include rarely uses of tongue.
* Gay and lesbian kissing is also in this show, most likely in Seasons 29 and 31. (Ex: Topaz and Elliott).
* No sexual intercourse occurs at all on-screen, but character lay on the bed together.
* Sexual references and jokes about vaginas, penises, masturbation, sex, HIV/AIDs, necrophilia, blowjobs, rape, abortion, promiscuity, prostitution and mentions of pedophilia were made in the series, but they are soft jokes.
* Elliott is both romantically and sexually interested in Kouchu. Whenever he is shirtless at times, Elliott ends up blushing. In the episode of the Next Quest saga titled "Brawler's Own Legacy", the scene shows Elliott stealing the Kouchu's clothes, in which it has sweat in them, and took them with him to the bathroom, implying that he is going to masturbate. Nothing seen after that.
* In "The Parch", Dustin tries to get his friend to lose his virginity. (Japanese version only).
* In "Guarding Friends", the Marukas' open up the computer and were shocked about what they saw on there. It was implied that one of the boys were looking at porn (Nothing is seen on screen).
* Playboys are visible in some episodes used by Dustin, Sakuro, SideKick Boy, Bob, and Crystal Dude. Elliott owns a stash of gay playboys in his room.

**English version**

* In the English dub, even though bikinis and panties-like outfits are shown, short skirts are shown in later episodes.
* In the English dub, tight clothing is worn by female characters (Ex: Shurika in the first season).
* Boys are shown in boxer shorts sometimes instead of underwear.

## **Violence and Gore**

**Both versions:**

* Crystal Monsters fights are seen in almost every episode
* Not only there are fights between Crystal Monsters, there are fights between human characters, in which sometimes are brutal depending on their anger (such as slapping, kicking, punching, choking, etc.)
* Crystal Monster-on-human violence occurs. The level of brutality is sometimes high, and those scenes are only shown in the Japanese version.
* Younger characters sometimes yell at adults.
* Some violence, which characters comically hit each other, is contexual. This is seen many times throughout the series.
* There are some red stitches in Crystal Monsters and humans.
* Some references to animal abuse and a few references to child abuse in some later episodes.
* In later seasons, more weapons, such as guns, Lazer guns, swords, and knives are shown.
* In Sakuro's Revenge, Sakuro gets beaten up inside of the bag while the Masks are beating him up outside.
* The most violent human fight is between Grai and Knives in "Grai, Oh Brother".
* Dustin's running gag is driving in a car and crashes into some wall at the end. But sometimes this running gag can cause major injuries when Dustin hits other characters. In Season 9, he kills a driving tutor.
* In "The Confused One", Bob was hit by a big truck. No blood was shown.
* In "You Scream When I Scream", Kouchu's arm breaks off, while it is somewhat graphic in the Japanese dub and was censored in the English dub.

**Japanese version only:**

* The Furious Five and other villains sometimes uses guns to force people to give them their Crystal Balls as seen in episode 3.
* In some episodes, the Crystal Monsters kills the other monster, and sometimes eat it's corpse
* Human characters kill Crystal Monsters for food with a gun, knife, etc.
* One boy kills another boy with a rock shown in one episode.
* In Episode 12, Julia violently hit Kouchu with a stick, causing him to get a black eye.
* Blood is used mainly in the Japanese version. However, nothing too graphic is shown.
* Hunter Grai abuses Crystal Monsters.
* When Shauna hits people on the head with a hammer, blood comes out wherever she hits it with. Only for comic moments.
* The violent scene in "The Stream's Princess" shows that Kouchu and Sakuro are stepping on some faries that are attacking them, but instead of red blood, their "glitter" blood came out.
* In "Stones in the Valley", Devil J brutally kills an angel with his thorns. Nothing graphic shown.
* In Season 5, the little boy is caught on fire.
* Some references to rape, sexual assault, and episodes contains murder, theft, robbery, mugging, and suicide.
* Elliott told his friends about his abusive father in one episode. His father could be seen hitting him and yelling at him.
* In some episodes, Crystal Monsters eats and hunts one another after it kills it. Nothing too graphic.
* In Season 3, the witch beats up a little boy
* The Garnet and Turquoise chapter is the most violent saga.
* The police boys (SideKick Boy, Bob, and Crystal Dude), solve crimes that includes murder, theft, and some corpses of the bodies can be seen with not much detail but blood. They all use guns.
* In "The Battle of Love", Emma got violently mugged by the muscle man.
* In "The Fault of Light", the exhibit manager died from the height of the building. His blood was seen.
* In "Iccryst's Super Gift", Noah have twisted his spine and cracked his head to a sharp thing after skateboarding, causing himself to bleed. Everything is black on the dub.
* In one episode of Season 18, the Crystal Monster kills a human going to eat him.
* In Flee to the West, Genuan sets Reige on fire. You can see his skeleton afterwards.
* Some Marukas' died while the others are injured. One Maruka is burnt alive in "One Step a Gasp", several got in the bomb in "Let's All Fight!", and one got electrocuted in "Maruka Zone".
* In "5000 Ways of the Maruka", the Marukas' got attacked and killed by Crystal Monsters, falls to their death from the windows, and got hit by heavy stuff. One Maruka got electrocuted and another got caught on fire. The others eat poison berries, and some fell on their traps and impaled by them.

**English version:**

* When Shauna hits people on the head with a hammer, no blood is shown.

## **Profanity**

**Both versions:**

* Mild uses of heck, shut up, punk, jerk, stupid, dummy, and idiot for both versions.
* Mild name calling occurs whenever the characters are fighting throughout the series.

**Japanese version only:**

* According to the subtitles: (hell, turd, punkass, ass, goddamn, crap, bastard, bitch, damn, suck it, pissed, son of a bitch, whore, slut, friggin, asshole, pervert, pussy, and shit) are included.
* Characters give middle fingers in the few episodes earlier. The gesture is more used frequently in later episodes.
* "F\*\*k" is used in only VERY rarely in a little some episodes, depending on the subs.
* In Naming Brawlers, there is a lot of mild language in the subtitles said by Kouchu's thug friends. They and Kouchu also dropped the f-bomb.
* Sakuro tells cruder jokes in the Japanese dub in What's a Bigmouth and the Laughing Spirit.
* Contains more inappropriate dialogue.
* Racial and sexual slang like "negro", "faggot", and "lesbo" are used throughout.

**English version:**

* Nothing more but mild name calling (loser, stinker, etc.)
* When the episode is rated TV-PG, language includes crap, retard, screwed, balls, piss, suck, son of a--, and sexy in rare occasions.

## **Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking**

**Both versions:**

* In "The Aggressive Attitude", Kouchu eats agriva which he thinks helps him say no, but makes him agressive.

**Japanese version only:**

* For the first twelve seasons, Dustin can be seen drinking underage and acting drunk.
* Dustin still drinks throughout the series, and in some episodes, he commits DUI.
* Some Marukas' also drink and are also drunk in some episodes.
* SideKick Boy, Bob, and Crystal Dude drinks mostly at their breaks and when they're not working.
* Characters smoke in some episodes.
* Dustin and his friends act drunk.
* Clearly, Sakuro took a drug called "Fugio", in which makes him tell inappropriate jokes.
* Kouchu's father smokes in the earlier episodes.
* Elliott mentioned that his father is a alcoholic in Season 6.

**English version:**

* Sakuro's eyes turn blue after eating Fugio, but it is still a drug
* No major drugs or alcohol present in the English dub.

## **Frightening and Intense scenes**

**Both versions:**

* Devil J's temper might be scary for very sensitive viewers.
* Sometimes the brawlers' adventures are depicted lightly, and some episodes might contain even scarier situations.
* In The Danger Cream, Roaracryst is told he has 24-hours to live after swallowing the pill.
* The Devil J episodes and some of the part episodes might be scary for younger viewers.
* In For the Snakes of Iccryst, younger children might be frighten on how horrible and scary the mutated snakes are, and this episode depicts on the 9/11 attacks.
* Some scenes that involves some characters dying and abandoned might upset younger audiences, like sacrifices made, but no sight of blood.
* Some characters act emotionally and/or cry, which can also upset younger viewers.
* "Snoozing or Losing" is one of the first episodes most frightening to younger viewers, as Kouchu has a series of nightmares with images scary for younger viewers. He attempts to not sleep again.
* In "Run Run, Parts 1-4", Hunter Grai attempting to kill Kouchu might be intense for younger viewers.
* In the "Have You Seen This Spider?" episodes, viewers might find these episodes upsetting as Roaracryst is embarrassed about the video sent online.
* In "Goodbye Roaracryst", the scene where Kouchu abandons Roaracryst might be upsetting to viewers.
* In "It's a Crying Mouse", Mouselette turning into a freak might be scary to young children.
* In Season 11, Galaxy Five throws Kouchu in the lava, which is the more intense scene, only to be saved by Kouchubot.
* In the "Bad Medal", Bella's actions towards Kouchu and his friends are entirely disturbing.
* The IXL World episodes are one of the most intense episodes as there is a lot more violence than any other episodes.
* In "To Slay the Ugly", SideKick Boy turns into a monster, and the transformation is very disturbing for children to watch.
* In the Season 31 premier, the Brawlers are chased out of the Crystal World because they are accused of dumping the toxic waste on food lands.
* The scene in Season 26 is very intense when Kouchu screams in complete pain after the Cheetah Girls twists his hand bone.
* In "Hydration", Plantmore has a parasite, which may scare younger viewers.
* Characters getting bullied and beaten up by others might upset some children depending on their behavior.
* Hunter Grai's origin story is disturbing in one of the later episodes.

**Japanese version only:**

* Some of you think that the Crystal Jewels anime series are just for kids. But believe it or not, the Japanese version is a lot darker, deeper, and intense, and more for teens than for kids.
* Character deaths includes some blood depicted by murder and homicide
* References to racism, depression, sexism, and homophobia.
* Mentions of pregnancy is rare in some episodes.
* As Hunter Grai can be seen abusing animals and Crystal Monsters, this must be frightening for children.
* "Birdono's Bad Day" is one of the most frightening episodes where the teachers punished the birds by killing them, as we briefly see their corpses. However, nothing is too graphic but blood, which scares Birdono.
* In Something Smokes, Bob set the whole building on fire, killing so many people, upsetting to viewers as well.
* The Garnet and Turquoise saga is the most darkest saga in the series (Season 25-28)
* Music played in the background are darker in the Japanese version than in the English, which will make viewers uncomfortable.
* In "The Rude Marukas", the Marukas' choking Kouchu with the power cords might seem intense to watch.
* Thx episode "Scared Steven" is more violent in Season 20 and is disturbing because Steven saw a rated-R movie.

**English version:**

* Unlike the first eight seasons, which are lighter, from Season 9 onwards, there are explicit mentions of death and murder, and those seasons are darker than the first eight.
* English dub episodes that are rated TV-PG (DLV) has more deeper content than the TV-Y7-FV episodes because they are "hard to edit" scenes.

## **Spoliers**

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### **Sex and Nudity**

**Japanese version only:**

* Elliott Mitoa, a known homosexual character, has a major crush on Kouchu since "Mage of Consort". Later, he have explicitly told Kouchu he's gay in "The Dancer's Life".
* Elliott explicitly came out to Kouchu in s12ep11.
* Elliott and Kouchu has a briefly-romantic like moment together in "Another Guy With Me", in which Elliott hold his hand.
* Elliott and Kouchu pose as a gay couple to get the Crystal Monsters out of the hotel in "Elliott and Kouchu:Great Partners in Action" (Japan-only broadcast)
* Elliottt has a crush on Topaz and they both kissed in Season 31.
* The episode, Maeko to Kouchu! Partners in Action was undubbed because of references to sexuality which may be offensive to young children. There is same sex kissing available and two male characters entering rooms for sex in the hotel, and Sidekick Boy, Bob, and Garnet got tied up with chains saved by Kouchu and Elliott.

### **Violence and Gore**

**Both versions:**

* In Season 23, Hiyon got his eye cut open when Paerc have attacked him. The blood is visible in the Japanese version only, however, it is not detailed. Since Season 23, Hiyon has a scar on his right eye.

**Japanese version only:**

* In s12ep11, after hitting the ground with blood visible, Elliott is sent to the hospital.

### **Frightening and Intense Scenes**

**Both versions**

* In Season 4, Devil J turns everyone into stones, which will frighten sensitive viewers.
* In Season 7, everyone got stranded in the island for 43 episodes. This season seems to be intense as the Brawlers drown in the tsunami, attacked by monsters, and suffered some conditions.

**Japanese version only:**

* In s12ep11 is one of the most intense episodes. Elliott suffered from his rejection from his drunk and very abusive father, beaten up by friends after they discovered his magazines, and realizing that Kouchu is better off with Danielle. As he gets drunk, Elliott tries to commit suicide. He attempted to shoot himself, hang himself with a noose, and decided to jump from a tall building only to be stopped by Kouchu.
* Elliott was angry at Kouchu about his life being "a living hell", blaming Kouchu because of his rejection. He punches Kouchu, and pins him to the ground while choking him until he stops realizing what he is doing to Kouchu, and going back to suicide, hitting the ground hard.