The Animatrix is an animated anthology movie that was created by the Wachowskis and released by WB on June 3rd, 2003. When it aired on Adult Swim in 2004, two of the shorts (both parts of The Second Renaissance) had to be censored for strong violence and nudity. When it aired again on December 18th, 2021, the order of all of the shorts was re-arranged, The rating was bumped up to a TV-MA-SV, and fewer content edits were made.
USA censorship[]
The Second Renaissance, Part 1[]
- The scene that shows a close-up of a man's head being squished by a robot was cut in the Adult Swim version. In the 2021 broadcast, this change was reverted.
- The scene where the mob is destroying a fembot was shortened in the Adult Swim version. In the 2021 broadcast, this change was reverted.
- The scene that shows the fembot's head being battered in was modified in the Adult Swim version. In the Adult Swim version her bare breast was digitally covered. This is mostly reverted in the 2021 broadcast, with her nipple being digitally removed instead.
- The scene where the mob fully tears off her clothes and shoots her was modified in the Adult Swim version. In the Adult Swim version, her nipples were digitally removed.
The Second Renaissance, Part 2[]
- The scene that shows a screaming soldier being pulled out of his battlesuit, leaving his limbs behind, was cut in the Adult Swim version. In the 2021 broadcast, this change was reverted.
- The scenes of machines experimenting on human captives were shortened in the Adult Swim version to remove scenes of nudity. In the 2021 broadcast, this change was partially reverted, by blurring and stamp-tooling out the nudity instead.
- The scene that shows humans stacked into a giant battery was modified for the Adult Swim version. In the Adult Swim version, all the genitalia was blurred out.
Where to find it uncensored[]
The unrated home video releases in the United States are uncensored.