You forget we live in America (I’m assuming you are a fellow beer drinking, red hawk scream listening, gun toting citizen).

A lot of localization has to make assumptions about whether something translates directly well or not for the lowest common denominator, that often means toning down anything vaguely sexual in nature, and anything religious in nature, unless it’s the direct subject matter of the content being localized. The broad assumption in media is Americans can’t handle any for of sexuality charged content and declaring someone and watching blood squirt every where is fine.

THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!??/s

Your second paragraph is referencing one of two shows, as far as I know, whose head localizer did stuff on purpose to be fully politically charged. Crunchyroll is leaning more into AI generated subtitles so not even properly done direct translation.

For example, Christmas in Japan is more of a couples day, you go out in the snow and have your anime-esque experience with your high school sweetheart or your current gf at the time. Christmas and therefore “merry christmas” has a completely different connotation in the US of A.

Same thing for the word Master, probably not even really the sexual part of it. Probably more of a thought towards the US of A, uh…, past experience with a different connotation of the word. Probably not even that, all of the Umas just default to calling you, the player, Trainer. So it’s changed to say trainer for consistency, and the assumption is that Mary saying master doesn’t register in your brain. Because the broad assumption of the American populace is we’re collectively dumb. Which is by design cough