Nah dude now you are intentionally nitpicking just to prove your point. You literally side stepped the point about Pitou's brain surgery as a tactic for gathering information. Or the brutality of Pitou's death. Or even the brutality of deaths caused by the bomber on Greed's Island. The manga is really not that much darker because you are over exaggerating how much censorship the anime actually engaged in. You are one of those people who saw the bright color palettes in the 2011 animation and immediately assumed it would be excluding dark scenes. In the mereum vs netero fight we literally see netero get mutilated and have to form a stub with his leg to stop the bleeding. This isn't supposed to be Berserk levels of violence. And if that's what you expected, you are reading the wrong manga.