North American version vs Japanese version?

I see no reason this would happen. The game might primarily be created in Japan, but the goodies are handled internationally.

Censorship sucks, especially over something petty like in Tokyo Mirage Sessions. But, I don't really think such censorship will happen to Bloodstained. If something was gonna be censored it would probably be one of the enemies or one of Miriam's costumes. But, Iga did say this game was made for the Japanese audience so...we'll see.

Well, he said: "While it's true that we raised the funds for Bloodstained from overseas sources primarily, I hope people understand that the content is not particularly aimed at foreigners; we are making the game that we, as Japanese, would like to make."

Perhaps I worded that incorrectly maybe "aimed at a Japanese audience" was a better statement. You can kinda assume he was talking about aiming it at a Japanese Audience. I don't really think either of us is mistaken since it seems to be that Iga is gonna do what he pleases regardless of western views. 

Censorship nowadays is mostly done by nintendo for their 1st/2nd party games. If anything, you would have to worry about the japanese versions being censored for things like nudity and violence since nudity isn't really that big a deal no more (at least when it comes to M rated games) in the west and violence/gore was never that much a problem post nintendo domination with the NES/SNES eras. The japanese got more strict over the years when it comes to certain things actually. *Off the top of my head, their versions of god of war was always censored, along with games like GTA5, the last of us, the order 1886, witcher 3, and the dragon age series for example*.

Even japanese made games is sometimes censored for their own country yet can be released uncensored in north america or the rest of the world. Resident evil/biohazard has always been one of these type of series...before they started making the violence even across all versions, the older releases used to always have those extra gory deaths/animations and whatnot in the NA releases while theirs would have things like say, censored decapitations and whatnot.

Most self-censorship is done to dodge the rating system, not because the studios themselves want to censor their games.

It's not that simple. M rated games are the mainstream since most gamers are in the 20-30 age range. This means that publishers are cutting content to dodge the AO rating, not the M rating.

Take crazy Australia, for example. Atelier Rorona Plus got an R18+ rating in Australia (ESRB gave it a T) because of "high impact sexual violence", whatever that means. Rating boards are not always filled with level-headed, objective individuals.

This is a good point with a large majority of backers just saying we want iga's vision there probably won't be much filtering between his brain and the final product.

Edit: Except on the wii u version, I fully expect some changes on that one because reasons. Not want, just expect.

Nintendo doesn't mess with third party games only ones they publish or make themselves. There will be no edits or changes on the Wii U version because its being published by deep silver.