Ever since the RapeLay controversy, the tradition of the "erotic" game has been a touchy subject in Japan, and we don't mean the good kind of touchy. It seems that certain Ero games might not be so acceptable in the land of the Rising Sun anymore, with at least one well known distributor of interactive filth banning a vast number of titles based on certain key words.
The key words banned by online shop Dejipare include things like torture, bondage, loli and rape. Regular Christian sex will still be perfectly acceptable, but it seems that the whole underage rape thing that has been seen in many an ero title will no longer be tolerated.
Quite what this means in the long term is unclear, but if one thing is certain, it's that some sectors of Japan are taking a good long look at themselves and wondering if they really do want to be associated with some of the stuff that's been coming out of the Japanese erotic game industry. Hit the jump for the full list of banned words, just because we like listing nasty things.
Thanks a lot, RapeLay. This is why we can't have nice things! Still, as Dale North said, it kind of proves that not everybody in Japan is a twisted sicko ... or at least don't want to look like one.
• Rape (including various terms for it)
• Loli (lolita)
• Gang Rape
• Sexual violence
• Cruel sexual play
• Reverse rape
• Shoujo
• Adultery
• Reverse sexual violence
• Forced
• Group sex
• School council
• Bestiality
• Bondage
• Threats
• Train groping
• Compensated dating
• Incest
• Torture
• Heavy bondage
• Pregnant
• Slave
• Pregnant woman
• Imprisonment
• Impregnation
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10:40 AM on 06.24.2009
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O rly? I can't think of 2 words that are any MORE sexy.
Can't wait for this to spill over into real-life.
Lol!
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this is the end of gaming as we know it :(
I can't even begin to grasp why Japan is letting America push them around like this. We've -always- been all overly reactionary about Japanese hentai, why the fuck is this going on now, out of nowhere?
Really though, these japanese softco are very weak to be doing all this, because of a few western prudes get their panties in a wad. They should defend what's part of their culture more. Sure, its not for everyone, but some like and are willing to pay for it. Why should another country get their way? Guess it should be interesting to see if fans of this material protest or fight back at all, since this kind of censorship is wrong.
Its possible that there might also be some pressure, from the government in japan that we aren't hearing about, because the japanese PM, I think, is a manga/anime fan. If that's the case, he would know about this side of the anime/manga/games industry. Perhaps he sees this side of their creative industries becoming more imporatant to japan, but spring cleaning is needed. We won't know the effects of such action for a while, but dojinshi anime manga and games will always feed the needs, if official means fold like this.
Will japan be a better utopia because of this? Time will tell.
Today, as "civilized beings", we frown upon the censorship of the novels written by the Marquis De Sade, and many consider them as true gems of literature and examples of liberal thinking, yet we enforce the same censorship onto other works of fiction (certainly less graphic and disturbing than De Sade's works) just because they are 3D and animated, and not just words on paper.
I mean it's not like we're talking about shounen-ai here or anything...
Then again maybe the japanese simply don't like humans of the female persuasion and will refuse all games the have that target demographic.
Any remaining parts of my innocence have been ripped away and burnt in a big o fire. I think I will NEVER unsee that picture @_@
I wish drawings could just become reality :<
ugh... to the "kinder gentler world" I say: FUCK YOU.
@ww3pl: Those girls are from an Eroge. http://anisearch.net/?q=akane+iro+ni+somaru+saka