Comments on: So Japan Will Ban Rape Games After All

By: seanny

seanny — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 21:40:02 +0000

It’s an internal industry thing. I imagine this just means so-called “rape-themed” games will be released unrated or on channels that are very slightly more obscure. Not that I know anything about porn game distribution in Japan, but there’s probably a myriad of ways around this “official” stance which is really just to get politicians off the industry’s back.

By: starcade

starcade — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 20:16:20 +0000

Perhaps it needs to apply to manga and anime too. I think this is a good start and a good development.

By: GATS

GATS — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 03:09:14 +0000

Something Awful’s writers are going to have a lot of problems updating future “Horrors of Porn” articles.

By: chise

chise — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 23:42:11 +0000

Guess some people can rejoice now with this.

Yet you said it all John, this is self-imposition not a legal ban, so this means Japan will still have rape themed games and guess doujin games will benefit a lot, thou I don’t discard some way aroudn this for commerical companies.

I’m definitely against this but guess it was well played for the moment, as you said “international” – it would be more accurate to say a few individuals from a country or two (US, UK)— has put pressure in Japan, particularity about lolicon and now rape so this self-ban saves face for them, definitely better than having real legal band that would have grave economic implications for this industry.

One is free to consider something detestable, immoral, grotesque but trying to impose those personal beliefs on others that are free to watch, see, read, play, etc whatever they want is equally or more detestable.

BTW aside from not affecting douijin, it also does not affect hentai manga nor hentai anime either, the EOCS as far as I know is only related to pc games and this affects elusively adult pc games.