Slightly annoying news : Taliban victory in Japan

*sight*
This is also a blow for the general freedom of speech and art.
When you have opened one hole for banning something, soon more things follow.
A sad day for not only people who like to play erotic japanese games, but also for the general freedom of expression.

Do you think this will even last though? If the market suddenly fails on them, they really have no choice but to repeal it or else things will go to hell. And you know, why do they have a problem with this and not the other way around?

So this is only for H games? I agree with the poster above that it wont stay for long if the sales fall, unless those japanese pervs wont really give a shit lol. Atleast its not a ban on positions in H manga. Thatd be a pain.

If these regulations stay – they will, sooner or later, spread to Manga and Anime and in Japans current financial Situation it would be devastating.
hundreds – if not thousands – of workers will lose their job…
damn.

I have a bad feeling this will end up happening H-manga and H-anime. And when that does it will be the end of hentai.

I don’t get it, you saying ALL japanese ero games are affected?
I thought it just affcted the games regulated by that organization…
Either way, banning lolis, rape and whatnot won’t do them any good, you gotta be dammed certain of at least that. Some tittles with those material in them have really dammed good stories going for them.

For real pervs, it’s not a problem : they can go rape real lolis…

D’oh!

Hopefully they’ll just come to America and release some works

first thing that came to my mind: WHAT. THE. FUCK.

i mean, other than the fact that it really is nothing more than a god damn infringement of the freedom of expression, the stated motivation behind all of this masquerade is nothing short of stupid. if i was to make an analogy, i’d say that it’s like all of a sudden banning all knives because people could use them for killing. like many others have said, the real reason for doing this is actually the fact that they are a bunch of frustrated obsolete shut-ins who have no actual idea of how the world works in the era of the internet, and are too stubborn to admit it. on the other hand it’s always much easier to blame all of the flaws of society on something localized and admittedly morally questionable, than to actually go out there and deal with the actual perpetrators. “oh, let’s just drop giant emp bombs all over the world so that the terrorists won’t be able to communicate, thus eradicating all forms of organized terrorism!” way to go fucktards, just ignore the fact that you’re destroying the whole modern world for a small problem that could be addressed way more effectively hands on, but would require you to get off your asses and get it done. Third, why most “grown ups” (parents or people who describe themselves as responsible – i.e in favor of censorship) will never let go of this is because once dropping this farce, the blame will (and should be) placed on them. why do people do crazy/sick things? because of some jap dude drawing some chick getting hammered by 3 aliens? or because they fucked up raising their kids? i mean, there’s plenty of us who have weird fetishes (raep, loli, guro, etc) but don’t do the same shit in real life because we’re fucking capable of distinguishing it from fantasy. because we were thought right from wrong. if you fail at raising your kid, it’s ALWAYS easier to point fingers at porn (or anything else really, it’s just ridiculous) and say:”look, that destroyed my little kid, whom i educated so flawlessly till now!” If someone really gets influenced by eroge/h-manga/hentai and does fuck up, then it means he was so mentally labile that he could have been influenced by virtually anything, ranging from silence of the lambs, tales of the brothers grimm, all the way down to tom and jerry. Furthermore, if someone really felt the need for loli raep, wouldn’t it be better to just let him jack off in front of the computer than go as a tutor in a kindergarden and make a all-you-can-rape buffet? identical to the ingame violence rage a few years ago: if i feel like bashing someones head in, woulkd you prefer to give me some teletubbies game whose cd i’d use to slit the throat of the next best person or just let me fukking play bloodrayne and dismember some virtual nazi butt? Yeah, sure, police found in a rapists home rape vids, and in a murderers appartment violent video games – logical conclusion: the vids/games turned two respectable citizens into vicious monstes, omg! right sherlock, but how bout this: maybe they had those BECAUSE they were sickos and not vice-versa. it’s like saying you get hungry because you just yelled at your wife “go make me a sammich, bitch!”

if you’ll pardon me, i’m going back to fapping to olivers latest upload before some dipshit politician decides that i can’t touch my cock anymore because that’ll make me a pervert.

Not that surprising. I always assumed that one day in the future all nations will be incredibly strict on everything, and I always assumed that most rights and freedoms will be abolished in the future to ‘protect’ society.

After reading a bit more, I believe this isn’t a real law, only a regulation this organization has, will, or is planning on imposing to all game makers under it.

Which is to say, not being an actual law, said game makers will probably leave such organization in order to ditch the restrictions.

I mean, I don’t think they can sell any eroges depicting little more than normal sex in missionary position. So unless they’re planning on going unemployed, they’ll ditch EOCS.

Besides, I believe there’s a protest scheduled for Comiket, so hopefully it won’t even come to that.

Eh, c’est la vie, no? True, it sucks, but aren’t we all being a little melodramatic?

I doubt this will be the end of free expression. Besides, when you regulate things that shouldn’t be regulated, those things and the people who enjoy them tend to find a way.

i don’t believe that they will go much farther because their is a large audience for hentai in japan as a result of a really big anime loving crowd in japan i mean they don’t have that much to work with after you take the anime and vid games that they have only a part of so they need to keep their people happy and if they do forbid the hentai the hentai will move its a good pornographic industry and lets hope that appends cause id say that if hentai would leave japan it would go the America where it wont have censorship will be in English and we will get all the good from it (if you think about it the people in japan will prefer to let hentai be then to loos a part of what makes them so good like anime) and last HOW THE HELL DOSE A COUNTRY THAT SAYS PROSTITUTION IS OK CAN SAY PORNOGRAPHY ISN’T

I wonder how much the Japanese economy would suffer because of this? There are a lot of pervs world wide. Maybe this is an unlikely opportunity for the US to revitalize their economy.

“USA, the new capital of hentai.”

“…the only major omission is homosexuality.”

I don’t mind omitting Homosexuality, but you shouldn’t ban anything, but that sounds like pandering.

WTF? Why ero-games? Simple. It probably has something to do with old people presuming any form of ‘video game’ MUST be for children and teens. Fucking bastards.

It also of course, has something to do with Feminist Groups, who, stupid as ever, act like games and fantasies actually mean that men are going to become women beating, child raping, gore loving men. I’m sure these women wont try to ban Soaps for portraying adultery, would they? I am so tired of the politically correct bullshit…

If people don’t like these games,
!!!DON’T BUY THEM!!! Duh. You aren’t forced to see this, and if you think it causes men to rape, you must really think men are stupid.

The first thing we should remember is the number of times that things like these have been said before. Feminists, banners, and all those conservative people have always been threatening everyone about the dangers of “Strange things” that can be seen through internet. Even if, as Ero-otoko said, they actually ban all those contents, publishers are going to find a way to make even better new material, as they already know that the truly big markets don´t stay in one country. We all know the big changes that have been going on in Japan, such as globalization, that made them recover from their economic crisis in the 90´s. In fact, it could even be a great oportunity for non-japanese publishers and leechers to discover new ways to get rid of old problems, as happened with heavily censored porn from 10-15 years ago. If people wouldn´t have gotten tired of it, wonders such as Ares, Limewire, or the new type of Google (The old type didn´t recognize porn sites) wouldn´t exist. So, at least for now, we shouldn´t worry for a massive economic disaster in Japan due to the lack of Eroge, now should we? =D

1 question..

are the number of catholics in japan on the rise?

Severe Bondange, LOLI, Stranglement I can understand. BUT NEAR EVERYTHING ELSE?

For the record I’m NOT SUPRISED by this I heard several news stories of murders in Japan by Otaku crazed guys in the subway. Even MSN reported about a stalker game it was getting a bit excessive.

Preventing REAL WOMEN VIOLENCE IS GREAT. But what pisses me off about the radical Feminists is that they won’t stop until they get EVERYTHING! Just ban the LOLI Games, stalking, hard core rape (not cosplay fake rape though) in the video games but everything else? I mean come on they need to COMPROMISE and work out a middle ground.

In all honesty this might sound like it will do something big, but it cannot do certain things.
Yes I might prevent new games under this genre being publicly released, however it cannot stop games, movies, manga that have already been released on the internet. It also cannot prevent the producers from releasing games online out of view of public eye (Unfortunetly might make it harder for us to get free games, but to combat this I might be willing to shell out money).

I seem to remember a similar event happening in America some time ago called the prohibition. All it did was raise crime rates due to the law against alcohol, and it really just corrupted officers of the law more then anything. I honestly think that is is just a prohibition phase and will quickly be removed when the Japanese economy starts to take a hit from this. But then again this might be hopeful wishing.

Those god damn feminists…seriously.
Some of those restrictions don’t even make sense!
“Reverse” Rape and “Reverse” Assault is when a woman takes charge! Isn’t that exactly what they want?

MineMaker!: “HOW THE HELL DOSE A COUNTRY THAT SAYS PROSTITUTION IS OK SAY PORNOGRAPHY ISN’T?”

Hey hey! Back up a minute!… Prostitution is only legal if it isn’t vaginal (or anal? I’m not sure) intercourse… ’cause none of that counts as sex, so it’s not prostitution, right?

Kenta: “Missionary position? Those sick fucks!”

I know right?! I just hope they don’t figure out how watching so much depravity has made the idea of normal sex pretty god damned kinky to us filthy pervs.

So it’s a PRIVATE movement?
Not a governmental one is japan?

I also find it ironic that many rail against content censorship, except for genres that displease you (*cough* loli, guro, yaoi, etc *cough*). Any censorship justified to ‘protect’ a population is a moral arguement and therefore an invalid arguement. After all, one could argue on moral grounds that ANY suggestive material is immoral and should be censored, but that of course is crap. The ideas presented, even in the worst of genres, are presented on a daily basis in real life in the media, so any fantasy outlet is a mute influence.

In short, you can’t be against censorship if you want to censor a genre that you don’t like. Any creatitive censorship, regardless of how it offends you, is a compromise.

“I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” ~Voltaire

they are killing porn…

sucks to those conceited bastards
when will they learn that too much of anything is bad news, even for morals
taliban’s block heads, may the god of hentai passes judgements on you