Rape games will be banned in Japan

FBRobertson · January 23, 2010, 5:18pm

Maybe it is because I am not fully immersed into the Japanese realm of bishoujo games like I am through JastUSA games…but, still. I’ve always felt that if I dont like a game’s subject, I just wont buy the game. Simple cause and effect. I don’t much care for the rape game, ergo I wont normally purchase a rape game…but that is generalizing of course…I would have to say that there are a lot of what could be considered rape in Bible Black. But what engages the gamer probably more toward the whole plot of the game. You could also say that violent sexuality plays a part in other titles to boot. Gibo has a strong sense of sexual domination and manipulation…as does Hitomi. (One might argue that Little My Maid has some flavored S&M…but would these people who arguing against what they call “rapeplay” say that this game also has rapeplay?) Yet again, the entire plot is what grabs me and not the psychological examination of the game and myself…but I digress.

Nargrakhan · January 25, 2010, 10:01am

Screen capture from Ouran High School Host Club

sanahtlig · January 25, 2010, 8:33pm

I must say, that’s a rather clever use of kanji.

FBRobertson · February 4, 2010, 12:22am

I wonder if the rape scene in Crescendo would automatically make this game a target? Especially since the game really does make the rape scene horrifying (which, in the real world, rape is horrifying), not at all attractive.

Nargrakhan · February 4, 2010, 12:59am

JAST has done a wonderful job at “staying off the radar” in terms of negative attention. Even when EN was in full swing against eroge, they never noticed JAST existed. So dead set on attacking Japan, they probably failed to realize or care eroge was being released in their own proverbial backyard. With all the current hoopla over politics and the economy, I don’t think anyone will care about labelling rape games/porn/novels/comics as obscene for the foreseeable future unless some rapist claims he got inspiration from a Japanese hentai game… which probably has as much chance of occuring as a rapist claiming aliens told him to do it. Well… except for poor Australia…

The present situation appears to be the new status quo. We’ll see how 2010 pans out, and how different (if at all) it is from 2008 and 2009. The last batch of games that were being developed before the “guideline changes of 2009” should be just about done now… so if we see vicious rape games released in the fall and winter, that likely means the new guidelines were just smoke and mirrors to keep EN and politcians away. If they seem a lot more tame (not mindless rape just to be mindless rape for the hell of it), then the changes were real.

papillon · February 4, 2010, 8:07am

Yeah, the biggest threat is Bored Journalists. Politicians (and activist groups) are generally too busy to go out searching for things to find offensive, they’re more likely to react to issues being thrown at them. So all they knew about was RapeLay, because that’s what was in the papers.

If someone in the media gets bored and writes an article about how eeeeeeevil jast’s games are, then lots of people will read that and start demanding that someone do something about it. At the moment the media has more than enough things to keep them occupied, probably.

Nargrakhan · February 11, 2010, 10:25am

I dare someone to email this link to Equality Now…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJFkiASYFTA

…because it promotes violence against women.

It’s a politically incorrect satire.

Lancer-X · February 11, 2010, 11:21am

I laughed.

EDIT: Anyway, I emailed it to EN.

Nargrakhan · March 6, 2010, 11:58am

lol… I wonder what EN would think of this:

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article … l?hpt=Sbin

It is kinda funny though. I mean this is the military: people curse and insult all the time. But in her case, she made too many enemies and they all reported her to take her down. She thought she was untouchable because she was a Captain. :lol:

Ms.Kyoko · March 6, 2010, 7:30pm

There’s actually a larger list. The ban uh bans anything but consensual sex pretty much. It’s 1/2 dissapointing and 1/2 understandable.

Dissapointing: NO TENTACLES!!!
Understandable: They’re probably trying to lessen rape or other similar things that may have been caused by the games.

Lancer-X · March 13, 2010, 6:37pm

I’m going to wait until I’ve seen some statistics showing tentacle rape to be a significant real-life problem before commending the banning of it, personally. As no countries release statistics for numbers of tentacle rape incidents, I think it will be hard to prove.

Nargrakhan · March 13, 2010, 7:06pm

Poor cephalopods… they always suffer from racial persecution…

Ms.Kyoko · March 13, 2010, 7:29pm

But it is still forced rape so I don’t think it makes a difference.

Kimuzukashii_MEIJI · March 13, 2010, 8:31pm

Saying, “it is still forced rape” is a bit redundant, don’t you think? By definition rape is an act of force, whether through physical or other means.

DarkFusion · March 13, 2010, 11:12pm

Hey, don’t leave out the poor demons and other creatures of darkness! They have feelings too (even if some of them do talk a little funny)

papillon · March 13, 2010, 11:41pm

I always leave my back door open for demons.

… Wait, that sounded wrong…

umarekawari · March 16, 2010, 6:58am

… I am 100% positive that does not meet Youtube’s Acceptable Terms standards.

DarkFusion · April 19, 2010, 11:09am

It seems some people just won’t let this issue die:

http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2010/04/1 … -standing/

Nargrakhan · April 19, 2010, 11:38am

Not to worry. That always happens… on a monthly basis in fact.

Usually follows (or followed by) the speech that whaling is threatening their international standing… or something about the Japanese WW2 memorial shrine is threatening their international standing… or the way the country handles immigration is threatening their international standing.

Japanese still hunt whales, have politicians visit their war shrine, and questionably deport Filipino/Chinese/Korean blooded citizens with a passion. All of which, of course, threaten Japan’s international standing… at least until the Yen starts pouring in.

Nothing to fear about this one. It probably just got attention, because of CNN’s recent necromancy… but it’s a common event.

Sorta like how the Native American Nations always complain to Congress, about their second citizen status (via their non-voting representatives in Congress) every session… but unless you actually watch CSPAN, will never know about it. Someone was watching Japan’s version of CSPAN.

EDIT

A fun article by an ultra conservative writer (note how he feels about Japanese gaming, plus refuses to acknowledge Obama as President). What’s interesting, is that he at least acknowledges that EN ain’t helping anything, and that Japan ignores foreign media probing (as they do with whaling and etc).

Many ¬ñ too many ¬ñ red-blooded American boys grow up on Japanese video-game systems from Sony and Nintendo. Their cultural interests can extend into Japanese cartoons (“anime”) and some even discover Japanese pornographic cartoons (“hentai”). How so? Boys play games and watch cartoons like the “DragonBall Z” series, but can quickly surf the Web and find related cartoon titles like “Dragonball X,” only to learn they are hard-corn porn.

But that isn’t all video-gaming boys can discover. CNN reports that Japanese porn also extends to sick video games that center on raping girls and women. One such game is called “RapeLay.” The game begins with a young teenage girl on a subway platform who asks the video player in a high and tiny voice “Can I help you with something?” The player then chooses a method of sexual assault. Players can also follow the girl onto the train and assault her older sister and her mother. Rape is not an option on the menu; rape is the entire point of the game.

As the game continues, “friends” join in. Now the females can be raped repeatedly. It even allows the player to impregnate a girl and urge her to have an abortion. Rape the girl; kill the child.

The feminist group Equality Now has moved to have this rape game removed from store shelves, but the controversy naturally has moved to the next step: it has gone viral, being offered all over the Internet, in some cases for free. This puts RapeLay in the same category as sicko games like the high-school shooting reenactment game Super Columbine Massacre RPG.

CNN says there are more “hentai” games where RapeLay came from. Reporter Kyung Lah found another sexual revenge fantasy: find and rape the woman who fired the player from his imaginary job. Along the way, the player can rape other girls and women.

Lobbyist Taina Bien-Aime told CNN that “It’s obviously very difficult to curtail activity on the Internet. But the governments to have a role in trying to regulate this sort of extreme pornography of children, both in their countries, and through the Internet.” Equality Now wants the government of Japan to ban all games that promote and simulate sexual violence, sexual torture, stalking and rape against women and girls. But government officials wouldn’t even talk to CNN about any government action, or even an official expression of disgust.

But what truly nauseates is the manner in which some actually defend this horror. Game players lodge the usual protest that just because you do violent things on screen, it doesn’t mean you’ll do them in real life. Last Christmas, the makers of the Japanese game “Shinobi Ryuu” began with a declaration that the suffering characters being denied their human rights aren’t humans. They’re merely fictional characters.

“We also thank all the kind people who see a character in the story saying phrases such as ¬ëhelp me’ and take it as a real call for help,” they said. “However, even though you are worrying for the characters in the story, these are all lines spoken from a script. They are not saying all this from the bottom of their hearts.”

They’re suggesting the people who would object are lunkheads who can’t distinguish fantasy from reality. Here’s the reality: a new analysis of 130 studies by Iowa State psychology professor Craig Anderson found exposure to violent video games makes more aggressive, less caring kids – regardless of their age, sex or culture. Common sense tells us it doesn’t sound like a healthy recreation activity: “I can’t wait to get home and do some subway raping to relax.”

You just want to shake people who would defend a rape game. They’d probably also defend and enjoy a game where they’re a plantation owner and load African slaves off a ship, sell and trade them, and beat them and rape them. Does that sound like a healthy evening in front of the TV?

Gamers also complain that it’s a double standard to protest rape games, but not violent shooter games. But many critics of video-game excesses have also criticized shooter games with no basis in morality, as well as shooter-and-rape games like the “Grand Theft Auto” series. In fact, they’ve been attacked at the highest levels. “Those video games are raising our kids,” candidate Barack Obama said in lamenting the introduction of “Grand Theft Auto IV” in May of 2008.

These viral games like “RapeLay” may not be as easily acquired as that nasty series of best-sellers. But they do sound the alarm, as candidate Obama said, that parents always need to be aware that something truly evil can be found in the virtual world of video games.

Nargrakhan · April 19, 2010, 12:11pm

I would like to note though, that I am disgusted at the massive sexist nature of these complaints. Women this. Children that. What about the strapping, muscular, beef cake men? Huh? What about their rights?

Some tentacle rape beasts are female after all.

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