Adult Master Cancelled: Namco’s Power Overwhelming?

Author: Artefact
Categories: Anime, H, News
Date: Dec 25, 2008 06:59 JST

Tags: AV, Censorship, Copyright, Cosplay, IdolM@ster, Namco Bandai, Parody, TMA

The recently announced Idol Master cosplay parody AV “Adult Master”, produced by the infamous TMA and due for release in January, has been mysteriously cancelled without explanation.

The immediate suspicion is that Namco has exerted pressure over TMA to halt distribution of the offending title.

A terse and uninformative announcement is all they offer by way of explanation:

“Due to various circumstances, release has been cancelled. We sincerely apologise for any inconvenience caused, this is truly inexcusable.”

All mention of the title has been removed from their site, though for the time being it still remains in vendor databases (such as Amazon). It is not clear whether there is any chance of eventual release, as they offer no dates and the language used is ambiguous.

Adult Master was due January 16th – we can reasonably suspect that it has already been completed and production is finished, so the possible obstacles to its release cannot be numerous.

In lieu of any other explanation, it seems legal pressure or similar from Namco, the owner of the Idol Master rights, is the most likely cause; the sudden and unexplained withdrawal of a completed product on the verge of release seems unlikely to have any other plausible explanation.

This could make Namco the first such pornographically defamed rights holder to have any success stopping the distribution of cosplay parody porn; even the likes of Nintendo and Koei have previously been unable or unwilling (unlikely) to stop them.

A case of the copyright/trademark holder exercising legitimate control over their rights to prevent the release of a product damaging to their reputation, or chilling legal harassment likely to threaten the creation of other derivative works, such as adult doujinshi?

Doujinshi at least are non-commercial and widely tolerated, so we might think them relatively safe…

TMA’s more obnoxious works have included celebrity parody AVs (including one of Aya Hirano) as well as the usual slew of titles very closely resembling the official products, so it seems likely they are hated by subjects of their pornographic “parody” – we might wonder if this is not the beginning of the end for them, as those tired of their antics strike back…

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Comment by metatron

16:37 25/12/2008 # ! Neutral (0)

Namco has their legions of lawyers ready at their disposal.

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Comment by loldongs

15:54 25/12/2008 # ! Neutral (0)

I was looking forward to that D:

Cosplay Porn isn't good for fapping, just for laughing.

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Comment by albert_2mb

14:46 25/12/2008 # ! Neutral (0)

what's interesting is that they let the Riding series circulate through the internet freely. Irony?

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Comment by SabekujiKaneda

20:23 25/12/2008 # ! Neutral (0)

Did they get scared with Namco's private squadron of combat-ready aircraft *refers to Ace Combat*?! LOL XD

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Comment by kenjiharima

22:54 25/12/2008 # ! Neutral (0)

When going porn go 2D!

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Comment by Anonymous

21:04 05/01/2011 # ! Neutral (0)

I have to understand. NAMCO is a wholesome company.

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Comment by Icy-nee-san

14:19 25/12/2008 # ! Neutral (0)

2 things:

Namco's power level is over NINE THOUSAAAAAAAAAAND

and

No post newyears fap to live action idol masters porn D:

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Comment by Erml

08:09 25/12/2008 # ! Neutral (0)

The lays a damper on christmas just a bit.

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Comment by Klaus

07:09 25/12/2008 # ! Neutral (0)

NOOO! I wanted to see the girl on the right getting &%@!!

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Comment by Mr. Rawr

08:19 25/12/2008 # ! Neutral (0)

It would go something like this
"Eh eh... yametekudasai... iaaaa.... hazukachi... kimochi desu" =p

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Comment by Anonymous

14:22 25/12/2008 # ! Neutral (0)

at first i was like whaat

then i read it again and was like ooh hahaha

then i got hard

Comment by Anonymous

03:13 25/05/2010 # ! Neutral (0)

fuck! I laughed like crazy to your comment! XD

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Comment by Klaus

10:48 25/12/2008 # ! Neutral (0)

Great, now i just need to picture a mosaic and i'll have most(if not all) of the japanese porn running through my head at once

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Comment by s0m31john

07:05 25/12/2008 # ! Neutral (0)

Sounds like Namco is being a wet blanket.

Hopefully it will be leaked by someone on the inside if it's already produced.

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Comment by DmonHiro

08:14 25/12/2008 # ! Neutral (0)

Good for Namco. Finnally someone showed some balls.

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Comment by Tony D

11:55 25/12/2008 # ! Neutral (0)

You would've seen some balls if this had've gone through, though?

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Comment by DmonHiro

05:41 26/12/2008 # ! Neutral (0)

And I thought nobody would get the joke :D

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Comment by linkinstreet

10:44 25/12/2008 # ! Neutral (0)

NOEESS!!! LOOKING FORWARD TO SAOTOME RUI!!

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Comment by Anonymous

09:12 25/12/2008 # ! Neutral (0)

That's too bad, they actually look pretty good.

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