“Rape Game” Censorship Begins
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Jun 13, 2009 17:01 JST
- Tags: BDSM, Censorship, Eroge, Feminism, Mass Media, Politics
The feminist imposed censorship of Japan’s thriving visual novel culture has already been felt, with titles already released and due for release being forced to change their charming titles, typically so they make less explicit reference to the kind of BDSM scenarios which are a staple of the genre, as you can see below:
Note: The titles make little sense even in Japanese, so the English versions sound even more ridiculous.
寝盗られ女教師 ～美幌先生陵辱日誌～ → 「寝盗られ女教師 ～美幌先生○辱日誌～」
“Peeping on Sleeping Teacher – Mihoro-sensei Rape Diary” becomes “Peeping on Sleeping Teacher – Mihoro-sensei **pe Diary”
隷嬢の姦獄 → 「令嬢の監獄」
“Slave Girl’s Rape Hell” becomes “Girl’s Prison”
はらぷり ～ぬるぬる孕みたがるプリンセス～ → 「ぬるぷり」
“Harapuri – Slimy Pregnant Princess” becomes “Nurupuri”
返済性奴 → 「返済計画」
“Repayment Sex Slave” becomes “Repayment Plan”
凌襲 → 「戦乙女の危機」
“Rape Attack” becomes “Warrior Maiden Crisis”
牝奴の館 → 「貴醜の館」
“House of Slaves” becomes “House of Shame”
鬼父２ ～あんたみたいな鬼畜、お父さんじゃない！～ → 「鬼父２」
“Brutal Father 2 – A Brute Like You is No Father of Mine!” becomes “Brutal Father 2″
精神汚染～白濁の淫夢 → 「精神汚染」
“Soul Pollution – Lascivious Dream” becomes “Soul Pollution”
奴隷将校クラリス ～白濁のグローリエ～ → 「堕落将校クラリス」
“Slave Officer Claris” becomes “Disgraced Officer Claris”
The actual restrictions on content have yet to be made clear, although it seems no entirely new editions are currently being made.
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I have to say the companies are using the correct method to get around this. The titles are still rather obvious but if the picture and titles do not represent rape in any way then the feminists won't be able to do anything.
In order to discover whether or not these titles have rape in them they would have to play them first hand. Which is why I believe for a short while all of the companies should stop producing rape games only for a month or two and simply make non-rape games that sound like rape games but have no rape in them. The minute the feminist groups begin saying they have rape in them is the minute that the game companies can fight back by saying there is no rape...there is also the idea of consensual rape. There are many ways around these "rape" issues and the companies have already begun to fight them.
I can only imagine what the news would say about feminists groups like equality now buying one of these games to "check it out". The whole rapelay thing was mainly because of the word R"ape" in the title of the game it is highly doubtful whether they would have been able to accomplish what they did without the content being obvious. If no news is given about the titles on sites they check regularly (which makes one wonder what kind of sickos they are to actually look for male masturbation material). Either way these feminists groups the best way to fight them is to fight them with the fact they've never played the games before...
Side note: I wrote to equality now about the issues of rape and reminded them that it is not only males that rape...needless to say but I've yet to receive a response.
Renaming won't circumvent the ban. And EOCS does review the contents of the games for certification. I think the game makers are doing this to "lay low" and not to draw fire from female nazis. Sadly, the ban is pretty much a done deal. I'm not sure there is anything that can be done at this point...
Actually, you have a point about Raplay's title being too conspicuous. However there are tons of eroge with レイプ or 姦 in title that came long before Raplay did. Raplay became infamous in particular because it was actually popular in the US(ironically it wasn't even the intended market). Even if the ban didn't happen today, it is bound to happen in the future with some other title that reaches popularity in the US, if nothing is to be done about the female nazis. You can't just hide from the issue. It's rather unfortunately that the Japaneses decided to bow instead of putting up a fight. That's a consequence we will all have to live with.
- Simon Cowell of Eroge
I know they want to ban it.But i wonder they probably won't ban it for real at all.
Reason,becouse money is used on these games and there is really nothing wrong about fiction.And maybe politics are just covering the games to cool down the feminists.
But that is just my wishfull thinking.
That's what I thought at the beginning. Since eroge is a pretty big industry in Japan, they wouldn't go through with a ban. Apparently the Japanese have less backbones than I thought. I think the ban has a lot to do with big name studios that doesn't specialize in raep eroge(Key, Leaf, F&C, Giga, Cirus, Navel, August, etc.) trying to cover their own ass. They probably have enough representations in EOCS to sway the decision and they have the least stakes if the ban takes effect. In fact it helps them to eliminate competitions. It's hard to imagine that studios whose livelihoods depend on raep eroge(AIL, Black Package, Black Rainbow, Guilty, Liquid) would voluntarily support the ban. What they didn't know is that if you give an inch to the female nazis they will take a feet away from you. They are digging their own graves by giving in.
- Simon Eroge of Cowell
Just got a paradoxical thought. I think they want game company wanted to do a animal "reap" game. Since there is no such thing as animal reap so they cant called it a reap? you can't called it reap cause its just animal mating. Right guys? Kind of like a catch-22 but why the fuck feminist Nazi wanted to band animal mating? Are there real Animal females that got reap???
Hit the nail on the head, anonymous.
When you give an inch to these fem-nazi's and sex-haters (look at their agendas and you realize that they are all dykes who hate men when it comes down to it!), they will take a LIGHTYEAR.
Its only a matter of time before they're banned altogether.
Epic lulz at the names. But lol if they can fool Fems into believing that there aren't any rape in these games. That would be amazing.
Some of those name changes just don't make sense, even for censorship. Some of them almost seem worse than the original name. xD
man oh man....
feminism should die anyway
they just annoying us with their declaration
haha, oh wow
Can we/they ban feminism instead?
Man.. this reminds me of when my friend and I would change the name for songs...
“Repayment Sex Slave” becomes “Repayment Plan”
Oh god LOL'd so hard
Brutal father 2!? Sounds like a game like Final Fight or something like that! Hahahaha!
The first game was a weak plot, weak character, incoherent, poor graphics piece of trash ヤリゲー. This one looks even worse...I would play Final Fight over that any day of the week.
- Simon Cowell of Eroge
Well, names of games are actually got better, more stylish and not so linear.
A few old titles there. Nothing really worth a dime there maybe except 精神汚染 from the maker of 姦染 series. Actually renaming may not be a bad thing at all. A few times I walked into a game shop I am too embarrassed to bring it to the cashier because the titles were...hm, you know...too explicit. I mean there are some AV titles that doesn't sound AV at all. What worried me is when they start censoring the contents. I am expecting a surge in 陵辱/BDSM games shortly before the ban takes effect. Hopefully there will be some good titles then.
- Simon Cowell of Eroge
The renamed versions are awfully Engrishy, but in a good way. They make me smile. If this is all that's needed to evade the self-imposed bans, I say go for it, no matter how ridiculous it sounds.
get your heads up an sign this feminism banned petition http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/AnimeRights
Like an online petition has ever worked.
Sorry, but this is the worst way to go about things. It just makes it look like you're trying, but in reality all you're doing is nothing while trying to look heroic. Help for real or don't do it all.
i guess but there is a slightly chance if we can make the company see it after getting the required signature
Your an idiot, the damage has already been done and an online petition is as useless as the government.
Fuck Equality Now, I want my compensation from them since Rapelay has been pulled out from the market.... T_T
your a fucking idiot I tried and your fucking doing nothing
"“Rape Attack” becomes “Warrior Maiden Crisis”"
I like both titles very much! Though the latter sounds less like an eroge and more like a bad reverse harem anime...
you dont have to be religious or feminist to be against rape ._.
I have no problems with the ban
I like girls who want it :B
Fantasy ≠ Reality
Did anybody else ever suspect that the rape numbers are lower in Japan because of the lower birth rate?
Just saying.
Do these stuck-up feminist BITCHES even know the word FANTASY?
BANN RAPE . I agree . NO rape anymore !!
feminism = Equality Now
Ban = less work
Voices for Eroge = Females
kinda weird that they want the female gender to loss work in times of the so called "Great Depression" :D
“Brutal Father 2 - A Brute Like You is No Father of Mine!” becomes “Brutal Father 2″
I chuckled....
I don't know about you guys, but I like the new titles better.
Someone should make a feminist group that opposes censorship. They'll probly do it cause the feminist told them to.
I bet $50 that these feminists are pissed off that their husbands left them in favor of more attractive girls, resulting in them being the stuck-up bitches they are right now
the titles sound convincing, and might even attract a very new group of interested young people.
"“Repayment Sex Slave” becomes “Repayment Plan”"
Gahahaha.
For all of you sayig your're not worried, this is just the first step, expect some pretty strict content censorship later on. I hope more companies will put some priority on their rape games and release them before the content censorship rules are finalized.
don't worry mate if things come to worse this anon has a little "explosive" surprise for any type of censorship group. AHLA ACKBAR!!!!!!!!!!!!
“Repayment Sex Slave” becomes “Repayment Plan”
I really had to laugh at this one.
This is the most stupid move...
If they decrease the severity of the titles, more people think this is innocent content... and thus more people get there hands on this stuff...
Example:
“Repayment Sex Slave” “Rape Attack” “House of Slaves”, obvously only people after sexual stuff will buy since they know it's explicit...
“Repayment Plan”: A noob money curious person will buy
“Warrior Maiden Crisis”: A little girl will buy
“House of Shame”: A drama curious bookworm will buy...
I'm pretty sure the packaging and 18+ labels amply illustrate the game's sexual content.
Great, yet another genius...
That's the whole point of doing this, duh.
Hmm.... *ponders*
lol!
no one know which one is rape or not! :D
now its really surprise sex in each game.
Surprise Rape
I actually liked the new tittles, they're more creative.
Censorship is all what you cannot see and hear does not exist.
Nothing is really solved here, just some feminists crusade to add some Xbox achievements to their tallies so they can boast their E-penis.
Seeing as how most of these femnists hate anything with a penis, I highly doubt that they are trying to boost an e-penis.
Some of the titles made me lol
Rape word is censored? they should censor the word F*** than rape
They don't have the word "fuck" in Japan or anything like it... You realize these are translated titles, right?
やる
I think the verb "hameru" means to have sex with, but I don't know if that's vulgar/inappropriate. It also means to insert...
Ok so censoring the names seems like a wise move to stave off the feminists, but is the actual game content censored or what?
Fuck those feminist groups!
Not as bad as i expected (so far). At least they don't try to pull out a 4kids quality of censorship..
4kids is some channel?
I heard that One Piece has been hardly censored in all ways in USA. Injustice!
SHIT! >_>
If I had a sledgehammer and the opportunity before this whole JP feminazi shit happened, I'd have smashed their heads.
“Rape Attack” becomes “Warrior Maiden Crisis”
I lol'd
This.
I guess **pe and s*ny are banned words in japan now.
OMG! Does that mean that they will censor any part on Detroit Metal City where Krauser says the word "rape"? XD
I was going to say something clever about how rape and sony were synonymous, but I'll refrain.
It's finally started. Now how long will the closet rapist will last before they snap due to lack of rape game to play.
Oh well, I never really like rape game after all so the ban doesn't bother me.
I dunno, I'm starting to feel like raeping again...
urge to rape...rising...
How about I rape you and make a game, and eventually profit, off it?
I'd buy that, a narcissistic rapist being raped repeatedly watching them suffer, acting tsundere, denying how good it feels until they snap begging for moar...
reap game doesn't involve REAL people hence what you are doing is seriously and involve REAL people.
If crappy rape games are all that prevented rape, it was bound to happen sooner or later.
Couldn't nonrape games or porn solve that "ban problem"?
While I agree raep in real life is a terrible thing and most eroge with raep theme are pretty crappy to begin with, I hate the fact these people are telling people what they could/couldn't play just because they don't like it. Let people to decide, don't decide for them. I like Alicesoft games and couple of their titles has lots of raep(超昂閃忍ハルカ, Rance, etc.). I will be extremely pissed if Alicesoft goes under because of this.
- Simon Cowell of Eroge
agreed.
Don't ban Alicesoft puhleze!!
sheesh.. i don't even see the point of rape... isn't brute strength overrated anyway... sheesh... be like the demon who waits to make that one soul his for eternity... rather than a "deathnote character"
Heh... I giggled.
yes, first comment. when they change the name like "Slave Girl’s Rape Hell" to "Girl’s Prison", it make the game look weak. who would like a H-game that like "girl's prison". when you rather have a H-game that call "slave girl's rape hell" with a lots of impact. beside girl's prison sound like what i see on tv like "cops" or "america most wanted". they should forget the ban cause it not like the going to ban the "rape" in a rape game. look all you have to do is change the title like they did and you still have a rape game.
Eh, Battleship Prison is also a rape game, by Black Lilith even, so it doesn't even have a shred of sympathy for the female characters. Yet it still has what you'd call a dorky name.
Well, better a dorky name, rather than a neutered game, if you catch my drift.
Oh yes!
It's like "china" re-branding...
That is what cowards and optimists deserve.
MoAR!! MoAR!!
>> CanadaMann
>> cowards
>> ????
>> PROFIT
They should learn to use raep instead of **pe.
or Lape
Cream Attack
Gooey Surprise
Unexpected Milky Explosion
Anal Assualt
or surprise sex
Unrequested and non consensual Sodomy. LOL
That has my vote xD
I'll vote for "Oshiri ga itai".
It means, my ass hurts.
hello hello kitty attackku?
I'm all for renaming a game like "Diary of a Raped Girl" to "Diary of a Formally Greeted Female."
“Slave Girl’s Rape Hell” for a stronge sex.
i loled so hard at 'surprise sex'
like surprise buttseks?
Wut buttseks,"Yaranaika?"
like surprise cake?
"surprise sex"
+1
Reproduction Games =]
“Slave Girl’s Surprise Sex Hell”
'Surprise Sex'? Whatever happened to 'Hello!'? o_0
"Rape - It's like saying 'Hello!' in Japan"
I could see Rape Attack being changed to Hello Attack.
i lol'd at "surprise sex"
'Super fornication' anyone?
Lapist Lazuly *got headshot*