Fat Princess Banned in Japan for Having Only Four Fingers

When i first saw the title i thought it was the yakuza who was behind getting this game banned. I always imagined them being sensitive concerning missing fingers.

I wonder whats next they are going to ban, characters with crooked teeth.

WTF??

I thought the 4 finger thing was a yakuza bit, or so I've heard.

I seriously wonder how many animations imported to Japan have done so well over the years. Since it is rather common for west and euro animation, to render characters with four fingers and four toes.

It isn't a lazy thing, it is more of convenient thing. It is also rather cute and weird. Since I grew up with it, I look to it as normal.

It shouldn't be a challenge for them to give the characters five fingers. All they need is permission.

While understanding and empathizing with the atrocities and hardships that this group faced/faces, going to these extremes in oversensitivity just causes others to want to hate them more. Of course when you've been discriminated for this long, it can be easy to think everyone is out to slander you.

Wait... So is Mickey Mouse banned in Japan as well? Kingdom Hearts?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mickey_Mouse.svg

Lol, at first I thought it was banned due to discrimination on obese people..

This makes me wonder why the same can't be done for some Anime (don't ask for reference). I know it's probably just a handful of people, but I do get irritated sometimes when a character is supposed to be modeled after a human or humanoid creature yet has an odd number of fingers. Not worth banning something over, but probably worth rethinking a design or two lol

Unless...yes, unless she bit them off thinking they were food or something, then it'd just be hilarious and more than appropriate.

There are still groups of people who consider them self's as burakumin? I could understand that they would opt for understanding and rectification. But why should they stigmatize them self's with such act?

Don't Disney characters, Mickey, Donald, etc. also only have four fingers?

So does that mean the Simpsons is not allowed in Japan, as all those characters are drawn with 4 fingers?

fine then, just remove 1 more finger to become 3 and we're good to go.

or just remove all fingers, (doraemon).

THIS. IS. MADNESS!!! Seriously, who still give a fuck about those old discriminatories shits? Banning a video game just for it is completely dumb!

WHAT

Sooo no Simpsons memorabilia or shows are allowed in Japan, am I correct?

Seriously, what the hell.

Uhh, don't they run The Simpsons in Japan, too? They only have four fingers.

They're right though, this IS racism. Racism against western society and an attack on an entire body of western cartooning styles. Hell, most of the popular webcomics have characters with only four fingers, too. (And even a large percentage of newspaper comics)

Western artists should band together and counter-attack this dumb crap.

this is pretty interesting stuff. didn't think such caste discrimination still existed in japan with people still so super sensitive about it. good shit artefact.

MADNESS!

hahaha hahahaha it's so funny that they even change the design for the left for dead cd just for a jap release

this is as bad as the article where china had to change the WoW undead class

Meh. It sounds like a poor excuse to avoid the 'violence therefore banned' chain of thought.

why the fat princess looks cute in the image, 2d must be making everything looks better.

Out of all the types of games japan allows, and this gets banned? Oh well, just add in a finger and they'll allow it. For people like this I only have one finger for them.

So I take it the Simpsons are banned in Japan, then?

Finally a informational article on among the regular rape and debauchery advertisements

I feel bad for the company who has to provide the new art now. All that work just to have it slighted as politically incorrect, especially having not even known that there would be a problem. It's stupid.
And that L4D case looks horrible!

They need five fingers so that they can reserve the middle one for the idiots that made them redraw the art for a non-sensical reason.

Wait... Does Mickey and Donald and pretty much evey Disney character have five fingers in Japan?

So
Snatch is banned in Japan?

I guess that means the Simpsons is banned in Japan...

I don't believe a word of it. Ratchet and Clank is chock full of characters with four and even three fingers; that hasn't stopped the franchise from doing pretty well in Japan.

So if you're in Japan, and you don't know Japanese. Someone comes to you and talks in Japanese while pointing to his wrist. You know he's asking for the time. Since you can't talk Japanese, you hold up four fingers to show 4:00p.m.

You get kicked out of Japan!!!!!!!!!

always thought of missing fingers in regards to yakuza.

This article actually had me yell out in my room "WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?!"

i only need one finger to tell you what i think.

OK so they are not a number but a free man (4 points to those who got the reference) and 6 fingers are ok in anime 4 bad in games.

lmao so i think mini ninjas will also never come out over in japan as all the characters only have 4 fingers wtf....

Makes you wonder how Walt Disney got away with importing all those atrocious characters in Japan. And in Tokyo Disneyland especially.

Granted, political correctness has its pros and cons. And most of the time it actually improves people's attitudes towards others, but seriously, some of this "over-correctness" is going over people's heads that they think every meaning that sounds offensive is considered an attack on them.

They only need to use a bit of common sense to realize that it was hardly intentional.

This is a sad day for the people who don't get to play this game, because its pretty freakin awesome to play :D

WHAT

doesn't The Simpson play in Japan even though they have 4 finger?

I'm still trying to understand the way some stuff works in Japan...
What seems to happen to me is that people, minority or not, can have a very loud voice in the politic scenario when it comes to taboos.
But overall, the people are very open and far less moralist than western countries.

Some random weird stuff that comes from this:
1. geniatlia censoring at this day and age;
2. how fast rape games where censored after the first polemics about it were raised (something that unfortunately also shows how influencial the western opinnion can also be in japanese politics);
3. This case.

But anyways, thanks for the article Artefact... if it wasn't for this, I would never have known about the existence of such a tabboo.

I guess it's good that the government is paying attention even for minorities, but it's pretty clear that the japanese government needs urgently of some spine. The need to think more about making fair and correct decisions and stop just doing what people think it's right for them to do.

It looks fun.

And no country is free from the evils of political correctness.

You know, these IDIOTS who find something like a NUMBER offensive need to have a big foot put up their butts and be told where they can go!

It's about time that this political correctness bull went the way of the dodo.

Man get over it. This is ridiculous to the max.

I thought THAT was a Japanese game, so was like "Japan banning their own game? Weird." Ironic how western games are now the ones getting the ax by Japanese censors.

As for the main issue:

Reacts to "burakumin" sensitivities; keeps discriminating against racial minorities and women.

Ah, Japan.

Funny how "burakumin" closely sounds like "black men", seeing as they are/were both major targets of discrimination.

I didn't even realise they only had four, something I don't understand is why is it so hard for some creators to put five fingers.

Truly, what the FuCk?!

'The Simpsons' has been airing in Japan since it came out back in the '80s! Outside of that one Halloween episode, every Fucking character has had FOUR fingers and now. Now they be bitching about a foreign game trying to release their game there?!

Nippons are truly xenophobic little whores.

Dude they don't know what they are missing. This game is great

Goku has six fingers on the manga cover.

One of the (notably) few games on PSN worth the download. Even just the demo is going to provide you with some fun.

Silly Japs, American cartoons almost always have 4 fingers. It's stupid to get upset over it in manga, even stupider to expect foreign-made products to respect such an obscure taboo.

We are talking about a country selling panties in vending machines, but that doesn't allow uncensored porn. The people of japan are so stupid, maybe a third nuke would wake them up.

Everyone does have 4 fingers and a thumb.

Doesn't Mickey Mouse only have 4 fingers......

This has happened in the past, with the Oddworld games: http://www.oddworld.com/ow_ask.shtml

It reminds me of the people in my Spanish class a few years ago that were uncomfortable because the color black is negro in Spanish.

This is as silly as many games and television shows feeling they need a requisite amount of different races to be politically correct.

So is Simpsons banned in Japan as well?

Just say it and get it out in the open: "NO FAT CHICKZ PLZ!"

So... I'm unsure. Why four fingers? Is it because those jobs like slaughterer, tanner etc. were likely to accidentally lob off a finger?

Coming to think of it, it's a classic case of "It's only taboo when you mentioned that it is".

reading this just made my IQ drop....

Now I understand why they gave Suigintou six fingers. They can't get sued if they drew one more than one less.

So Simpsons and Futurama are both banned then? Sure;y that can't be true.

Overactive anti-racism reactions are stupid and moronic, There's tons of stuff like that in the US where Everything has to be 'politically correct' even though the people themselves dont care that much. this is truely pathetic...

PC Nazis are completely insane. And they have a much better chance of people bowing down to their bizarre demands than the the equally demented Safety Nazis and Food Nazis, so they are certainly more pestilent.
Although, it can be entertaining when two such groups clash due to mutually incompatible demands.

... *twitch*
Alright that has to be some kind of bull**** right there.
Its only four fingeres.
seriously they need to chose better targets
Techniqly they might have gotten the Naruto series as well, ever notice how some of the frogs have 5 "fingeres"?
And shouldn't they have gotten over that already?
I, the poster, am a black guy. And as a member of the black community we chose our targets for discrimination carfuly, its not like. "OMG he said the N word!" and immediatly bring out the sure happy hammer. We know what happened over here was terrible and unforgiving. But do we ban things every blink of a eye? No.
If they are gona turn around on the heel at every 4 thing in Japan they better chose better targets than a game where the players will be more focused on gameplay than a simple thing like fingers, if your gona make a point with the 4 thing do something bigger.

imagine if they had 5 fingers...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsbLffv2y3U

Well, certainly wasn't expecting that...

Wacky Jappies.

No way! I play Fat Princess but on the English version.
So sad.
Playing FP is fun. =)))