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Minori Changes Tune: “Dirty Foreigners Buy Our Games!”

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In a sudden and unexpected about face, visual novel publisher Minori has gone from blocking non-Japanese users from its site with accusations of piracy and patronising suggestions they come to Japan if they want to play them, to asking they buy them in a joint venture with MangaGamer.

Even more surprisingly, the translations will be provided by the same fan translation group Minori was previously at pains to stop…

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  • Neferius commented on December 21, 2010 07:38

    Makes sense to ME... The way I see it, Piracy can be used to either promote or boycott. What the fansubers were doing initially was to promote Minori's products by making them available to a non-Japanese market. True,... More

  • Neferius commented on December 21, 2010 06:51

    Minori Changes Tune: “Dirty Foreigners Buy Our Games!” O.O... Tsunderee~♥! /NOT... More

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In an update to its standard “foreigners go home” unwelcome page for non-Yamato barbarians, eroge publisher Minori has updated with a lengthy screed essentially telling fans to come to Japan if they want to play their games, and to get lost otherwise.

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  • Anonymous commented on June 16, 2011 00:06

    Also, >Erogames >culture... More

  • Anonymous commented on June 16, 2011 00:06

    Well, Japanese people generally don't want to share their culture whatsoever, and never try to make it accessible nor understandable by foreigners.... More

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Minori Vandalises Eroge Translation Site

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Eroge publisher Minori, well known both for the ef series and its grotesque xenophobia, has earned itself additional notoriety for its ham-fisted attempt to take down a fan translation project by deleting the contents of their wiki and replacing it with a copyright infringement notice, and then engaging in an unseemly edit-war with site inhabitants.

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  • Anonymous commented on April 28, 2010 10:37

    but why would japanese buy/download an translated eroge? after all they can read japanese already... but my point is, while translation patches+iso are a no-go. purely translation patches should be ok. I happend to buy Chaos-H3ad ONLY after they... More

  • Anonymous commented on April 28, 2010 04:48

    What he said.... More

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Minori Changes Tune: “Foreign Users are Criminals”

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Barbarian excluding eroge maker Minori is seemingly not content with excluding non-Japanese visitors from its site in retaliation for being forced into extremes of censorship by its own puritanical ratings body; the risible message on their site claims to be “defending our culture”, but in comments to prying Japanese media their CEO provides another excuse entirely, claiming they are protecting foreigners from making criminals of themselves by visiting their site.

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  • Anonymous commented on April 26, 2010 08:05

    You play CoD?! You murderer! You murdered people! The only way to win is to murder!... More

  • Anonymous commented on April 26, 2010 07:49

    If their site has region specific advertisements... it completely makes sense to block out foreigners. Why have unwanted traffic + more server load fees when all of their revenue comes from Japan specific advertisement?... More

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Minori: “We’re Banning You For Your Own Good!”

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The recent decision by Japanese eroge studio Minori to close off its site to the outside world under the pretense of “defending our culture” has been clarified with a fuller explanation, which can be read below:

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  • Anonymous commented on January 8, 2011 02:40

    *Moving to Japan after I finished learning Japanese*... More

  • Anonymous commented on November 4, 2009 11:11

    this is lame.. you can access the site using a proxy server...... More

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Eroge Maker Minori: “Dirty Foreigners Get Off Our Site!”

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Visual novel production company Minori, noted for producing hits such as Ef, Wind and Eden, has responded to the reprehensible decision by Japanese politicians and eroge publishers to ban “rape” eroge by issuing an indiscriminate and nonsensical ban of its own: they have banned all non-Japanese IPs from viewing their site.

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  • Anonymous commented on January 25, 2012 12:36

    barbarian says: its ok to write japanese. barbarian just doenst understand. ;) *a confused foreigner*... More

  • Anonymous commented on September 22, 2010 20:03

    Yes. mailing the Japanese DIET is a short-term solution. What the Japanese are frustrated about foreign Otaku is that they simply do not have a mindset of responsibility. Yes, there are feminist evils in Japan... More

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