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.
By the esoteric wonders of mod_geoip the crafty company has excluded the foreign eroge banning devils from their site completely, with a terse Engrish reminder that the world would be better off if the Japanese were not so spineless in response to foreign pressure:
minori official website.
This website cannot be browsed excluding Japan.Some foreigners seem to be having an antipathy against EROGE.
Therefore, We prohibited the access from foreign countries, to defend our culture.
Sorry for you of the fan that lives in a foreign country.minori Inc.
The completely redundant screenshot of same:
Their normal site looks something like this, admittedly not much of an improvement:
It is questionable whether there is any point or practical effectiveness to any of this, as anyone can easily access the Japanese version of the site by way of a free proxy service, be they disappointed barbarian fans or Japan bashing feminists looking for a soft target.
More pointedly, the company in question seems to have forgotten that it was the Japanese mass media who publicised the story, Japanese politicians who pressed for a ban, and their own industry group who cravenly acceded to these demands…
Blaming all non-Japanese for the actions of a minor American busybody feminist group seems more an exercise in xenophobia than a logical appraisal of just who is really at fault here.
It would appear that some in Japan do indeed need to “learn to say ‘no’” to both the world and their own wretched politicians and cowardly businessmen.
Thanks to ステク for the tip.
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 (brought in by foreigners, unwelcomed, including the feminists evil headquarters in Scandinavian countries) but Japanese Otakus have been fighting to save the industries producing artworks they love.
When feminists evil try to shut down an industry, Japanese Otaku on 2ch co-operate to buy products, doing internet related attacks and such on feminists. It makes feminists in Japan think twice before meddling with Otakus.
The same cannot be said for foreigners, be it Americans, Canadians, Europeans and such. To save face they play into feminists reasoning and refuse to protect artworks they love when it is under attack by feminism. So, you only want to play the game but doesn’t want to protect it?
Being living in Japan for some time, I must said Japanese are more honest to the stuffs they love, and will not back down from any reasoning opposing it. If you want garbage out then you must treat it as such, playing soft and trying to “understand” feminists will not work, they did not try to understand us from the beginning neither.
Generalization is bad but it is the only way to make ppl and groups self-regulate so their norm do not wander off, and to make foreigners realizing responsibility towards stuffs you love is important.
Eroge is culture… :l
Personally I say good for them!
It’s good that they are sticking up for their rights to freedom.
Why is their server .ph if they’re from Japan?
this is just Bull s♥♥t!!! f♥♥k all them FEM groups someone need to give them all a good whip down if that dont help off them all. f♥♥k i hae groups like that and all the bs thy give us now.. its wrong and they need to b destroyed.. this message will be destroyed in 5 secs beep beep beep