Super Smash Bros. creator Masahiro Sakurai was recently featured as a special guest on Game Center CX, where he talked about Japanese people having “higher tolerance for ecchi” when looking back at old Sega games.
Game Center CX has been celebrating 40 years of Sega hardware and brought in Masahiro Sakurai to play some games on the Mega Drive Mini 1.2 while sharing commentary from a developer’s perspective.
While playing Bare Knuckle II (known as Streets of Rage 2 outside of Japan), Sakurai showed how players could take a peek at pantsu by performing a jump-kick attack when playing as the female character Blaze.
However, he then changed it to the Western version and pointed out that Blaze’s panties are no longer visible, showing a look at some of the earlier instances of censorship in localization.
“I think that the Japanese have a higher tolerance for ecchi stuff,” said Masahiro Sakurai when asked if the United States and others are more strict regarding regulations.
Sakurai talks about ecchi in Streets of Rage 2 at around 4:55 in the video:
That’s not it. They just didn’t have the censorious feminists to destroy anything men enjoy. By the same logic Westerners have higher tolerance for nudity, because it’s allowed in their games.
Between the old hyperconservatives who want everyone to only pray to Jesus and progressives who hate the idea of the gratification of normal man in fiction, things are stacked against the US
It was religion my friend.
Feminism is a religion.
Both are right. Did hear that religious Karens used to push for censorship that would “harm” their kids. Then the next generation of feminist Karens are pushing for censorship to “protect the children”
US citizens don’t want everything censored it’s the companies, like Nintendo, who decide we should have censorship.
Just like with Streets of Rage 2 and Sega of America back then, it’s always the people at the mutt branches who call for censorship, and looking at the support they get from other americans on places like Xwitter and RetardEra, it’s not only the suits who call for censorship.
And Nintendo, in their infinite wisdom, thought it was an amazing idea to put these dipshit westerners in charge of character designs at even their Japanese branches, “for parity”. They get to veto anything they deem “offensive” on the behalf of foreign audiences, so now s♥♥t gets censored at the source now.
Honestly it’s impressive how poorly ran Japanese companies are. Working in a media company still often has the long ass work days like a regular office job, except now you’re under the watchful eyes of occupying foreigners who tell you what you can or can’t put in your shows, movies or games, or relayed that information because they have foreign investors like Blackrock. Truly hellish.
Except feminism, woke, BLM, LGBTQ, SJW, and whatnot all came from the west and US lol… as an Asian, I’ve never heard of these words until moving to the NA.
And which places in the US push for censorship?
Note: there are more Jews in Los Angeles than in Tel Aviv, the capital of Israel.
There are more Jews in New York than in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem combined… by a large enough margin that you could fit 2 or 3 of the other most populated cities in Israel.
Feminism, woke, BLM, SJW, and whatever you want to call it, is a Jewish problem. You can trace it back to the Frankfurt School, Bolshevism, Marxism, all centrally Jewish things. These are not conspiracy theories, either.
Source for those stats?
Don’t be so lazy. You can look up their census results any time you want, just like anyone else.
Except people get fucking arrested for ecchi in Japan if it isn’t covered with a giant mosaic. Their tolerance is about on the level of a Muslim country lol
That wasn’t a thing until femnazis started their censorship movement and the retards allowed them just to shut them the f♥♥k up but as usual they took a foot after they were given an inch.
You know it was the Americans (and a Jewish bitch) who forced that censorship during the Meiji Restoration, right?
What? I’m talking about their 100+ year old censorship law, that has nothing to do with feminists.
Ignore him, he’s a troll.
It’s less about ‘Westerners’, more the fault of sexually repressive Protestantism, especially in America.
A more based individual has never existed