
Anti-free speech feminist group Equality Now has earned well deserved infamy with its suppression of adult game RapeLay, but now its legal representative in Japan (the group has no actual office there) has laid out the group’s position, claiming that Japan is poisoning the world with its filth and must be stopped, something we have heard before.
She puts it as follows:
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The anti-free speech feminist group “Equality Now” has apparently succeeded in forcing the publisher of “rape simulator” game RapeLay into withdrawing the game from sale, as the game has quietly disappeared completely from the publisher’s homepage, and the pages of most retailers.
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The astonishing sales record of anything vaguely related to the activities of the Keion-bu continues with the news that a dominating 8 out 10 of the top selling CDs on Amazon.co.jp are K-ON! related.
The complete roster of K-ON! music clogging up the rankings is visible below:
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A US-based international feminist “human rights” group, Equality Now, is demanding the Japanese government ban adult games (and manga and anime by extension) which “promote violence against women,” and violate the human rights of women.
They demand Japan institute a ban on material “promoting” rape and “Loli-Con” sex:
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Games, H, News
- Date: Feb 13, 2009 02:45 JST
- Tags: Amazon, Censorship, Chikan, Eroge, Mass Media, Politics, Rape, UK, USA


Raep simulator vendor Amazon has been the target of the usual hysterical anti-game criticism after the mass media found out they were stocking Illusion’s chikan simulator “Rapelay”, which allows simulated sex attacks from the privacy of your PC.
The rag soon tried to stoke their “exclusive” by contacting a fiery moralist politician, who was delighted to hear that his earlier unsubstantiated claim that raep games existed was true after all:
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Could the winter 2009 anime lineup prove a failure? Although the earliest DVD releases are still at the end of January, the preorder situation already looks to be weak:
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Amazon.co.jp is listing Nintedo’s classic Super Famicom (SNES), now nearly 20 years old, for the extravagant price of ¥500,000. The item in question is described as “new”…
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Amazon.co.jp have quietly decided to ban a huge variety of adult products from listing in their database. Products “recalling” pornography featuring underage participants are the first to go, with a number of ero-manga apparently already deleted from their database.
They also plan to stop selling products featuring “themes of illegality”, or “brutality”, “rape”, “drugs”. “coprophagia” and “bestiality”.
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It seems there has been a terrible mistake at Amazon.co.jp, and they have accidentally offered an improperly clothed set of Evangelion Goth Loli Asuka figures for sale.
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Some poor 2channer exhibits his rain soaked box; I know parcels being left out or used as footballs by callow delivery people is uneventful enough internationally, but in Japan? Unthinkable.
No word on whether his Quiz Magic Academy survived the disaster.
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Amazon has recently been selling this Coca Cola (alas you are too late to partake) for the princely sum of ¥1 per can; it is genuine (if “No Calorie” can be called this), comes in 350ml cans and otherwise appears not to be some Chinese chemical effluent – the only disadvantage to buying (apart from the taste) is the lady’s picture with which the can is emblazoned. Buy only 1500 cans and you can get free shipping!
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According to a ranking released by Amazon.co.jp, of the top ten best selling Blu-ray titles, six were anime. Anime fans are thought to be a discerning crowd where visual quality is concerned, and the presence of so much anime seems to bear that out. The content of the list is not wholly surprising, though lack of Blu-ray releases removes some of the more popular titles from the ranking:
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