As you have probably read somewhere by now, Japanese eroge industry has become a target of many verbal attacks by foreign politicians and feminists who don’t have anything better to do. Everything began when a very ero game, RapeLay, appeared at Amazon UK and it got noticed by some people who most likely called media attention to it. Unfortunately, it was a game that was really evil, and should not have been produced at all. Therefore, everything went very quickly and feminists and even other people started to criticize eroge. I don’t really know the details about what happened next, because I didn’t think that it could bring about any changes or bans. However, I was wrong and it resulted in taking measures very unpleasant to foreigners.
In order to keep Japan’s eroge industry working, the Japanese government decided the best possible solution is to cut off any connection of eroge market with foreign countries. Eroge isolation. A beginning of another isolation of Japan? I hope not. Minori, one of the leading eroge companies, have taken action and blocked access to their sites from abroad. The reason as they have stated is the recommendation by politicians, but they are not happy about it. Yet, they have done it because their freedom of game-making was in jeopardy. Nobody knows if it will ensure it to them, though. Minori encourage foreign people to spread this news and also write some mails to influential people, like politicians. Only a mutual understanding can do something about this situation and some action needs to be done to convince non-Japanese people to stop their attempts to ban ero games. If you think that eroge are evil, think twice about it. Only a small part of eroges are those like RapeLay. In most cases, eroges focus on a story, relationship developments, characters and their development, daily concerns, common troubles, etc. Many popular anime series are in fact based on eroge visual novels. They are those kind of eroge where you must concentrate on relationships and there’s just some sex scene at the end of the game. I believe everyone of you knows at least some of them, they are for example Kanon, and AIR by Key Company, ef – a tale of memories and ef – a tale of melodies by minori, School Days or Fate Stay Night. You can see that many great anime would never have been made if it weren’t for eroges. If you still doubt the worth of eroges, I encourage you to read this article. I’d like to point out this line from it: Although many eroge still market themselves primarily on sex, eroge that focus on story are now a major established part of Japanese otaku culture. I hope that this whole issue will reach a conclusion that will please those who understand the values of eroges and all the bans and seclusion will be lifted. Because if this had unhappy ending for eroge, the people who seek “public safety and purity” could decide to continue the purification of Japan and turn their attention for example to moe aspects of anime or something like that. And I’m sure that would induce a tidal wave of anger, hatred, and despair. In order to prevent the worst from happening, let’s try to destroy any possible threat in its roots. I’m not telling you to resort to some threatening or anything like that. I’m just asking you to help to spread this news, if possible then to people who have connections or power and are willing to do something to bring an end to these attempts to eradicate eroge.
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