Hot on the heels of rapelay controversy, Studio Minori, developers of the fairly infamous h-game Ef: A Fairy Tale of the Two, has recently been blocking foreign visitors to their site. Normally, this is the part where we'd speculate why they were doing such a thing, but luckily, Minori explained on their main page, in English none the less.
Apparently, the block is to protect "you" from their oh so awesome culture. Strong words were leveled at the government...
Currently, The bill that allows to limiting the content (It is censorship. Isn't it?) to all EROGEs is being discussed in the Diet because intellectuals and politicians said "Japanese EROGE were being problem and troubled with the foreign country. Therefore we should make EROGE hidden away from foreign country, and also its content should be limited and censored".
Okay, now we trusted the word what they said at once. So we blocked you to make stay away from the trouble.
...Do you like that?
See, stuff like this always confuses me. I'll stand up entirely for Minori, and while I'm not driven enough to mail in my feelings, I realize that apathy just makes it stronger. This situation feels like a rolling ball of bans. Forget catgirls and enemas, if this keeps going, the only H-games you'll be playing will be Conservative Copulation 6 and Missionary Missive 14.
The message
Obligatory art from Ef to reward you for reading this long.
And if any foreigners really want to get it, then I'm sure there's a third party retailer or service you can buy it through so it's not a huge deal to us either. This way they're primarily locking out the stupid dipsh**s who whined in the first place.
Really, who amongst those who buy/play h-games even go to the Japanese dev-pages?
Then on May 28, 2009 we thought there was a Ban on H-games however this was a false report form TBS news in japan. But we did learn the the EOCS (Ethics Organization of Computer Software) were going to meeting on June 2ed.
On June 2ed EOCS did deiced to regulate H-games.
On June 5, 2009 Vice reports a list of regulations.
On June 23, 2009 EOCS bans a list of words.
This sires of events was cause and outside force form japan (Equality Now) effected there entire H-game market. I imagine that they are trying to avoid further regulations buy not showing their products to an outside market.
Me so helpless, me must be protected from the devil's country Japan.
When did eroge devs get Hideo Kojima to write their statements?