General News 3: It Isn't Over Yet!

[LoSs]

Stop whining about censorship. I told you that I'll do anything that I can to make JAST release nitro+ games fully uncensored. In worst case I'll let you know what will be censored, but if some retards will refuse to buy the game because of one or two censored images....

[Message]

For those interested, I've written up the closure of the Kanon project.

My Google alert for "visual novel" turned up this article:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/26/ma...-2DLove-t.html

Um... enjoy it.

"In an ideal moe relationship, a man frees himself from the expectations of an ordinary human relationship and expresses his passion for a chosen character, without fear of being judged or rejected."

[NTX]

Originally Posted by Shii@Damariscotta

...without fear of being judged or rejected."

My characters reject me sometimes... ;-;

"Nemutan is 10, maybe 12 years old..."
"...a lumpy pillow with a drawing of a prepubescent anime character on it..."
"Momo began to flip through a catalog of more than a dozen prints of prepubescent anime characters with giant doe eyes in erotic poses."
"Every night, Karada-chan and at least two other animated preteens, drawn with large pink nipples and exaggerated labia..."
"Momo told me he never looks at child porn. He lives with his sister and his 3-year-old niece, whom he insists he has no sexual feelings for."

My god, you can tell that this author is fighting back straight, full on witchhunt scale disgust for this entire ordeal. He vacillates between ogling and subtle disdain throughout the whole article.

[Ojamajo_LimePie]

'Nemutan' in the article is Nemu from Da Capo, who is hardly "10, maybe 12 years old." Try 18. Do eroge characters really look that young to some people?

[Moogy]

Well, let's be realistic here. Nemu is probably around 15 years old.

Regardless, she certainly doesn't look anything close to 10 years old.

Originally Posted by Ojamajo_LimePie

'Nemutan' in the article is Nemu from Da Capo, who is hardly "10, maybe 12 years old." Try 18. Do eroge characters really look that young to some people?

As far as the artwork goes, 12 sounds reasonable enough to me.

18 is nothing more than a fabrication to satisfy the rating board. Nemu's in her last year of junior high, so she's clearly intended to be a minor.

[Stranger]

Loli Strippers Legally Bare All
http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2009/0...ally-bare-all/ (NSFW)

American law enforcement is befuddled by the fact that schoolgirl strippers as young as 12 can legally bare all in the strip clubs of a number of states.

Originally Posted by Ojamajo_LimePie

Do eroge characters really look that young to some people?

Yes.
She definitely doesn't look 18, that's for sure ;)

[Stranger]

Equality Now Demands UN Hentai Ban
http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2009/0...un-hentai-ban/ (NSFW)

Extreme pornography in the form of cartoons known as hentai, produced in various media such as comic books, animation, computer games and online entertainment, is easily accessible in Japan and its use is widely accepted. Common themes of hentai include rape, gang rape, incest and the sexual abuse of schoolgirls. This latter form of hentai, known as Loli-Con, often portrays girls being sexually abused by adults in familiar positions of power such as teachers. A number of computer games involving rape, sexual harassment and stalking of women and girls are produced in Japan.

It was only a matter of time I suppose. Otaku visual culture is in a realm that is not anti-feminist but ignores and rejects the existence of feminism outright.

[LoSs]

General News: asairo turned to be a land mine with only one route. A warning to people who still plan to buy it for 9k.

[Asceai]

Originally Posted by LoSs

General News: asairo turned to be a land mine with only one route. A warning to people who still plan to buy it for 9k.

Actually, Asairo was very much a 'wait and see' for me until I heard that news. I went and ordered it immediately after finding out it had 1 route and 3 H scenes.

You kids are too quick to judge things landmines, just because they don't have 48 endings and 114 H scenes..

*On that note, France Shoujo is very much worth your 9,240!

[Mazyrian]

About Kanon patch: where is the new one? When I download from the group's page I keep getting the 6/28 one