
CSA's regulations will be released next week apparently so some are waiting to see how that goes. However he does not know if there are any otherĮntities pressuring the EOCS other than the politicians. Normally big decisions like this would need to be done through official meetings whereĬompanies can show their disapproval, but the EOCS is really forcing it in this time, and the person leaking the info suspects the EOCS is under huge pressure for them to be doing something like that. Shoujo (girl) and school council keywords managed to escape from the list of NG words. Games released sometime by the end of the year will most likely still be okay as games go through the judging process IS RAPELAY GAME BANNED IN US FULL
Period where rape games will still be allowed to a certain extent, and the new restrictions will go full force starting from October.
The period from 5th June to 31st September will be the changeover.
#New guidelines will start from October, all sales of older rape games will also have to stop, no matter if they're downloadable games or physical package games. Japanese timetable for an end to Rapelay like gameĪs you're probably all aware, the mess that slowly started spinning with Rapelay is slowly going out of control recently.Ī new fax from the Japanese trade association censors, EOCS, has been sent out and as with previous faxes companiesĪre still not allowed to release any of the information for some reason. The committee also expressed concern at the normalization of sexual violence in the State party as reflected by the prevalence of pornographic video games and cartoons featuring rape, gang rape, stalking and the sexual The debate over graphic Japanese sex games such as RapeLay continues with word that the United Nations is stepping in.Īt a meeting earlier this month, the UN's Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women called for a ban onĪs reported by Anime News Network, the committee urged Japan to ban the sale of video games or cartoons involving rape and sexual violence against women which normalize and promote sexual violence against women The UN has a whinge at RapeLay and sexually violent Japanese anime The characters themselves are of indistinguishable age, but cuesįrom the setting within a 'school' environment rather causes issues.ĭistributor PQube announced it will not release the game in the West at all because PlayStation itself intervened.Īnnounce that the game is cancelled on both platforms and all Western regions permanently. The contentious issue was the young-looking female characters. Germany, New Zealand and Ireland had also joined the UK in banning the game. In Europe, Omega Labyrinth Z was given a PEGI 18 rating for sexual content, although a UK launch had already been scrapped after the Slideshow of provocatively-dressed young anime characters, had been set to launch in Europe and North America. The game, which mixes chibi-style dungeon exploration with a
Omega Labyrinth Z, an adult-orientated anime dungeon crawler, will not be released on PlayStation 4 or Vita after Sony stepped in and banned the game from all western regions. Sony bans video game Omega Labyrinth Z from all western regionsįull story: Western censorship of Japanese Games.Japanese games winds up the social justice whingers Japanese games winds up the social justice whingers