/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>15775573
>Best post in the thread. The rest of the world is just like Japan. Look at how big fate has become. It's not because of continued pc eroge, but because of all ages console ports and anime adaptations. All ages falls under the 18+ rating, allowing the publisher more avenues to retail and marketing for all related media. Hiding 18+ content from the mainstream but making it available to those who want it is the best strategy for success.

That's not true. That's not entirely true there will always be an 18+ crowd the problem is that not many know there were cuts of 18+ content in the game or how it effects the plots of certain games.

I will tell you and other fellow anons something about how similar Japan and the US is when it comes to their hypocrisy on multimedia platforms. The US is perfectly fine with gore and violence on 18+ and can have some sexual things in it or implied. But the US does not allow sex because we think its taboo when its not. Everyone likes sex, its biological its in our DNA and its no different in Novel form than it is in Visual Novel form.

Japan on the other hand is the opposite. They fully admit they like sex and are perverted it is open and out there with anime, visual novels and the like. Because they see it as normal and funny or interesting. But Japan is like the US of sex when it comes to violence in their games. Japan has a low tolerance for it and CERO will try to tone it down when it comes to games. Just look at the new Berserk game and the cut they had to make in the beginning of their anime.

If you do not believe me look at some gory cut scenes in Japanese version vs the American version. An example of this is the Enemy Within. In the US we did not censor anything at all while Japan they censored out the blood and cut off some of the violent bits. But what made that case special was that The Enemy Within actually included Blood as DLC on PS4 and i believe on Steam. So Japanese could be happy about it. Even Berserk Masou may or may not have that because of the whole gore thing.

I keep thinking to myself everytime i see these instances where Japan allows the DLC option to have something that was censored to included in the game on Steam and on PSN. I keep thinking why cant Visual Novels be like this? Why are we all even having this discussion and why is Japanese companies in Visual Novels not seeing the same thing or even Steam. There is no debate whether or not it should be allowed. But not having a DLC option in there is silly. Because how can anyone claim there is problems with the full game when it does not have it. And the DLC does. If media complains then it should be the parents responsibility not the company. Sex is sex, violence is violence.

The US and Japan need to start realizing each others cultures and that its not a bad thing to have sex and or violence in a game. And if certain people complain they are not the ones that are buying the games they are just the minority with the loudest voices trying to decide everything for us.