Rape games will be banned in Japan
TBS news reports that all rape games will be banned from sale or production in Japan. It has been decided. It is estimated that this particular genre takes up about 10% to 20% of the entire industry but the PC software independent review committee has made the decision to ban all these games.
The PC games review committee had originally not seen it as a problem, but now it has come to the point where the entire game software industry has to comply to the new restrictions.
The news article reports that the reason for doing so started with the campaigning efforts of the International woman’s rights organization Equality Now which had started due to the problems found with the sale of Rapelay in other countries.
Related: Eroge is being in focus by the Japanese media
Edit: I accidently left this out, but they will change their judging criteria starting from the 2nd of June, and the approximately 200 member companies will be restricted from the production and sale of rape games.
I wonder what the brands focused entirely on rape games will do now, and all the other games currently in production. Or maybe they’ll just call it forced transfer of magic powers or something. I sure hope they end this here because eroge is dead if they go through every genre! And then they’ll move on to other media like film and books.
Update:
Rape games not really banned and I hate TBS
Yomiuri on the game censorship situation
