Canned Dogs

A fax dated 4th of June has been sent out to the member companies with some details on the new regulations. Here are some reactions:

Blue Gale Chairman: (via Blue Gale chairman’s diary)

The fax came.
I made a phone call.
I got the answering machine…
The answering machine…

Unnamed eroge programmer: (via ある、古参のエロゲプログラマーの戯れ言)

About the EOCS thing, we had a meeting on the 2nd of June, but today on the 3rd of June we got a fax at 18:01 which relayed the new regulations that will be starting on the 5th of June. We had something that was already 90% completed and was completely NG according to the new regulations,

so we panicked and called the EOCS, but they said the guy in charge is not around. Basically we only have one day left on the 4th of June to protest about this.

This is a joke.

LUNE: (via Marigold blog)

Too much has happened, probably enough to easily kill a small animal (from shock). But… things still probably aren’t that bad for us compared to the others. I wonder if Syrup soft is okay…

Chairman Baba from VisualArts: (posted after the meeting yesterday)

I’m going to hang myself

The fax is supposed to be confidential but there have been several sources on 2ch that have leaked the main points of the new regulations out. It’s pretty… depressing.

Words such as “training” (調教) or “slave”, among others, are not allowed in the title or packaging

HCG involving sexual violation cannot exceed 20% of a game’s total HCG count (ie: can’t try to build this up by having lots of everyday life CG events)

Even if it’s below 20%, anything that is promoting a criminal offense is not allowed

Anything that promotes rape, confinement, stalking, domestic violence, and portrays it in a way that the offender gains something out of it is not allowed

New games that have already passed the review process by the EOCS are considered “safe” from this

Regulations stated in the fax are completely different from what was being discussed in the emergency meeting yesterday

New regulations starts 5th of June

Apparently the pressure for regulations actually hit the shops and suppliers first it came to the EOCS. Some are unhappy because there wasn’t a real proper general meeting held and there was no vote to decide on the details. However rape actually makes a small fraction of the industry so there might not actually be a big uproar.

This looks really bad.

Oh yeah, hypnosis is okay, apparently.

Edit: Fixed first two points on the new regulations so it’s clearer

Related:
About the EOCS
Production and sale of rape games will be banned

Update: According to this site, the EOCS is apparently aiming for a gradual change in regulations so games being released in the near future may not be strongly affected yet. Also hypnosis was mentioned as being okay during the meeting but wasn’t mentioned in the fax, so it’s not 100% clear if it’s okay.

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