Dejipare: doujin and cosplay are not affected
The online downloadable doujin and eroge store Dejipare had previously announced that the upcoming new regulations will affect everything being sold on their online store, but have now announced that after having received a flood of emails giving them support and advice, they had another meeting and have decided that doujin and live action cosplay will not be affected by the new rules and will be self-regulated as before.
Doujin is saved! Comic Market usually follows industry standards in what they allow at the event so it was going in a pretty bad direction for a while. Then again dejipare isn’t even in the DHR so it is left to be seen what the other online doujin stores will decide on this.
Also eroge are not mentioned and probably will still be affected by the previously announced regulations.
June 24th, 2009 at 11:03 pm
Let’s hope this is the beginning of better news and that eroge makers find a way around it.
June 24th, 2009 at 11:26 pm
- “Sir, the amount of ‘professional-quality’ doujin works seems to on the rise!”
- “As you were, son. As you were…”
This stuff is so remarkably well choreographed. This whole thing sends a completely obvious message about the way around all the regulations.
June 25th, 2009 at 1:32 am
Wait, aren’t doujin, by definition, self-published works?
…What’s stopping eroge developers from taking advantage of this…?
HAHAHAHHAAHAHAH FANTASTIC
June 25th, 2009 at 2:03 am
At last some good news…
I Hope for more in closes future…
June 25th, 2009 at 5:53 am
> …What’s stopping eroge developers from taking advantage of this…?
After which the moralists will simply say “Now the developers aren’t following industry regulations and instead making unregulated games. We need government regulation and bans!” Similar to how the ero industry will always try to work around regulations, the moralists will always try to destroy the ero industry using any excuse and method they can.
This fight is never going to end. The days when the industry could simply play defensive and stay out of the public eye are over; there’s way too much interest and money in otaku culture now. The only hope is to get organized and be pro-active in the fight against regulation and censorship, instead of simply playing defense all the time against relentless moralists who refuse to quit.
June 25th, 2009 at 6:30 am
Of course they can’t ban this.Where there is money and people who want this stuff and not even being wrong beocuse it’s drawn.Certainly no one can stop them.People will complain.The ban will never really work properly.
They should just give up on banning it all together
June 25th, 2009 at 2:04 pm
>Of course they can’t ban this.Where there is money and people who want this stuff and not even being wrong beocuse it’s drawn.Certainly no one can stop them.People will complain.The ban will never really work properly.
But you’re forgetting about how they’re really close to making drawn loli banned. You remember in 2004 when the Diet simply said they would “delay” the decision at a later time, thus allowing the status quo to continue. The vote for the banning of drawn loli is close again and it seems that only the Liberal Democratic Party is the only one that’s for delaying the decision again. Luckily, they’re the majority party, but who knows what sort of anti-free speech crazies and psychos will tout how crucial the immediate banning of loli is. If for any reason, the ban passes, you’re going to see another spiral down a slippery slope.
June 25th, 2009 at 3:37 pm
Finally, some sliver of hope.
June 25th, 2009 at 3:59 pm
Just another nation worming its way down the sick spiral of pointless anglo-saxon inspired censorship.
Come to England where our rape crime is in the region of 10x’s as high and our violent crime probably more (independent crime victimisation survey as opposed to crime stats - as people love to jizz saying “but Japanese are shy so don’t report rape rar rar rar we know everything all Japanese woman are raped every day rar rar rar” so I don’t bother bringing those up anymore (although they’re even cooler 2000 odd rapes for a population 2x the size of the UKs who get about 15,000 reported rapes and our conviction rate goes from 3% to about 13% depending on where you are) We’re a shinning example of how censorship saves lives.
But really - why not just line up with the AV industry.
I’ve given up caring to be honest.
June 25th, 2009 at 4:56 pm
Uh, I am not for censorship, but…
Correlating rape rates between countries and the level of censorship between countries is a bad argument. You can argue that Japan has more censorship than most Western countries. And also, you can also compare rape rates between Japan and many other countries with a lot less rapes per capita and a lot more censorship.
June 26th, 2009 at 9:27 am
Don’t let your guard down. The only reason Comiket is safe is because they haven’t set enough precedents yet. If the politicians pushing this ban get their way… nothing will remain.
June 28th, 2009 at 12:28 pm
“You can argue that Japan has more censorship than most Western countries.”
Well, no.