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Campaigns Against Hentai Video Game Rapelay Fails

Category: Japan Game: Default Posted on May 10, 2009 8:42 pm


Protests by US rights campaigners against the game "RapeLay" have been shrugged off by the game's developers Illusion. not long ago.

RapeLay is a Japanese videogame that allows the player to simulate sexual violence against virtual females, including stalking girls on trains, and raping virgins and their mothers. The rapes continue till the mother and her daughters begin to enjoy it. When one of the women becomes pregnant, the player then must force her to have an abortion.

The game hit the news in February when Amazon.com removed it from sale on their website

 

Equality Now, based in New York, have been campaigning against such rape simulators and the normalisation of sexual violence in Japan.

"One wonders why the government of Japan has not taken steps to stop games that normalize and promote rape," said Taina Bien-Aimé, Executive Director in Equality Now's New York office. "As the United Nations has stated, any government that appears to condone such violence against women, which permeates in society, bears responsibility."

Protests dismissed

But Illusion, the makers of RapeLay, have shrugged off the campaign, saying that they are "bewildered" by the move. "We make the games for the domestic market and abide by laws here," said a spokesperson. "We cannot possibly comment on (the campaign) because we don't sell them overseas."

While Japan banned the production, distribution and commercial use of under-18 pornography in 1999, the ban did not cover illustrations or computer graphical representations of minors

Equality Now states that the local government in Tokyo was forced to introduce women-only carriages after a survey found that 64% of women in their 20s and 30s had been molested on public transport, a setting found in the RapeLay game.

A spokeswoman for the Japanese government's gender equality bureau said, "While we recognise that some sort of measures need to be taken, the office is currently studying what can be done."

Source: allaboutgames.co.uk

comments ( 33 )

toothfairy
Post Time : Oct 28,2009 11:59 pm

Blame it on the game. lol

Seriously, I find it lol'able, what kind of people are playing this game?

 

Welcome back to me :)

dustinmurphy1
Post Time : Jun 27,2009 12:34 am

just shows how fucked up japanese men are

Toxik_Envy
Post Time : Jun 07,2009 2:53 pm

Why are they blaiming this game for the female who are being molested in trains when that act has been happpening way before this game even came out?

Toxik_Envy
Post Time : Jun 07,2009 2:53 pm

Why are they blaiming this game for the female who are being molested in trains when that act has been happpening way before this game even came out?

Kastiknoriu
Post Time : May 17,2009 10:02 am

 Thos that dissagre that such game sholdn't be releaset imagine ppl that like this kind of games runnig to streets in my eyes let them play it its better then having to see such ppl ower tv on news and if u think thats impossible think about wow players with ppl like that u can newer know XD

kagamaro
Post Time : May 13,2009 7:29 am

commoooon !!! it's not that bad !!! it will be awsome if they release mmo like this !!!

Hyuk replied at 8:25 pm May 13,2009
Wait... u mean a "rape" Massively multiplayer online role-playing game? ROFL
bigcheeseuk
Post Time : May 13,2009 2:02 am

quote Hyuk:

to be honest, I don't exactly feel uncomfortable about these games any more since I realize this hentai thing is their humble hobby, which is quite common in Japan...

Maybe it is the mindset of the Japanese people that is the problem?

pmsben
Post Time : May 13,2009 1:46 am

It's like what sociogm said, people do things regardless of what the nature of video games are. And lol they got owned by the developer of the game.

They probably concluded its because of the video game that women are molested in public transportation. Lol no it's just that most of these japanese are sexually insatiable :) no offense. Not every molester or rapist plays rapelay. Please do correct me if I'm wrong.

sociogm
Post Time : May 13,2009 12:39 am

Sorry to double post but I also wanted to say that even though I don't care for a game  thats whole concept is humiliation of women and young girls (wich I find gross) I think as an American we have no right to judge what any other country does  or police what they do or how they play.

Hyuk replied at 12:58 am May 13,2009
You get the point :)
sociogm
Post Time : May 13,2009 12:36 am

I know a lot of people will disagree with me, but I think Lieing is the worst crime of all. I say that because we all know a theif will steal. We all know a killer might kill, so we know what to expect, a rapeist will rape but we never ever know what a lair will do, they could do any of the above of they might just decieve you about who they are in general and  whatever they do when a liar that was your friend lies, its always cutting and its most common.

 

Zanpakutou
Post Time : May 12,2009 9:54 pm

no one would dare to ban videogames in japan. videogames is a huge industry there as the statistics for wii and DS sales show something like 1 in 5 japanese own either a nintendo wii or DS. the nintendo wii promotes healthy eating and dieting as well in japan through delivery food services that keep track of what you've ordered from where recently. banning videogames would close down Akihabara (famous for electronic goods in Japan) and a majority of the Japanese industry. without videogames, Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo, Sega, Konami, Koei, Square-Enix, Bandai Namco, and Nippon Ichi Software would all close in Japan. if Japan can take such a hit to its economy, well i'd say they should be doing better than the rest of the world right now. keep in mind in this country, if they release Final Fantasy XIII on a weekday, you can expect people to miss work and school to line up the week before. on top of that, congratulations, you just created a triple international crisis in 1 stroke (currency, electronic goods, censorship). good job!

SkyFisher
Post Time : May 12,2009 6:51 pm

I like how people how the people who usually say "wha?? shooting games dont encourge violence!" are now saying "ban this piece of crap because it promotes rape"

Obviously Rapelay completely dehumanizes women to the point where they are "rape-able objects," but if you are going to ban this game for promoting the mistreatment of women, then you might as well ban porn (which can also lead to sexual violence and the view that women are objects)

I am not condoning the content of Rapelay but i believe this game has a right to be on the market along with all the other shooting/fighting/adult games people play

Seriously, do you really think the headlines "JAPANESE GOVERNMENT BANS VIDEO GAME" would really help its public image?

regaldeath
Post Time : May 12,2009 6:28 pm

this is sick but some people will rape in real life but put games on the market they will see how it is and not want to do it no more but it is horribly sick but you have to think their will still be rapest even if there is a game

ninetailboy
Post Time : May 12,2009 3:20 pm

THIS IS GAME IS HOT THEY SHOULD RELEASE IT D:< to like 18and older People

pedrofsky
Post Time : May 12,2009 2:33 pm

cool, i've allways wanted to play a rape game.

minix2poo
Post Time : May 12,2009 12:14 pm

.... its already 3years ago that this game was released in japan.... and since then there are around 500+ hentai game titles released in japan every year.... i guess around 20%+ of it has rape as a content of its storyline. So i guess just forcing Illusion to stop making that type of games wont change nothing. But if you force Hentaigame developers to stop making that kind of games, you have to force the Adultvideo industry to stop making videos with raping content too. And in this case japan is not the only county making those kinds of videos.... western nations are on the same boat.  And btw... the crimerate in Japan is still lower than in all westerncountries.

AkatsukiSwordmaster
Post Time : May 12,2009 12:01 pm

Its just a game..it does not matter if some japanese person made it. Like some of the comments I see is more sick than this game will ever be.

Pliplop
Post Time : May 12,2009 9:37 am

I would actually promote this game as much as possible in a country like Japan, where such rapes happen a lot in real life.
I am against rapes, but promoting this game would actually mean those guys that rape women in real life or are thinking about it, could get their needs without ever touching a woman.
Which would mean that there actually would be less rapes.
Ofcourse put an 18+ age restriction on it to lessen the chance of kids playing it.
And hope the parents do their job untill the kids r 18+

hieuthanden
Post Time : May 11,2009 8:48 pm

Infact, many young guys will do the same things in real life after thay played the game. When they played the game. somehow they'll wanna do such things in real life to feel it, to taste it and such things will leads to crime.

Sick game!

ThinkingBlaze
Post Time : May 11,2009 6:54 pm

Zanpakutou
Post Time : May 11,2009 3:34 pm

i don't know about you, but chances are trains in a heavily populated region like say tokyo and new york, some accidental touching is bound to happen. of course this means rule 34 is in effect. no question asked.

"Equality Now" itself is a redundant and useless organization. from what i hear, RapeLay has been out for YEARS. thats right YEARS. nearly 3 years by now and they haven't cared. as "serious" as they are, they practically don't care. as far as the information i can gather, all adult themed games released in english list the characters involved as 18 and usually depict them as so. that means no underage nonsense law can be enacted against them without doing it to the entire global pornography network. this is also one of the lighter themed ones, if you go back about 15 years, America is just as guilty of this as anyone else. "Equality Now" is more like "Equality Late". the American movie industry ALLOWS rape and murder on TV and ALLOWS GTA to exist. they need to stop being hypocrites if they want to be taken seriously. waiting 3 years to respond to something is NOT reasonable. you're as good as breaking the laws that prevent you from retrying them for past crimes. the ESRB is responsible for this not some random group of people who don't care.

codiemorgan
Post Time : May 11,2009 3:21 pm

bigcheesuk said:  "I wonder what they got planned next? a fucking children game? sickos"

Illusions's Subsidary, "Teatime" , have produced such a game. THey also have beach related sex games wich include teenagers, and a "schoolgirl" hentai game.

Actually , ANYTHING you can think of does exist by verious developers.

Its known as "LOLICON" and it is a rather popular genre in the Japanese Hentai Market.

 

MMOsearching
Post Time : May 11,2009 1:53 pm

And one more thought to consider:

 

It is arbitrary and purely a matter of opinion, to say that rape is the most heinous crime of all. I think that murder, the taking of another life, is the worst crime of all. Yet killing is in an overwhelming number of video games and has become so commonplace, that it's almost trivial.

 

People are entitled to their thoughts, and we may hold our own stances against things like this, but what I don't understand is the commotion around seeing something like this. Just simply think to yourself that it's stupid, and move on.

MMOsearching
Post Time : May 11,2009 1:47 pm

If there's a market for it, then it'll sell.

 

Let people virtualize and imagine whatever they want --- I see no point in attempting to restrict or getting "riled up" over something as impossible to control as someone's thoughts or fantasies.

Zelix
Post Time : May 11,2009 1:00 pm

"player to simulate sexual violence against virtual females, including stalking girls on trains."

PedoBear win, developers fail.

Kurobuki12
Post Time : May 11,2009 12:37 pm

Wow, apparently thousands upon thousands of fan porn themed under guro (sexual multilation) , straight shota/lolicon (illegal sex), and other fetishes obscure to Western audiences is ignored just this is interactive.

Surely this doesn't show ignorance of fantasy and/or a lesser sense of reality than the people they're "protecting" people from as plenty of licensed games show much more horrible examples of fantasy rape (like demon on nun) but just because you click more means its the most disgusting you have ever heard of.

With that I say watch Asagi or Fetish Club before you think this is anything to worry over, and comics like St.Margaret or Oh My Dog if you think that's even the fartest it can go.

momocowwy
Post Time : May 11,2009 12:31 pm

they act like we dont have anything like that here >.> -cough- grand theft auto -cough- the game where u can pay a hooker to get busy w/ u in the  bak of ur car then kill her and talk her money o-o but i ain't complaining luff grand theft auto

rapelay not so much ._.

Zombeau
Post Time : May 11,2009 10:13 am

This is sick.

There is violence in video games, but this is specific and one of the worst crimes against women.

Purely, disgusting.

Hyuk replied at 8:59 pm May 12,2009
Funny thing is even in Japan, females don't think "hentai" games offensive, maybe they are made just for a small particular group, and considering AV is legal and popular in Japan, rape related games seem like no big deal. (i'm not trying to vindicate hentai games btw)
Bruce+Lee
Post Time : May 11,2009 9:19 am

The fact that is a videogames gives me no concern. Videogames have lots of crime enabled things in it. Murder, Theft, Hostaging, and this, which is Rape. How is it sick to have crimes in a videogame lol its fake.

Invasion
Post Time : May 11,2009 9:16 am

 All the radiation back from WWII got into their heads.

Hyuk replied at 8:53 pm May 12,2009
LOL
DukeMagus
Post Time : May 11,2009 7:13 am

indeed sick

 

however, if a japanese perv can rape a digital girl rather than a real one, give him this game and save a lady...

 

i rally don't care what do u do in games... i myself kill innocent zombies and demons everyday (atlantica online player). what i do know i that when i'm furious, i smash things in the games and not in real life...

bigcheeseuk
Post Time : May 11,2009 4:27 am

I wonder what they got planned next? a fucking children game?

sickos

Hyuk replied at 8:48 pm May 12,2009
they've already made hundreds of them so far...
bigcheeseuk
Post Time : May 11,2009 4:25 am

sick sick sick sick sick

maybe they should let the game producers get raped by bull queers in prison? maybe they would be less keen on creating a "rape" game

Hyuk replied at 8:47 pm May 12,2009
to be honest, I don't exactly feel uncomfortable about these games any more since I realize this hentai thing is their humble hobby, which is quite common in Japan...