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Japanese site blocks foreign viewers to "Defend Culture"

Category: Japan Game: Default Posted on Jun 24, 2009 2:16 am


Minori, developer of adult PC titles like Bittersweet Fools and Angel Type, is digging in to protect itself from an onslaught of viewers outside Japan. Those trying to access the Minori site outside Japan will be greeted with the following message:

This website cannot be browsed excluding Japan.
Some foreigners seem to be having an antipathy against EROGE.
Therefore, We prohibited the access from foreign countries, to defend our culture.
Sorry for you of the fan that lives in a foreign country.

Accessing the site from Japan poses no problems.

These recent defensive measures from erotic game makers come in the wake of the Rapelay controversy and subsequent rape game banning. Other measures include changing the titles of upcoming releases. (Reported by Kotaku.com)

comments ( 19 )

Folder
Post Time : Jul 09,2009 4:31 pm

Sigh"... the world is corrupt god dammit,stop putting a fake face and deal with the BIGGER ISSUES
EGO!!!!!
 

bigcheeseuk
Post Time : Jun 28,2009 9:01 am

was my comment removed?

hmmm maybe too controvertial but historically accurate

Yukimarii
Post Time : Jun 25,2009 5:49 pm

See, it's not blocked. xD

Yukimarii
Post Time : Jun 25,2009 5:49 pm

http://www.ijapan.org/red/index.php?q=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5taW5vcmkucGgvaW5kZXhfMDIuaHRtbA%3D%3D

 

Yukimarii
Post Time : Jun 25,2009 5:49 pm

http://www.ijapan.org/red/index.php?q=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5taW5vcmkucGgvaW5kZXhfMDIuaHRtbA%3D%3D

 

itsJUN
Post Time : Jun 25,2009 2:15 pm

To defend our culture...

 

LOL more like to defend our dirty minds that the rest of the world looks down on.

Uhhi
Post Time : Jun 24,2009 10:41 pm

I know for a fact, that that is one of dumbest reason I've ever heard for anything n my entire life. Defend culture? I may know that Japan makes eroge, and I don't know any other countries that make "erotic games", but come on! "Defend Culture"? I'd think that a website would come up with a more legit reason like: "The guys who made Rapelay ot whatever got bashed by America, so we don't want our asses bashed by America either. Get out." I would believed that WAY better than " Defend culture"...

sidfu
Post Time : Jun 24,2009 9:18 pm

sigh no one on this site bothers to get their facts right. japan has numerous rating companyies unlike usa that only has esrb. if one bans a type of game the others can always go to another rating compainy that doesnt bend to the retards from other countries who cant get their priotires straight

TygerRose
Post Time : Jun 24,2009 9:16 pm

To defend their culture from their OWN politicians wanting to shut them down? Yeah that makes total sense.

Its not people from the US or Europe wanting to shut yer ass down, its your own elected officals ya dumbass.

90000
Post Time : Jun 24,2009 8:35 pm

to defend their culture my ass.

Beetle+Rider
Post Time : Jun 24,2009 5:15 pm

Oh hell... they even used our .ph as their domain-something. Assuming that they're hiding something, using our country or somethin'!

Bruce+Lee
Post Time : Jun 24,2009 3:35 pm

That's what happens when ppl complain over videogames.

gulen
Post Time : Jun 24,2009 2:48 pm

im not suprised. it's even recorded in history, when japan didnt  want to open their trading ports (they had alot of good resources)  to foreigners in order to perserve their culture. i dont blame them.

momocowwy
Post Time : Jun 24,2009 2:36 pm

meh  i woulda done the same thing >.>  they can get rid of hentai when they can get rid of two girls one cup and god knows what else theyve been making on the interenet T.T;

ReaperV
Post Time : Jun 24,2009 9:02 am

I guess so much for freedom of expression... right? Yet it's O.K. for a redneck to go out, buy a shit-ton of guns, and then go kill wild animals to mount on a wall. Makes perfect sense... cause masterbation is much more harmful than driving a big-ass 4x4 and owning enough guns to take over a small country. Why the fk can't we have our perverted hentai games if we want to? Why don't the neo-nazi bible-beaters make websites with girls eating shit illegal and leave the cartoon porn for those that want it?

... oh, wait, I forgot that those are probably the daughters of a couple neo-nazis and of course everything their "children" do the parents have to support in an effort to show family unity, right?... how very "Christian"... 

(P.S. I actually LIKE 4x4s, guns, beer, and raised as a Christian... heck, I live in Texas... I kinda have to, but this shit is just going way too far. )

Drager00
Post Time : Jun 24,2009 6:36 am

Btw the ban has gone beyond rape game banning and changing titles of upcoming releases. Way beyond

Kerubin00
Post Time : Jun 24,2009 6:00 am

your forgot to write that they are also makers of Ef series and Wind -a breath of heart- which has also become anime....

and here's the site: http://www.minori.ph/

you can't enter it anyways unless your from Japan or useing proxy, but you can see the message they wrote above in hyuk's article

Hatsune_Miku
Post Time : Jun 24,2009 4:54 am

Things like this makes me so pissed for being an american. Uprightous pompus ****** don't know how to mind their business when it comes to things outside our territory.

On the other hand though, the IP ban wont stop those with proxies from going to Minori's site though. Fans will find ways if they really want to see upcoming titles from groups whom block access outside of Japan (like myself).

So proud to be an american.....pfft....yeah, right. <_<

Windi3
Post Time : Jun 24,2009 2:52 am

...no comment or i m gonna bash Japanese...may offend some ppl =X