Why do you say "pedo"? If they were supposed to be underage boys, they'd have eyes like manhole covers.
Trust me on this, I read lots of yaoi.
Gay.
This isn't necessarily out of the ordinary in terms of Japanese games. Girlfriend dating simulators abound (X-Play has done a few funny segments about them), and pachinko and puzzle games often reward players with weird naked Anime guys and girls. Thank goodness touch-screen technology can help the thriving perv-eractive genre reach new frontiers.
And, uh, Brad? Not reviewing this.
@1 Seconded.
It's really not pedo. The Japanese are not shy about their love of child pornography, and their attempt to make it sound respectable is strikingly similar to the American attempt. Manga that involves underage boys is called "bishounen ai," which translates into, "boy love."
If the Japanese wanted this to be pedo, they'd call it something that translates into "Sweaty Hairless Boy Rape," and you'd play the role of a third grade gym coach giving eight year olds rub downs, and the cartridge would come complete with a canister filled with the smell of sweaty elementary school boys that sprayed out every time you got a thousand points. In other words, they wouldn't be subtle about it.
For God's sake, we're talking about a country where venerated legislators argued passionately against a ban on child pornography, claiming it was an assault on free speech.
This, this is merely very, very gay, and aimed at girls and boys who like their boys femme.
"Why doesn't he have any nipples?"
Umm... yeah.
I think I'd rather just watch XTube.
Yaaaaaaaawn....
I'd rather watch YouTube videos of Eydie Gorme singing.
Meh. At least the dating simulators have a variety of minigames in them. This seems like it would get boring fast.
Eh. Nothing different from games that are basically constructed to please horny young boys. This is, if anything, a step forward ... finally, gay and girl nerds, rejoice.
Droplets of sparkling boy dew?
I really need to get away from the computer. Now.
@1 and @3 are correct. And dating sims of manga and anime have even been done as flash - there are tons of them.
The eye size is critical. For example, one way you can tell a two-foot tall tween vampire is actually an adult in mange and anime is that she has small eyes. Dead give away.
Manga conventions were developed mostly half a century ago and have a lot of encoded meaning that newcomers may not understand.
The interesting thing about the whole Japanese boy-love phenomena is how popular it is among girls/women. Certainly we have slash here in the US, but it's much less known in the mainstream and doesn't have the acceptance of yaoi in Japan.
Which is worse? This or the new "Dancing With the Stars" Wii game that's just been released?
And yet if I wanted to wipe the sweat off of Sailor Moon, I'd be arrested...
only the one in the basketball jersey looks underage. the rest are around 18 lookin' and the one in the sleeveless robe is rather ... interesting.
Actually, if I have my facts straight, the age of consent in Japan is only 13, so ALL of them are of legal age.
@ #4: Actually, "shounen-ai", or "boy love" stories can feature characters of any age group; it generally refers to non-explicit stories. "Yaoi" is more hardcore. Yaoi or shounen-ai involving underage boys is called "shota-con". All of these stories tend to feature "bishounen", or beautiful boys (many would more properly be called "biseinen", beautiful men, but "bishounen" has become kind of an umbrella term). And all of these things are aimed primarily at women and girls.
Yes, I am a major geek girl.
I was going to post an actual comment, but couldn't figure out a way to work 'manhole eyes' and pedo video games into a sentence without hating myself afterwards.
I never got into sex games. Why do that when you can go screw real women (and hairless girly men if you so please)? I guess you can't get STDs from the DS (yet).
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