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- Sep 15, 2017
I guess having anyone below the age of 20 in your Japanese videogame is now problematic.
"What's problematic about all this is obviously the sexualization of these underage girls. Some of them are blatantly sexualized, some others are more subtle or only serve as a romantic option (like Futaba from Persona 5), and some others aren't sexualized at all (like Veronica from DQXI). "
This is fun because OP literally admits numerous characters they're using as examples don't belong but they went ahead and posted them anyways.
"only serve as a romantic option (like Futaba"
She's literally a party member and is datable by an MC whose only like a year older than her.
"I'm probably biased as I obviously haven't played most Japanese games out there, but I feel like the former 2 are more common that the last one. "
"I don't know what I'm talking about but I'm going to make this thread anyways"
"Especially if you think of games from smaller studios like Marvelous, Media Vision, Nippon Ichi, Compile Heart, Idea Factory, Gust, etc. "
I'm not a massive fucking weeb so I don't know every title these studios have produced but I'm willing to bet most of the characters in their games aren't children.
"Another problem is that how people tend to eat up whatever excuse the authors give to them. Like, if a character looks underage but the author says that she's actually a 1000 year old dragon, people just accept it like a fool. "
I too am shocked when people take fantasy things in a fantasy game seriously. Like c'mon dragons aren't real what are you an idiot?
"Simply put, I just find it silly and problematic that these child/childlike characters are somehow a must have trope in a lot of Japanese games. "
So I guess stop putting children and teenagers in videogames? That seems like a realistic scenario.
"Meanwhile if you compare it to Western games, they barely exist. Children are usually just some random NPCs or unimportant characters in there."
The Last of Us.
The Walking Dead.
God of War.
Heavy Rain (JASON).
Fallout/Elder Scrolls.
RDR2.
"Only Japanese games have children in them" is one hell of a hot take.
Even for ERA this is a thread that's especially unhinged because the OP just picks a bunch of characters at random half of whom aren't children or sexualized and then just starts ranting about how perverse Japan is and how mad seeing children in Japanese videogames regardless of how they're treated makes them.
"Sensitive topic" lol it's someone's angry Tumblr post made into a thread.
