There is no point pleading with localizers they are woke as meth heads,trying to please everyone but really pleasing no one!Catering to the dumbasses of twitter about fanservice,they have no problem serving sex men for ladies and gay guys but a sexy women they act holier-than-thou to the guys and girls gay or not people are not please with them and majority of them deserve the heat they're getting!

Have you heard of king of fighters because can make a video of what kof orochi saga was based on

Just go to new tech to avoid the ScrewTube algorithm

This month's pack was super delicious. Can't wait for the next!

I don't like censorship, especially in video games. It's funny to me that Japan heavily censors gore and violence while we in the "west" censor sexual stuff. And yet, Last of Us 2 got a free censorless ride, despite pretty much deserving an A rating from the ESRB. Hmm...

Paris agrees. XD

Aphrodite was no virgin

r/woosh

​@@emberhermin52Virgin mindset.

How _do_ you get a Japanese Nintendo ID though?

@@Haaalp By simply open an japanese Nintendo account?

@@Haaalp Go to the official Nintendo website and sign up for an account. Put in all the information like you'd normally would but make sure to set the country/region of origin to Japan. You will need a different email account to use since only one Nintendo account can be linked to any particular email. Once you're submitted and later activated the account then you can link it to a profile on your Switch.

@@alfredojones1330 Oh, I see! Well, I *do* have one throwaway email that I almost never use... Thanks!

@@Skywolfhd20 The Switch isn't region locked so it should work just fine. My copy of Mario Odyssey is the European version and it works just fine. I'd imagine that as long as you play it on a North American Switch with a North American account it should automatically set itself to English. Even if it doesn't you can probably bumble your way into the options menu and change the language settings there.

That video is great too! 😆

Feels like a stretched interpretation, since the term, "coming out" is a specifically English idiom, and even if there is a moden Japanese equivalent, it still wouldn't apply to ancient Japanese folklore.

@@oPHILOSORAPTORo But if there's a thing the Japanese love, it's puns.

That's some peak leftist parody there. "May I thrust again?"

What's a little awkward though is that Izanagi and Izanami are siblings, so it's more like they're consenting to incest. But then again, famous Greek mythological couple Zeus and Hera were siblings too and many other gods in other pantheons had similarly incestuous unions... I guess God-incest was OK for ancient peoples or something?!?!? :P

@@JZBai yeah, incest in religions like this are treated kinda differently than humans. Like less of literal brother and sister with same blood and upbringing and more of powerful forces that sprung from the same origin combining...but there also was a lot of incest trying to keep bloodline purity for certain families in real life history so maybe not

On the flip side, Shinto still pushes for patriarchal sexism: In the myth, Izanami was the first to seek consent with Izanagi being the one who gave it, and because there's apparently a universal law in place that says that women shouldn't take the lead, this resulted in the child of their first union, Ebisu, being born without bones as punishment for Izanami's impropriety. Not until Izanagi became the one instigating their unions did their children start be born healthy.

I'd say yes. I hope that the prude puritans will choke on marshmallows.

@@lunatic0verlord10 May their socks always curl up in their shoes.

@@nickster5207 Hopefully that makes them trip down the stairs.

Depends on your religion

I doubt it. I have never heard of Japanese religious practices requiring the showing of the goddess with her breasts out. And it wouldn't matter, given other religions consider it sacrilege to show the breasts of a goddess, as it is considered desecratory to a sacred image.

oye, don't talk about things you don't understand. Localizing is necessary for things to make sense, otherwise you get google translate like subs or dubs. You have to interpret on some level or otherwise it won't make sense, cause, newsflash, japanese and english are 2 entirely different languages. And stop spewing on about "ideology" and "censorship". Stop pretending like the worst case scenario is the norm. And no, localization won't cause a diplomatic crisis.

I guess that's one of the reason why Japanese people don't trust foreign people too much. Intentionally or not, this isn't the first time Japanese culture was "butchered" and I am pretty sure that this isn't the last time either. Of course, the argument goes both ways and Westerners should be wary of how Japanese people treat Western stories and myths (except when it involves parodies, self-inducing jokes, using Western fantasy settings as medium, or taking it to eleven).

My man, keep being a hero.

​@@ProjektTakuI hope you're choking on your words with all the localization controversy happening right now.

@@jcly96 lol no, the only "controversy" is being made by people who have no idea about the purpose of localization. And I bet to you those people have probably watched heavily edited anime and enjoyed it, like with DBZ. If you think whatever's happening now is bad, then you would have a heart attack at 90s or even 2000's anime localization's.

There's a lot more than mere cleavage (which is specifically the space between the breasts) going on in that game art.

Again, it was western audience perspective about how they see.

they aren't protecting children. they are protecting the 'adults' that never grew up. the ones that scream about sexualizing women while demanding you subscribe to their onlyfans.

Smh

@@johnny_boi5456 you mean muslim coloniser audience??? WHy should they care???

The one time divine intervention from a God would've been helpful.

We care not, we westoids have the True God, Todd Howard on our side and his hallowed son, John “Maker and unmaker of Realities” Romero.

Booba sustains *life*

Booba is love, Booba is life.

Tetas son la salvación de la humanidad.

It is something that should be considered sacred.

As an artist whose drawn a fair share of anatomy. Booba is not bad

Also speaking of "Be careful what you change", the idea that Amaterasu saw Herself in the mirror and realized her value is... wrong. That is from a very, VERY modern reinterpretation of the tale, largely through western influence, in an attempt to make the sun goddess seem less fickle and jealous. Which is a HUGE part of her character. What she saw in the mirror? Well, the point of the merriment was that they were trying to pull a con. The cheering and merriment and partying was all in celebration of a New god ascended... at least, that's what they Said it was. The trick being that when they got Amaterasu to come outside, she'd see herself in the mirror and think it was the new god in question, and move to confront them. They even played to the idea that the replacement god was better and more powerful than she was. The whole event was a masterclass in manipulation, play to Amaterasu's unstoppable jealousy, unstoppable confrontational nature, and of course, unstoppable bi-icon Horny. Ain't no bonk stick in the cave. Anyway, with Amaterasu having left the cave to confront the "replacement" god in the mirror, she was sufficiently duped into nearly starting a fight with... herself. And of course, in the time it took for her to do this, the other gods quickly slammed the cave shut and sealed it behind her, so she couldn't run back INTO the cave when the jig was up. The whole "Seeing her own inner true beauty" is a VERY late rewrite, again, with a lot of western influence thrown in from when Japan was desperately trying to integrate with the imperialist expansionists of Europe. And yes, one could say that the rewrite is still old and culturally significant in its own way, but the reality is that the original writing tells us about the Language used as well as the Culture of the time in which it is written, so rewriting it and claiming the rewrite is the original canon sort of erases that entire period of history. So in much the same way as we should be wary of any Norse mythology that claims Loki's always been there(he only ever shows up VERY late in writings, and only once the Christians got involved, and never, EVERY appears in earlier stories), or of stories that claim Hades was always a part of Greek mythology(again, very, VERY late addition, seriously, Hades in mythology is far newer than Persephone, which herself Predates the Hellenistic greeks and everything they wrote, which, for those who know the story of Hades and Persephone, already is making your eye twitch), we should be wary of these late rewrites and how they obscure what history ACTUALLY is like. A story written is a time capsule, one that tells you about the language of the people who wrote it, the language of the audience they wrote it for, and the culture of both. Rewriting these stories for "modern sensibilities" erases those very, very important marks of history, especially if you then try and erase the existence of the existing story by claiming the new one was the "twue" one all along.

Just to make sure...are her melons highlighted in that game?

Yes that's where I know her from!

She's also a good mid-game Persona in Persona 5.

Have you _seen_ Modern Western Art? We've totally Lost the Plot.

Art is made to launder money in the modern west. Thank the banking cartel.

Calling something art doesn't justify it.

@@GreyWolfLeaderTW ?

​@@GreyWolfLeaderTWQuit being a prude.

And let's not forget the "Granfaloon" boss; in the Japanese version of the game, its name is *legion* , after the demon/s Jesus expelled from the man into the pigs; the name's only *appropriate* , since it's a gigantic ball of *bodies* . But *nope* , they changed it to the *ridiculous* sounding "Granfaloon". *Ridiculous* .

Yeah I've had a few people tell me the English releases of the Castlevania series are "basically fanfiction" because of stuff like this, and apparently the massively romanticized dialogue in the English versions trying super hard to make every single bit of text or talking as needlessly theatrical as possible.

@@ezrafaulk3076 I mean.... Granfaloon comes from Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle, and it's basically a legion

@@kaistephens2694 but that just makes the name change even *more* ridiculous because it's *pointless* .

the Orlok to Olrox change could have had to do with copyright at the time??? or someone in the translation team misread a note. idk man.

Hate to tell you this those are the same people that are ok with pride parades where people will literally expose their bodies out to the world. It's like they are trying to hide who they are for some dumb reason vs embracing it?

Aye, well said!

to be fair this has been happening since the 4kids days of anime.

That's... actually pretty true.

If I had to guess, it's because of the A for Adult rating.

Actually. Because of the last Japanese prime minister. Japan had to censor their own stuff even more.

@@ArcCaravan Not really, GTA and CDPR have shown full nudity and sex scenes in their games and nobody really made a controversy. Their only saving grace was that they didn't render male genitals during said scenes (But they did render the female genitals).

It's probably due to the fact that people find it offensive on how women are oversexualized or something. That would be my guess.

@@AngraMainiiu Factually false. You forget the Hot Coffee Controversy, which actually resulted in the ESRB re-rating GTA: San Andreas with an Adults Only Rating until Rockstar went in and took out the partially finished sex scene (which the Hot Coffee mode merely enabled since it was in the game's code and Rockstar conviently didn't tell the ESRB "oh, by the way, there is this disabled sex scene mode in the game's data). People got upset about the matter because Rockstar effectively lied by omission to the ESRB.

Agreed

A gaijin day to watch some goombah good

That right there is the problem with our society in America: Most people can't get it in their heads that partial/full nudity is only intimate if it's shown that way and there is a difference between the Thinker and an actual image of nude man "in the act" with another male or female when it comes to the exposure of the human form or there's a difference between Ame's uncensored appearance compared to a swimsuit model showing her body in a Playboy.

I wonder how and when Occidental cultures developed a distaste and reservation for such notions? At a glance, one could conclude that “Christianity and it’s consequences have been a disaster to humanity” but the christoids weren’t that cartoonishly prudish.

It's almost like corporations aren't anyone's friend and don't give a flying f about either humans or cultures but are actually just extensions of capitalism single-mindedly seeking to amass wealth regardless of whether they have to desecrate everything they touch in the process.

Honestly the way you say all that. It's really deep. Goes to show how far you've gone since the Pearlshipping TV days

i bet is more like a idea of what happen in the real mytho story, adapt to Okami story

I don’t get what the point of KZfaq making “KZfaq Kids” when they are constantly doing this monetization bullcrap

@@isaacyeon6334 I heard that some ElsaGate $h*# happened there and children find what is there boring

count me in

_East is East, and West is West_ _And never the twain shall meet._

Exactly right.

Facts

It was never a specifically "conservative" point historically (conservative as a term refers to conservation of culture, slow and deliberate change or reform in political matters or laws, or adhering to the status quo, and those are a universal trait found among all human cultures, Japan itself fits the definition of a *VERY* conservative nation by the standards of its own culture, let alone other countries), but rather a Christian one based in belief regarding the sanctity of the human body, made in the image of God. Now as for why it has become a wider issue, that is because of the radical feminist movement which has paradoxically become so obsessed with a radical egalitarian concept of equality, coupled with a Post-Modern concept of the Authentic Self, of being seen as the same as men and not merely equal in terms of equal punishment for identical crime, that anything seen as feminine has taken on this toxic "submissive" "inauthentic" connotation to them. We've seen this across multiple disciplines such as the "Fat Acceptance" movement and "Beauty is in the Eye of the Self" ethos surrounding it. Nintendo, as a company that has catered principally to families historically, doesn't care much to market its material to childless women who hold radical anti-feminine views.

@@GreyWolfLeaderTW I think common usage of the terms for politics have already been bastardized to the point that any definition that was established has long since lost it's meaning... Much like the term "literally" edit: the prudes who would have wanted to cover up the ladies have long since moved on to better jobs that the localization teams and the formerly giddy tit happy enjoyers 'grew up' and started covering their own shame.... which to often turned out to be their established character designs.

It's a capitalism thing. People at the company think the game is for kids, so they wanna maximize their potential profit by making sure as many parents as possible will buy it for their kids, and they don't wanna upset those parents, so they censor it.

Which become mute when in todays environment you have the internet and porno. And while I'll argue that they have somewhat of a point it's usually the extremists and abusers who push for this line of thinking.

Give it a few decades and this stigma, just like the Religion is came from, might have vanished.

Which would be alright if the same country didn't also put sex everywhere. Sexy women in bikinis are all over the place. Americans are so uptight about sex, and because they're uptight about it they see it as naughty, taboo, forbidden. And then advertisers capitalize on that forbidden naughty thrill. And of course it leads into a kind of feedback loop. People who are uptight raise kids and keep sexy stuff from them, the kids grow up prudes who are just as uptight if not more and what baffles me is American parents don't seem to want to teach their kids about sex, but they don't want the schools teaching them either. I guess they just hope their kids will figure it out somehow and they'll never have to deal with the subject. It's a very confusing culture.

Religious control has always had sway in people. Let's be real, it's less 'think of the children' but as you say at the end sin and religious belifet used to scare and control people into follow that mindset.

@@SuperAmaton No need to pin stigmas solely on religion. One does not equal the other.

By KZfaq's own logic, we should be threatening the ones we hate (which may or may not include the prudes that KZfaq seems to value) more often. I can't wait to see KZfaq's Surprised Pikachu face at the realization of what they've done once that happens.

They probably think threats are just cheap talk while "booba" can cause physical reactions. They likely don't care about what people who use their service do without it. A debateably logical conclusion that in reality is wrong.

@@lunatic0verlord10 Fat chance of that happening since they (in a bout of "stunning" hypocrisy) decided to demonitize Act Man's channel for something done off platform. Coincidentally they refused to take action on his appeals because the acts that the douche that shall not be named happened off of youtube's platform. Weird, that.

@@ArcCaravan They should all be put in a straight jacket. That is the most merciful thing I could ever give them.

@@CryoJnik And that's why I hate hypocrites.

Nnnah, I'd say you're very much playing the devil's advocate here: First of all, Susanoo being disregarded had most of all to do with the fact that he was the youngest child and thus had no claim to Takamagahara's throne. (And considering what a brat he was, he brought most scolding from both his parents and his siblings upon himself... I mean, he was basically a divine fratboy back in those days so, yeah, not really someone living up to his role and job as one of the top gods.) Secondly, you've _completely_ misunderstood the nature and conclusion of the challenge between him and Amaterasu: The challenge was, ostensibly, who could bring forth most gods. Amaterasu insisted that they should bring forth the gods using one of the other's items for this challenge, and Susanoo agreed to this: He gave Amaterasu his sword, Amaterasu gave him her necklace. From Amaterasu's necklace, Susanoo was able to bring forth five gods while Amaterasu was able to bring forth three goddesses from his sword. Susanoo thought (much like you, apparently) that he had won the contest because he had "created" more gods, but this actually just revealed his own lack of understanding of how the world works according to Shinto and what had just happened: Y'see, Shinto is animism, meaning that everything houses spirits. It's not that Susanoo and Amaterasu "created" five respectively three kami, it's that Amaterasu's necklace, simply by virtue of it belonging to her, had come to contain five kami that Susanoo was able to give separate existences outside of the necklace, while Susanoo's sword had only come to contain three kami for Amaterasu to bring into being. It's not that _Amaterasu_ said that she was more important than him, _the universe itself_ said that she was more important than him by way of how the things she wore came to house more kami than his belongings did... and, unlike Susanoo, Amaterasu understood this -- how the universe worked, how the creation of kami worked, and what her and Susanoo's places in the universe were... and then Susanoo, when he realized that he had actually lost, (and had contributed to his own defeat by demonstrating that Amaterasu's necklace contained more spirits than his sword did,) kinda just threw a tantrum... Amaterasu really is as innocent and pure and kind as she's made out to be... All that said, I personally prefer Susanoo... I mean, Amaterasu is practically Shinto's own Mary Sue. Susanoo, by contrast, has a story arc with character development, learning to stand up for and protect those who need protecting, acts of guile heroism, finding love and growing into a proper, mature and respectable man -- without fully losing his wild edge. He even makes peace with Amaterasu in a mature and symbolically significant way, once again giving her a sword, but this time not as part of a challenge to her authority, but as a gift to his sister and queen, as a way to beg her forgiveness, as proof of the growth he has gone through as a person, and as a token of his fealty.

Save for the fact the situation happens only once as opposed to a recurring situation with Persephone returning to her husband Hades, I could agree with the similarities.

It sounds more like an eclipse to me.

People only perceive them as "bad" if they hit the wrong places.

You still can.

Specifically among the rabid feminists, the part of the demonization of male sexuality would be particularly true, although it is most certainly not from Christianity, given they are Marxist ideologues who explicitly reject Christian views and beliefs. You apparently never studied Judeo-Christian views and beliefs, considering they call upon both sexes to wear proper, modest clothing, and for boys to steer clear of thoughts about women who they have not shared a wedding ring with and girls not to send mixed/wrong signals by dressing immodestly (am male, can point out girls are often oblivious to how male's sexuality is wired on visual cues) or try to seduce boys. People often forget that even in the earliest Hebrew religious traditions (from which Christianity is descended) males become spiritually impure through a variety of sexual means, including nocturnal emissions and not ejaculating inside his wife during intercourse, and males have to go through a ritual spiritual cleansing similar to a woman cleansing herself after her period. In neither case was it considered to somehow be a demonization of the male or female sexuality. From the story of Adam and Eve, they were naked in each others' presence and not ashamed, and Adam [carnally] knew his wife after being banished from the Garden of Eden and there was no sin in it or the creation of their offspring.

So my "puritanism" cracks really weren't that far off the mark?

Yup. And nowadays said demonization is coming from a certain movement which is represented by the symbol of Venus with a fist in the middle.

@@Chaos89P the new puritanism, started by the Social Purity Movement in the late 19th century, is behind this issue.

Christianity is against the taking of virginity outside of marriage. It's not anti male but rather it enforces responsibility of both men and women in sexual relationships and the children they have together.

It's not censorship it's called cultural values.