Oh fucking boy, there's a lot to unpack here. Let's just get the 6 worst words to form a sentence out of the way first.
This and three other things (The packaging needing to be toned down over sexual content has also happened with games that don't involve characters that look like children being sexualized. Thankfully.) with similar descriptions, according to Spike Chunsoft. Were removed to "reduce content which could be interpreted as sexualization of characters depicted as minors," But that doesn't excuse the fact it shouldn't have been in the game in the first place.
But it gets worse! This isn't even the first time the Dangan Ronpa devs have released a game with pedo content!
Another Fucking Episode, which is conveniently nearing it's 5th birthday. Featured an entire segment devoted to a character that's an actual fucking child (For real, they don't even use the "she's really 100 years old!" excuse) molesting someone, which was intentionally played for fanservice! The fucking fight ends with the child's clothes getting sliced off too!
and that's not even the end of it. one child forcibly kissing another, someone calling a pedophile "cute" for admitting they are one.
("Fun" Fact: the girl trying to call her out? She is the one that slices the childs clothes off!)
The game is a fucking mess, yet i've seen so many people in the DR fandom defend it, claiming that the game is actually "against" child abuse.
Mind you, they've sold merch playing off that molestation scene as a cutesy character trait.
and even the official western Spike Chunsoft Twitter (I wanted to avoid posting images of the scene for obvious reasons, but it's clear that an exception needs to be made in this case.) joked about it a few years ago!
The worst part, for me at least. Was that i always thought it was Kazutaka Kodaka's fault for including the scenes in there, and that him leaving would mean that this shit would never happen again. But nope! They never fucking learned!
By the way, did you know that Kodaka is collaborating with Kotaro Uchikoshi (Zero Escape, the upcoming AI: The Somnium Files. Which is his last project at Spike Chunsoft.) to make another game about children?
There's no mention of the elements that made AE so awful being in the game yet, but i do not even remotely trust them.
I've talked about my really rough history with Dangan Ronpa on here, how AE completely fucked me up when it first launched after getting initially hyped for it, how i gained a genuine romantic attachment to Kiibo, Miu, and Ouma. (Which is exactly the same thing that happened with AE and Komaru!) But here we are, it's all happening again. The DR devs made more pedo shit, i've lost all of my attachment to those three characters, and the only difference is that i'm no longer a 15 year old kid who was previously hating the franchise for petty reasons.
I'm fucking tired. Don't be surprised if i just completely duck out of the internet for a few weeks. The THQ Nordic incident (Who has a company i previously highly respected before that thanks to their game preservation work.) was bad enough, but this makes that whole incident look like a joke!
Oh, and don't even start with the "Why is violence okay but sexualized children isn't!!!!" bullshit. You know who you fucking are, and you fucking know you're a pedophile for finding that shit arousing.
Edit: I almost forgot, here's proof that Zanki Zero is being marketed as being by the same team that made Dangan Ronpa.
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