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  • Status report (2010/05)   3 hours 15 min ago

    I would gladly buy it if I could read the fucking thing! Which is what the translation would let me do.

  • This loser is you: the appeal of netorare   11 hours 39 sec ago

    Ah, netorare. Try Yuzuku N Dash's "Another World" then. You can try looking it up in FAKKU.

  • An open letter to CNN by Nogami Takeshi   1 day 15 hours ago

    that one is great,thanx.

  • This loser is you: the appeal of netorare   3 days 1 hour ago

    Why is it that the guy who's basically forced to watch and endure the love interest ever get revenge? It's always a depressing theme where the male protagonist is basically all crying or emo or whatever. It just ends there and we never see something different, doesn't matter if the guy finds the douchenozzle and beats the crap out of him, or find a way to get back at the girl. But maybe in that sense it wouldn't really be classified as Netorare if the protagonist is more decisive and exacts a plan of revenge or justice, instead they're forced to be a whiny bitch and absorb the trauma.

  • This loser is you: the appeal of netorare   1 week 1 day ago

    Fuck.

  • The minori controversy: are VN translators no better than narutards?   1 week 2 days ago

    You don't know what you're talking about. Copyright law applies essentially internationally (at least accross all countries that are parties to the Berne convention, to one of the Universal Copyright Conventions or to the TRIPS agreement). It is perfectly possible for Japanese rightholders to sue American pirates before a US court.

  • About   1 week 2 days ago

    In Japanese, I don't feel the need to make excuses for the contents of this blog, so this leaves some room for other stuff.

  • About   1 week 2 days ago

    I wonder why you don't have any information about yourself on this page, but go into some detail about your personal experiences in your Japanese page.

  • The minori controversy: are VN translators no better than narutards?   1 week 4 days ago

    Japan's copyright can only be enforced in Japan. If you pirate distribute a game outside Japan from a server outside Japan and you are living outside of Japan and are NOT a Japanese citizen, the Japanese legal system can't touch you. While your actions may be wrong, and punishable by law inside Japan, the jurisdiction of Japanese law ends at the Japanese border. This means if I'm in the US and I redistribute a Japanese game the Japanese police can't come marching into the US and arrest me. And if the Japanese company issues a lawsuit, if you are in the US you are under no obligation to show up in Japanese court, and are under no obligation to pay. Scream profanities in anger as the Japanese companies and courts might, they can't touch you in the US because of the legal aspect known as jurisdiction which ends at a country's border.

  • This loser is you: the appeal of netorare   2 weeks 2 days ago

    That sounds like an amazing doujin.

    Also sounds like most of Black Dog's Sailor Moon doujinshi... the males are always, ALWAYS fat old men (or in a couple of cases, fat ugly monsters). At least they're well drawn...

  • Just another truce   3 weeks 6 hours ago

    I like what a former Canadian prime minster said: "What a man does with his penis in the privacy of his own home is his business." Although he was refering to gays, I think in this case, it's appropriate.

  • Just another truce   3 weeks 7 hours ago

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  • This loser is you: the appeal of netorare   3 weeks 6 days ago

    There have been a shitload of netorare doujinshi recently. I have noticed that it is common now for the "Stealer" to be ugly, old, fat or all of the above. A To Love Ru doujin I read was all about how the fat ugly old dude(who looked like moe from the three stooges) rapes Lala, Haruna, Yami, and Rito's his sister. Then, at the end, they send rito a message saying they "Don't need him anymore". It closes with us finding out rito has gone insane mostely just sits in his room fapping to sex tapes they send him.

    Yeah man, yeah.

  • An open letter to CNN by Nogami Takeshi   8 weeks 2 days ago

    [...] encouraged a bunch of eroge loving anti-American commies to come out of the woodwork to praise the open letter penned by Mr. Nogami Takeshi. Let me make this abundantly clear: I am American and probably of the least popular sort since I am [...]

  • An open letter to CNN by Nogami Takeshi   8 weeks 3 days ago

    "Don't like it? Sue me."
    That is the American way! Americans use the law to sue those they think they can make profit from, or a company they want to see bankrupt. Why not talk about it and make compromises? Why not be fair to other people?

    US people got weird standards when it comes to law. Though, with most ideas behind the laws I have to agree, it's just they always take it a step to far, just a restriction more won't hurt.
    It might be a bit extreme, but aren't they just like nazi Germany in the past. Can't they learn from history, from mistakes in the past? They both prohibited the use of something by a certain group of people. I suggest to that god-forgotten country of freedom, which likes to start wars, to start bombing the European counsel first, because next door to it is the Manneken Pis, Belgium famous landmark (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manneken_Pis)!

  • The minori controversy: are VN translators no better than narutards?   8 weeks 3 days ago

    Isn't Funimation a compagny who copy/record Japanese anime from the Japanese tv, or steal from fansubs? And then license those under their own name, sell them and make huge profit? Isn't that legal piracy? (if piracy ever can be legal...) And I think that Funimation is from the US as well.

    The random translators in other countries then the intended target country do much work what the devs didn't.

    Media attention should be positive and not negative. Positive as in more attention to the product so more people buy it. Negative as in should it be allowed for my husband? Or would my kids steal the game disc and install and play the ero game... Tada new laws: no

  • Manga Pal and more at Epitanime   9 weeks 18 hours ago

    "I hope fellow French bloggers will still have time to pass it over to their own readership."
    >> I don't think so, only a few french bloggers are interested in this kind of products.

  • Manga Pal and more at Epitanime   9 weeks 1 day ago

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  • Explanation of the hijitsuzai reform proposal (1/3)   10 weeks 1 day ago

    Good for Sony! The issue is not porn. People should be restricted on the content they can access. What should and should not be accessed needs to be left to the individual.

  • Nagato Yuki no shoushitsu   10 weeks 2 days ago

    But Nagato probably knew that her future self would be restored. At least by deduction (and using the paradox theory). Since the time-traveling adult Asahina-san was there (and she couldn't exist in the future if the world had remained altered), it could be deduced that the world would be restored somehow.

    And whether Nagato can remember or not, we don't know. When she was restored by her future self, only her biology was altered. But her memories remain. How exactly the "time overwriting" works is not explained in the novels (let's also remember that IDTE interfaces are immune to time alteration as they gather all information) . I'll give her the benefit of the doubt.

    Also, it's Kyon who believes she's not her real self. But can consciousness cease to exist if an event in time is altered? I don't think so.

    Another factor to take into account is the Escape program. Just as in Dan Simmons' HYPERION, the farcasters served a dual purpose (harvesting human processing power for the Techno core AIs), perhaps the Escape Program Nagato designed harvested her own memories, communicating with her past self just before (or after) the restoration of the world.

    Whatever the mechanism, there is a way for us to know that at least, she COULD remember.

  • The Witches of the Sphinx: doujinshi goes global   10 weeks 3 days ago

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  • The Witches of the Sphinx: doujinshi goes global   10 weeks 6 days ago

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  • This loser is you: the appeal of netorare   11 weeks 2 days ago

    what ive come across while reading this genre is less focus on the actual protagonist or the normal guy and more on the corruption of the female lead and her abandonment to her responsibilities and her emotions. and this is probably the most well written piece on porn lol

  • Status report (2010/05)   11 weeks 4 days ago

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  • Wrapping up the Google story and some more legalese   11 weeks 5 days ago

    If the problem became pervasive enough that Japanese could not browse Japanese sites, perhaps a new search engine would become more popular.