Blue Footed Booby posted:

Dark Souls 2 has a filter like that. It censors sequences of letters in the middle of words, resulting in filtering "Persephone" to "Persep**ne" and "Knight" to "K***ht." I had to stare at that second one a while to figure out what had happened.

On top of this, the banned word list apparently includes "dog."


I asked some of my anime friends about this, and they say yaoi is generally targeted at girls, and yuri at grown-rear end men.

Additionally, it's seen as common and not unhealthy/abnormal for girls to go through a lesbian phase, but they're expected to grow out of it and date guys like grown-ups.

So yeah, the US appears to be ahead of Japan. Beyond that, though, Nintendo is...weird. Around about 2003 when Xbox Live had developed into a Big Deal, the president of Nintendo commented that online multiplayer was "a fad." Flash forward to the latest Smash Brothers game and Nintendo proudly described during interviews how if a connection is interrupted it will seamlessly replace your human opponent with an AI one. They said this as if it were a good thing that you can never know whether the come-from-behind victory you pulled was against a real person.

Point is, I have no goddamn clue whether Nintendo is representative of Japanese social mores as a whole, or if this is just another issue they're out of touch on.