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A request:

Fans of visual novels/erotic games prefer to call them visual novels/galge/eroge as do the companies of the respected titles. The terms 'H-game' and 'hentai games' are not acceptable and are a creation of western misunderstanding. Thus I request that the news entry may be corrected as your site is very influential and it may bring even more misunderstanding to the uneducated crowds.

The reason companies prefer to use these longer winded terms when referring to something is that it makes it sound more important, very much in the same way that toilet paper became bathroom tissue and shell shock became post traumatic stress disorder and a stewerdess became a flight attendant,

The major companies and online and offline media are using these fluffier terms to draw more consumers/readers.

Personally, I think we should just throw out all of the fluffly language all together and replace it with the old, jagged language, but some people are just afraid of their own language and how others perceive them when they use the rougher side of it.

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If I could point this out, yes, what you suggested is what the general fans and companies prefer to call them, though the general public would most likely refer to them as ecchi-games (H-games) or hentai (perverted) games, which is basically what they are.

Now over time certain titles (such as Air and Kanon) remove the H parts from the games, thus turning it into nothing more than a dating sim with a very good storyline, in which case people would most likely cal it a galge, though the general populous may still refer to it as an H game.

Just because a few fans don't like it being called that doesn't mean everyone else will stop calling it that, and since most people are more familiar with H-game or hentai-game, and since that is what they tended to produce, it would be more effective to call it that.

Daemonblue wrote:

Now over time certain titles (such as Air and Kanon) remove the H parts from the games, thus turning it into nothing more than a dating sim with a very good storyline, in which case people would most likely cal it a galge, though the general populous may still refer to it as an H game.

Har har har. Go learn what are renai, junai, kichiku, naki, nuki, otome, and the symbolic meanings of cockroaches, flies, and larva. Don't even try to comment on the history of Japanese adult gaming without these prerequisite knowledge.

A request:

You know, writers of certain circles all follow the same manual of style. The congregate of AnimeNewsNetwork.com writers and editors should by all means have at least an agreed list of commonly used words. Hopefully 'visual novels' would be on it. But this list shouldn't just end with that. I can almost swear that I saw the word 'hentai' mentioned on the site at least a year ago when there was the "Anime Equals Hentai" scandal even though I seldom saw the use of the term 'adult anime' before and after. Contrary to popular belief, the word 'hentai' is not appropriate for marking sexually explicit anime. 'Seinen anime', even 'eroanime' are used in Japan instead.
In any case, if such a list of commonly used words does exist (even if it's just in the heads of ANN's editors), it needs to be revised, especially for some of the more controversial terms that were mentioned in this topic.

That's taking it a tad bit far, the main problem with "H-Game" is that a "visual novel" doesn't have to be hentai. Hell, some "H-games" aren't even dating sims or visual novels.

While all of your other arguments are valid crilix, discluding hentai in reports is going a bit too far since it been used to identifiy erotic anime for a while so I don't see it disappearing...anyone know how long its been used?

While it is an erotic anime (one erotic scene per OVA episode) it is like any other school romance.