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INTEREST: Crunchyroll Store: Hikari & Angewomon GEM Figure Cancelled in West; Not 'Child-Friendl

I can sort of see why they made the move, assuming they think the child-marketed brand of Digimon is much stronger than the adult market (which I assume has mostly moved on from the series), and they probably don't want the latter to adversely affect the former.

hat said, even though the Angewomon figure is eye-rollingly suggestive, the US comics industry has been appealing to both child and adult demographics for some years now, with animated cartoon series for the kids, as well as premium collectibles for adults. It's not unprecedented to have properties that can be adjusted to appeal across generations, though I'm guessing the Digimon licensors don't want to try and bridge that gap.

Parent groups. The same ones that exist in Japan and file BPO complaints that get PriPara censored or express concern about pig-ladies erotically eating bananas or late night anime having masturbation jokes.

octopodpie wrote:

Parent groups. The same ones that exist in Japan and file BPO complaints that get PriPara censored or express concern about pig-ladies erotically eating bananas or late night anime having masturbation jokes.

Are you seriously implying kids are going to put down their Minecraft long enough to show interest in otaku-aimed figures of a 15-year old show they, and by extension their parents, don't even know exists?

It's not parents' groups who are responsible for the recent trend of censorship in video games, for example.

I am so confused. So it's ok to market Digimon to adults in Japan, but not anywhere else? WTF is that about? I know Japanese culture has its differences from Western culture, but even Japan has child ethics. If it was the right holder's goal to market Digimon to kids then why ok that design in the first place? And I'm not even talking about he figure design, I'm talking about Angewoman's design in general. Whoever designed her and whoever ok'd her final design obviously didn't have children in mind. Whoever is in charge of Digimon is not very good at their job. Personally, I don't have a problem with its design. Most children wont understand what they are looking at, teens already know so there's no point in hiding it, and the adults that buy it obviously don't care about the design either.

Chrysostomus wrote:

octopodpie wrote: Parent groups. The same ones that exist in Japan and file BPO complaints that get PriPara censored or express concern about pig-ladies erotically eating bananas or late night anime having masturbation jokes. Are you seriously implying kids are going to put down their Minecraft long enough to show interest in otaku-aimed figures of a 15-year old show they, and by extension their parents, don't even know exists?

Octopodpie didn't imply that kids were actually interested. And I think you are seriously under-estimating Parents. My parents were well aware of all the cool "satanic toys", like Star Wars figures, well before my siblings and I were. They took "protecting" us very seriously. And I know a lot of other parents who are the same way.

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It's not parents' groups who are responsible for the recent trend of censorship in video games, for example.

Maybe not directly, in certain recent cases, but the threat of pressure from Parent's groups(and authorities in general) is largely what causes any of the self-censorship that we see. Most of these companies know that their fans hate censorship with a burning passion, they aren't doing it for them.