{"id":25637,"date":"2024-01-17T13:25:43","date_gmt":"2024-01-17T04:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=25637"},"modified":"2024-01-17T13:25:43","modified_gmt":"2024-01-17T04:25:43","slug":"20240117-25637","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20240117-25637\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Switch \u201chentai\u201d game influx shocks Japanese users\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Japanese <strong>My Nintendo Store<\/strong> users have been noticing an influx of 17+ rated Switch games that have the word \u201cHentai\u201d at the start of their title and appear to be using AI-generated graphics. Many users are taken aback by the jarring use of the word \u201chentai\u201d (which rings quite differently in Japan than in the West) and are questioning how these games are making their way to Nintendo\u2019s eShop.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"ja\" dir=\"ltr\">\u4efb\u5929\u5802\u304b\u3089\u304a\u524d\u306e\u30dd\u30a4\u30f3\u30c8\u6708\u672b\u3067\u6d88\u6ec5\u3059\u308b\u3067\u3068\u3044\u3046\u6848\u5185\u6765\u3066\u305f\u304b\u3089\u306a\u3093\u304b\u5f15\u304d\u63db\u3048\u308b\u304b\u3068\u4f4e\u4fa1\u683c\u30b2\u30fc\u30e0\u898b\u3066\u305f\u3089\u3001\u300cHentai Girls\u300d\u3063\u3066\u306e\u3092\u898b\u3064\u3051\u305f\u3093\u3060\u304c\u3001\u3048\u3048\u3093\u304b\u4efb\u5929\u5802 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6NJoplhOGg\">pic.twitter.com\/6NJoplhOGg<\/a><\/p>&mdash; \u660e\u65e5 (@576XL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/576XL\/status\/1719307334537892046?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 31, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>Post translation:<\/strong> <em>I got a notice from Nintendo that my points will be expiring at the end of this month, so I was looking at lower cost games, but came across \u201cHentai Girls.\u201d Nintendo, is this alright?\u00a0<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHentai Party,\u201d \u201cHentai Girls: College Crush,\u201d \u201cHentai Golf,\u201d \u201cHentai Girls: Office Romance\u201d \u2013 this is just a handful of the offending games that people have been coming across. Many of the titles appear to be puzzle games in which clearing increasingly difficult puzzles unlocks increasingly suggestive images of the female characters in various poses. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"ja\" dir=\"ltr\">Switch\u306eHENTAI\u3064\u3044\u3066\u308b\u30b2\u30fc\u30e0\u306e\u3053\u3068\u3092\u8003\u3048\u3066\u3044\u308b\u3002\u3042\u306e\u7d75\u306f\u307e\u308b\u3063\u3068AI\u306b\u63cf\u304b\u305b\u3066\u308b\u307f\u305f\u3044\u306a\u6bce\u9031\u306e\u69d8\u306b\u91cf\u7523\u3055\u308c\u3066\u308b\u6d77\u5916\u30b2\u30fc\u30e0\u2026<\/p>&mdash; \u307f\u307e (@absolute0masii) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/absolute0masii\/status\/1744937495098491252?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 10, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>Post translation:<\/strong><em> I\u2019m just thinking about those Switch games with \u201cHENTAI\u201d in their title. These foreign games are being mass-produced almost weekly and the illustrations look entirely AI-generated.\u00a0<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>These games (referred to as \u201cThe Hentai Series\u201d by users online) are not of Japanese origin, and can be found on the US My Nintendo Store as well. The publisher\u2019s description of the game \u201cHentai Girls\u201d lists \u201cHand-drawn Hentai art\u201d as one of its key features, along with the all-caps exclamation \u201cHENTAI IS ART.\u201d However, users, some of which have tried playing the games, have been commenting that the anime-style graphics look suspiciously AI-generated, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/atelicot\/status\/1746173741485482200?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">spotting some typical signs of AI art such as disfigured hands<\/a>. Judging from past titles, it would seem the series switched from hand-drawn art to AI-generated art at a certain point.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1354\" height=\"761\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1354px) 100vw, 1354px\" src=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image.png\" alt=\"&quot;Hentai Girls&quot; visual\" class=\"wp-image-25642\" srcset=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image.png 1354w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image-380x214.png 380w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image-600x337.png 600w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Most people seem to be coming across the games due to their price \u2013 the Hentai Series titles are often heavily discounted, with games normally costing $13 or so being available for little over a dollar. Judging from Japanese users\u2019 reactions, it seems that the game titles are what\u2019s shocking people, rather than the suggestive content, as the word \u201chentai\u201d doesn\u2019t have the same meaning in English and Japanese. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among English-speaking online users, the Japanese word \u201chentai\u201d has come to refer to anime-style mature content in the general sense, whereas in Japan, \u201chentai\u201d is a lot more directly associated with sexual deviance and sexual inclinations outside of societal norms, which could be why Japanese Nintendo store users were taken aback by the games in question.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese My Nintendo Store users have been noticing an influx of foreign 17+ Switch games that include the word \u201cHentai,\u201d and it hasn&#8217;t been received well. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":25640,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[67,17],"class_list":["post-25637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-ai","tag-japan-related-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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