{"id":49229,"date":"2025-06-20T01:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=49229"},"modified":"2025-06-19T15:19:23","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T06:19:23","slug":"nintendo-switchs-infamous-hentai-girls-series-gets-renamed-due-to-possible-shadowban-by-eshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/nintendo-switchs-infamous-hentai-girls-series-gets-renamed-due-to-possible-shadowban-by-eshop\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Switch\u2019s infamous \u201cHentai Girls\u201d series gets renamed due to possible shadowban by eshop"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Hentai Girls <\/strong>is a simple puzzle game series produced for the Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch 2. It\u2019s already had its problems with the My Nintendo Store, <a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/nintendo-eshop-seemingly-takes-action-against-notorious-hentai-puzzle-games\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">having multiple titles delisted<\/a> over the course of this year, and is infamous among Switch users for its<a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20240117-25637\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> AI generated art, provocative namingand the tendency to clutter up the new releases and best deals section of the store<\/a>. The series\u2019 publisher Pakotime announced on June 19 that all future instalments of Hentai Girls will be renamed to<strong> \u201c<\/strong>Kawaii Girls.\u201d While the exact reason for the change wasn\u2019t stated, it is implied that it might be due to the titles not appearing in Switch 2\u2019s new releases section.<\/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\">\u300eHentai Girls\u300f\u30b7\u30ea\u30fc\u30ba\u306b\u95a2\u3059\u308b\u91cd\u8981\u306a\u304a\u77e5\u3089\u305b<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/HentaiGirls?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#HentaiGirls<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/KawaiiGirls?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#KawaiiGirls<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NintendoSwitch2?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NintendoSwitch2<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NintendoSwitch?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NintendoSwitch<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rugpHvHAcV\">pic.twitter.com\/rugpHvHAcV<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Pakotime (@PakotimeGames) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PakotimeGames\/status\/1935472595731730624?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 18, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In an official announcement on X, publisher Pakotime announced that the upcoming entries in the Hentai Girls series will be renamed to Kawaii Girls, starting from July this year. However, they clarify that previous Hentai Girls games will not be subject to renaming. Furthermore, they advise users looking up Switch 2 versions of existing Hentai Girls titles \u2013 including Hentai Girls: Charming Chef, which released on June 19 \u2013 to use the keyword \u201cPakotime\u201d instead.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was able to confirm this myself \u2013 the games show up without any issues for Switch, but are very hard to find for the Switch 2 \u2013 they will only come up if you search the publisher\u2019s name. This means that \u201chentai\u201d and other similarly sensitive words are possibly being shadowbanned by Nintendo Switch 2 store\u2019s search engine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1008\" height=\"567\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1008px) 100vw, 1008px\" src=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/20250619-492290001.jpg\" alt=\"Hentai Girls gameplay.\" class=\"wp-image-49234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/20250619-492290001.jpg 1008w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/20250619-492290001-380x214.jpg 380w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/20250619-492290001-768x432.jpg 768w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It is interesting to note, however, that the word \u201chentai\u201d doesn\u2019t seem to be blocked in the US eshop. While the new Hentai Girls: Charming Chef still hasn\u2019t released there, past titles which include the word \u201chentai\u201d appear normally on the new releases page. This suggests that the keyword \u201chentai\u201d is possibly only blocked in Japan \u2013 this could be due to the fact that the Japanese word \u201chentai\u201d is a lot more associated with sexual deviance\/inclinations outside of societal norms, while in the West, the term \u201chentai\u201d usually refers to anime-styled explicit content in general.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Hentai Girls&#8221; for the Nintendo Switch gets renamed to &#8220;Kawaii Girls&#8221; as the games stopped appearing in Switch 2&#8217;s new releases section.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":49233,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[17,33],"class_list":["post-49229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-japan-related-news","tag-nintendo"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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