I just checked this online, most people do NOT turn 18 in their junior year. Japan's highschool still ends off at 18 like America's. Also most of the cast were underage in the original, so you'll forgive me if I'm not so quick to believe that's anything but a "I promise all characters are totally technically legal guys! They all are exactly 18 and there for its ok!" Considering again, they're juniors going on seniors and there for would be at the same age they were in the original, aka minors.
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The description explicitly says entering senior year. They could have easily made it so they were entering college. Its still a porn game about high schoolers. Anyone can use all the thermian arguments to justify why its technically legal, but its still a porn game about highschoolers. College exists and is for adults if an academic setting is needed or they need to be students. The fact that the creator said they're 18 proves my point. They would only do that if they know making porn of minors is wrong or knows people will rightfully criticize then for making porn of underaged teens. They want them to be highschoolers, be in a grade where they would reasonably be 16/17 like in the original, but still had to clarify that they are technically legal. If a creator has to clarify that the characters are technically legal despite all common sense saying otherwise, that truly speaks volumes.
This is more preemptive and not directed at you specifically; I'm not slinging insults or being vague and unreasonable. I'm leveling serious criticism that any artistic would would face upon reaching the public. If the artist/creator cannot reasonably justify why making them high schoolers in a pornographic game is needed and the work would be worse without it being porn of high schoolers, then why are they teenagers in highschool. If they were 18 then they'd be graduating. Its just that simple. A throw away line simply highlights the fact that the criticism was valid enough that it needed to be addressed, Because again: This is a porn game about highschool juniors(typically 16/17), based on a porn game primarily filled with underaged characters.
God, your straight up just looking for reasons to be offended at this point, clearly more interested in being "right" (which you actually aren't) than you are in actually educating yourself about the topic you're virtue signaling over. The fact that you're entire argument hinges on a specific (and incorrect) interpretation of less than 10 words should be a sign that you're point might not actually be that defensible - like a sandcastle facing against a moderately sized wave.
News flash, school starts in the spring in Japan - in April, to be more specific - not in the fall like in the west. Since the game takes place over the characters' summer break in August, that means that the characters have all been in their senior year for about four months; plenty of time for all the characters to have had their 18th birthdays, which, by the by, can quite often occur during one's senior year or even leading up to it; you're circumstances and experiences are not universal. The characters weren't legal in the OG Morenatsu, but this is not the OG Morenatsu, so it's not fundamentally right (in any way) to judge it as such. Nevermind the fact that this game, in fact, is not actually set in our real world, and that the schooling of a foreign country in a fictional alternate universe populated by anthropomorphic animals - including mythical creatures such as dragons - could very well be different in some aspects compared to your own frame of reference.
Furthermore, a person's level of schooling doesn't invalidate the legal prospects of their age. Would you be making this much of a fuss if the characters were all 40-year-olds who re-enrolled in high school after dropping out when they were younger? No, of course you wouldn't, because that would be beyond ridiculous. If the concept of "suspension of disbelief" is that difficult for you to comprehend, then just don't play; it's literally as simple as that.
If you're that desperate to rip into a game for problematic content, how about going after something like After Class for blatantly admitting that Gil was sexually harassing the MC and other high school students throughout MC's entire high school career? Or maybe the Lagoon Lounge games - both OG and remake - for their veritable laundry list of issues and problematic content, including but not limited to sexual assault, rape, mind control, corporate espionage, and - in the case of the OG games - actual pedophilia involving actual minors?
If you want to be offended by something, that's your prerogative, knock yourself out. But keep your "BuT tHeIr In HiGh ScHoOl So ThEy'Re AcTuAlLy MiNoRs" bs to yourself; no-one here asked for you to spew your SJW preaching in the comments, so get off your soap-box and just be quiet, because nobody is actually listening to you. Just leave your 1-star review and scurry off back to your Tumbr blog or Twitter account or wherever it is you crawled here from.
Congratulations, if you are actually bitching about school and their age then I award with the trophy of the "saddest life in the world". It's just so stupid I don't even know what to say. Is it so hard to just close the browser tab instead of looking for reasons to bitch and complain? God, you are so awful... Ugh I'm disgusted
"The fact that the creator said they're 18 proves my point. They would only do that if they know making porn of minors is wrong or knows people will rightfully criticize then for making porn of underaged teens."
Well damn, I wouldn't want to look at anything that was depicting people having sex while underage! Where are they again? Japan? Okay, so the age of consent is... ::quick Google search:: ...12 years old. Glad we cleared that up!
Seriously, the only reason for the "all characters are a certain age" disclaimer is to make sure it's not violating any laws, which change from region to region. Even within the US, there are plenty of areas where people can legally have sex as young as 14, as long as it's not with anyone more than a few years older than them. The disclaimer just avoids the headache.
Speaking as someone from a Japanese background, the actual national age of consent in Japan is 13 but every prefecture has anti-obscenity laws that makes any adult (20+, will become 18+ once the law changes come through) that has sex with a minor (below 20, again, will become below 18) at the very least open to prosecution.
Actually correct sources:
https://www.ageofconsent.net/world/japan
https://www.quora.com/Why-is-the-age-of-consent-so-low-in-Japan
To be fair, that was an oversight from the Morenatsu Revisited days. The description will be changed upon the next build's release, which I am working on still. Unfortunately, I've had a bad run of luck with my health over the previous months, which has led me to need to resign from my job.
It should read "[...]before completing your senior year at high school."
Lesli-Chu!?, our main composer and assistant writer, has actually been helping me with some of the content while I've been unable to work on the project. He's been absolutely amazing, and I would like to assure that there is actually going to be quite a nice bit extra. With the extra free time, I'm hoping to be able to be more focused with Homecoming.
I don't think you should care much about it. Since the character are characters and not real people on a screen.
That is a fiction after all.
Only that people under age shouldn't play those games. (Without parents permission!) 8) and that game aren't even porn since the original had only two sex scenes per route and not all routes had those two Those just showing a piece of life.
I've see other stories with dozen sex scenes and they not even finished its story.
I don't think you should care much about it. Since the character are characters and not real people on a screen.
That is a fiction after all.
Only that people under age shouldn't play those games. (Without parents permission!) and that game aren't even porn since the original had only two sex scenes per route and not all routes had those two those just showing a piece of life.
Add the characters are not even humans.
Maybe if that showed a real teenager 13 years old having sex with a 40 years old real person in a photo or video. But I do remember some king centuries ago married with a 13 woman somewhere in Europe.