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Originally Posted by winkel
But if you really want to know the answer, one of the interviews with the producer asked this, and it went along the line of 'Idolm@ster is apparently very popular overseas, do you ever have any intention of releasing outside of Japan?' And his answer was, 'No, because many of the idols are underaged, and yet are put to work, the perception of underaged workers might be perceived negatively in other countries as examples of child abuse or such.' Basically loli marketing is a no go.
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Ah, thanks for bringing that to our attention.
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No one cares about the 'sexual' problem because it doesn't exist. Only in the minds of perverted people.
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Which given new life to the Shakespearean line 'I think they doth protest too much'. I recall making a similar point in a couple of IGN forum topics about the Arcana Heart titles... after all, even Freud (puportedly) said, 'sometimes... a cigar is just a cigar'.