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Originally Posted by ASU2003
Battle Royale and some of their reality shows are pretty fun to watch.
I still don't understand the censoring of their porn, but it makes them come up with some pretty weird stuff.
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Thanks for contributing some ideas to the topic. I'll have to see what I can rummage from
Battle Royale in terms of cutscenes of competition; but the other thing, I can address that right now:
Censorship in Japan
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In Japan, under Article 175 of the Criminal Code of Japan people who sell or distribute obscene materials can be punished by fines or imprisonment. Article 175 was included in the original document in 1907 and remains relatively unchanged. Finding a workable definition for obscene has sparked much controversy over the last century. It is not uncommon for pictorial magazines to depict nude women with their genitalia airbrushed over in black, and video pornography routinely depicts explicit sex scenes with the participants' genitalia obscured by mosaics. Until the 1990s, the entire pubic region, including hair, was deemed obscene and unpublishable. The publication of Waterfruit and Santa Fe by Kishin Shinoyama marked the first widely distributed publications to feature pubic hair. Many video production companies belong to ethical associations which provide guidance on what is acceptable and what is not. NEVA and CERO are examples of two such organizations. In 2007, the police have started to prosecute webmasters who allow uncensored pictures on their sites. Recent controversies have frowned upon both pubic hair and even genitalia itself being displayed in works of art and in educational settings.
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To put this into terms: before the 1990s, most (semi-)pornographic publications, manga & anime included, implicitly forbade the authors / illustrators to depict the pubic region in any detail at all, and would even go so far as to impose mosaics or black it out all together to not be deemed as "offensive-able", or pornographic. Even showing pubic hair was a no-no, until these rules laxed abit in the past 25 years, and although censorship still holds its roots in Japanese publications, pubic hair is now allowed, and actually because the culture finds that more pubic hair equals sexiness beyond belief, it actually stems the need to use mosaics anymore in print.
Further reading:
A beginner's guide to genres of Japanese porn
Sources: wikipedia, an inherent knowledge of Japanese culture since 1983, and Dave Atell's
Insomniac show.