Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-28097343-20170310045128/@comment-25955276-20170531031822

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Enometr wrote: Guys, do you know about that dounjinshi of Ivlis and Satanick? I used Google Translate on the page where you buy the comic and i'm still shocked that this is for all ages. The information is easy to find. It's on an information box with Title, Circle, etc. One of the informations is Target age. Just translated it......... IT IS SERIOUSLY FOR ALL AGES???

OK..... Too much shocked but isn't it a bit wrong? I can't even imagined a primary school(maybe a rich kid that is allowed to buy books online) reading it, curiousity....

Luckily, it has been sold out. Maybe it's for all ages in Japanese standards? Kind of like how Mogeko Castle and Wadanohara and the Great Blue Sea are "R-15" in Japan, but is "R-18" in perhaps other non-Japanese standards. A little explanation:

Japan is a little wonky when it comes to ratings. Okay, VERY WONKY. Particularly with anime, it is difficult to find age ratings. Anime sites that give age ratings for anime are utilising unofficial age ratings. To my understanding, it is VERY difficult to find any age ratings for any anime, unless it has been broadcast in somewhere like the US where it is given an age rating because of tighter restrictions.

Games on the other hand have age ratings that appear to be dictated by this organization. PC games are rated by another organization. Which seems to  be why WatGBS has been given a rating and all; there's a system for it.

While this might only apply to anime, this might explain why the Satan Ivlis book has been given an all-ages rating. It might be that Japan doesn't have any rating system for books, although I could be wrong. I'm assuming that the book doesn't have outright H-scenes, so it wouldn't be privy to whatever Japanese censorship system there is.