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Japan, The Order, and the Strange Case of the Disappearing Genitalia

Japan, The Order, and the Strange Case of the Disappearing Genitalia

What a wonderful day it is in the gaming world when I get to write an article about full frontal nudity. Penises and breasts and vaginas, everyone! That’s what makes the world go around.

Many people know The Order: 1886 for its short length, but not where it counts, BA DUM TISH! Yes, The Order was not shy at all about showing scenes with full blown sex, which of course leads to coitus interruptus complete with a dangling wang.

But this was a bit too much for the Japanese market, as that sex scene was censored in one of the oddest ways possible.

In the American version, members of The Order walk in on a couple having sex, with a woman exposing a breast and a man being completely naked, performing the act from behind. The woman says, rather comically, “Oh, hello!” as The Order walks in, provoking the man to pull out, grab a gun, and start fighting.

But in the Japanese version, things are slightly different. First of all, the woman’s body isn’t seen at all. Instead, there is just a close up of her face, which makes it hard to tell that they were even having sex. Not only that, but the woman doesn’t even speak in the Japanese version. Instead she just sort of grunts in a perplexing and possibly painful manner.

Then, when the camera pans out in order for the man to jump for his gun, he is suddenly wearing a pair of skin tight red spandex pants, no dong visible. Read that over again and realize how absolutely absurd this has to be.

The rest of the scene continues as per normal, with the woman wrapping herself up in a blanket and the man getting knocked unconscious.

But the absurdity of this scene is just hard to ignore. It turns a rather disturbing scene of a prostitution ring getting busted into a scene of butting in on what Ultraman does in his downtime.

Japan, The Order, and the Strange Case of the Disappearing Genitalia

This strange bit of Japanese censorship doesn’t end there, but instead just gets weirder. For example, there are other scenes that show full frontal nudity in the game, baring female breasts for everyone to see. In the Japanese version they simply remove the nipples. The breasts are still bare, they are just anatomically incorrect, like an action figure, and somehow that makes them acceptable.

Just think, this is coming from the land that brought us tentacle porn.

What do you think? Is the sexual censorship of The Order necessary? Or is that going overboard with a game that is already rated M for mature? Let us know what you think in the comments.

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