-_- Damn, he's right. Can you send them my way as well?
"Polite life will fill you full of cancer." - Iggy Pop "I've seen the future, brother, it is murder." -Leonard CohenDitto. I need a shower and/or a drink.
"Polite life will fill you full of cancer." - Iggy Pop "I've seen the future, brother, it is murder." -Leonard CohenI'm not going through 100 pages but did anyone bring up Caligula? It's not a pornographic film, even if it is very explicit, certainly no more or less than, say In the Realm of the Senses. Even more odd is that we have a trope page for The Caligula, where this film is mentioned. So we can talk about the real historical figure and other characters who are similar, but not the movie about said historical figure.
I would like to petition consideration of Eiyuu X Maou for reinstatement. The reasons for its purge were lightly and superficially considered. The majority of contributors to the decision admitted themselves they only vaguely understood it.
First I would defend against the "porn pandering" charge on the grounds of Porn with Plot, which this wiki has found to be acceptable in texts with as much or less plot than this game had. If it's misunderstood due to lack of interest in understanding, I posted a synopsis of the story here: http://www.ulmf.org/bbs/showpost.php?p=347031&postcount=44
(Warning: it's very long and much of it is embedded in spoiler tags.)
The 'pedo pandering' charge centers on the character of Meishia, but there's scant circumstantial evidence to support that, and far more evidence, both circumstantial and substantial, against.
On the most superficial level, Meishia's style of dress, posture, vocabulary and manner of speech are of a much older woman. Any hint of vulnerability comes not from childish innocence, but from the PTSD symptoms she displays. It's likely she was at one time a Child Soldier, but not so likely at the time of her interaction in the story. This character design obviously wasn't written with any intention of lolicon appeal, but similar to Rei Ayaname could become unexpected fetish fuel.
This wasn't included in the synopsis I linked to, but Meishia was taken from her parents by the church as a direct consequence of Felser taking the Maken Abram and occupying Feelese, which happened a little over twenty years before the time of the story. Because she was able to speak and understand what was happening at the time, this would put her age at the time of the story in mid-to-late 20's at the latest. How long it would take the Church to do this after the theft of the Maken may be in question, but without the Maken they desperately needed a weapon against demons, which her Angelic blood would serve for. Additionally, the Pope is an ambitious man, and having more of the blood of Gikraf in his organization would also solidify its (his) political clout.
It's still possible for one to imagine that she was taken to the church late and would be in her mid to late teens in the story, if one really wished to. But not really plausible in light of her origin story, and her ranking in the Church and experience at demon hunting at the time of the story. All you could say for certain is that she's child-bearing age, as the player can pursue the option to see the child she produces for Felser.
Let's set aside the porn pandering charges for a moment. Do you have a picture of Meishia? Google image search is failing me at the moment and I can't go to a site with the cg sets because A. I'm supposed to be packing right now and B. The packing I'm doing is to help my mom, so I don't want to look at porn while she's here.
A SFW pic of Meishia
... which also includes a pic of her in a heavily pregnant state, strongly implying that she does get a sex scene.
She looks kind of like a generic Visual Novel girl. Not much, aside from maybe small breast size, that indicates a low age at all.
edited 18th Apr '14 2:12:22 PM by AnotherDuck
Check out my fanfiction!I had an opportunity to look up the cgs and it's really not looking too promising concerning that one girl. Pregnancy doesn't matter because there are VNs out there where the MC impregnates girls who look about six. Me, I think if she acts like an adult and is somewhat borderline in appearance it'd be okay, but that's not really how our policy works.
edited 18th Apr '14 2:24:15 PM by Arha
We've had works where high schoolers looked all of 10 years old. If they look like a kid, they look like a kid. That enough warrants a cut under our policies, chronological age be damned.
Conversely, if there were a hypothetical sex scene involving a chronologically one year old robot girl who is for all intents and purposes an adult, that would likely slide by.
"Polite life will fill you full of cancer." - Iggy Pop "I've seen the future, brother, it is murder." -Leonard Cohen

Oh boy... I'm kinda scared to say this, but would you mind PMing me those links? My devilhead will probably stay so either way, but I want to make sure my judgments are done informed.
edited 28th Oct '13 7:01:20 PM by Komodin
Experience has taught me to investigate anything that glows.