Reiwa Era Pervert 🎃

[Reiwa Era Pervert 🎃 @inakachud]

@b_b_b_b_b_b_b24 As far as me, personally, I don't like that people pretend Japanese media is so inaccessible in general that you have no choice but to pirate it. You can legally obtain probably 99% of it and the rest is essentially abandonware nobody will give you a hard time about if you stfu.

[Reiwa Era Pervert 🎃 @inakachud]

American logic: a Pokémon game from 2001 isn't available at my local Walmart so I'll go home and pirate 2026 anime and manga because Japan is evil o algo

[Reiwa Era Pervert 🎃 @inakachud]

@b_b_b_b_b_b_b24 I think the Japanese mainly have an issue with the boasting and the silly excuses. It's not like there aren't people in Japan who pirate. They just shut up about it cause they know they'll get their sites taken down if they make them too well known.

[Reiwa Era Pervert 🎃 @inakachud]

@b_b_b_b_b_b_b24 It's not trolls, I think these are just genuinely dumb people. Not all American, though. I only said that as a joke. I don't actually have anything against Americans.

[Reiwa Era Pervert 🎃 @inakachud]

@b_b_b_b_b_b_b24 I'm not going to go dig through this shit again, you can look at my replies and see people telling me insane shit like not being able to buy Monogatari legally (I literally found Walmart selling it) or talking about GBA Pokémon games being inaccessible.

[村上りいな🍣@グラビア、弾き語り @riina1126_ryry]

やほす！😙

[Reiwa Era Pervert 🎃 @inakachud]

@b_b_b_b_b_b_b24 Cool, man. You're talking about 30 year old games, though. This is the point of the post you're replying to. Do PC-98 games not being sold anymore make it OK for people to pirate things you can buy right this moment? Don't have to answer this, obviously you agree that it's not.

[Reiwa Era Pervert 🎃 @inakachud]

There are 14 year old American fujoshi buying BL eroge from Fanza and you're getting gatekept by mainstream shounen, bro. You are being mogged by little girls, bro.

[Reiwa Era Pervert 🎃 @inakachud]

@KingdomKey93 @pogbum4040 If its a site that sells very adult manga or eroge it's usually blocked by Visa and MasterCard but that's from OUR side and the same block applies to Japanese users, too. They have ways around this by letting you buy points on another website which you then use on the blocked one

[Reiwa Era Pervert 🎃 @inakachud]

@KingdomKey93 @pogbum4040 Hell, they even let you get around the payment processor ban for adult sites like FANZA by buying points with your credit card and using those.

[Reiwa Era Pervert 🎃 @inakachud]

@KingdomKey93 @pogbum4040 My regular old Yuropoor Visa works just fine.

[Reiwa Era Pervert 🎃 @inakachud]

@KingdomKey93 The general concensus also seems to be that you simply can't buy Japanese media. People just decided on this without even bothering to try.

[Reiwa Era Pervert 🎃 @inakachud]

@KingdomKey93 I've only seen one good argument from the western side and that was lost media. Like, sure man, you can pirate that one fucking movie that wouldn't even exist otherwise. Nobody cares about that. Using that as an excuse to pirate stuff you *can* buy, though? Come on now.

[Reiwa Era Pervert 🎃 @inakachud]

@KingdomKey93 @pogbum4040 The only hoop is pressing the "I'm hontoni nihonjin" button on your VPN.

[Reiwa Era Pervert 🎃 @inakachud]

@KingdomKey93 @pogbum4040 I stick to digital generally, if I do import I use Buyee. DMM Books or Shonen Jump+ both have a very wide selection of digital manga. I don't even see a problem with buying it there and then reading the scanlation if an official translation doesn't exist, btw.

[Reiwa Era Pervert 🎃 @inakachud]

@KingdomKey93 That is literally my only point. Do you think a million Japanese Twitter users would argue on for days if the western side just admitted they like free shit? They'd call you a gaijin monkey, put another IP restriction on their website and move the fuck on.

[Reiwa Era Pervert 🎃 @inakachud]

@Freddyfaulds811 It's available and easy to access, I've proved this like 50 times in one day. You're talking about localization, not accessibility. You not being able to speak Japanese doesn't mean it's okay to steal everything in Japanese. Are you genuinely 80 IQ or what?

[Reiwa Era Pervert 🎃 @inakachud]

@KingdomKey93 This is true, to be fair. However, we are on Twitter and I'm replying to the general Twitter concensus (as retarded as it may be).

[Reiwa Era Pervert 🎃 @inakachud]

@KingdomKey93 It's not irrelevant, it's literally the point I was making in the post you decided to reply to. People are making it a debate about morality for some reason when it doesn't have to be. If they truly did what you say, it wouldn't even be an issue.

[Reiwa Era Pervert 🎃 @inakachud]

@KingdomKey93 "Most people aren't thieves" doesn't make stealing morally right. Quite the opposite, actually.

[Reiwa Era Pervert 🎃 @inakachud]

@Freddyfaulds811 Are you genuinely this stupid and self centered that you think the Japanese *owe* you translations? If you wanted to compensate the author you would buy the original and read the translation online.