John Hokanson Jr. (isamu@USAGI.COM)
Wed, 3 Feb 1999 21:37:29 -0800
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.5 Message-ID: <008001be5000$74c76800$582454d1@default> Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 21:37:29 -0800 From: "John Hokanson Jr." <isamu@USAGI.COM> Subject: Re: Sumire gets slamed!
ACK! I in no way was insinuating that Sakura Taisen was/is a meant to be a
hentai game! I merely brought up hentai as a way of illustrating the primary
type of coverage the Japanese Saturn got.
It just seemed to me that these "puppy love" (not hentai!) dating sims like
Tokimeki Memorial were primarily geared towards male players, and Sakura
Taisen struck me as a logical extension of that phenomenon. I can see where
you're coming from when you say that ST has enough to appeal to the female
audience though. I'm just not sure whether that was a fluke like I
suggested, or intentional like you are.
- John
(Little pissed off how my mailer isn't making the quoted material in your
post, and he has to put this up on the top).
-----Original Message-----
From: Ray Huang <jhuang@UCLA.EDU>
To: SAKURATAISEN-LIST@LISTSERV.ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU
<SAKURATAISEN-LIST@LISTSERV.ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU>
Date: Wednesday, February 03, 1999 8:41 PM
Subject: Re: Sumire gets slamed!
> Well I suppose so. Although the Saturn supposedly has a *majority* male
> demographic (party proven by the number of hentai games compared to PSX).
I wouldn't disagree. Saturn *has* the most number of hentai games
for console systems. PSX's official policy to not support these types
of games, at least not in an X-rating type of fashion. It's an
image/yakuza thing, or so I've heard. ^_^;;
> Sakura was probably primarily engineered for a male audience, and it just
> crossed over. Sometimes anime/games are funny like that.
Again, I'm not sure if it was primarily engineered for a male
audience. I don't consider ST hentai, and that's why I don't believe
ST is a dating sim (at least, purely). I believe the audience Mr. Ouji
targeted was a truly younger audience (like little kids). I think he
wanted wider game playership. It was not purely targeted at the
anime otaku as so many of these dating sims are. I also think Mr.
Ouji got "lucky" that it became so popular.
Ray
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