Azur Lane and Girls' Frontline Censored in China for "Too Sexy" Content

Joining the “ship moe” game genre, which first emerged thanks to the Kantai Collection, surely many already know that Azur Lane has now entered the ranks of the most popular shoot ’em up games on mobile. Apart from the fun casual Naval Battle gameplay, the charm of Azur Lane of course lies in its charming ship waifu to attract more fans. But who would have thought if the content that became the strong attraction of the game got a new limitation in the Chinese region, precisely after the latest update released on April 8th.

Through information shared by several sources, it seems that the Azur Lane update on the Chinese server has limited the 18 ship waifu that players cannot currently get, including some popular names such as Taihou to Akagi. This limitation is only applied temporarily, so that later players will be given the opportunity to get all the characters. Meanwhile, those who already have these characters can still use them.

Apart from Azur Lane, Girls’ Frontline also experienced other mobile games that had a similar impact, which also happened to eliminate the effects of attack damage that could damage the character’s clothes and make them look sexier. The application of censorship has been explained by the Director on social media sites Weibo who reluctantly had to implement the changes.

Then what actually makes the application of this censorship appear in China? Through the information shared by the Azur Lane community, it seems that this is due to CCP’s eradication measures for “light porn” content in various products, including video games. Fortunately, this provision of censorship is only temporary, but there is always the possibility that in the future this will be made a permanent change, which is clearly only time can tell.

There are also allegations that other Chinese games will also be affected, such as Genshin Impact which also has many waifu characters in it. For now, it can be seen that the effects have not been felt by many other games, moreover miHoYo has made adjustments to the character design so that it is not too sensitive. For example, such as Rosaria, which many fans know has received a change in character design since its first appearance in Update 1.2.

Source: Dual Shockers

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Azur Lane

Publisher: Yostar

Developer: Shanghai Manjuu

Release Date: 2017-05-25

Mobile Games, Android, iOS

Azur Lane is a shoot ’em up game that has now developed into a new media franchise. In addition to offering simple and fun Naval Battle gameplay, the charm of this series also lies in its charming warship waifu.

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