In australia, they have an odd selection method, which doesnt seem to stand in equality really anywhere else in the
world, that ive come across.
They are so uptight about any sort of sexual activity here they flatly refuse to give Games an Adult Rating catagory,
meaning that we have alot of games being banned here, or cut up and edited, ie The latest Lesuire suit larry was banned,
and now they have banned GTA:San Andreas here cause someone worked out how to patch the game and return the game to its
complete form. And i know Anime is no different, Im surprised the last disk of Excel Saga didnt get an r(18+) rating
here. Apparently ive been told Hentai is illegal here also, I know one place in sydney though who sells it witout
trouble so i dont know if thats true or not.
However scenes of complete violence seem to be ok, games depicting all the guts gore and blood get a simple M (15+)
rating, and you have to wonder just why they seem to accept one over the other, maybe they want us to all become murders
and not perverts?? I dont think they have a clue, personally, I know a store in melbourne that sells quite out there
real life blood and guts vids, and they have been in business for ages, without any trouble from the law.
An example , if anyone has seen Texas Chainsaw Massacer 2, that was banned here but 1 and 3,4 were ok, why, not cause of
the blood and guts, and violence, but because of a brief 3 or maybe 4 second part in the movie where he slides the tip
of his chainsaw along a ladies upper thigh in an upwards motion. I can understand this may not be seen as something ppl
want to see, so why not just cut the scene out? Overall you would lose naf all time from the movie, it would happily
carry on and ppl wouldnt even notice. But no, run away run away, :(
Sorry to gripe, reading this thread got me fired up, one thing i dislike about my country is that it is so unblanaced in
its laws attaining to censorship. Brian Heraldine sure helped to screw us all over because Johhny wanted his votes on
the damn bench to sell out australia grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
