Tekken DR advert gets banned: underage fighters "sexualized" |
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A Tekken: Dark Resurrection advert gets banned in Australia for allegedly "sexualizing" some of the more underage-looking female Tekken fighters. While reports aren't clear which particular Tekken characters were "sexualized," Lili and Xiaoyu come to mind.
You see, the commercial tried to spoof Australian late-night adult commercials, it opens with a female voice-over asking guys if they (the average lonely male late-night-TV viewer) want one-on-one girl action and if so girls are waiting for them. Then the tone shifts to something a bit more aggressive than seductive, and then it shows shots of martial arts from the Tekken ladies and the voice over says that the girls are waiting to kick the viewers' butts.
Nice spoof, nice twist. Bad part? The ad probably showed shots of Xiaoyu or Lili in it. Here's the complaint as reported by The Australian newspaper:
The girl looks under the age of consent... That she is a computer-generated image is, I believe, irrelevant to the issue that an image of a child is being sexualized.
So what's the advertising company's response to the complaint? Well, according to them, it is in their understanding that all of the characters within the game are intended to be adults, and that there was certainly no intention to sexualize a child within the advertising.
Despite the company's response, the complaint holds, and the advert gets banned. If you're thinking that the Board is overreacting, they do have a good reason to do what they did. Lili is after all, a rich sixteen-year-old kid with that falls under the "elegant-anime-princess-cliche," not a DOAX2 beach-babe-ninja-assassin-bodyguard-whatever.
The advert company should've just picked up where that roaaaarrrrr ad left off. I once thought that I had a good concept in my head for an awesome Tekken advert, but it involved Paul Phoenix and Chuck Norris, so I just dropped it.
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funny coming form a country light on sex crime sentences: http://www.abc.net.au/news/items/200603/1604976.htm?sa
PRUDE SUCKERS
Jesus QJ is posting ***** dressend up as news these days.
Way to get things wrong, QJ. Australians speak english. Not some jew-faced american dialect. It is 'sexualised'.
does anyone havve the link 4 tha ad?
Yeah, I want to see it myself too...
paul pheonix and chuck norris?
someone post a link ot the advert then, i want to see it for myself, whats the point in complaining about it when you can't even see the video
http://www.yourpsp.com/tekken/
choose "Girls of Tekken"
Australia has to be one of the more liberal places i have visited in the world. They are on the opposite spectrum from prude. I cant beleve that they banned that ad, i have seen way, way worse on Ausi TV.
Age of consent in Australia is 16, so according to the OFLC they look younger than that? Pfffft. And yes, it's meant to be spelt sexualised.
I saw the same ad too,when it starts the voice of the girls turn you on but just the voice after that they show you just tekken gameplay videos .Rumble of roses shows more digital skin and i dont see the child being sexualized anywhere. Really i dont see the big deal here,and i mean it they dont show up SEX or NAKED GIRLS anywhere which is disappointing since youtube banned the Tekken models video. Aussie people sure has a lot of imagination,lmao. "The girl looks under the age of consent..." Which girl?.All look young but not 14 or something. "That she is a computer-generated image is". That ,a computer image.You can also draw 2 circles with two other tiny circles inside,then with imagination you got BOOBS. ", I believe, irrelevant to the issue that an image of a child is being sexualized." O Rlly?.I totally missed the part of the priest touching the supposed child. Australian stupidity FTW!.(Except for Steve Irwin,his Family and the crocodile hunter team,those guys rule!.)
come on guys its australia. what else have they better to do then complain? they dont have nothing to do with their time
if you dont like QJ so much then why waste your time comming here? Im not a member buy i do read alot of the stuff they have, but you seam to hate them, but if you hate them why are you even here posting comments? Get a life and stop trying to "force oppions" you whineing *****!
and the girls looked 16-18, over the australian age of consent which is 16 I think, no way you can confuse them for younger girls. Lol probably the only country more overly protected has to be USA. Here in PR even the local channels present nudity on programs, and not just late at night like dumb USA channels. But on top of that Puertorican local channels are way better than USA local channels (although I still like comedy central). Also, why do they call USA the country of freedom when it's one of the less-freedom-having countries in the world? Because of them in my country we have lost many freedoms (federal laws go over our countries laws since we are a colony, although no laws of Puerto Rico itself affect freedom right now, like many state laws in many USA states). Anyways gonna stop writing before I anger myself and start insulting the USA.
That's retarted, now all the people in Australia are gonna have to "illeagally" download it via P2P lol. Just let them have it a$$ holess
they all look really young anyways if girls are japanese... its just most western cultures dont realise and think theyre 14 or whatever... idiots wtf has tekken to do with sex anyways, you just kick each others ass, its not as if theres loadsa bouncing boobs (-dead or alive anyone?!? , rumble roses ???)
I gives no *****, it doesnt affect me so blah!
lol the ex-convicts are trying to be civilised (!)
must suck for lonely guys living in Australia. no action for them on the tv.
Why the hell would someone download an ad? You're evidently some sort of anime-pervert. That's really, REALLY sad.
i think he is talking about the game hahahahahaha which isnt banned btw
That's irony. Apparently, you're so "uncivilised" that you can't even spell. Stupid yank.
Hmm... I think Dodo (couldn't be an NZer knocking Aussies...) is someone from the UK. If they were some jewed out american they would have also chucked about 300 Z's into their 'civilised' spelling.
KirbySS, are you a retard? What did I spell wrong?! I ain't a yank, I'm a Brit you moron. Alastair, you're right.
Wow, and here I thought I made my self quite clear. "civilised" Also, "lol" is not a word. Now go finish off your crumpet and tea in time to watch your country get thrashed by "those convicts" in the Ashes. Damn limey.
OMG... these people suck. what if i drew some girls fighting and desided to do a comintary would the aussy's banned me. no! its a visual expression. so ppl that love to hate on video games and love to say my *****ing 4 year old is imatating somthing from rumble roses or any other game. *****ing tell them... Hey! think happy thoughts. next thing you do ill so rip on what you have to say about baning the visual expression and your selling condom on a advert. ill so sue you.
KirbySS, you just proved you ARE a retard. "LOL" is not a word, of course not you idiot! It's an ACRONYM for Laughing Out Loud and that's exactly what I'm doing at your stupidity. "Civilised" is the CORRECT spelling for the word outside USA, because yanks spell S with a Z, but you obviously don't know that. Who am I kidding, I bet you haven't even finished puberty!
Unfortunatly, we here in the good old USA struggle with a universal age of 18 being the age of consent. This is really is not the case though because the law is different depending on what state you live in. I live in NY and our age of consent is 17. I can sleep with a 17 year old with no problems at all and im 32. If I taped us having sex though that would be illegal because you have to be 18 to do pornography. Strange huh, I think so. It also is NOT illegal in the US to draw or depict child sexuality although it was voted on in congress and struck down in the voting.
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