What this case highlights, however, is challenges brought forward by international markets and third party 2 distribution. Yet Illusion broke no domestic laws the company adhered to regulation and classification guidelines that govern the Japanese game industry. Suddenly, RapeLay, Illusion, and the Japanese game industry were open to international scrutiny, subject to pressure from international human rights organizations, and became a topic on national politics outside of Japan. could buy the game on Amazon (Fennelly 2009). Indeed, this 2006 game did not garner much interest until 2009 when the Belfast Telegraph ran a short report that summarized the game and pointed out that people in Ireland and the U.K.
RapeLay, while reprehensible in content, is not abnormal in the Japan PC game market, which is the platform for most sex-simulation games.
