Azur Lane, Girls' Frontline Censored

With its update on April 8, the Chinese version of Azur Lane made several ship girls unobtainable in the game, meanwhile Girls' Frontline removed its damaged vesture character artwork in its latest update – both games seemingly censored due to new rules in China – what happened?

What happened with Azur Lane, was it censored?

The latest update of Azur Lane, only in the China server version, made several ship girls, including iconic characters such as Taihou, Illustrious or Akagi, unobtainable in the game.

18 boat girls were affected in total : Whichita, Portland, Rodney, South Dakota, Belfast, Sirius, Exeter, Ark Royal, Illustrious, Akagi, Kaga, Yuudachi, Yuubari, Taihou, Hyuuga, Fusou, Scharnhorst, and Graf Zeppelin.

(Credits to Zeroagito on r/AzurLane)

It'southward important to note that the characters weren't "removed" from the game but temporarily made unobtainable. Players on the Chinese server of Azur Lane who already obtained these characters in the by can nonetheless use them in-game.

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Moreover, while I cannot read Chinese, Japanese Azur Lane fans on Twitter, who translated the official announcement, mentioned programmer Manjuu stated all the shipgirls will be made available again at some betoken. The new methods to obtain them volition exist published at a later date.

・海域にてエセクター、ロドニー、アークロイヤルなど一部のSR、Rキャラがドロップしなくなります。
また、three-4、6-4のSSRキャラがドロップしなくなります。

これらのキャラの入手方法は後日告知されるとの事です。

※キャラ入手の最適化は大陸版の告知です※

— らっと@アズレン (@Ratto7R) April 7, 2022

Why is this censorship happening?

According to Japanese Azur Lane fans on anonymous message boards, and English fans on Reddit such as Baroness_Ayesha, this is due to a new crackdown by the CCP on "soft pornography" and "salacious" content in products such equally video games.

MICA, the developer of Girls' Frontline decided to temporarily remove all damaged clothes artwork from the game every bit a preemptive motion. This was explained by the managing director of GFL on Chinese social media Weibo with a heartfelt bulletin. Meanwhile, Yostar temporarily removed some of the ship girls in Azur Lane.

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At the end of the day, there are two most likely scenarios possible at present.

Outset, information technology's possible all the characters and artwork in every game will exist back at some point, unchanged.

Next, the other scenario is that some changes and censors to the characters' artworks will exist made.

Lastly, it'south interesting to note that at that place are notwithstanding ton of ship girls showing cleavage and the similar, obtainable in Azur Lane, and how arbitrary and devoid of logic this censorship is.

Will other Chinese games such equally Genshin Impact be afflicted outside Communist china?

First off, Genshin Impact has yet to be affected in Prc. Looking at the reasons behind this censorship, fifty-fifty if it does become censored, it'south unlikely to ripple outside China. There are absolutely no reasons to believe and then every bit of now.

Moreover, if you're actually playing Genshin Touch, you'd also know Genshin is by far one of the tamest gacha games. Personally speaking, I think it's very unlikely for it to exist censored.

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Lastly, annotation some Japanese fans are blaming this CCP crackdown for the Rosaria change in Genshin Impact 1.iv. But I'd personally say that'southward too farfetched. Every bit of now, we don't know if it could be related or not. And in the first place, we however don't know why miHoYo decided to change Rosaria's model. In any example, this is all we know then far. Rather than doomposting, like Goldman would say in The House of the Dead 2, all we demand to practice is wait.

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