True. But it's also very realistic that those $250.000 (I question the validity of that though) came mainly from Japanese people.
In the west, non-tentacular sex is legal, and it's easier to identify with a penis than a tentacle, which is why I bet that this fetish is very small, and not quarter-of-a-million sized in the West.
Of course it's there. There are lots of people in here who play games featuring people under 18 too (which is illegal in the west)
Uh... Why would Japanese people pay to have the game localized for International use, specifically English? What exactly are you smoking? Also, why would you need to believe me? Their latest kick-starter is right
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Put it on the FAQ page because I just know you'll say something stupid like "It's in yen. Clearly, it's mainly for Japanese!" No, kickstarter just works based on region and Dualtail IS a Japanese company...
As for the underage thing. Uh... Underage porn is illegal in Japan too. Oh? Wait? You mean lolis? The legality of THAT is all over the place in the West too, depending on where you live. Throw a dart in a country and get different laws on the subject. Hell, even the US isn't 100% consistent about beyond Federal law. That said... please excuse me for not crying for the poor pixels that get sexually abused when more effort could be spent hunting down the monsters that make actual CP with real children.
ANYway.
This is getting out of hand....
The bottom line is. This is a game with fetishes you don't like. Then go away. No one is forcing you to look at these game. No one is forcing you to play them. No one is forcing you to come in this thread and bitch about a game that has only stuff that you don't like. Remove the thread from your watch-list, and go to the games that you do like.
You don't see me going into those Renpy VN things with what I consider hideous 3d art to bitch that said art is hideous and the game is boring or whatever...
Also. You DO realize that it was the West that really got into Vore, for example, right? (Might have even invented it tbh, but it's really, REALLY hard to track that sort of thing down historically...) It started popping up in Hentai too at one point, but they're still little kids compared to the stuff that comes out of the furry community. So. Y'know, stop being a judgmental weirdo with delusions of superiority and accept the fact that humanity is fucked up all over the globe and that they express said fucked up nature in various different ways?