Anonymous asked:

Am I the only one who think DMM/FANZA are extremely anti-consumer friendly in the west? I mean recently they just up and decided they would region lock most of DMM and all of FANZA (It was apparently not the first time). I can't help but think of some old conservative Japanese Director who think he's still living in the Tokugawa era when the Sakoku Edict was still a thing.

The Japanese, by and large, don't really care about the West. That extends to a lot of entertainment companies, who only focus on the domestic market. I don't really see the economic logic behind trying to cut off international customers, but DMM are hardly the first ones to do it. They may be trying to stop gaijin from accessing the majority of the site, so that they can siphon them all into the much smaller sections where they provide English- and Chinese-language stuff.