An apron is an outer protective garment that covers primarily the front of the body. It may be worn for hygienic reasons as well as in order to protect clothes from wear and tear. The apron is commonly part of the uniform of several work categories, including waitresses, nurses, homemakers and domestic staff. It is also worn as a decorative garment by women. There are many different apron styles depending on the purpose of the apron. Aprons are also worn in many supermarket establishments such as Morrisons and Waitrose to protect wor ...

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The bishōjo game industry is tightly linked with the Japanese anime and manga industry. They share many of the same conventions: for example, it is common in both anime and bishōjo games to have a brief opening video stylishly presenting the star characters, and anime and manga are also frequently pornographic. Many popular games have been converted to anime and manga (see ren'ai game for a brief list), and many games are spinoffs of bishōjo anime. The three industries draw on the same pool of talent, the Japanese dōjin community, and the same core base of re ...

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There are a number of terms roughly equivalent to "bishōjo game" in use, both in Japanese and English, and there is considerable disagreement and confusion about their proper use. There is no clear consensus on the precise meaning of many of the terms below. The naming difficulties reflect the fluid boundaries of the genre, as well as embarrassment caused by the pornographic nature of some of these games. In general, "anime game" can be considered the most general term, and other names designate subgenres. Here are the most common te ...

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Bishōjo game - 1980s. Bishōjo games began appearing in Japan in the very earliest days of personal computing. Arguably the first bishōjo game was 1982's Night Life by Koei (Kōei) (though it bore little resemblance to their form today). Nearly all early games in the genre were pornographic. The first bishōjo games were not widely popular, being limited to graphics of 16 colors or less. A notable landmark was Jast's Tenshitachi no gogo (1985), a precursor to the modern dating simula ...

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A number of bishōjo games have been translated into English, but none have ever had a widespread commercial release. The first translation releases in the mid-90s failed to sell well, discouraging further translations for several years. But the increasing popularity of anime and manga in the West resulted in greater interest for bishōjo games, and 2003 and 2004 saw more new releases of bishōjo games translated to English than ever before. However, possibly owing to the high cost of licensing hit games, the games so far translated have been obscure in ...

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Bishōjo game - Gameplay. Because bishōjo elements can be grafted onto almost any type of game, gameplay in bishōjo games varies widely. For example, Gals Panic is a variant of the classic arcade game Qix where the objective is to uncover 80% or more of a picture of a girl. Money Idol Exchanger is a fast-paced puzzle game comparable to the Magical Drop series (which is felt by some to also be a bishōjo game). In many cases, pictures of girls are used as a r ...

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Pornography in Japan - Asia. Even today, copies of Japanese pornography that infringe on copyrights are widely sold in Asia. The reasons are economic as well as technical. Even a poor Japanese film studio uses equipment that is comparable to a rich studio in most of Asia and their products offer high quality. They are well filmed and scripted because most Japanese studios are started with the objective of eventually filming a movie or offering TV programs, rather than for short term profit. In many cases, a Japanese person watching TV programs in other Asian countr ...

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The typically understood definition is inclusion of racy or sexual content (usually female, but also male) to titillate the viewer, such as nudity, and other forms of eye candy. Shower scenes are very common in movies, and in anime of the 1980s and 1990s, while many more recent TV series use trips to onsen (Japanese hot springs), or "obligatory" holiday episodes. These latter are often to tropical locales, in order to showcase the characters in bathing suits; all aim to depict characters in states of relative undress when it would otherwise ...

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According to researchers, the concept of "pornography" emerged in the Edo period where every form of popular culture flourished. All forms of pornography flourished with the sole exception of figures and statues. This does not mean there were no works of erotica; these early works were by highly literate nobles and often considered works of art. Both Japanese mythology and Shinto have few teachings about sexuality. An act of sex is a ...

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Japanese pornography has diversified to fill a vast number of categories and needs, with some themes being so obscure that the appeals and differences are too subtle for anyone but the most devoted to recognize. These diversities occurred because of three major reasons: to entertain by developing new methods of expression, to fill niche markets, and to work around censorship laws. Neither religious conservatism nor f ...

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There is a pornographic culture just as there is a culture for foods or sports. Not all cultural aspects are equally represented, some are simply illegal or taboo in other countries. An expression of sexuality is more widely accepted in the mainstream media. Thus in many cases, scenes acceptable to Japanese audiences are unacceptable in other countries. Ribaldry is quite common even in child oriented materials and expressions that in most other cultures would not be acceptable for general audiences are shown without a warning. In an early ep ...

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