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wow look at the LE figurine - I'd totally hit that
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bloodflowers wrote:a bunch of stuff
Right, but to me she looked 12 in those original pics that were posted, with some breasts added on. If she looks older in the actual game then hey, great. I just don't think there's anything puritanical or sex-hating about drawing the line at pre-teens.
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sethsez wrote:
bloodflowers wrote:a bunch of stuff
Right, but to me she looked 12 in those original pics that were posted, with some breasts added on. If she looks older in the actual game then hey, great. I just don't think there's anything puritanical or sex-hating about drawing the line at pre-teens.
I didn't think so. Hmm, 12+breasts=18 ? Obviously not, she doesn't look 12 in the flyer. She looks like a cartoon, and that makes it hard to judge. Bottom line is that it's not a big deal. Japan has so many pedophelia problems that it's a godsend that they draw breasts on ANY of their artwork.
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She looks like a 14 or 15 yo who needs to complete development. Now, i'm all for MILFs and the Chloe Vevrier type...Cave, wtf? Why you hate us so much :cry: ?

*goes MILFhunting*
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Randorama wrote:She looks like a 14 or 15 yo who needs to complete development. Now, i'm all for MILFs and the Chloe Vevrier type...Cave, wtf? Why you hate us so much :cry: ?

*goes MILFhunting*
teresa rose is a mom aint she? and shes kept that figure with all those daughters. something for everyone in ibara!
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when will people learn to SHUT THE FUCK UP....
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Zweihander wrote:when will people learn to SHUT THE FUCK UP....
If that's what your self-help guide is suggesting, get to it.
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bloodflowers wrote:
Zweihander wrote:when will people learn to SHUT THE FUCK UP....
If that's what your self-help guide is suggesting, get to it.

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Once again, some people on here are upset over the arbitrary age attributed to Reko. Unfortunately I can't see the third picture UD had linked to, but I'm sure I really wouldn't be bothered by it. So what does it matter what age Cave says Reko is? If they said, "Oh, she's 19 and she goes to junior college and studies entomology," then nobody would care. If she's 18, fine. But if she's 17, then that makes anyone who finds her attractive a pedophile? The only reason people may think so is because the age of consent is determined by the government. If X country says that this age is 15 while Y country says it's 18, then there isn't much that country Y can do or say about it. It's really silly when you think about it, because an 18 year old is not much more mature than a 17 year old. What if you have sex with a 17 year and 11 month old girl? In another month she's suddenly mature and prepared for sex? Or what if you have sex with a girl the day before her 18th birthday? I've never understood age of consent laws. Anyhow, I don't want this to go onto the tangent of a debate about the age of consent. What I'm trying to point out is that we shouldn't get so upset over some arbitrary age number that Cave assigns to their character. She's a drawing, for Bob's sake. I find it more offensive for adults to portray teenagers engaging in promiscuous, irresponsible sex (like in movies or shows like 90210) than to show a naked cartoon girl who has some teenage age assigned to her because that's what her creators decided on. Heck, Reko has big knockers, as with most other female anime characters. She can be any age you want to think of her as. As Bloodflowers mentioned, Reko's age appears to differ depending on the drawing and who draws her. I have no problems with this. I do, however, object to the depiction of obvious 8-year-old girls being forced into sexual situations. I have seen that lots of disburbing stuff in doujinshi shops in Japan, so I wonder what the big scandal with Reko is. I have the figure of her sitting on the tree stump. Yeah, she's not wearing panties, and yeah, I can even barely see her coochie lips. BIG DEAL. I don't really care if Cave draws panties on her or not. What I think you guys should be getting upset over is the guy who airbrushed the panties off of the child Reko figure. If Cave did that sort of stuff, then I'd say that's good enough to be outraged over. I realize I'm rambling, but i hope I managed to get some coherent thought out to everyone here.

Anyhow, Kasumi in the Dead Or Alive seriesis 17 years old. I just checked her age in both Dead Or Alive 2 and 3. I'd say she's highly sexualized, and she's under 18. Why not the outrage towards Tecmo for that?
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Damn that Tecmo! I think those Monster Rancher monsters are sexy too, but sadly Tecmo said they were only 17 in Monster years. :(
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ResOGlas wrote:Damn that Tecmo! I think those Monster Rancher monsters are sexy too, but sadly Tecmo said they were only 17 in Monster years. :(
I'm just glad Kermit the Frog is over the age of consent. At least he seems to be. Did Jim Henson ever determine his age?
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japtor wrote: teresa rose is a mom aint she? and shes kept that figure with all those daughters. something for everyone in ibara!

...Suddenly i really want to play the final level of Ibara :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Randorama wrote:...Suddenly i really want to play the final level of Ibara :lol: :lol: :lol:
Oi! Rando!

http://akiyamananae.cool.ne.jp/log/log_ ... teresa.jpg

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Cave just issued a press release stating Teresa is 14 and the youngest sister - now how dirty do you feel! ;-)
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14?! Damn, so i'm into MILFs who are actually underage?!

...Well, there's a consistent amount of MILFs who want to look teenagers, so it's not that unlikely. Bah, being a perv nowadays is confusing :?
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Ramus wrote:
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Ramus wrote:I'm sure some sick fuck gets his jollies to it, but remember it's just a picture.
How does being aroused by a depiction of the nude human female body make you a "sick fuck"?

As a dedicated 4channer, I detest that statement.
Dude, it's a cartoon character. Seems kind of lame to get aroused from a drawing. Real women are much better than cells drawn by some guy in Japan who probably can't get any except from his cardboard cut-outs.
And it's pretty lame to hang out on a Shmup forum and talk about Shmups and memorize bullet patterns. But who are you, or anyone, to judge? Let people enjoy what they enjoy.

Two things:
1) Drawings don't have ages.
2) Liking underage girls as anime characters and liking underage girls in reality are two different things. There have been "10 year old" (who are only called that because their creator says they are) anime charaters whom I've considered hot. So what? They're cartoons.
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Ask me about Lemonparty......
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bloodflowers wrote:Cave just issued a press release stating Teresa is 14 and the youngest sister - now how dirty do you feel! ;-)
O_O;;;

Eek!!! Nooooooooo! My dear Teresa! Nooooooooo!!!

*runs away screaming*

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bloodflowers wrote: Cave just issued a press release stating Teresa is 14 and the youngest sister - now how dirty do you feel! ;-)
...what if shes emancipated and is considered an adult? anyone named r. kelly around here?
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Icarus wrote:O_O;;;

Eek!!! Nooooooooo! My dear Teresa! Nooooooooo!!!

*runs away screaming*
...you too into MILFs?

Now, deeply into sillyness, i remember a company selling reprints of toys from the 80s, with the likes or Chloe Vevrier and someone else (Lorna Morgan? Danni Ashe?) as well. The question is: if a full-figured woman like Chloe Vevrier would show you a reko figure (even with no pants?!), who would you look at?

(Chloe is the brunette...)
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Nuke wrote:Ask me about Lemonparty......
Lemonparty didn't even shock me the first time I saw it. Goatse's way worse than Lemonparty, and Goatse's not even that bad.
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Lemonparty is more hilarious than disgusting.

When I saw it I had a hearty chuckle.

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Randorama wrote:...you too into MILFs?
When they look like Dr. Teresa, yeah. Rawr ^_-
Randorama wrote:The question is: if a full-figured woman like Chloe Vevrier would show you a reko figure (even with no pants?!), who would you look at? (Chloe is the brunette...)
I think they are far too big for my liking. A full figure is nice, but I can't imagine the kind of back pain she must suffer. ^_^

I like my ladies more svelte, more... natural looking. A little more petite. "Anything more than a handful is a waste". ^_-

Not that I wouldn't mind burying my head in those comfy-looking funbags, but still... ^_-
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bloodflowers wrote:
Cave just issued a press release stating Teresa is 14 and the youngest sister - now how dirty do you feel! ;-)
Ya, but it all goes back to what you were saying about age of consent for different countries. The game was made for the Japanese market where that kind of thing is the norm. For the US it's not right. I heard in Mexico the age of consent was 12. Some mexican guy told me. Either that's true and gross or he was lying to make himself not feel like a pervert for fucking 12-year-olds and that's even worse.
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Ramus wrote:
Monkey_Man wrote:
Ramus wrote:I'm sure some sick fuck gets his jollies to it, but remember it's just a picture.
How does being aroused by a depiction of the nude human female body make you a "sick fuck"?

As a dedicated 4channer, I detest that statement.
Dude, it's a cartoon character. Seems kind of lame to get aroused from a drawing. Real women are much better than cells drawn by some guy in Japan who probably can't get any except from his cardboard cut-outs.
Yes, getting turned on by an anime character is criminally wrong and anyone who experiences that needs to kill him/herself, even though it's just an opinion and a fetish and some people can't help but want to hit it.
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Monkey_Man wrote:Lemonparty didn't even shock me the first time I saw it. Goatse's way worse than Lemonparty
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Icarus wrote: I think they are far too big for my liking. A full figure is nice, but I can't imagine the kind of back pain she must suffer. ^_^

I like my ladies more svelte, more... natural looking. A little more petite. "Anything more than a handful is a waste". ^_-
Chloe Vevrier is entirely natural, surely he has received surgeonry to stop the sagging (which starts pretty early if you're naturally big, before legal age if you don't exercise), unlike the obvious fake look of Teresa Rose, which looks like she has a pair of Bridgestone protheses under the breasts XD

Beside that, the mix of mature age and girlish looks in her is a nice reference to many 40-something of these days...uhm, scary :?



I'd do Reko at 40 if she keeps in shape, though
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