I’ve been arsing about wondering if this was worth covering for a while now, but it’s since reached a level of artistic absurdity that I can’t help but be kinda impressed.
So a few months ago Amazon Japan started messing with their ‘sexual wellness’ category. More specifically, the onahole section. At first these changes were fairly minor, typically pixelating anime girls on the box art – adding an extra helping of mosaic on their already jagged-looking vaginas or even over their fully clothed bodies – but this didn’t satisfy Jeff Bezo-san, oh no.
Jump ahead a few weeks and suddenly product images for the onaholes themselves were getting covered with censor bars or crudely scribbled over; some to the point where you could barely tell what the hell you were looking at.
Initially I figured Amazon were hastily trying to clean everything up due to the Olympics or something (much like why convenience stores in Tokyo were ordered to hide or remove porn mags late last year). Because what if a tourist went to Japan to specifically watch the 100m pasta eating finals only to accidentally… start browsing for sex toys on their phone?
The camera would pan over to them in the crowd, visibly pumping their fist and cock to the excitement of a completely uncensored blob of rubber anime vagina on Amazon Japan dot com. That would be a disaster broadcast worldwide.
Then whoops, the whole pandemic thing took over and put an end to that carb-fuelled crisis. Yet Amazon Japan has continued to get more aggressive with the very products they’re trying to sell.
Now it’s essentially impossible to see a single image of an actual onahole, and this has been retroactively applied to hundreds of existing listings (some of which haven’t even been in production for years).
Not even poor AIKA is safe.
I think my favourite example so far is EXE’s Puni Ana Miracle DX, where every image that used to show the product has been edited into blank backgrounds. All except for its rib cage.
This is what it’s supposed to look like…
… and this is Amazon’s version. YOU WANNA FUCK SOME BONES?
Some companies like Toy’s Heart and Tamatoys are now submitting massively cut-down versions of their box art in advance, while others like NPG and NightFly are just still letting Amazon censor stuff themselves.
G Project in particular seem to have had enough and are simply giving Amazon almost completely empty images.
The Amazon Japan version of HON MONO.
The actual box art for HON MONO.
Either way the onahole product images themselves just aren’t allowed on Amazon Japan anymore, forcing consumers to either Google search for them or blind buy. The best part is this only affects onaholes sold by Amazon themselves. Third party sellers (who typically populate the site with bootleg rubbish) are still allowed to show whatever the hell they want.
Likewise, other sex toys and adult products appear to be unaffected.
Wow this onahole looks great!!
Will the next step involve renaming every onahole into gibberish so that nobody can search for anything? Perhaps Amazon Japan could ship a box of broken glass to customers if they buy an onahole, and then permanently ban their accounts?
Stay tuned!
Wonder if this is in any way related to the mysterious disappearance of some manga/LNs from Amazon elsewhere in the world. Not sure what’s going on here!
Yeah, I just recently heard about the massive deletion of LNs from one company the other day. So weird.
If anything, at least this potentially opens the door back up for smaller publishers/retailers who got crushed by Amazon in the first place.
So weird. Thanks for bringing this up, it’s sad onaholes are being pushed aside so cruely by bezos-san…
That puzzled me quite a bit when I was looking for high-res pictures of the Puni Virgin Ride the other day, and saw the views of the toy heavily pixelated. Looking for more examples, I notice A Taciturn Girl where a carefully placed white circle censors the schematic view of the part of the toy where the dick gets squeezed tight. No vulva or anything. Could legit be packaging of a Tamatoys nightgown for otokonoko.
Amazon got a slap on the wrist by Japanese government about “not doing enough to enforce anti-obscenity laws”? One may think it’s the begin of the grand conspiracy to bring back Japanese youth into fruitful and plentiful procreation activity instead of wasting their seed into plastic objects, ewww yuck so obscene and depraved.
I’m carefully monitoring NLS: if they too have to censor anything showing nipples or plastic vaginas, then the whole onahole industry goes belly-up. And if Amazon customers must keep an Onahodouga tab open to actually see the product they’re thinking to buy…. heck no, that won’t do.
Sidenote: now that only the anime girls of the packaging are visible with no trace of the toy, it’s only a matter of time until someone buys thinking to get a poster or cute shojo-manga or figurine, just to find themselves receiving an onahole. Fun/cringe YouTube unboxing videos ahead!
If that’s the Japanese government’s scheme, then they’re either really dumb or willfully ignorant. Taking away the bread and circuses that distract people from the world isn’t going to fix a society’s problems; it’s just going to attract the people’s ire. If Japan wants to fix its fertility rate, then it has to end the self-destructive social experiment infecting it and pretty much the rest of the developed world.
Don’t care too much about amazon anyway as I like to support dedicated businesses such as otonajp and jlist. Toydemon is only an option if you are in the us in my opinion but before I throw my money at Bezos San I rather support people with passion.
not sure if u guys are still visiting this website but nowadays, they don’t even sell onaholes anymore. All onaholes that I have purchased are gone and showing “page cannot be found”.
Amazon Japan? They still sell ’em. You may need to browse with a Japanese postcode though, they’ve blocked access for a lot of countries.