Citations:nukige

English citations of nukige

Noun: "(video games) a Japanese visual novel genre featuring sexually explicit content for the sole purpose of masturbation or sexual gratification"

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• 2010, Brian Ashcroft & Shoko Ueda, Japanese Schoolgirl Confidential: How Teenage Girls Made a Nation Cool, pages 154 & 156:

  “To put it simply, a nakige brings players to tears as they read the in-game text,” says Yoshida. “In the past, adult games were seen as pornography in Japan, so were called nukige, or games to masturbate to.”

• 2016, Matthew R. Bird, "Eustia of the Tarnished Wings: The Visual Novel in Translation", thesis submitted to the University of Massachusetts Amherst, page 17:

  Eroge is a hugely popular genre of visual novel both from established producers and fan circles, and can be further divided into smaller categories such as nukige (抜きゲ) or ‘jack-off game’, referring to a game that is intended to provide easy access to sex scenes or other erotic material to facilitate masturbation.

• 2019, Catherine Driscoll & Liam Grealy, "In the name of the nation: Media classification, globalisation, and exceptionalism", International Journal of Cultural Studies, Volume 22, Issue 3, May 2009 (link):

  As well as the effect of loosening content restrictions, the key point here is that Japanese videogame regulation is fractured by platform multiplicity. Small publishers producing games such as dating sims, visual novels, and ‘nukige’ (masturbation games) cohere to self-regulate, and more serious sexual content is confined to the PC market, dominated by adult consumers.

• 2019, Ema Bícová, "Visual Novel and Its Translation", thesis submitted to Palacký University Olomouc, page 13:

  The last mention belongs to the “nukige” (“masturbation game”) genre, which describes games explicitly and solely focused on pornographic content (see also “Logan M”; 2013, and Mai; 2014).

• 2019, Nguyen Dang Khoa, "Creating a Game Using Visual Novel Maker", thesis submitted to Oulu University of Applied Sciences, page 18:

  Adult-only sub-genres of visual novel games called eroge and nukige also exist.

• 2022, William Schrage, "Hiding Hobbies and Saving Social Lives: About the Representation of Otaku Struggles in Ore no imōto ga konnani kawaii wake ga nai", Mechademia, Volume 14, Number 2, Spring 2022:

  Unlike nukige, visual novels that focus primarily on sexual interactions between characters, the focus of eroge is on the story, including more romantic or emotional relationships.