Bizarre Honours

The other day Fleshbot pointed me in the direction of a Japanese gay dating game entitled Absolute Obedience.

Gay dating game? Apparently, yes. According to the site, this is a man on man version of "bishouju games".

Huh?

Let the site explain:

In Japan, fully 25% of computer software published belong to a unique genre of game called "bishoujo games" ("pretty girl games"), which are usually a kind of love simulation game in which you try to become romantically involved with beautiful anime characters as the object of the game. As a rule, you have different girls you interact with as the story develops, with many different endings, one or several with each girl. They're very challenging and very interactive, with everything from lovable, goofy anime characters to romantic love and heartbreak to very erotic sex.

Hmmm, interesting. Or at least it would be if all of the boys didn't look like girls.

I am sure some of you are mildly amused by the very existence of these games but this is not the purpose of this post. On scrolling down the game's information page, I noticed that one of the characters is named after the German New Wave director, Werner Herzog (whom you may know from his recent documentary, Grizzly Man).



With a name like Herzog this most certainly is not a coincidence. Is this a case of some crazy writer picking out a pretty name or is it some kind of homage? Someone is going to have to purchase the game and investigate.

Takers?

Tags: queer, Japan, film