There once was a wise sage, known to his followers only as Jugulear. During a conversation, this wise sage suggested that I share my rant on the forum.
Is JAV losing its edge?
I have noticed a trend in JAV, where all the studios seem to be slowly distancing themselves from incest, r*** and some of the more extreme stuff. Although tons of movies are still being made, Ive noticed small changes in the renaming of tags on the sites of the studios and other websites like r18. r*** is now reluctance and incest is now relatives. A lot of sites have removed the mom/mother tag and only left the stepmother tag. Even if you look at the JAVs themselves most of them are now stepmother titles, the actual mother son titles have either been merged with the stepmother series or have disappeared completely.
Ive also noticed several changes even in the quality of the films that are coming out. Now more than ever it feels like everything is stale and that every title that comes out is the 7th or 8th in a series. Even directors who were excellent at making some of these movies have now started working on softer stuff. The directors changing in my mind has had a bad effect on these types of films, the pacing, camera work, lighting and plots have suffered. Most importantly the majority of performances by all the actors have become utterly bland, emotionless and not believable at all which for me is an instant turn off. It feels like even when a new performer comes in and does well she is immediately moved onto another genre, leaving only amateurs to fill in for them. Somehow it feels that all the things that once made these films so much better than the western pornos is slowly being lost.
Its a strange situation for me as an observer. It seems like a lot of the smaller western porn producers and pornstars are trying to emulate certain aspects of JAV. Western porn by and large ignored a large mass of people because of the lack of variety. In the last few years, more and more small studios have started making stuff that is closer to some JAV in terms of plot and genre. When you look at some of the stuff by people like Rachel Steele or Jodi West and those that followed. It seems like they are now trying to carve out an audience for themselves that the bigger studios have overlooked. Although themes like incest, superheroes and so on have been in some western porn before, the tone of these films has changed over the last few years and started to become slightly more like the JAVs we are all so familiar with.
Not that any of this makes a huge difference right now, but the pessimist in me sees this as a rather strange change in position by the studios and these websites. The JAV industry is what it is, because it embraced and thrived on all these taboos that were socially unacceptable.
I wonder if something is going on in Japan that is causing this sort of caution in the industry, or maybe its just sales related? Perhaps those of you in Japan and/or the JAV industry could shed some light on this. Is this is a temporary phase or a sign of the direction that the industry wants to go in?
I would love for you guys to share your thoughts on the matter as well.
Is JAV losing its edge?
I have noticed a trend in JAV, where all the studios seem to be slowly distancing themselves from incest, r*** and some of the more extreme stuff. Although tons of movies are still being made, Ive noticed small changes in the renaming of tags on the sites of the studios and other websites like r18. r*** is now reluctance and incest is now relatives. A lot of sites have removed the mom/mother tag and only left the stepmother tag. Even if you look at the JAVs themselves most of them are now stepmother titles, the actual mother son titles have either been merged with the stepmother series or have disappeared completely.
Ive also noticed several changes even in the quality of the films that are coming out. Now more than ever it feels like everything is stale and that every title that comes out is the 7th or 8th in a series. Even directors who were excellent at making some of these movies have now started working on softer stuff. The directors changing in my mind has had a bad effect on these types of films, the pacing, camera work, lighting and plots have suffered. Most importantly the majority of performances by all the actors have become utterly bland, emotionless and not believable at all which for me is an instant turn off. It feels like even when a new performer comes in and does well she is immediately moved onto another genre, leaving only amateurs to fill in for them. Somehow it feels that all the things that once made these films so much better than the western pornos is slowly being lost.
Its a strange situation for me as an observer. It seems like a lot of the smaller western porn producers and pornstars are trying to emulate certain aspects of JAV. Western porn by and large ignored a large mass of people because of the lack of variety. In the last few years, more and more small studios have started making stuff that is closer to some JAV in terms of plot and genre. When you look at some of the stuff by people like Rachel Steele or Jodi West and those that followed. It seems like they are now trying to carve out an audience for themselves that the bigger studios have overlooked. Although themes like incest, superheroes and so on have been in some western porn before, the tone of these films has changed over the last few years and started to become slightly more like the JAVs we are all so familiar with.
Not that any of this makes a huge difference right now, but the pessimist in me sees this as a rather strange change in position by the studios and these websites. The JAV industry is what it is, because it embraced and thrived on all these taboos that were socially unacceptable.
I wonder if something is going on in Japan that is causing this sort of caution in the industry, or maybe its just sales related? Perhaps those of you in Japan and/or the JAV industry could shed some light on this. Is this is a temporary phase or a sign of the direction that the industry wants to go in?
I would love for you guys to share your thoughts on the matter as well.
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