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A bish&#333;jo game or girl game is a type of Japanese video game centered on interactions with attractive anime girls. Although nearly all bish&#333;jo games involve romantic or sex appeal of some kind, they may or may not be pornographic. Bish&#333;jo games are a uniquely Japanese phenomenon: they have virtually no parallel in the American or European video game industries. They form a sizeable fraction of the Japanese market: the most popular have sold over a million copies, and they make up the majority of offline PC games in Japan. Nevertheless, because of real or perceived cultural differences, few have been translated and no major mass-market release has yet been attempted outside of East Asia. Thus bish&#333;jo games remain by far the least known of the major video game genres outside of Japan. Notable subgenres of bish&#333;jo games are ren'ai games (often called "dating sims") and H games (often called "hentai games"). (more...)

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