A while back I was scrolling through Twitter and saw Herkz—the guy who helped Sekai Project put out Grisaia no Kajitsu—posting some personal thoughts on the sequels, Grisaia no Meikyuu and Grisaia no Rakuen. “Personally speaking, even if I had zero interest in the sex scenes, I’d still wait for the 18+ uncensored version. If you ask me whether the handful of new CGs in the all-ages version are worth it, I’d just say no.” “Also, like I said on ask.fm, it’s not just the 18+ content that got cut from Grisaia no Meikyuu.” Looking back, that comment is pretty interesting. First, it comes from a lead translator on the localization team. Second, that same translator realized the game he was translating was going to have content chopped from the final build for certain reasons, and then told the fans: he personally wouldn’t touch his own company’s castrated release and would wait for the 18+ uncensored version. Makes you stop and think. Is it really worth building a separate “censored version” of an already-released “complete uncensored version” just so you can sell it in more places? Or dropping a trimmed “censored version” on players while they anxiously wait for the uncensored one?