{"id":359046,"date":"2025-01-03T12:12:11","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T17:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nichegamer.com\/?p=359046"},"modified":"2025-01-03T12:12:11","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T17:12:11","slug":"azur-lane-to-remove-outfits-to-comply-with-google-censorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nichegamer.com\/azur-lane-to-remove-outfits-to-comply-with-google-censorship\/","title":{"rendered":"Azur Lane to remove outfits to comply with Google censorship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-359047\" src=\"https:\/\/media.nichegamer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/atago-azur-lane-1-3-2025.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.nichegamer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/atago-azur-lane-1-3-2025.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/media.nichegamer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/atago-azur-lane-1-3-2025-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/media.nichegamer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/atago-azur-lane-1-3-2025-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/media.nichegamer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/atago-azur-lane-1-3-2025-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/media.nichegamer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/atago-azur-lane-1-3-2025-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The mobile game&nbsp;<em>Azur Lane<\/em> announced that multiple outfits will no longer be available for sale&nbsp;<em>&#8220;due to unforeseen circumstances related to the Google Play Store policy&#8221;<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>According to the post, five character outfits will be removed from the pool of available cosmetics. A small saving grace here is that individuals who already own the outfits will be allowed to keep them.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Shinano &#8211; Visions of Fantasy (L2D)<\/li>\n<li>Napoli &#8211; Dreamy Night (L2D)<\/li>\n<li>Hindenburg &#8211; Delirious Duel (L2D)<\/li>\n<li>Chitose &#8211; Summer Shine<\/li>\n<li>Atago &#8211; Summer March (L2D)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u3010Notice\u3011<\/p>\n<p>Dear Commander,<br \/>HQ regrets to inform you that due to unforeseen circumstances related to the Google Play Store policy, we will be ending the sale of certain outfits.<\/p>\n<p>The following outfits will be removed from sale in the outfit shop on all servers after January 4,\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NbYZRHPEVJ\">pic.twitter.com\/NbYZRHPEVJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Azur Lane Official (@AzurLane_EN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AzurLane_EN\/status\/1875193112445989124?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 3, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Western <a href=\"https:\/\/nichegamer.com\/tokyo-clanpool-rejected-by-steam-as-too-sexy\/\">platforms<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/nichegamer.com\/credit-card-companies-continue-to-censor-japanese-artists\/\">payment processors<\/a> have been censoring products with increasing frequency. The censored outfits all feature characters wearing leotards, swimsuits, or bunnygirl outfits.<\/p>\n<p>Responsibility for these changes rests firmly with Google appearing to alter their standards. In particular, the Atago (Summer March) outfit has been part of the game for <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PProtocol7\/status\/1875198357809115277\">years<\/a>, and Google apparently only took issue with it recently.<\/p>\n<p>Fans of other mobile games should be on the lookout for censorship coming their way if Google remains insistent on this course of action. A few years back&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nichegamer.com\/blue-archive-details-split-rolls-back-censorship\/\"><em>Blue Archive<\/em><\/a> satisfied Google&#8217;s censors by splitting the app between a 17+ and All-Ages version. It&#8217;s unclear how feasible that would be for&nbsp;<em>Azur Lane<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Azur Lane<\/em> is available now on mobile devices!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mobile game&nbsp;Azur Lane announced that multiple outfits will no longer be available for sale&nbsp;&#8220;due to unforeseen circumstances related to the Google Play Store policy&#8221;. According to the post, five character outfits will be removed from the pool of available cosmetics. A small saving grace here is that individuals who already own the outfits will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":185,"featured_media":359047,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,4542],"tags":[11220,3071,15374],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nichegamer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359046"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nichegamer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nichegamer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nichegamer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/185"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nichegamer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359046"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nichegamer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":359049,"href":"https:\/\/nichegamer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359046\/revisions\/359049"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nichegamer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nichegamer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nichegamer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nichegamer.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}