Culture $16,000 "Adult Only" Anime "Game" Demo Destroyed by US Customs - gooners BTFO & nothing of value was lost

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An extraordinarily rare floppy disk — one of just 50 copies of Tsukihime Trial Edition ever produced — was allegedly destroyed coming through U.S. Customs.

Collector Keripo shared a video of themselves opening the demo floppy disk delivery on X/Twitter, only to discover the disk had been damaged in such a way that it could only have been deliberate. Across the original packaging tape is another labelled "Opened and Resealed By Customs." It's unclear if it was courier DHL or U.S. Customs that destroyed the disk.

"My Tsukhime Trial Edition (月姫 体験版) finally arrived, one of only 50 copies in the world," wrote Keripo on X/Twitter (thanks, Tom's Hardware). "Only to discover that U.S. Customs had removed all the bubble wrap and physically destroyed the floppy disk. Will file a report, but literally crying right now."

The tweet includes a video of Keripo opening the package. Getting a peek at the contents, they mutter "Oh my god," under their breath, before exclaiming: "What the f***! No way. No way. Noooo way. What… they actually destroyed the floppy disk. What the hell. W-w… what the f***."

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If you're wondering if the sender/seller could've sent it like that, Keripo wrote: "This [embedded above] was what it looked like before it was shipped. The sender even took extra care to sandwich it between cardboard paper and use lots of bubble wrap to protect it. Would never have expected U.S. Customs to both remove all that AND intentionally damage the floppy directly…

"It was actually a friend who helped me buy and ship it. He has his own copy, so he was able to do a scan and confirm its authenticity, including some unfortunate bad sectors. But the value isn't the content but the physical collectors item, which has been damaged beyond repair."

Challenged on why they just-so-happened to be recording as the package was opened, Keripo wrote: "When your carefully packaged box containing a historical artifact arrives at your doorstep completely ripped apart and barely held together with 'Opened and resealed by Customs' tape, plus makes rattling noises that it shouldn't when you pick it up, the first thing you should do is whip out your camera and record.

"The video is real, U.S. Customs opened/resealed the box poorly, the item is genuine, not a fake, the package shipped from my friend in Portugal, not Japan, the excess packaging is common for fragile Japanese collector item," they added.

It's unclear why the disk was destroyed, but some suggest the demo's 'Adult Only' label may have been the issue, as the law states "all persons are prohibited from importing into the United States from any foreign country [...] any obscene book, pamphlet, paper, writing, advertisement, circular, print, picture, drawing, or other representation, figure, or image on or of paper or other material, or any cast, instrument, or other article which is obscene or immoral." What constitutes "obscene or immortal" is determined on a case-by-case basis.

Tsukihime is a Japanese adult visual novel released in 2000 developed by Type-Moon. It has since been adapted into both an anime and manga series. Keripo hasn't said how much they paid for Tsukihime Trial Edition, but did point to what they described as an authentic auction listing for it, which went for around $16,000.

Keripo added that they intended for Tsukihime Trial Edition to be the main attraction at a public Type-Moon museum "featuring all their historical works before they became big." "Now its even more special as the one-of-a-kind 'destroyed by U.S. Customs' edition!" they joked.

Bonus: Sender seething & malding in a youtube comments section:
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Everyone posting "lol good" is missing the point that it was destroyed by some fucking chimpanzee nigger working at the Customs and Border Patrol and not because of some morally righteous Porn Bad Destroy Porn Game motivation.

The chimp nigger would have destroyed the love letters your mom sent your dad when he was deployed to Vietnam or the burial urn with grandma's ashes in it exactly the same way.
 
Cups2Cups said:
If you read the entire post, there is a possibility there are only 9 in good condition left.
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Shyamalan: That customs agent owned one of the other copies and this was an investment bolstering move.
Double Shyamalan: That customs agent was also an autistic boy.
 
Its very likely the law was broken here importing this item. As detestable as the content of the item was, there was a legal process in which this should have been handled. I don't know what Customs was thinking at the time when the package was inspected, but clearly it was not done with intelligence and they did not use their resources correctly to identify the item and how to inspect it correctly.

I (used to, fucking tariffs) import Vinyl records from the UK and I would be absolutely livid if a limited copy of music I ordered was snapped in half because customs didn't know what a vinyl record was, nor use at most a fucking personal cellphone to look up what it was that was ordered. Fuck the police.
 
Bet your ass he didn't properly indicate the value of package either in order to avoid paying the import duty. He would have had to pay the 10% Trump tariff, and then the luxury goods duty which could range from 15 to 20%.

So, back of the envelop math, the guy would need to pay $1,600 in Tariffs, and then $3,200 in import duties. Assuming of course he actually had the items value appropriately itemized and the permits issued. US Customs would see how much the package has paid to enter and would give it the white glove treatment because the payment details would be on the outside of the package.

Or as @Turtle O'Carolan pointed out, he could have just flown over to hand carry it. He could probably have gotten through customs easy peasy pretending it was just some video game he brought along in his luggage. Would have been cheaper then paying the taxes.
 
HarblMcDavid said:
Yeah if they thought this was against the law they would not have let it be delivered or they would have arrested the recipient on delivery. We're at the point where agents are alive that never have seen much less handled a floppy disk before so "what's this?!?!?" *hulk smash* is probably the explanation.
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Customs might have policies in place to search any suspect package with floppies in it. People have been smuggling blow, heroin and whatever else they can stuff inside floppies since the 80s. A buddy's who used to work as a prison guard told me it used to be pretty common up until the early 2000s, but my patch of Leafland has always been a little to a lot behind the times. Still hilarious though somebody trusted something worth 16 grand to international shipping, knowing customs would probably fuck with it, even if it wasn't a smut game.
 
mindlessobserver said:
Bet your ass he didn't properly indicate the value of package either in order to avoid paying the import duty. He would have had to pay the 10% Trump tariff, and then the luxury goods duty which could range from 15 to 20%.

So, back of the envelop math, the guy would need to pay $1,600 in Tariffs, and then $3,200 in import duties. Assuming of course he actually had the items value appropriately itemized and the permits issued. US Customs would see how much the package has paid to enter and would give it the white glove treatment because the payment details would be on the outside of the package.

Or as @Turtle O'Carolan pointed out, he could have just flown over to hand carry it. He could probably have gotten through customs easy peasy pretending it was just some video game he brought along in his luggage. Would have been cheaper then paying the taxes.
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Weren't the tarrifs on the nips only for certain industries, and even then, weren't negotiations successful such that they were lowered/dropped?
 
mindlessobserver said:
Bet your ass he didn't properly indicate the value of package either in order to avoid paying the import duty. He would have had to pay the 10% Trump tariff, and then the luxury goods duty which could range from 15 to 20%.

So, back of the envelop math, the guy would need to pay $1,600 in Tariffs, and then $3,200 in import duties. Assuming of course he actually had the items value appropriately itemized and the permits issued. US Customs would see how much the package has paid to enter and would give it the white glove treatment because the payment details would be on the outside of the package.

Or as @Turtle O'Carolan pointed out, he could have just flown over to hand carry it. He could probably have gotten through customs easy peasy pretending it was just some video game he brought along in his luggage. Would have been cheaper then paying the taxes.
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The government does not "white glove" anything. It doesn't matter if the item was in a shipping container destined for Amazon and duties paid or to a household consumer. If it was selected for random inspection it would have ended in the same result. "Whar ar da durgz?" is the fucking mindset of the lowly government inspector.
 
mindlessobserver said:
Bet your ass he didn't properly indicate the value of package either in order to avoid paying the import duty. He would have had to pay the 10% Trump tariff, and then the luxury goods duty which could range from 15 to 20%.

So, back of the envelop math, the guy would need to pay $1,600 in Tariffs, and then $3,200 in import duties. Assuming of course he actually had the items value appropriately itemized and the permits issued. US Customs would see how much the package has paid to enter and would give it the white glove treatment because the payment details would be on the outside of the package.

Or as @Turtle O'Carolan pointed out, he could have just flown over to hand carry it. He could probably have gotten through customs easy peasy pretending it was just some video game he brought along in his luggage. Would have been cheaper then paying the taxes.
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Exactly. If you have some museum piece being flown over you don't just dump it into a box and call it good. Where was bros special insurance and all that other shit?

Or perhaps maybe what was on the floppy diskette was morally questionable regarding the ages of the depicted characters and too much scrutiny into the item was ill advised?? 🤔
 
Fount of BadSpeak said:
Kiwis will see the government destroy 16 grand of property and say it was a good thing because muh drawings. The average user on this site really is a total fucking retard.
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Yea it's not my thing but if it's not illegal then it shouldn't be destroyed. I'll still make fun of the guy but I think he should be reimbursed.
 
I'm more curious who cares about this shit and would actual go to a museum to see it more then a story about some affirmative hired idiot smashing it. Is this just a level of autism I can't understand? Some cartoon pornography character of a maid has a slightly different personality then another game, is historically relevant? Here is a annoying video of someone playing it
 
The government is retarded but at least nothing of value was lost.

Cherry on top would be if they enforced this law after reading about him bitching:
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It's unclear why the disk was destroyed, but some suggest the demo's 'Adult Only' label may have been the issue, as the law states "all persons are prohibited from importing into the United States from any foreign country [...] any obscene book, pamphlet, paper, writing, advertisement, circular, print, picture, drawing, or other representation, figure, or image on or of paper or other material, or any cast, instrument, or other article which is obscene or immoral." What constitutes "obscene or immortal" is determined on a case-by-case basis.
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you can download the game that was on the floppy disk and there are english translations of the game and somebody even made a fan online version, according to my searches. nothing of value was lost. you could just make a copy of it yourself

original everything, numbers matching, no low ballers, i know what i got autism is even worse with digital media consoomers than car boomers
 
If this was because of a nigger, here's a relevant meme:
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And I get it, it's a tranny and they deserve to suffer. However, despite that, this was a game on floppy disk and was labeled as a trial edition. That's got some historical value to it for codemonkeys, and they all should be fucking floored over this and start weighing out their options. At this point, if you have the money to spend on something this important to get shipped across the ocean regardless of tariffs, might as well just fly over there in person to pick it up. And then get manhandled by customs at the airport if it's a flagged item. (Although isn't Tsukihime already available state-side anyway? Does the trial version have CP that got removed in the final version or what? Though if it was a nigger being a nigger, they wouldn't have known what they were looking at anyway.)
 
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