A lot people playing Girls Frontline know that MICA Team -- a mainland Chinese game studio -- censored many of the character models for the domestic release, models which were left uncensored in the later launches of the Korea and Japan servers (for some reason the English server left the domestic CN censorship in, much to players’ chagrin. My pet theory is that it’s because EN is the “global” server, including several markets in Southeast Asia who,  though gacha game-crazy, happen to exist under religious majoritarian or straight-up authoritarian governments)

What’s less obvious is the cultural framing of the T-Dolls.