20 years ago this news would be barely a footnote in the newspaper, now this woman's private life has been passed all over the internet and has become a meme.
Nowadays one can't even fart in public anymore without some idiot recording it and putting it on Facebook.
It made perfect use of the setting.
Manly characters and wenches that get what's coming to them. Imagine something like that in a BioWare or CD Project game.
B00bies, f3t1sh and pr0n games can be made without any bruhaha whatsoever in Japan, after all it's a civilization where Social Justice was already achieved 2,000 years ago when our own ancestors were still rolling around in the muck.