No developer is more closely associated to the term "breast physics" than Team Ninja. The team behind Ninja Gaiden, Dead or Alive, and Metroid: Other M, is somewhat infamous for their portrayal of women. Some say it's just fanservice, others argue it's blatant objectification, but either way, both sides can agree that it's not very realistic.
Well, according to Yosuke Hayashi, they have no intention of changing this anytime soon. What's more, he argues that this sort of representation is "common sense", with a basis in Japanese culture. Um...
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So, kids, remember...
In the words of Dr. Evil, "Riiiiiight."
Well, according to Yosuke Hayashi, they have no intention of changing this anytime soon. What's more, he argues that this sort of representation is "common sense", with a basis in Japanese culture. Um...
"With the representation of female characters in the Dead or Alive franchise, we've always wanted to make the girls look as attractive as possible, and that's something that's not going to change for us at all," Hayashi says. "We are a Japanese developer, and we're making the female characters with our common sense and our creative sense. When you take that to countries outside of Japan, it tends to be very misinterpreted in some cases, people considering it sexist or derogatory, etc."
..."For us, within our culture, we're showing women like that, and we're trying to make them look attractive," he says. "We can't help if other cultures in other countries around the globe think that it's a bad representation. Within our nationality and within our national borders, we obviously have morals that we create our female characters from, but within our Japanese sensibilities, we've made those characters the way they are and we're not going to stop doing that."
So, kids, remember...
In the words of Dr. Evil, "Riiiiiight."