The ‘Breast’ Bonuses Abound when Buying Izuna 2

Do you like humongous boobs? Do you like ninjas? Do you like ninjas with enormous ta-tas drinking milk on a poster you’ll be too embarrassed to show anyone? Well folks, that’s what Atlus is promising to consumers with their purchase of Izuna 2: The Unemployed Ninja Returns.

Stirring this controversy are four posters of the scantily clad ninja in revealing poses.

Two contests for the breast picture were held between Atlus, and Amazon and Gamestop. The winning picture for Amazon was number one, which detailed the ninja drinking a classic bottle of milk with her dusty gozongas scarcely covered.

Christmas might come early this July because Atlus and Gamestop are feeling generous with their sexy anime. Their contest winner will include an alternative poster of Izuna brandishing a gigantic, anime/phallic inspired sword. In this poster, unfortunately, she is wearing enough clothing to perhaps practice Ninjitsu.

If swag is your standard fare, there are reversible covers that have randomly been thrown into each of the Amazon and Gamestop packages. These detail Izuna (and sometimes her friends) posing in a suggestive nature, leading teenage boys to wonder why the lines between real and make-believe have been blurred.

Though the voting ended on the 23rd, I wish I could have weighed in on the great cleavage debate. I find the bathhouse image to be smutty enough to let the imagination wander without having the sensibility of clothed soft-core pornography. If you offered a teen boy an image of a young lady in a low cut bra drinking milk, he may be so mesmerized by the jelly, he may not realize he has a choice.

But considering the subjugation of women in video games, sexualizing an image of an anime character, for the use of sex in sales for interactive entertainment, is tasteless. What’s more is the winning image has something deeply wrong with it: not only is Izuna almost totally naked, but she’s drinking milk—the idea has been sexualized in a number of popular magazines like Penthouse and Playboy over the years. Hopefully our readership has not subscribed to the shallow connotations, suggesting that somehow her nutritious dedication to milk has allowed her endowments to grow large, while she keeps her figure fit.

So, these ‘idle hands’ are logging onto a website and gleefully voting for cartoon breasts. They have gone into the desert and drank the Kool-Aid. The people who purchase this game because of the poster have been helplessly duped into buying a game for the subconscious promise of sex—with an anime girl named Izuna. Does this sound at all crazy?

But come July 22nd, we’ll all find out when Izuna 2: The Unemployed Ninja Returns hits the shelves. Though this game has yet to be rated, I can’t help but think it will flop. This perversion of anime characters and bastardization of a promotional model can only tell us one thing: Atlus thinks this game is going to suck (figuratively). In years to come, maybe we’ll get all teary-eyed and nostalgic when we see that a pair of dirty pillows can no longer sell a video game.