Though Hayashi claimed that Dead or Alive 5 would be more sophisticated than its predecessors, it became clear that he was referring to visual style only. 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.” The full quote reads: “We are a Japanese developer, and we’re making the female characters with our common sense and our creative sense. 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.” He also said it was “common sense” to portray females in the DoA style, though in context he may not have intended the phrase “common sense” in the same way English speakers would understand the term.
We can’t help if other cultures in other countries around the globe think that it’s a bad representation. “For us, within our culture,” said Hayashi, “we’re showing women like that, and we’re trying to make them look attractive. What could players expect? Hayashi was unrepentant, claiming that the representation of women in DoA was a part of Japanese culture and Team Ninja wasn’t about to change its ways. Dead or Alive has been notorious for its portrayal of female characters, and naturally the conversation turned to their portrayal in the latest game. In a recent interview the head of Team Ninja, Yosuke Hayashi, talked about Dead or Alive 5, and what players could expect from the most recent addition to the franchise.
Yosuke Hayashi says Team Ninja won’t change the way it represents female characters.
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