Behind the No More Heroes launch event.
http://zepy.momotato.com/2007/12/08/behind-the-no-more-heroes-launch-event/ The much anticipated Wii game No More Heroes had a launch event held at Sofmap Amusement on the 6th of December with director Suda Gouichi and producer Wada Yasuhiro at the scene to distribute toilet paper and sign copies of the game. The event was widely covered by the gaming press, but apparently there was another story behind it. Akibablog reports that when the event opened and they started selling the game, nobody bought the game even after waiting for 20 minutes. So apparently one of the press reporters at the scene that looked like he was from Enterbrain / Famitsu went to buy a copy and get the game signed instead while all the reporters at the scene took photos of him. Damn that's sad. Now that was straight up Japanese. Someone took one for the team. In order to save Suda 51 from the embarrassment of losing face. Personally I kind wish the Japanese would stop acting so Japanese. I think it would've been funnier if nobody bought the game at all. Especially since there were Sylvia cos play babes http://www.akibablog.net/archives/2007/12/nomoreheroes-071207.html at the event who were looking like "What the hell am I doing here? Nobodies buying this stupid game." It's little incidents like this that make Suda a true artist. (Artists usually aren't noticed or praised for their work while they're alive.) Note: Suda kinda looks like what Jackie Chan would look like if Jackie didn't have such an enormously sized head.

Poor Suda. :cry:

Damn, that does suck. The chick dressed up as Sylvia is pretty hot, though.

I feel more sorry about the game. Since you know that guy prolly just threw NMH straight into the dumpster after the event. (He prolly doesn't even own a Wii.) As for Suda, I bet he doesn't give a fuck. This is the same guy who's so pimp. That he actually got Yin Ling of joytoy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdTfHo_vE4Q to pose nearly naked for his Michigan game. (Hah hah, that youtube retard just made up some shit. It's not that she's big in Japan. She just happened to be raised & grew up in Japan, that's all...) I actually wrote a mini summary about Yin at my ill fated Michigan page that I never bothered to update. http://www.sitesled.com/members/killer7/michigan.html Lol, Hard Gay vs Yin Ling http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vPFeDazhpU&feature=related Since Suda is so pimp. I bet he probably got to hit that after the NMH grand opening. God damn those legs, I wish I could see the rest of her thighs... I bet she's wearing a thong underneath that. So I'd say it's a win/win situation. (Look at how thick her legs are. What are the chances of some cosplay chick actually having curves & meat on her bones? Damn! Those legs!! Lick her up & down... Why can't Japanese Americans look like that?) I'd go into explicit detail of what I do if I were in the same room with her, but than I'd prolly get a notice from Gamespy enforcing moi to put a warning in front of every single one of my posts. (Like what they made me do with the k7 sin Index page. I don't mind though. I think it's pretty cool & comical having a warning mature content sign.) That's why Suda always has that creepy smile, because the spirit of Jack the ripper overcomes him & he slaughters her after intercourse... (Woo hoo I bet I just predicted a new subplot for a random case in the Silver Case.) I just wish he'd get rid of that ugly ass haircut. Suda was pretty cool looking when he made Michigan. He actually had a hair style that didn't suck. At least Suda is sporting a cool leather jacket. You can never go wrong with a leather jacket.

Dude, you can totally go wrong with a leather jacket. But yeah, Suda's earlier hair style was better. But I think his current one looks cute, more "mature", I guess.

Naw, the leather jacket never goes out of style

According to some study I read someplace, somewhere at some point in time, Japanese women are actually displeased with Japanese men for being wimp and not daring enough. So, connecting the dots, I must conclude that the babes were actually the responsible for the flop. They were probably deemed too scary to wimps, which would represent a good chunk of the average gamer population. That, and Suda, in all his manliness, scaring people off by shoving toilet paper into these assholes' faces, implying, of course, that these dipshits will need the toilet paper to handle the flesh on display. I still stick to my take - Suda51 and NMH are too hardcore for the average Japanese male, or worse, the average Japanese male gamer (who is virgin at 39, while the women are so frustrated that they have to either make out with each other, or read Yaoi manga, because they stopped believing in heterosexuality). You can never go wrong with a Leather Jacket. Unless you're trying to sell No More Heroes along with toilet paper surrounded by hot babes, in Japan.

Well, theres also the slight possibality that the games sucks and people dont want it :)

So, connecting the dots, I must conclude that the babes were actually the responsible for the flop. They were probably deemed too scary to wimps, which would represent a good chunk of the average gamer population. I still stick to my take - Suda51 and NMH are too hardcore for the average Japanese male, or worse, the average Japanese male gamer (who is virgin at 39, while the women are so frustrated that they have to either make out with each other, or read Yaoi manga, because they stopped believing in heterosexuality). Those are some impressive detective skills. I agree with this 100%. Can't believe I never saw that. I'm not sure where this NMH opening was at, but I'm guessing it was in Akihabara (Which by nature would be filled to the brim with 41 yr. old virgins.) That Sylvia cos play is abnormal imo, because she actually looks like a grown up woman. She has the full figured hips of a woman. Most of these events usually have these underage moe bitches, like those hoes on Touchdown's shirt. So just as you concluded. It probably was that hot piece of ass that was scaring off all the customers. (In Yokohama, there'd probably a line of foreigners & japanese trying to get inside that Sylvia chicks panties, lol.) Suda sure is a pimp though. (If I ever get the time. I am seriously going to try to photoshop Suda & that Sylvia chick's head into that badass "Mr. Big & his bitchez" pic.) This guy is practically down with every underground sub culture that I was down with when I was in Japan. Yin Ling, Dj Hasebe, Club Asia. Shit what the hell is Suda going to rep next? Dude, you can totally go wrong with a leather jacket. Nah, I've never seen a case where the leather jacket was the actual cause for a man to fail in his sexual advances. There are many cases where an incompetant asshole wearing a leather jacket went wrong, but that had more to do with the wuss wearing the jacket. Not the jacket itself. Leather coats/jackets perpetuate the aura of cool & badass. Unless of course the person wearing it happens to be a complete tool. According to some study I read someplace, somewhere at some point in time, Japanese women are actually displeased with Japanese men for being wimp and not daring enough. There are many "studies" about Japan, and most of them are inaccurate or stilted towards a certain view point. While those conclusions are true. It only seems to be true for the socially stunted nerds of Japan. I can name several places in Japan where it's uncommon to see jap fags like that. (Yokohama, Nagoya, Chiba, Hirata, etc.) Now the thing that most Japanese women find unattractive about Japanese men, is that most Japanese guys are misogynists. They don't treat women like people. Which is the main reason why Japanese television, media, games, entertainment is so sexist. (Not that I mind. Shit look at them bare naked D-cup sized TITTIES on broad daylight television, hee hee.) Most of all a lot of Japanese guys seem to only be looking for a 2nd Mommy. (Someone who can cook, wash the dishes/clothes, take care of all household chores, etc.) While the wifey's at home they'll go around screwing some random chick at the red light district. The main reason why so many japanese couples are making so few babies with each other has to do with them sleeping with other people who aren't their spouses, lol. American men are deemed more attractive, because they actually seem to be caring. (Or at the least. American men feign showings of affection.) I say American, rather than Foreigner, because it's usually the Americans who get targeted. Not moi though. Although I'm considered a pimp in most places outside of Japan. Inside Japan I can't attract any women at all, because my appearance & personality is too unusual/weird. You need to look like a Black, Latin or White stereotype. In other words you need to look an MTV or Hollywood stereotype. The uniqueness that most people associate I with is actually a deterrent for moi in Japan. Especially since my name is Japanese (Yet I don't actually speak or write Japanese), and I speak English with a Cali accent. (A dialect that they've never heard of before. If they have, they usually have only heard of Snoop Dogg. Who speaks exaggerated as hell.) Whereas most Japanese guys don't even try. They just act like they own every woman, because most of them tend to view women more as objects. Rather than people. That IMO, is the real reason why Japanese women tend to gravitate towards American men. (Other foreigners can play too, but it's usually the Americans who peep the most game in Japan. Most Americans don't even need to try, they just say "hi". Shit, I wish that was me, heh heh.) Note: I was actually a lot less perverted before I came to Japan. I was greatly influenced when I saw how shameless Japanese guys are towards women. Did you know that most artists who draw hentai anime & manga. Actually hire well figured Japanese women to pose nude for them while drawing their next "big" project. Hell in some of cases. I've seen some hentai artists who are actually women, who undergo male pen names. Shit I gotta open up a blog sometime where I'll post screen caps & scans of the type of shit I saw in Japan, lol.

poor suda omg I heard NMH sold more than killer 7 in japan but this event sounds like a rain on a picnic day :| I'll get a wii just for this game and okami looks great

Now I know why yaoi has so many fangirls, haha. I keep saying I don't want to go to Japan because it's expensive and the people would probably hate my guts, but sometimes, when I hear of the shit I'm missing, I get a urge to go... Good thing I know a pilot.

(If I ever get the time. I am seriously going to try to photoshop Suda & that Sylvia chick's head into that badass "Mr. Big & his bitchez" pic.) Heh, I'm on it.