The producer of Atelier Ryza has made the extraordinary claim that he did not think people would notice Reisalin’s thighs or regard her as sexually attractive.
Producer Junzo Hosoi has spoken about the design decisions that led to the creation of thigh idol Reisalin Stout, saying that she was intended to be a mere farmer’s daughter with no sexual magnetism. According to the interview:
Question: What’s the design process like for each protagonist of the Atelier series? Each one is unique and easily identifiable with their respective entry.
In this case, the setting is that she’s a farmer’s daughter, but then we thought, “Well a skirt and farming – that doesn’t go well together.” We don’t really want their underwear showing as well. So we decided to go with the short-shorts. The other aspect is that because it’s summer – that’s the theme – so that’s how we came up with the design.
So surprisingly a lot of people are paying attention to her thighs. We didn’t create her with the intention of her thighs being the key point, but a lot of people seem to be really… (Laughs)
Our approach was to make a cute character without any sexual innuendo whatsoever. Everyone sort of looks at her as sort of being sexy, and that’s completely not how we look at her, so that really caught us by surprise. (Laughs)
These claims of innocence may be contrasted with Hosoi’s comments about character designer Toridamono. Hosoi was previously quoted as saying:
Toridamono really focused on getting Laiza’s thighs just right. There were also some Gust staff who followed his lead. (laughs)
Atelier Ryza was released in Japan on the 26th of September. The game will be released for PS4, Switch and PC on the 29th of October in North America and the 1st of November in Europe.
Everyone knows fanservice = Profit
Yeah, but Japan’s more into stick figures with giant tits. They don’t really latch onto delicious THICC hips and asses often.
Waiting for certain brain dead Switch game to bomb.
Words from my college professor, Sex sells.
Especially if children are involved.
Is that the reason behind commercial success of hentai anime?
big fat lies
He knew EXACTLY what he was doing
Yep lying out his ass.
This is one of those rare cases where the character is actually entertaining along with being typical rule 34 bait (now there’s a cult if I ever saw one). Some of her lines are hilarious and intended to lampoon this very topic.
A Japanese man always knows exactly what is happening
It think that he was surprised at first and then after seeing the reaction, he decided to roll with it.
big fat thighs*
Gabe is fatso
…noticing some doujins of her show her getting raped by Gabe Newell lookalikes lmao
Imo, they should use miniskirt with thighighs next time.
It’s like when Ken Levine was surprised that everyone turned Elizabeth into a 3d fucktoy for all their animations.
Yes, but unlike Yoko Taro and Junzo Hosoi here, Kennyboy cried like a little bitch, “It’s like seeing porn of your daughter”, he said. Elizabeth porn was the ONLY good thing to come out of Bioshock Infinite, and that’s not saying much, most of the 3d porn is absolutely trash.
“Elizabeth porn was the ONLY good thing to come out of Bioshock Infinite” Amen brother! That game was s♥♥t, two weapon limit with a bunch of shitty boring guns, regenerating shields, linear shooting gallery level design. The only reason it got any praise is because dumb people thought “infinite universes” the plot was deep.
“I Didn’t Think People Would Find Her Sexy!”
You knew what the f♥♥k you were doing.