At the end of the day, you have to understand that Ivy's character and thematic is a dominatrix alchemist first and foremost since her inception. It's prevalent in her personality and moves. It's the type of design that anyone can understand who and what she is at a glance.
To change her is like wanting Voldo to not be gimpy. Their defaults always reflect aspects of their S&M inspired duality. Their additional alts get into different things that explore aspects of them outside of this, but their base concepts are always what's most important to express and have people understand. It's the theme to their character designs as a whole, whether people like it or not. That's who they are. To want them to be something other than what they are is to want them to be totally different characters and lose the "point" of them both.
That is probably why they have fun and include other things as their alts that are more experimental however. But the defaults for both always are to the point and meant to be.
Mari Shimazaki tried to do some kind of high fashion thing with her, as that's what she likes and typically is stylistically inspired by when designing. High fashion is divisive. I wasn't much a fan of it mainly because the color scheme was just wholly unfitting for her. You could fix that by editing that in-game, but eh. It just wasn't her best work either way.
You know what gets me about all of that? The biggest ignorance is how the interviewer had the gall and audacity to ask such a question, when the Soul Calibur series' weapon designer since the beginning is a woman.
Their theme needs to be expressed in their designs - that's for sure :)
It's not like i want this aspect to get lost - as long as CaS will be as good or better than in SC5 it would be already enough for me ^^
It was very much 80s disco style ... never looked good in my opinion - i liked her SC5 2P only because of using it in CaS.
This question was really unnecessary, but i don't believe it was meant in a bad way... to answer this question he could have done some research in the internet.
As far as i know the situation about women rights etc is similar to the in germany and some other lands, that in the post-war period women got more rights and where legally equivalent to men.
But women still have it harder in terms of getting work and payment. (correct me if i am wrong xD)
(Also i find it very interessting that there was a women centralized time in japans culture - but ok going to far off-topic)
•equally condescending tone• You’re very welcome!
I didn’t realize I was being tracked.
However, there’s not much of a proper discussion that can truly take place — Batman is just not the one. I do support this project he’s getting, and that’s where he needs to stay.
1. It wasn't meant completly serious ^^ (50/50)
2. It would make more sense than Starwars (as far as i understood Batman Ninja is about Batman getting in a earlier timeline (feudal Japan) - so this would already be closer to SC)
3. The release time of this anime would be also fitting with SC - so this wouldn't be a bad marketing move.
But that's just my opinion :P
