Kotaku: izuna

Atlus Cosplayers Do Atlus Proud

Mike Fahey — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 11:20:00 MST

Atlus just announced the winners of their 2008 Atlus-O-Weenie Halloween Costume Contest, which had fans of the company's games dressing themselves up as popular characters for a chance at an Atlus prize pack filled with goodies. Judging from some of the shots they received the real winner here was the folks on the other end of the entry email address. Just look at this cosplay of Velvet from Odin Sphere. The sheer amount of physical fitness represented in that one picture alone is enough to leave my lazy ass winded - and she didn't even win!

No, Velvet was just a runner up. The winner was the girl who dressed up as Izuna, The Unemployed Ninja, who did a lovely job of representing the DS series despite not having quite the same assets to work with. Check out the gallery for the rest of the runners up, or hit the link to see all the entries, a disturbing number of which have guns pointed at their heads.

Atlus-O-Weenie Contest Entries [Atlus]

Unemployed Ninja Finds Work Launching Her Own Game

Brian Ashcraft — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 03:00:25 MST

A new DS game featuring unemployed ninja Izuna was released yesterday in Japan. The launch event featured Izuna and fellow ninja Shino cosplayers carrying fake swords and smiling. The game's character designer even made an appearance, signing autographs and drawing pictures. I quite like the idea of people involved in the game showing up at launches and signing autographs. Seems like a good way to launch a game!
Izuna Launch [Akiba Blog]

The Saucy DS Game Box

Brian Ashcraft — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 06:00:47 MST

We don't think we've ever seen a "saucy" DS case before. Even the game case for SNK's Doki Doki Majo Shinpan was totally tame. RPG dungeon crawler Izuna: Legend of the Unemployed Ninja 2 for the DS is getting released today in Japan and going on sale at retailer Sofmap in this very saucy box set that looks more like a shameful movie (or game) than the fairly innocuous DS title that it is. So saucy!
Izuna 2 Box [Hobby Blog]