Ninja Gaiden: The Essential Interview

Kikizo: Absolutely! I love legendary ninja techniques.

Itagaki: Ninjas fight from above, right? They'll be jumping around on trees and on rooftops... So they would grab a guy from behind... [gets up and demonstrates the hold using one of his assistant producers as the hapless victim] and drop down from a tree top or something, you know, thirty or forty feet, and crush the guy's head open.

Kikizo: A very friendly greeting with gravity, then.

Itagaki: So this is a technique of the most powerful ninja in the history of Japan. He had never once been defeated using this technique. There was a female ninja who tried to defeat that technique. She put the sword through herself, through her back into him when he grabbed her. [demonstrates with his AP, up to a point, using a sheathed short sword] She thought that would kill him. But that legendary ninja was wearing chain mail, so unfortunately it was ineffective.

Kikizo: Close though.

Itagaki: Yeah, close.

Kikizo: So what do you think is the best way to escape the Izuna Drop?

Itagaki: The best thing to do is just avoid it at all costs.

Kikizo: Hold on, let me just make a note of that...

Itagaki: [laughs] So it's the same thing with Hayabusa. If you don't want to be killed by Hayabusa, you'd just better stay away.

Kikizo: OK. It's a good thing he's on the good side.

Itagaki: Just remember that justice is defined by the beholder; it's different for everybody. I'm sure everyone in Europe understands that painfully well.

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