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Metal Gear Solid V Characters Made More Erotic To Encourage Cosplay

You have to love it when someone just says the truth. The Hideo Kojima, game director for Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain came out on his English Twitter account and admitted that the characters in MGS5 are being designed with a more erotic feel to encourage cosplay and the sale of figures. Not that this is suprising, but its rare to have someone just come out and say it. In quite a few tweets he explained how he instructed Yoji Shinkawa the art director to design the characters more erotic and how he was pleased with the results.

Now that people are starting to see how to use cosplay to make money, expect to hear more and more stories like this I would think.

Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain has yet to have its release date announced… but I have a feeling we'll be seeing a lot of images from it very soon.

Here are the tweets from Hideo Kojima including an inspirational photo.

I've been ordering to Yoji to make the character more erotic, and he did it well. Recently I've been making characters this way. (cont)

— HIDEO_KOJIMA (@HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN) September 4, 2013

I create the setting thoroughly, how he/she spent early life, name, style, favorite phrase, fashion, action to stand the character out.(cont

— HIDEO_KOJIMA (@HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN) September 4, 2013

The initial target is to make u want to do cosplay or its figurine to sell well.

— HIDEO_KOJIMA (@HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN) September 4, 2013

Dear all Cosplayers. Will be disclosing 1 of the characters in MGSV, Quiet's CG data (inclu detail of her back) this Fri midnit (PST) (cont)

— HIDEO_KOJIMA (@HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN) September 4, 2013

Quiet's CG data this Fri midnit (PST) at Kojima Productions portal. Pls refer to that for those planning to cosplay for Quiet at TGS(cont)

— HIDEO_KOJIMA (@HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN) September 4, 2013

In fact, I was asked by one of the cosplayers. She asked the detail of Quiet as E3 trailer didn't reveal the detail. (cont)

— HIDEO_KOJIMA (@HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN) September 4, 2013

Since I cannot reveal confidential info to individual, I decided to official announce.

— HIDEO_KOJIMA (@HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN) September 4, 2013

The character I asked Yoji to make it more erotic, this one may not be cosplayable.

— HIDEO_KOJIMA (@HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN) September 4, 2013

What if no one would do Quiet cosplay at TGS even though giving the info…lol

— HIDEO_KOJIMA (@HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN) September 4, 2013

Well, I want to see the most is Skull Face' cosplay.

— HIDEO_KOJIMA (@HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN) September 4, 2013

Dear Cosplayer friends, something like this for example. pic.twitter.com/SWkN3BSDFy

— HIDEO_KOJIMA (@HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN) September 4, 2013

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