Red-blooded heterosexual testosterone-sweating fans of the bouncing, jiggling lady fun-bags heavily featured in Tecmo’s Xbox classic Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball (and let’s not forget ladies who love ladies, either!) may well be shocked – nay, even appalled – to hear that the game’s creator, Team Ninja’s legendary Tomonobu Itagaki, is being sued by a 31 year-old former Tecmo employee for sexual harassment.

Itakagi’s ex-staffer is looking to retrieve compensation of 10,000,000 Yen ($84,843) damages for the claimed harassment, which she says began in 2003 and ended when she left Tecmo on September 8th of this year.

Below is a darkly funny Google Translation of a report of the case from a Japanese site called ZakZak!



It would seem that Itakagi, who is 39 and married with two kids, is claiming that his affair with the woman was totally consensual back in 2003. SPOnG will bring you further news on the case as we get it.

In the meantime check out SPOnG’s Dead or Alive Xtreme 2 page – Itakagi’s next helping of shameless lady fun-bun bouncing is slated for November 21st in the US and December 8th in Europe.

There’s also a Dead or Alive movie out soon. Which you will want to avoid like the plague.