Platinum Video games’ Bayonetta made her North American debut in 2010 and he or she shortly grew to become a fan-favorite character. And what’s to not love? She’s a shapeshifting witch who’s excellent at gunplay. And he or she virtually by no means seems with out her glasses, as insisted upon by her creator, Hideki Kamiya.
Earlier this week, a fan on X requested Kamiya a few meme-worthy quote he was alleged to have stated: “Bayonetta’s glasses are similar to her underwear.” By way of Automaton, Kamiya attributed the quote to animation director Yuji Shimomura, who dealt with the sport’s cinematics. Kamiya additionally indicated that he agreed with Shimomura that Bayonetta ought to by no means be with out her glasses.
“After we have been designing Bayonetta, our shoppers requested us to take off her glasses, and it is true that I saved rejecting their proposals,” recalled Kamiya. “Nevertheless it’s additionally true that, on a separate event, Mr. Shimomura, who produced the cinematics, stated ‘Bayonetta’s glasses are similar to her underwear–do not take them off at any value.'”
Mari Shimazaki–the character designer of Bayonetta–posted a response of her own on X, and famous that Kamiya got here up with Bayonetta’s glasses on the earliest levels of her creation.
“Throughout the growth of Bayonetta 1, after I was drawing up tough sketches of the character design, Kamiya appeared behind me out of nowhere and whispered: ‘Give her glasses.’ That is how the whole lot began. Later, every time I used to be sketching tough designs for Bayonetta, he’d all the time come as much as me saying, ‘Why don’t you give her glasses?’ So it grew to become a behavior for me to all the time have a glasses layer prepared in my designs. Whereas the method of finalizing designs was generally a bumpy experience, I all the time had the glasses layer on standby.”
To this point within the video games, Bayonetta has solely allowed a single particular person to see her with out her glasses. She even wears them throughout the 2023 prequel recreation, Bayonetta Origins: Cereza and the Misplaced Demon.
Bayonetta 3 got here out in 2022, and Kamiya subsequently hinted at Bayonetta 4. Nevertheless, Kamiya left Platinum Video games in 2023, and subsequently expressed his want to make his personal video games. The standing of Bayonetta 4 is at the moment unknown, with Kamiya busy on Okami 2.