NECA also did any thinkable kind of merchandise crap for Ninja Gaiden II – baseball caps, necklaces, wall scrolls and whatnot. It doesn’t look quite as good as the statues, but of course there’s bound to be compromises in favor of flexibility. NECA has announced the release of a Ryu action figure quite a while ago, which was finally released in 2008. There are also some big (1/6 scale) PVC Statues made by Kotobukiya, so the manufacturing quality is really good and they look totally great, given that the female ones got the usual exaggerated proportions. Needless to say, the book has not been considered canon by Tecmo, but it is usually recognized as a fairly decent read for children. After all, if the target audience wasn’t the kids who had played the games, where the hero was killing his enemies by the dozens, then who was?
No boy should have to grow up without his father, right? This kind of supposed protection of children’s innocent minds seems quite unnecessary and hypocritical in this case. There’s also one major plot change because Ryu’s father also stays alive in the book. Furthermore, as with most books in the series, Ryu’s weapon was edited out on the cover image, which makes him look rather stupid. The book to Ninja Gaiden followed the plot of the first game rather closely, but as the series was aimed to young children, no one was allowed to die. All the books show this same pseudonym, but they were written by different authors, this one by Peter Lerangis, under yet another pen name called A.L. Nine, so that the books could be found next to “Nintendo” in book stores, although none of them were officially licensed and thus all are based off third party games. Worlds of Power was a children’s book series based on several 8-bit video games, created by Seth Godin to get 10-year-old video game junkies to read a book once in a while.
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