No More Heroes 3 Bootlegs is fine by me, says director Suda51

During a recent interview, At the CEO of Grasshopper Manufacture, Suda “Suda51”, Goichi was asked if he plans to produce garments No More Heroes 3, el magnificently absurd hack-and-slash his study premiered two weeks ago. Your answer? No, but feel free to grab bootleg t-shirts wherever you can find them.

“The shirts you see behind me were shirts we actually made at Grasshopper,” Suda said through his interpreter. “It simply came to our notice then [them] officially. I’m not sure if it’s okay to post it, but there’s a place called Red Ribbon that seems to sell these t-shirts on its own without permission. Since we don’t, if anyone wants a shirt, check out the red ribbon. They have reached them ”.

“Red ribbon” in this case is almost certain Redbubble, which allows artists to hang their own works and sell them on t-shirts, coffee cups, pillows, phone cases and all sorts of objects. A quick search of Redbubble shows a lot of officers No more heroes-branded items in various independent shop windows, including items of No More Heroes 3so go and buy them with the blessing of Suda.

Aside from Grasshopper Manufacture’s general ethics, “Punk’s Not Dead,” Suda’s stopping attitude toward bootlegs is likely to have to do with the fact that his company it really only owns a small portion from No more heroes property. When your publisher (in this case, Marvelous Inc.) owns a 90% stake in the franchise, it’s probably quite difficult to accumulate energy to worry about lost merchandise sales.

Which is a shame, because No more heroes is a mature series for a dedicated clothing line. Each game includes hundreds of t-shirts to wear the protagonist of the Travis Touchdown franchise, many of which I would love to add to my own closet. That said, mining No more heroes since Merch doesn’t feel very Grasshopper Manufacture either, so maybe it’s better for other vendors to pick up the march.

What’s more punk rock than screen-printing your own t-shirts for bands that can’t and / or don’t do it themselves?

(h / t dreamboum)