won the G-Phoria 2007 award in the category "Best Hottest Babe", garnering 55% of all votes,Stephen Johnson, G-Phoria Results are IN!, G4tv.com, August 8, 2007. came third after Mai Shiranui from The King of Fighters and Chun-Li in a Korean Internet fan poll for White Day 2009, just as she later did in poll for the most erotic girl in the history of fighting games conducted by Japanese web portal Goo in 2016 (coming fourth in 2018), and was voted second in the "Miss of Video Games 2012" poll by Polish magazine PSX Extreme. PSX Extreme'''s Daniel Żelazny ranked her blue shinobi attire as the eight best female costume in video games in 2014, noting she is one of favourite game characters among cosplayers. Kasumi has been repeatedly named as one of gaming's top female ninja characters. In 2007, Rob Wright of Tom's Games featured her as one of the 50 greatest female characters in video game history and one of "the video game vixens of today" for being "one of the most powerfuland sexyninjas in the world." UGO ranked her tenth in its list of 2007 "video game hotties", describing her as "freakin' hot" and "the most attractive ninja you'll ever see." Chris Buffa of GameDaily ranked her at number eight in his 2008 list of top "hottest game babes" due to their love of "female ninjas, especially ones with gigantic breasts," and wrote, "Kasumi remains the most recognizable Dead or Alive girl, and one of the most dangerous." In 2010, G4tv.com called her "the iconic female ninja", and PLAY ranked this "everyone’s favourite ginger ninja" as the second "hottest redhead" in games. Machinima.com's Steve and Larson placed her third on its 2011 list of "top ten ninjas in all of gaming", and Gelo Gonzales of FHM included Kasumi among the nine "sexiest ninja babes in games" in a 2012 list, calling her "about as pure as ninjas go" and comparing her to Bela Padilla. Kasumi has been positively received for her other traits, too. Sega Saturn Magazine named the "beautiful" Kasumi the "brains" of the first DOA, with Tina being the game's "muscle", and stated bother are "guaranteed to offend sexists everywhere" as she is "easily capable of holding their own against the game's macho male fighters." Joystick Division's James Hawkins described Kasumi as "a deadly fighter when she has to be, and a caring, passionate person when