Atari Hitotonari
Atari Hitotonari is a spineless jellyfish of a human in the Kiss Players continuity
Atari Hitotonari (人隣 当梨, Hitotonari Atari): She's submissive, passive, immature even for her young age, and not all that bright. What a positive female role model she is...for the Ferengi. Perhaps the only non-stereotypical facet of her personality is that she wears glasses without being especially intelligent.
Atari is, surprisingly, not so named as an analogy to her mental computing abilities. Her last name means 'girl next door', apparently. She likes to gorge herself on doughnuts and desserts.
Among Atari's other good qualities, she has joined an organization dedicated to eliminating the threat that Transformers pose to all on Earth. Well, actually, she didn't really "join" it as much as she was "sucked into" it, and then spit out...naked...and covered in goo. Ugh.
Atari becomes carsick easily and must clutch the steering wheel to avoid complete nausea.
Fiction
Kiss Players
In the year 2005, Atari was one of many girls who suddenly developed Kiss Player abilities. The E.D.C. became aware of her Kiss Player potential, but she would not come to join them until after her parents were killed in a Transformer-related incident. Suddenly orphaned, she was left despondent, alone and resentful of the mechanical beings.
Atari became despressed and self-destructive. As she spoke aloud about her nihilistic feelings one day, she encountered a menacing automobile with no driver. The vehicle offered to make good on her wish to die and transformed into a Legion robot.
The cowed and terrified girl was saved at the last moment by the sudden appearance of the Ne-04 Autrooper, fused with the E.D.C. Kiss Player Shao-Shao Li. However, Shao had reached the limit of her fusion time and was ejected from her partner, unconscious. As the Legion loomed closer, the damaged Autrooper demanded that Atari kiss it. Characteristically, she complied, and the resulting fusion both repaired the Autrooper and allowed the two to messily decapitate their goo-drooling enemy. Initially consumed by battle lust, Atari regained her senses, threw up and passed out.
She awoke in an unfamiliar room in E.D.C. headquarters, apparently having been drafted into the organization in the meantime. Her new teammate, Ringo of Ne squad, informed her that she was a powerful Kiss Player, kissed her, and then bit her to "taste" Atari's abilities. It was only the first of many incidents of shame, pain and humiliation to come.
In one of her first assignments, Atari found herself and her squad assigned to guard the convoy that was transporting the dead body of Optimus Prime into Tokyo. The rookie Kiss Player was swiftly rendered helpless when her opponent, the resistance commando Marissa Faireborn, sliced her clothes off with a knife, fused with the resurrected Prime and ran away.
Over the months that followed, Atari continued to live in the shadow of her Ne Squad predecessor, Shao-Shao. Publicly kissing her Autrooper partner (the same Ne-04) brought her nothing but embarrassment and discomfort, and she could not help but think that the veteran fighters on the team must be much better kissers than she was.
One day, less than six months after joining the E.D.C., Atari developed an excruciating stomach pain after eating an omelette. At her Autrooper's behest, she kissed him and he shrank to a tiny size. Driving into her mouth, he was able to defeat and destroy the Legion invader inside Atari's digestive tract. Unable to get back out on his own, the Autrooper made Atari stick her finger down her throat, resulting in yet more shame and humiliation for the young girl.
She also got possessed by Starscream once.
Toys
Kiss Players
Atari was released as a painted, pre-posed PVC figurine with a transformable Smallest Transformer Autrooper and an audio CD in the "Atari X Autorooper" figure collection in September, 2006. The figurine was sculpted by series designer Yuki Ohshima.
A redecoed version of the Atari figurine in a black uniform with a Decepticon insignia armband was an online-order exclusive from Dengeki Hobby magazine. Called "Atari-scream", it represents Atari as possessed by the ghost of Starscream.
A smaller figurine is due to be released with a 1:24 scale transforming Autrooper in the "Autorooper X Atari" set in December, 2006.
