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7/9/2025, 5:17:13 AM
>>714925997
Kojima gets way too much credit for leaning on tropes that are everywhere in Japanese media. He just presents them in a vaguely Ameriboo way which makes them more approachable to Western audiences.
>>714926941
I wasn't really pop culturally aware back then, but I'ma guess it had to do with CoD4 leaning into the whole "modern warfare is cool" angle during the height of the Iraq War backlash. The Japanese especially were fierce critics of the Iraq War (and are just kind of anti-war pacifists in general).
Kojima gets way too much credit for leaning on tropes that are everywhere in Japanese media. He just presents them in a vaguely Ameriboo way which makes them more approachable to Western audiences.
>>714926941
I wasn't really pop culturally aware back then, but I'ma guess it had to do with CoD4 leaning into the whole "modern warfare is cool" angle during the height of the Iraq War backlash. The Japanese especially were fierce critics of the Iraq War (and are just kind of anti-war pacifists in general).
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