Hideo Kojima has launched a new exclusive Japanese podcast for Audible, where he discusses topics related to games and movies, including Death Stranding and Metal Gear Solid. In each episode of the show, called Hideo Kojima’s Radioverse, a different guest joins Kojima for in-depth conversations on topics relating to video games and movies.
These Kojima spaces begin with the Metal Gear franchise, its specific goal for each game it creates, and details about Death Stranding and what Kojima’s next game will look like. His first guest was Akio Otsuka, an accomplished voice actor for Snake in the Japanese MGS games. In the debut episode, they’re talking about the Metal Gear franchise, Death Stranding, Kojima points out each of his titles.
While we’ve been told that his studio, Kojima Productions, will open a new media division and that 2022 will be exciting, what fans might not expect is podcasts. After Kojima cryptically teased the new project at the start of the new year, many speculated that Kojima might be working on a podcast, and it turns out they were right.
Earlier this year, Kojima tweeted, “Could he start doing something like a radio project?” Elsewhere in a social media post, he shared his other plans for 2022. One of his most intriguing tweets on the subject was posted at the start of the new year last month and teased a “radical project” of sorts, albeit in typical Kojima fashion, that hasn’t been said since. Kojima himself has been teasing a couple of new projects over the past couple of months. According to a source, one of Hideo Kojima’s next games will be experimental, while the other will be a great AAA game that will appeal to a wide range of players.
In December 2021, Kojima also confirmed that he was working on two separate games. In October 2020, Kojima Productions announced that they were working on a brand new game and also expanding to Los Angeles in November 2021 with a new division dedicated to film, television, and music. Eventually, at the end of 2021, Kojima Productions announced the opening of a new business unit in Los Angeles focusing on film and television.
Now Kojima will have another opportunity to share this passion in a new project. However, you also need to know Japanese as it is exclusive to Amazon Audible Japan. The podcast description on the website reads: “Each time, we invite various guests to discuss in-depth topics related to games and movies that are not heard anywhere else. According to the same report, there are no plans to dub the podcast, although that can always change.
I’ll be keeping an eye on Reddit to see if well-meaning people decide to share their secrets about transcending language barriers. In the first episode, Kojima chats with a popular Japanese YouTuber, whose description implies that they are mainly discussing Kojima’s recent work on Metal Gear Solid and Death Stranding. In the first episode, Kojima talks to members of the Japanese YouTube channel 2BRO, which has more than 3 million subscribers. Hideo Kojima is also known for his quirky personality which should make the podcast really unique and fun.
