Hideo Kojima a "Huge Fan" of Twilight, Judging Fan Art Contest

Japanese art site Pixiv is holding a fan art contest to celebrate the upcoming film Twilight: New Moon, and one of the judges is none other than Mr. Metal Gear himself.

Didn't see this one coming: Renowned game creator Hideo Kojima has been tapped as one of the judges for a Twilight fan art contest run by Japanese art site Pixiv - think DeviantArt, only Japanese. The contest is meant to coincide with the upcoming Twilight: New Moon, the movie based on the second book in Stephanie Meyer's ridiculously successful novel series about teenage vampires that sparkle in the sunlight.

Kojima is one of three judges, all of whom are reportedly "huge fans" of the series according to the Pixiv announcement. He will join Yoshiyuki Sadamoto, who is best known for his work as the character designer and manga creator for the landmark Neon Genesis Evangelion, and Ryuji Gotsubo, creator of the manga Sasameke and illustrator for the Japanese releases of the Twilight novels.

All three judges have their own prize packages to award to the winner as they see fit: Sadamoto will be giving away an autographed painting set, Kojima an autographed copy of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, and Gotsubo "an autographed set of the first three Twilight tankōbon novel volumes," according to the Anime News Network. The Pixiv community will also be able to choose 10 winners of its own, who will each be given two tickets to the film when it launches in Japan on November 28th.

Kojima strikes me as more of the Team Jacob type than Team Edward, wouldn't you say?

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holy hell, please don't get any ideas for the next MGS game involving twilight ><

Well, to be fair, I've never read any of those books or, to my knowledge, played any of those games.

Maybe it's because the style of the books, from what people have told me, is rather like manga aimed for little girls.

Empty pit, soul crushed, don't....know how to..respond. Maybe it's not so bad. Yeah, maybe he's just a fan of comedies that aren't supposed to be funny. Yeah yeah yeah yeah that's got to be it.

MajoraPersona:
Well, to be fair, I've never read any of those books or, to my knowledge, played any of those games.

Maybe it's because the style of the books, from what people have told me, is rather like manga aimed for little girls.

That's giving it too much credit. It's crappy fanfiction for those crazy girls who like to base their lives around shipping characters.

I knew there was a reason why I could never take Metal gear games seriously...

Sounds about right. The Metal Gear story is absolutely terrible, so it only fits that the writer of said story likes a series of books that is equally terrible.

Also, nice touch with the duck's head. ;P

LeonHellsvite:
holy hell, please don't get any ideas for the next MGS game involving twilight ><

Too late http://img.jeuxvideopc.com/images/articles/2057/9269/grandformat/11113.jpg

I'm a huge fan, too.

Those books are the best comedy of our generation, hands down.
Anyone who disagrees sparkles.

Ok, I've seen everything.
I may die now.

.... owch..... just ... owch....

I really don't know what else to say here as it all just feels so........ so... painfully wrong... o_o;

well okay, te movies so far clearly weren't anything good... and the novels aimed not to my market.. so I just pull back and whimper in terror

MaxTheReaper:
I'm a huge fan, too.

Those books are the best comedy of our generation, hands down.
Anyone who disagrees sparkles.

..... okay, that's a way to look at the books that makes it understandable again... :D

... I've lost respect for Hideo Kojima. I just... damn it. This pisses me off to no end. This just proves that no matter how awesome someone can be on what they do, they can still have opinions that make them look stupid. At least in my eyes, Hideo Kojima is a little dumber for this. MGS is still one of the greatest series ever, but Hideo... He just isn't as awesome as before.

Now, I'm not usually one to jump on the Twilight hate bandwagon, but...

MaxTheReaper:
I'm a huge fan, too.

Those books are the best comedy of our generation, hands down.
Anyone who disagrees sparkles.

I can agree with that about the movie. In fact, I plan on writing a review about it for a friend's site. But the books, on the other hand, are depressing. And that last one is fucked up, big time.

Pirce:

MajoraPersona:
Well, to be fair, I've never read any of those books or, to my knowledge, played any of those games.

Maybe it's because the style of the books, from what people have told me, is rather like manga aimed for little girls.

That's giving it too much credit. It's crappy fanfiction for those crazy girls who like to base their lives around shipping characters.

That's what I said. Shoujo and Josei manga. Japan has entire supergenres dedicated to such writing.

MGS4 is my 5th favorite game of all time... I think...Yeah, I think a bit of my soul just died.

LeonHellsvite:
holy hell, please don't get any ideas for the next MGS game involving twilight ><

Well, here's a good idea, at any rate.

I have no respect for the man now.

Well, this is quite surprising.

But hey, if he likes it then so be it.

Well Twilight certainly is hideous, But really. So what?

Aren't we forgetting that this is the same guy who's working on the new Castlevania game?

I was hoping there would be a little side-quest where Belmont would go and slaughter the entire cast of Twilight...but now that dream is now history...

what

>< I hate Twilight now. Marketers are now selling Conversation Hearts as Halloween Candy because of that movie! But anyway, that's another rant.
I was a little surprised at first, but as I read the article it made sense. Long, complicated stories with an abundance of characters with cliche-remade-anew trappings aka monsterisms. Sounds exactly like Hideo's own material.

No! Please dear god NO!

It makes sense, sure. Vamp in MGS2/4 makes kojima like Vampires, but COME ON KOJIMA!

This is too much for me to handle. I must play my Modern Warfare 2...

It's not out?! Oh GOD!

Then Ratchet and...

Oh COME ON! Is there anything good I can play to mask my pain?

Oh yeah... WoW.

Well, he did come up with Raiden in an attempt to appeal to little girls, so I could see him having a similar interest in Twilight...

Darenus:

..... okay, that's a way to look at the books that makes it understandable again... :D

I don't understand what you mean by that.
How is there any other way to look at them?

ZeroMachine:

I can agree with that about the movie. In fact, I plan on writing a review about it for a friend's site. But the books, on the other hand, are depressing. And that last one is fucked up, big time.

OH LAWDY
Tha movie.

BEST. THING. EVER.
I watched it like a day before Halloween, and I swear to you: I have never laughed so hard.
I actually passed out from dry-heave laughing for two hours straight.
Whoever made that was a genius.

MaxTheReaper:

Darenus:

..... okay, that's a way to look at the books that makes it understandable again... :D

I don't understand what you mean by that.
How is there any other way to look at them?

ZeroMachine:

I can agree with that about the movie. In fact, I plan on writing a review about it for a friend's site. But the books, on the other hand, are depressing. And that last one is fucked up, big time.

OH LAWDY
Tha movie.

BEST. THING. EVER.
I watched it like a day before Halloween, and I swear to you: I have never laughed so hard.
I actually passed out from dry-heave laughing for two hours straight.
Whoever made that was a genius.

Exactly! It was my favorite comedy from last year! :D

So let me just get this? This Kojima guy can't speak English but reads American tween novels? I call shenannigans, from what I've seen of this guy he's nothing but a media whore. Willing to do anything as long as it gets him in print or in front of a camera.

Further proof that Hideo Kojima couldn't recognize good storytelling if it jumped out of his toilet and bit him.

MaxTheReaper:
I'm a huge fan, too.

Those books are the best comedy of our generation, hands down.
Anyone who disagrees sparkles.

Amen to that. Boy, I sure hope there isn't anybody who hasn't yet realised that these books aren't serious.

Hehe. This is priceless! This kinda answers a lot of questions for me, regarding why I hate MGS.
Hah! I cannot stop smiling!
:D

Johnn Johnston:
Amen to that. Boy, I sure hope there isn't anybody who hasn't yet realised that these books aren't serious.

I also love how the author manages to depict a seriously abusive relationship but still make it hilarious.

Jaqen Hghar:
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Off-topic (WHO'S SURPRISED), but your avatar reminds me of something from "The Temper Trap."

tehroc:
So let me just get this? This Kojima guy can't speak English but reads American tween novels? I call shenannigans, from what I've seen of this guy he's nothing but a media whore. Willing to do anything as long as it gets him in print or in front of a camera.

Twilight has been translated into other languages.
I think the title is literally "My Boyfriend is a Vampire" over there, or something.
I recall reading that somewhere so it must be true.

ZeroMachine:

Exactly! It was my favorite comedy from last year! :D

I feel so behind the times.

MaxTheReaper:

Off-topic (WHO'S SURPRISED), but your avatar reminds me of something from "The Temper Trap."

Never heard of it... something I should check out maybe?
It's really Dan Dreiberg from Watchmen by the way.

MaxTheReaper:

I also love how the author manages to depict a seriously abusive relationship but still make it hilarious.

But the scary thing is that the author herself doesn't know the books aren't serious... I tend to research things I dislike/hate a lot so that I got enough ammo to sustain myself in a "Why do you not like XXX" battle, and boy, I got a lot of ammo towards Twilight and the author.
Did you know she more or less ignored her children while she wrote the books? And that she said she would leave her husband without a second though if Jacob or Edward showed up on her doorstep? I tell you, you can read about Twilight and the author for days and still find little nuggets of comedy gold.

No! They got Hideo Kojima! Run for your life! Arm the noob pwners and militarize the gold farmers, we're-a goin' to war with Twilight!!

Not a large fan of Metal Gear Solid games, but if I were I would be insulted by it's creator liking such a horrible horrible horrible injustice that has been done to vampires by a crazy person. Mind you I hate vampires anyways, but I would concede outside of the 10,000,000,000 weaknesses they have they are cool. Sparkle in daylight? Makes me want to harm someone.