“A Study of Hideo Kojima, the Game Creator” Naoya Fujita / Naoya Fujita Price: ¥2,970 → ¥2,499 [Contents] Comprehensive Art Beyond Games His works are now poetry, literature, film, and above all, art itself. — Approaching Hideo Kojima, an existence beyond a game creator. He created the "Metal Gear" series, which has sold over 60 million copies worldwide, and "DEATH STRANDING," and is the second game creator ever to receive the Arts Encouragement Award from the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. This book focuses on the works known as "A KOJIMA HIDEO GAME," in which he was heavily involved in directing, screenwriting, and game design, and approaches Hideo Kojima, an existence beyond a game designer, from the perspective of their consistency and overall nature. "This book is a study and critique of games. The methodology of this book is to analyze game works such as game design, systems, themes, and stories, and to oscillate between them and a study of the author, Hideo Kojima, himself. Game production is a collective creation, so there is room for debate about how far an author-centric approach is possible, and to what extent it can be attributed to a specific author, and there is no established methodology, but this book has made the maximum effort based on the materials accessible at this time." — From this book ● What is "Espionage Opera": A neologism coined by the author, it refers to the structure of a drama that uses the form of entertainment such as spy and espionage (espionage) like "007," while depicting the problems of international politics such as the Cold War and nuclear war in the background, and closely connecting them with the problems of individual love and hate. ISBN 978-4-86793-099-1 Published June 2025 #HideoKojima #DS #DeathStranding #MetalGear #NaoyaFujita #NaoyaFujita #Naoya_Fujita #Book #JapaneseLiterature/Essays and Criticism