Why Russians Love Hideo Kojima

The japanese video game creator Hideo Kojima, the mind behind Metal Gear Solid and Death Stranding, is not just super popular in the world of videogames. He is also super popular in Russia! Why is Kojima Genius, why is he a meme in Russia and why do Russians love Kojima so much? #kojima #russia #japan

[slapper]

Kojima is an international treasure. Also that is a really cool jacket

[Concerned_Third_Party]

Вижу некоторую иронию в том, как сильно любят Кодзиму у нас в России за игры, пропитанные антивоенным посылом. 😅

[prismaticc_abyss]

My grandma who is russian (I live in Germany) actually watched that specific episode of the talk show and when he came in as a guest she called me over and said "look [first name] this is a video game guy, surely you know him right?" I was amazed to see Kojimbo on Russian TV

[pgr]

Kojima's work: Anti war, Anti nukes, Anti PMCs
Russia's work:

[TimohaNorveg]

Fun fact: Kojima’s popularity among Russians can only be compared to popularity of Jason Statham

[Vavqu_]

This post was fact checked by real american patriots

[theotheslav]

LOOL I remember jumping on the hype bandwagon and making a full English translation of the episode when Kojima went to the Urgant Show (basically Russian Jimmy Fallon) but it got immediately DMCAd off of YouTube. It’s still on my channel but only I can see it 😭

[as_below_so_above]

I find it funny the Гений jacket was gifted by VK 😂

[MilesLoden-cypj]

If Russians love Hideo Kojima and his games then imagine what they would do when the CS-GO creator comes to Russia!

[bonkb]

There is a book about Metal Gear by Terry Wolfe it's called "The Kojima code" in English and in Russia it was translated as "Кодзима Гений" - Kojima is a genius
And Kojima's own book that called "The Creative Gene" that was translated as "Гены гения" - Genes of a genius

[stephenmuckle]

Kojima is one of the icons of gaming. I know Death Stranding was quite polarising for some people but I loved it.

[donnytonny]

love to see someone who just loves to be enjoyed and express his artistic opinions

[AndrewAmbrose]

I remember that one video where Roman dressed up as Big Boss for Halloween a few years ago. That was fun.

[LOEKASH]

I can only imagine what it's like playing MGSV as a Russian, launching fellow Russians into the air with a balloon all day.

[foppygaming]

hearing the plant sneaking theme in a lot of your videos kind of made me think you made videos about metal gear games but that explaines the usage of plant sneaking theme, that and also its just realy good music.

[Circmspice]

Russians must be honoured that MGS3 is set in a Russian jungle and is getting a remake

[it_is_what_it_is]

one of the comments under that kojima post screenshot was "I eat ass" 😂😂😂

[FelineLegion]

Kojima is a mad genius. The "mad" part deserves as much emphasis as the "genius" part

[LiterallyRyan_Gosling]

With how Russia is nowadays, I wouldn't be surprised if Metal Gear gets banned in Russia for it's anti-war themes

[Zalazaar]

Kojima would wear a jacket with genius on it lol