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Gentle viewers in today's news.
Miyazaki does things differently.
Punctuation is hard and Sonic's creator is going behind bars?
So without any further ado, I am Tristan Gallant
And welcome to Glass Reflection.
Let's jam.
Hayao Miyazaki, The famously known director from Studio
Ghibli, has either completed or is nearing completion
of his latest film, titled How Do You Live?
Are you surprised that this might be the first that you're hearing about it?
Don't be.
It was the same for me.
Well, most of us did assume that he was working on something
since the man, you know, will never stop working until he's dead.
As evidenced by his comically large number of retirement attempts,
We have never been told what exactly he was working on.
Apparently, this was by design.
Studio Ghibli producer Toshio Suzuki.
Recently held
an interview where he explained the reasoning behind the silence.
It's not because there's nothing to talk about or that they were hiding anything,
but rather they're all getting older and they're getting tired of doing
the same old marketing blitz over and over and over again and have decided that
this time they're going to do nothing and see what happens.
Of course, the mere existence of this interview
means that they're not doing nothing necessarily, but anything traditionally
related to the marketing of a film will be absent this time around.
No continuous interviews, no commercials, and absolutely no trailers
for the film are going to be released, which might end up being
a kind of stroke of marketing genius or perhaps just a completely terrible idea
because, like I feel as though most people have a mindset
that a Miyazaki film will be good regardless of content,
because historically that has been the case.
Sure, different people like different films, different aspects of one film
over another.
But largely, I don't think many people would attempt to claim that even the worst
Miyazaki film on their favorites list is a bad film.
Like I Hate Spirited Away for a variety of reasons, but
I'm not stupid enough to attempt to claim something demonstrated to be false
like that. It's a bad film.
I just don't like it because of that reputation.
However, as long as people are made aware of the film's existance,
they might be curious enough to go and see what it's all about because,
you know, there will be very little in the way of finding out what the film is
like beforehand.
Unless, you know, you wait like a week and pay attention
to the reactions of people who do go to see it.
But for those who watch it on release day,
they are that pretty much going in blind, which would be an interesting experience.
Honestly, I do kind of wish that I could participate in that, though
The whole plot of the film will obviously be made public
knowledge long before it hits western theaters,
and I doubt that any licensing company here in the West is going to continue
with the idea of let's have no trailers or marketing for this film,
like they will want to sell that film as much as they can when it gets here.
Suzuki
Also takes a nice jab in the interview at Hollywood trailers.
He says that they spoil the film before people
have even watched it, which is absolutely true.
I have stopped watching Hollywood trailers for films that I'm interested in purely
because I have been burned so many times before, because trailers now
just tend to be basic summaries of the film.
You see all the amazing parts and hear all of the context around it beforehand
because apparently that is good marketing.
The trailers make you believe that there is even more amazing things
in the film itself until you watch it and find out
that the trailer contained basically all of it.
But it doesn't matter at that point.
They already have your money.
Either way, I hope that this lack of marketing
is successful for them and that people get to enjoy this latest
Miyazaki film when it is released next month.
All right, I'm bringing this next one up
because it was a little bit confusing to figure out purely from headlines.
And I'm sure I'm not the only one who didn't really get what was going on.
Devil is a part timer!! recently released a trailer for its sequel
which might be confusing because it had a sequel.
The second season of Devil as a part timer! aired last July.
So what's up with this?
But ha you see it's because I didn't pronounce the title
with enough emphasis because the second season of Devil
is a part Timer!! has two exclamation points in its title,
and this sequel is for the title with two exclamation points in its title.
So to be clear, we have Devil is a part timer! with one exclamation point.
That was the original season.
One. devil is a part timer!! with two exclamation points.
That was the series from last year, and now Devil is a part timer!!
Second season also with two exclamation points.
Really?
Whoever thought that this was a good idea
should not be allowed to continue to give ideas.
I mean, just adding an exclamation point is bad enough to distinguish
a sequel from the original, though that it's not actually unique to
Devil is a part timer!, but at least when working!!! did it,
they had the decency to continually add new punctuation with each season
so that while you still had to pause and check the title
to know what season you were watching, it didn't confuse the life out of people.
When a new trailer came out announcing an anime
that we already watched?!?!
So hey, there is going to be a third season
of Devil as a part timer! coming out and there's a trailer for it.
Hopefully I helped clear things up.
Maybe I made it worse. Who knows?
But at least I can feel better about it.
And that's all I care about at the moment.
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Game director Yuji Naka, famous
Sega mastermind behind the world famous Sonic franchise, has
recently been arrested and is currently being recommended
by prosecution to be charged a fine of ¥172.5
million alongside a two and a half year prison sentence.
Thankfully, his crime has nothing to do with children or the possession
of illegal material,
like some other bigger names that make the news about getting arrested.
But instead he was charged
with violating Japan's financial instruments and exchange Act.
In other words, insider trading.
And that's no good.
Naka allegedly made a profit of about 146,000 U.S.
dollars equivalent after finding out about upcoming games for the Dragon Quest
and Final Fantasy franchises at Square Enix and making investments accordingly.
Since Square Enix is the company from which he worked at the time
and was privy to unreleased information that was not public knowledge,
he cheated at the game of the stock market and players of the stock market game
get very antsy when people don't play by the rules.
Oddly, Naka resigned from Square Enix back in 2021,
not long after the release of his latest video game Balan Wonderworld.
However, his statements at the time did clarify that he was unable to explain
the reasoning behind his resignation and that he would explain it at a later date.
Naka then sued Square Enix a year later for being removed from the director's
chair of Balen six months before the game's release.
Despite not having worked at Square Enix since 2021, Naka was arrested all the same
since his actions allegedly occurred while he was still employed.
He does not seem to reject any of the allegations against him,
saying that he was
sorry to have harmed the fairness and credibility of the marketplace.
I was able to successfully say those words without cracking up.
I am quite proud of myself.
While it's unknown what effect this will have on Naka future,
considering his financial problems have nothing to do with his development
ability, game development, ability, he could very well be in the director's
chair of another game in the future after he gets out of jail.
Though they might just, you know,
keep him out of any corporate slack threads while he works there.
Final judgment in this case is set to happen on July 7th,
which is when we will find out if his fine or his sentence is reduced.
And if that is interesting information or relevant information.
I'll keep you updated.
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