Good day, a gentle viewers.
In today's news, I get corrected about delays.
Spider-verse gets some Japan exclusive content and Konami look like dicks again.
All that today alongside some spring 2023 anime rankings.
So without any further ado, I am Tristan Gallant
and welcome to Glass Reflection.
Let's jam.
Hey. So remember when literally.
Last news video,
I said this: but with a look of that will be all of the delays for this season.
All of them.
Guess how long it took me to be proven wrong?
The same day.
The day that I posted that video, we got the announcement that [OSHI NO KO]
was getting a delay.
Not allowed to make predictions like that anymore.
Unless I want them to be true, though of course, if I want them to be true,
they won't be. Alright,
So it was announced that [OSHI NO KO] is going to get booted back by a week
now airing its eighth episode on June 7th instead of its original air
date of May 31st.
And similar to when Witch from Mercury got delayed a couple of weeks back.
[OSHI NO KO] will also receive a recap episode in its normally scheduled spot.
So that's either something to look forward to or skip as the weeks go on.
Now, I'm not going to continue on and be like, this will be the absolute
last delay of the season because I'll probably be proven wrong.
But I will say that I hope that this is the last
because like I said last time, we are in the second half of the season.
We're getting closer and closer to the end of this season
and the start of next season, and any major delay
should have already happened by now.
Granted, a single week pushed back with a recap episode.
It's not really a major delay, especially compared to a lot of things
from last season because, you know,
last season we had a bunch of shows that got like four or five,
six week delays, even one that got booted by an entire season.
So hopefully nothing like that is going to happen again.
Knock on wood, and we'll just have to deal with single week pushback and recap
episodes instead.
And hopefully this is the last one.
Hopefully.
Now, while most
people will not constitute the amazing CGI animated film
Spider-Man into the Spider-verse as anime, if you look hard enough
and honestly, I don't even feel like you need to look all that hard.
It won't be all that difficult to see that film's effect
on the worldwide animation industry, and this includes Japan and anime.
So surprise, surprise, when it was announced that the Japanese dub
for the upcoming Spider-verse film is getting its own unique
Japan exclusive theme song sung by famous Japanese singer LiSA.
LiSA
Of course, you should know by reputation, if not by name.
She's provided the vocals for a number of anime opening themes, specifically
the popular shows like Sword Art Online and Demon Slayer and Fate Apocrypha.
In the announcement, LiSA herself shares a little comment,
mentioning her love of the character Gwen from the film.
And I would also assume Gwen from the franchise in general,
and she believes it to be a great honor to be entrusted with this theme song.
Now, personally, I'm not entirely sure
why Japan is getting its own theme song for the dub.
That's not something.
Unless I'm completely off base here, that's not something
that normally happens with Japanese dubs of Western films.
I mean, I'm ecstatic about it.
I'm happy that it's a thing. Though now
It just makes me depressed because I won't be able to witness that
when I go see the film because I'm going to have to see it in English.
I'll probably have to dig around
after the fact to try and see if I can find a copy of the Japanese
dub online somewhere, because it's not like
that's going to be in a theater near me or anything.
Also, I feel like this is worth mentioning
because it's the first time I noticed it.
The producers of the new Spider-verse film have also confirmed
that somewhere in the film
there will be a shout out to Toei Spider-Man series from the Seventies.
Because, yes, for those who don't know,
Japan had its own Spider-Man series back in the late 1970s.
I think it was like 78.
It came out and that series was just kind of an action focused Spider-Man show
in the same vein as pretty much every tokusatsu series ever.
Especially the ones from that era.
And hopefully that won't
be a kind of blink and you'll miss it kind of reference.
Like sometimes those things are.
I really hope it's like a more substantial amount of time on the screen
and not just like, Hey, he's in the background
with a bunch of other spider men or something.
I don't know because that would be great.
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Double piece of interesting news that normally falls
under the gaming category and not anime.
But you know, I'm interested in it. So we're going to talk.
Konami recently announced during a PlayStation showcase
that they are currently developing and plan to release a remake of the video game
Metal Gear Solid three Snake Eater for the PlayStation five.
Metal Gear Solid three, of course, being a very well-regarded entry
into the Metal Gear franchise that came out in 2004.
I want to say on the PlayStation two, Konami is quoted as saying
that they are working hard for Metal Gear, solid Delta snake Eater
to be a faithful recreation of the original story and game design
while evolving the gameplay with stunning visuals and a seamless user experience,
which is something I'm surprised that any spokesperson from Konami can say
with a straight face.
Because,
you know, I just personally feel like it's hard to say that you're going to remain
faithful to the work while actively scrubbing out
the name of the game's director whenever you can.
Konami, of course, has had a very well known and very public spat
with former Metal Gear solid creator Hideo Kojima.
Kojima worked on virtually every Metal Gear game
since the franchise's launch back in the eighties,
and this of course includes Metal Gear Solid three since Konami kicked Kojima
out of the company due to creative differences,
they have literally gone out of their way to basically erase his existence
and any proof that he worked on any of these games from any release
since he's left, including at the time Metal Gear, Solid five,
because technically that wasn't released when he got kicked out.
It was just mostly done
and they then removed his name off of all of the promotional material
because it used to be there until it wasn't.
Now, of course, Konami makes no mention of Kojima
in this announcement of the remake,
so it is very safe to say that he has zero involvement.
But the thing that this Internet denizen finds very curious
is the timing of this remake announcement, right?
Because not even the day before the PlayStation showcase, Kojima
was also in the news helping to promote his documentary, Connecting Worlds,
a documentary that apparently covers him and his new studio,
Kojima Productions, As they get started up and make their first game.
Immediately following Kojima getting kicked out of Konami.
While most of the documentary probably focuses far more on death
stranding than it does anything related to Metal Gear.
It still seems weird to me that as soon as he starts hawking this
and announcing when it's going to be shown at a film festival that Konami like,
Oh, hey, he's in the news, better take him out of it by announcing,
you know, that we're going to remake his work.
It is not even just a little bit petty if any of that happened
to be done on purpose, maybe it was a coincidence.
Coincidences happen every day.
I just don't trust coincidence.
Now, Kojima's documentary itself will be set to release
during the Tribeca Film Festival on June 17th,
where Kojima is also slated to do a Q&A panel following the showing.
So perhaps more info will come up during the doc
and then also during the Q&A session afterwards.
Or, you know, maybe he just doesn't care and won't bring it up at all.
And that's probably for the best.
Either way, MGS Delta is set to come out without Kojima
involved in any sort of way, which also makes me a little depressed
and slightly worried for
whoever Konami is putting in the producer's chair for this project
because like, they're not going to have a good time unless this remake is perfect.
And even then, yeah, but this is the way of things,
All right?
And now it's time to look at the seasonal rankings for spring 2023.
We are now on week six, which is officially the halfway point
for any show that will only be going to 12 weeks instead of 13.
And we've had some very good shows indeed starting off in first place.
[OSHI NO KO] continues its absolute domination.
I did make a prediction last week that Witch From Mercury
would not be on the listings at all
because there was
that one week of recap episode and looking at this entire top ten,
I think that actually remains to be the case.
So [OSHI NO KO] is able to come up here and dominate first place,
but we'll see how that goes next week
once Witch From Mercury is able to climb back into the rankings.
Skip and Loafer and Heavenly delusion continue also the second and third slot.
There are a lot of things that moved up a position this week purely because
Witch From Mercury is no longer in the top ten.
So everything just kind of shifted upwards to make room for it.
So really that's kind of like the biggest change in this entire week
because after that we've got Hell's Paradise, Demon Slayer
and Insomniacs after school, all of which went up a single space.
Now, my love story with Yamada-kun at level 999 went up
three whole spaces, in fact, so it is doing quite well.
Meanwhile, Raeliana goes up a single point.
The dangers in my heart, however went down one and Birdie Wing Season
two reenters the top ten, not making it any higher than the 10th spot.
Yes, of course. And I missed it last time.
The chart when you go onto the website also shows Vinland saga season two,
but they don't like to mention it because it's a continuation from last season.
And you know, I'm inclined to agree great that it's still in the top ten,
but that's not what we're focusing on right now.
And of course, for my own personal interest,
I still have to scroll all the way down to 26 for Otaku Elf
didn't even get to go up one spot, which is a shame.
But hey, KamiKatsu
is on its way down, so at least maybe will surpass that next week.
But we'll have to see.
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who am I kidding?
We're still going to be in the closet for a little bit
because I'm going to probably want to quarantine.
After going to anime North this weekend, I will already be at the Con
and probably editing this video from my hotel room, so that'll be fun.
See you at the con if you happen to be there.
But if not, watch more anime and stay for.