Commercial: “Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain” - Daughters in Boxes and Tear-Jerking Wedding

This comedic commercial for the new game “Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain” uses Japanese concepts and stereotypes in an unexpected way to tell us that this new game is to reveal the greatest mystery of the Metal Gear series.

The Japanese concept of “daughters in boxes” refers to girls who are raised in a very sheltered and protected way. This commercial humorously portrays a “boxed daughter” who grew up under the care and mentorship of her protective father and the lessons she learned from playing Metal Gear Solid, at her wedding ceremony. Her groom is also someone she met through playing Metal Gear Solid. In Japan, marriage for a woman represents a transferred from being under the care of her father to the care of her husband. In this commercial, the bride demands that her father teach her the greatest mystery of Metal Gear Solid. The bride’s father demonstrates a touching and absolute transferal of his daughter into the care of her husband, by handing her a controller and asking the two of them to uncover the greatest mystery of Metal Gear Solid together.

Even if you can’t get your head around all the references to the concepts and cultural elements of Japan, you definitely will enjoy “Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain”, in stores as of September 2, 2015!

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