Sony Music Entertainment Japan

So the fact that they are clearly done with having their products only sellable through this very limited customer base was not appealing to them, and so they're branching out.

Well, it comes back down to Aniplex is under Sony Music, right? Wasn't that always the weird thing? Yeah, and those two branches of Sony don't talk to each other, really.

However, Crunchyroll LLC is in terms of ownership, a partnership between Aniplex, the Japanese company, a subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment Japan, and Sony Pictures Entertainment, which is an American company, both ultimately owned

by Sony.

Technically, Aniplex is one of the parents

Mm.

You want to have more opportunities for what you're doing, whether it's if you're a songwriter and you wanna have, you wanna pitch your songs for, um, uh, you know, we have some people that are very much into K-pop, and we happen to, you know, collaborate with, uh, Sony Music Japan, uh, and, and, or sorry, and Korea, of course.

Mm-hmm.

And so K-pop and J-pop, they have kind of a, um, they work in a similar way that they, they have the, these, a lot of inspiration from songs from the, the, the Western pop and-

Let's jump back in time from the future to the present day, so to speak, as we play our second original track.

And it is from the game Twisted Metal from 1995, developed by SingleTrac and Sony Interactive Studios America, and published by Sony Computer Entertainment and Sony Music Entertainment Japan.

And it can be found on Sony PlayStation and Microsoft Windows.

This is the theme to Twisted Metal, and the composers for the game are Chuck E. Myers, Tom Hopkins, and Lance Lenhart.