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love love love when a particularly manipulative character is lying off their ass about something and then throws in one hauntingly genuine line
#like a dragon gaiden#kosei shishido#<3#“you two turned on us first... turned your back on us!”#+ “but guys like me? guys who can't live any life but this one? this room's all we fuckin' got!”#those scenes may not come across as manipulative but he's manipulating *himself* along with everyone else#i think much of the satisfaction of observing him is looking past the mask
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i dont think ive ever shared my favorite hanawa scene here but this is like. the single most character defining hanawa moment to me. why are you going ☝️🤓 with a gun pointed to your head
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gaiden was a normal game. btw
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EventHubs (2025-06-06) Sega asking 'What about making a Virtua Fighter RPG?' led to the creation of Shenmue
Famitsu (2024-12-20) ついに発表された新たな『バーチャファイター』の姿とは? セガ・龍が如くスタジオ代表の横山氏とプロデューサーの山田氏に聞く

Stranger Than Heaven to be RGG Studio’s Shenmue… sort of
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Stranger Than Heaven to be RGG Studio’s Shenmue… sort of
#yakuza#like a dragon#rgg#ryu ga gotoku#stranger than heaven#project century#virtua figher#virtua fighter 6#shenmue#mako daito#daito mako#akira yuki#yuki akira#original#people don't always read my longer posts but none of this is As interesting in isolation to me so. i tried gdslkhds
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Remember when Yakuza 3 almost got dubbed?
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So like can literally anyone else bother to acknowledge that the Dead Souls Daigo dress substory fucking sucks on so many levels or is the sexual harassment and transmisogyny and homophobic stereotypes suddenly okay when the "pathetic loser character" (per much of the fandom's opinion) is the butt of the joke or something
#yakuza dead souls#daigo dojima#goro majima#rent-lowering gunshots#i think people genuinely just see Daigo In Drag and/or Confirmed Gay Majima and/or Drag Mother Majima (post-goromi)#and then that's their primary takeaway#majima took advantage of life or death circumstances to put a man through transmisogynistic humiliation rituals hashtag e could save them#majima wanted a kiss and a “bl-” from a man hashtag queer icon who cares if it's sexual harassment#(he only wanted the kiss but the localization felt the need to play up the predatory aspects even more)#just sucks all around#i want to note interpreting it that way is distinct from reinterpreting it that way while addressing the issues#but idk. i don't want to reinterpret it#i think it's fine to do so but whichever route you take you end up with a “rehabilitated” majima#and it feels disingenuous on some level for that to be the dominant vision in the fandom
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Well...
I do love Majima's sex positivity speech during the Minato Girl's subplot in PYIH, but I can't help but think he maybe wouldn't be saying quite the same things without the amnesia. Maybe a little in the present day, but definitely during the 90's-early 2000's era.
90's-00's Majima would probably think that kinky, freaky sex is something that only bad nasty pervert people have. Good people have nice, soft, cute vanilla sex, because they love and care about each other. If you want kinky freak sex, it's probably because you care more about the sex than the person you want to have it with. Because you're a nasty freak pervert.
#yakuza dead souls#like a dragon pirate yakuza in hawaii#goro majima#pain in the ass to find this at all so sorry if i left something off and if the japanese differs but yeah#i don't even know what this substory is called gldsjkh sorry#i distinctly remember him going “S&M!?” at one point but this playthrough was skipping through dialogue so i don't remember if it was here
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Happy Kiwami 2 on the Switch 2!
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Happy Kiwami 2 on the Switch 2!
#yakuza#like a dragon#rgg#ryu ga gotoku#yakuza 2#yakuza kiwami 2#kaoru sayama#sayama kaoru#wataru kurahashi#kurahashi wataru#ryuji goda#goda ryuji#masayoshi yokoyama#my translations#original#okay man gdskjlhsd had to whip this up in less than an hour
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PS3 Center (2010-01-02) Yakuza 3 may have English voice acting afterall
4 Guys 1 Up Podcast (2010-01-01) Constantine Hantzopolous

Remember when Yakuza 3 almost got dubbed?
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Remember when Yakuza 3 almost got dubbed?
#yakuza#like a dragon#rgg#ryu ga gotoku#yakuza 3#yoshitaka mine#mine yoshitaka#<- only because he's in the image but i chose it because i've always been curious how an english dub would handle that scene#constantine hantzopolous#original#reportedly anyway i listened to the podcast this is quoting and hantzopoulos “pretty much didn't work on any of that”#so some of this could have just been generalizations that ps3 central applied to yakuza 3 because. well. he was being asked about yakuza 3#not all of the [interjections] and [revisions] are from me i'll say that much lol#but it's interesting to consider the possibility serious thought went into dubbing that game
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Could the same thing have happened to Majima? If Sera were to propose a dissolution, I would think Shimano would be against it, and Majima backing him would be in line with what's expected of him as captain. Shishido, on the other hand, betrays and usurps Watase and Tsuruno, acting against what's expected of him as lieutenant to join forces with his abuser and their enemy. Watase's guard dog bit him, as Akame put it. Majima's actions in that scenario would be the "safe bet," relatively speaking, while Shishido's were a life-altering gamble.
Even if Shimano were for the dissolution and Majima were to betray him, there's no one Majima could turn to who's abused him more than Shimano. I think that's a big difference in terms of the weight it holds when their actions and/or motivations align with their abusers, too: Majima's "savior" and abuser are the same person, while Shishido's "savior" (or "saviors") and abuser not only aren't, but are themselves in oppositiion.
one thing I really like about gaiden is that the obvious Shishido-Majima parallels (the hannya mask, the knife, the fixation on Kiryu, the survival of the fittest mentality) work so well to flesh out why Majima continued to stick by Shimano
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like Majima, Shishido is abused physically, emotionally, and likely sexually by the guy he ultimately sides with, because it's better to cling to the life he feels comfortable in--one ruled by violence and the structure provided by the yakuza--than to break away from the abuse and have to face a directionless existence. better the devil you know, and all that. they both believe they're not suited for civilian life, and they're likely right about that. Shishido understands the rules of the yakuza, he knows his role, he has power and influence and his fists can carry him to the top. monsters like Nishitani III are just a necessity in that line of business, and can even be beneficial to someone who can endure them--and survival is something both men pride themselves on
those same feelings were certainly an inference that could be made about Majima's loyalty to his abuser prior to gaiden, but it's nice to have it spelled out and explored further. we really don't get to see much from Majima on his exact feelings, but Shishido tries to punch his into Kiryu and I really enjoyed seeing that
#tag later#“savior” as in. the people they admire for getting them into the yakuza and out of the situation they were in before#and the most “rewarding” presence in their lives in terms of their prestige as yakuza#that said i can't dispute the 0 scene (diegetically) it is very much worth looking into i just don't remember it well enough alas#but from that perspective i agree with your take on it!#yakuza#yakuza 0#yakuza 1#yakuza 4#yakuza 5#like a dragon gaiden#goro majima#futoshi shimano#masaru sera#kosei shishido#masaru watase#yuki tsuruno#homare nishitani iii#my analysis
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No post today.
#misc#just not feeling it plus i want to see if there are any interesting reveals in the yakuza 2 behind-the-scenes stream on thursday#another day in my stupid baka life
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