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Yeah I'm one of the few people I know who was on that from the beginning and still likes it gsdkh hashtag consistency I guess

Chibi drawings of Yoshitaka Mine, Kosei Shishido. two versions of Jo Sawashiro, Akira Nishikiyama, Ryuji Goda, and Yutaka Yamai as Daidoji Faction agents

I actually originally drew Daidoji Mine in 2024 they owe me royalties for real gsdhl x.com/04tenno/stat...

Painting of Leon Kennedy resident evil requiem sitting in a chair, arms behind his back. Looking up in confusion, harsh lighting from a spotlight offscreen indicates he has been captured and it’s not shown but his hands are tied.

Resident Evil Requiem spoilers (early game :

If Leon had a nickel every time an 8 foot tall bad guy choked him unconscious and then he woke up tied to a chair missing his iconic jacket he’d have 2 nickels

#fanart #leonkennedy #residentevilrequiem #re9 #re9spoiler

A messy concept doodle of the above GIF in chibi form dated August 30, 2025, time: 20:43.

Originally drawn August 2025 btw

Daidoji Mine-Shishido drink link prediction
(“Is that how I sounded…?”)

龍が如くスタジオ・横山昌義代表　ニッチな需要に刺した“大人のエンタメ” 2025年12月、セガの『龍が如く』が20周年を迎えた。歓楽街や反社会勢力を描くという挑戦は、なぜ巨大IPへと成長できたのか。変化を恐れず様々な新しい発想を形にしてきた、その型破りな開発思想と勝算を、「龍が如くスタジオ」代表の横山昌義氏に聞く。

I mainly did this one because it comes up in an essay I’m writing

Nikkei Cross Trend (2026-03-03) xtrend.nikkei.com/atcl/content...
u/RogueNinja77 (2023-04-24) www.reddit.com/r/yakuzagame...

A comparison of a shot of Shun Akiyama, Taiga Saejima, Kazuma Kiryu, and Masayoshi Tanimura in black suits walking towards the camera in Yakuza 4 and a similar shot in A Better Tomorrow 2 (images compiled by u/u/RogueNinja77 in a Reddit post on 2023-04-24), accompanied by an excerpt from a Nikkei Cross Trend interview with Masayoshi Yokoyama on 2026-03-03: Horii: “My directing is hugely inspired by Hong Kong noir movies like John Woo’s ‘A Better Tomorrow.’ If you look at it with a level head, the story’s [incoherent] (laughs). A character who got Swiss-cheesed and ostensibly died in the first movie casually came back in the sequel like, ‘Actually, he had a twin brother living in New York…’ When I saw that, [the idea] ‘anything goes as long as it’s cool’ shocked me. Beyond the nitty-gritty, do the characters shine, and does it sway your heart? What matters in entertainment is ‘passion’ rather than ‘coherence’—that’s what those movies taught me.”

Relevant as of late

I'm honestly just hoping all of this has happened early enough in the process that they drop Hamazaki from their plans or at least recast him for good.

Yyyyyyyyep

I'd honestly rather they move on like it's a matter of fact too yeah. Overexplaining is genuinely the death of everything they're trying to do and that's coming from someone who loves the K3DT endings for the most part

Interview: Yakuza Kiwami 3 director Ryosuke Horii talks cut content, future of the Kiwami series | GosuGamers Yakuza Kiwami 3 & Dark Ties’ game director Ryosuke Horii sat down with us to answer our burning questions about the game.

Not much clarification 😅 My read is the same as before (remakes put on the backburner to focus on new games), but I wanted to share and see what people think. Article has a longer excerpt:

GosuGamers (2026-02-27) www.gosugamers.net/entertainmen...

The logos for Yakuza Kiwami, Yakuza Kiwami 2, and Yakuza Kiwami 3 superimposed over low-exposure shots of Kamurocho, Sotenbori, and Okinawa respectively, accompanied by an excerpt from a GosuGamers interview with Ryosuke Horii on 2026-02-27: Horii: “I believe a lot of expectations are being built for, like maybe there’ll be a Yakuza 4 remake and a Yakuza 5 remake. But if you listen to Director Yokoyama’s message a little bit more intently, you’ll realize that he is hinting, perhaps, that we may not necessarily move in a direction where we are only recreating our works from the past. So there might be something else in the works as well. […] We don’t necessarily know yet what is about to come, but part of our goal is to, and I mean this in a good and positive way, to always betray the fans’ expectations, always exceed their expectations.”

Some clarification on the end of the Kiwami series

Amazon Japan for now, it will be dubbed and subbed in multiple languages and potentially come to other platforms but it hasn't yet. I recommend waiting to watch through other means if you need subs because it's been ripped already so only a matter of time until official and/or fan subs go up

Don't remember saying but I did absolutely love what they did with the adaptation and it's just about the only success story to come out of RGG 20th Anniversary, botched distribution and marketing aside. Motomiya and Yamaguchi are *the* definitive Kiryu and Majima to me

A vivid, high-contrast, textured illustration of Yasukaze Motomiya as Kazuma Kiryu in the show Like a Dragon Powered by Nihon Touitsu. Kiryu looks over his shoulder with his bare back to the viewer. A strong warm light illuminates his upper back and arm muscles and dragon tattoo, reflecting orange-pink light onto his face from below, leaving the rest of him in blue-purple shadow. He is enshrouded in a smoky red and blue heat aura. A fresh graze on his right bicep bleeds red into the aura.

Loved Kiryu in the new show, hope more people get a chance to see him in action

I explain my rationale in this thread. There was a different interview more along the lines of what you're saying so if he left it at that whatever but it's the significantly different wording combined with the fact he's misrepresenting the movement deliberately here bsky.app/profile/04te...

Thanks so much!

"Nagoshi Studio's 3rd Anniversary: Insights into Their New Game, the Current State of the Studio, and the Vision Behind Their Brand Video" ｜NEWS｜ニュース詳細｜名越スタジオ "Nagoshi Studio's 3rd Anniversary: Insights into Their New Game, the Current State of the Studio, and the Vision Behind Their Brand Video"

It's not specifically what I was talking about but here's one self-hosted English interview. They were looking to "embrace AI-driven automation" (albeit "with a sense of responsibility") so yeah, not the worst statement but not exactly beating the allegations
www.nagoshistudio.com/news/2226

Like if you truly think saying it's totally just an innocent comment about his acting is a completely neutral unbiased educated non-speculative non-assumption we have nothing to discuss. If you came at this in any other way I would've been open to talking but no way am I humoring this approach lol

Yeah I'm sure this is a valid take if you're completely uneducated and out of the loop on the subject and think everything happens in a vacuum but I'm not and I don't so

Horii himself is saying this with full awareness of the discourse he has gone out of his way to censor and misrepresent here. Him changing tack from months of interviews not acknowledging the discomfort to "it should be uncomfortable!" is not unrelated to fans arguing bad men should play bad men.

I've already explained at length why I said what I said. Because their aim is explicitly to cause discomfort they have no grounds to disown the fact Kagawa's actions and their reactions to the protests are major sources of discomfort for their audience, not just his acting.
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Many of the articles from that time were scrubbed for some reason unfortunately so not immediately, I can search and look for archives later

I wouldn't say so. Nagoshi had his fair share of controversies, they just weren't reported on and aren't remembered because the series wasn't as well-known. For example he worked 3 separate times with Hamazaki's previous actor who groomed a 13 year old girl into marrying him at 16 when he was 40

FWIW the previous actor was a pedophile with a child bride so Yakuza 3's kinda doing 0 for 0 😅

He worked multiple times with a pedophile who had a child bride 😅

Nagoshi worked with Hamazaki's previous actor 3 separate times and that guy groomed a 13 year old child into marrying him at 16 when he was 40. He had multiple controversies in his own right too it's just not well-known because the series wasn't reported on as much and he isn't in the hot seat now

Horii is exaggerating his typecast and I really don't think the "creepy" image Kagawa has now is extricable from the damage the photos and reporting surrounding his scandal did to his reputation. I said what I said for a reason: bsky.app/profile/04te...

To be fair they already were because Hamazaki's previous actor was a pedophile with a child bride 😅