@theoutrider @kobold @fillertrack I'M SORRY OKAY all the times he pops up with a huge fuckin creepy ass grin from under a goddamn giant road cone or out of a manhole cover or wearing a bloody cop uniform I just

I forgot entirely about his outfit omg

@Nine @kobold @fillertrack yeah I was going to make a "raccoon" joke and post the bin gif

@Nine @kobold @fillertrack though one of Kiryu's side quests in 5 is collecting trash off the roads so the raccoon would work there too

@theoutrider @kobold @fillertrack i can so see him showing off his raccoon sona and Kiryuu just studying it with that stoic frown and then going "Ah.. I see. You went with... trash panda?"

and Majima just lights up with fuckin' GLEE

and then one of his underlings goes "Boss... he called you trash pan-" but gets cut off because Majima punches his goon straight in the mouth for daring to call him a trash panda because ONLY KIRYUU CHAN GETS TO CALL HIM THAT and Kiryuu is just like o_o;

@Nine @theoutrider @fillertrack ok yes we've settled on raccoon i 100% agree

@theoutrider @kobold @fillertrack swear to god I was at the point late game where I was like "If I hear ONE MORE "KIRYUU CHAN" I am going to MURDER HIM" and then you have your final fight and he just...

...disappears.

and it's THEN that his absense became a curse because then I was like "...Majima? Majima, dude? C... can we fight again? I ... I miss you, bud..."

@Nine @kobold @fillertrack also your regular reminder that the guy Takashi Miike cast as Majima for his Yakuza film is *perfect*

right down to the part where the actor's actual name is Goro

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXBIWUzRg2M

@theoutrider @Nine @fillertrack fuck

@theoutrider @Nine @fillertrack this is weird

i can actually understand everything he says

he's written so simply, it's so him, i love it

@theoutrider @Nine @fillertrack i haven't studied in like, 4 years, btw

@kobold @Nine @fillertrack much like Miike's Ace Attorney film the Yakuza one is fuckin magnificent and I cannot recommend it enough

it is an adaptation of the first game though so probably spoilertastic

@theoutrider @Nine @fillertrack i will watch after we beat it!!! for usre

@kobold @Nine @fillertrack @bentosmile says a more interesting question is what is Saejima's sona

because tiger is too obvious honestly and I agree

@theoutrider @kobold @fillertrack @bentosmile Saejima appears in like... 4 or 5 right?

or is it 6?

I haven't played any of those yet but I'm totally thinking bear

Big fucker like him? Gotta be a bear. Tigers are ambush predators.
He is not an ambusher. He's a tank, charging not so much UP to you but THROUGH you.

@Nine @kobold @fillertrack @bentosmile he's in 4 and 5, not sure about 6

@kobold @Nine @fillertrack @bentosmile like from the physical impression I want to say "bear" but 5 demonstrates that bears fuckin hate him

@theoutrider @kobold @fillertrack @bentosmile okay I haven't played anything but 0 and 1 Kiwami so I'm getting 2 Kiwami when it comes out for definite, and I'm gonna play the hell outta it. I can't play the others at all until I've played the previous ones ^^; mercifully it looks like they're remastering I think 3 and 4 as well maybe? either way I'm sure there'll be a way to play them too.

@Nine @kobold @fillertrack @bentosmile I think the plan is for 3, 4 and 5 just getting relatively straight ports rather than remakes

@theoutrider @kobold @fillertrack @bentosmile I can entirely live with a port of 4 and 5 to PC and/or ps4 because I want to play the entire series.

@kobold @Nine @fillertrack @bentosmile although I guess if anything would get into a barehanded fight with a bear is another bear

@theoutrider @kobold @fillertrack @bentosmile this was literally my thinking but I got distracted by talking about remakes

@theoutrider @kobold @fillertrack @bentosmile which is a shame because bear handed battles is a far more important topic

@Nine @kobold @fillertrack @bentosmile raises that Kiryu has filled the orphanage with dog plushies and looks at a photo of a dog if you sing Bakamitai in karaoke

@Nine @kobold @fillertrack @bentosmile similarly I was thinking some kind of large "fighting" dog breed for Saejima maybe?

@theoutrider @kobold @fillertrack @bentosmile oh hold up Saijima's sona is a Tosa maybe?

@Nine @kobold @fillertrack @bentosmile yeah that was maybe my thought

@theoutrider @kobold @fillertrack @bentosmile ...oh shit

What if... Kiryuu's sona is an Akita?????? The literal japanese dog embodiment of loyalty

@Nine @theoutrider @kobold @bentosmile fcuk

@Nine @kobold @fillertrack @bentosmile similarly Saejima is fiercely loyal to people he considers his friends or sworn brothers hence my thought of dog there

@Nine @kobold @fillertrack the Yakuza games are all about weird male bonding rituals

5 has a thing where Saejima has a vicious fight with a prison cellmate who's betrayed him and gets angry that Saejima just forgives him and afterwards they sit on the street and have cigarettes together and could you BE any more shippable

@theoutrider @Nine @fillertrack to be fair to y'all i have not got super far yet into the Yakuza 1 remake

But he strikes me as a rat, because he is aggressive but not venomous, he's very just jovial and forward and plays lots of tricks. very rat-like

@kobold @Nine @fillertrack playing 0 is weird because suddenly he's a three-dimensional character with motivations and doubts and *whoa*

@theoutrider @kobold @fillertrack I had never played further than the funeral scene right at the beginning of Yakuza 1 originally so when I played 0 I had no knowledge of Majima.

However I think I liked Kiwami as a result so much BECAUSE I got to see the results, AND they expanded on Nishiki so much more and although the story wasn't as great as 0s, it was... still really good how they did it.

@kobold @theoutrider @Nine @fillertrack But can he spin around on the spot for delicious treats?