The experience of playing Yakuza 0 for the first time and thinking "wow this is one of the best written stories I've ever seen in my life" and then playing the series in chronological order and realizing a good chunk of it is awful but you already have stockholm syndrome for it
This has been said many times but it's endlessly hilarious to me that Kuroda is the world's most glamorous fashionista and Ugaki is....someone's uncle. I love that so much for both of them
I love that these 40+ year old men are allowed to have social media because for decades most pictures you could find of SMAP were like professional photoshoots and now they upload auntie selfies regularly. For free
If you only ever watch one tokusatsu show it should be Kamen Rider Ryuki but the problem with that is Kamen Rider Ryuki will ruin every other piece of media ever by virtue of being so peak that nothing compares to it
The fact that the "Odagiri Effect" was so influential there's literally a name for the phenomenon is so funny but I think crucially people are missing that Kuuga had more than one ikemen lead and that the two attractive young men were in a romance with each other. It's about yaoi
You definitely look better when you age like honestly some people just look better older. Especially when you take care of yourselves. I hate society for lying and making people feel scared about aging.
I truly think Yakuza 0, Yakuza 7 and Judgment are the only objectively great games in the series but its a like soap opera so you get attached to the characters and have to see what happens to them in the other games even if the other games are mid at best
Inoue is not simply a regular misogynist who writes women badly because he doesn't respect women, he writes women like he's never even met a woman before in his life. Like he was isekai'd from some yaoiland where the female gender simply does not exist
Did you guys know that Katsurayama Shingo (Ichijo from Kuuga) was the lead singer for a rock band called Bricks and he's actually a really good singer....my life will never be the same
Hairline transplant + testosterone injections (bc he has to be at least 60 now) + DHT blockers + rigid skincare routine + living a stress free lifestyle + a little bit of eyebrow gel and undereye concealer
"Actors shouldn't play LGBT characters unless they're openly LGBT" Okay so you want Yamamoto Koji to be out of a career???? You want him to starve to death and die and kill himself????
#草彅剛 is so talented that you can tell he's a completely different character by picture alone. Not because of the costume design, but by the way he holds himself, the aura, the vibes
my favorite thing about takuya kimura is that he's one of the biggest stars in japan but his instagram is incredibly low-key. like 95% of it is walking his dogs or selfies (but like normal people selfies where you can tell he's holding the phone up)
Nearly 30 years on from these photoshoots and he's still doing more to promote self expression and acceptance of androgyny than every white guy who wears ugly dresses simply for clout
Yakuza 7 is the best game ever made because they gave us old man yuri (Arakawa/Sawashiro) middle aged man yuri (Ichiban/Nanba) young woman yaoi (Saeko/Seong-Hui) and he/they pussy (Adachi and Zhao)
When Shinji randomly was about to kiss Kitaoka and then the camera abruptly cut away before their lips touched and it was never explained or brought up again
am currently experiencing national historic events
Lost Judgment is my personal favorite game in the series by far but that's only because there is something deeply wrong with me. Several things actually. But tbh more like Lost Judgmid 😂😂😂
When I say the RGG fandom is more misogynistic than the writers are lmao.... and people really have the audacity to pretend that it's actually woke and feminist of them to brag about how much they hate the female characters because of "bad writing"
Not to defend him because I haven't even seen his worst misogyny moments but it is crazy that he actually attempts to write "strong" women, he even gave use the first female rider, he's just missing something that makes him able to empathize with women like real human beings
One of these guys has a twisted and obsessive personality, has committed several felonies related to stalking and harassment, and was an accomplice to physical torture.
The other one is Kuwana.
ngl i just wished there was an official LJ photoshoot where kimura dresses up exactly like yagami, koji dresses up exactly like kuwana, and tamaki dresses up exactly like soma.
imagine the field day we'd all be having with those. 🤧♥️
INCREDIBLY RARE awesome RGG reddit meme moment but the fact that this isn't what ymk actually looks like kills it for me. They could have used his real body and their point would have been even stronger
Also not to defend heterosexuality but as a side effect of not understanding women he does not understand heterosexual relationships either. Meanwhile writers like Kobayashi are actually capable of het yuri. Inoue doesn't understand boy's love either, just yaoi. Like this
I've been saying RGG is committed to sabotaging themselves lately and this just proves it. What was the point of this. Do you even know your own audience.
You can like characters that don't necessarily align with your irl morals but I'm never going to trust Yakuza fans that call a domestic abuse victim a bitch for hurting a man's feefees but go on to stan men who kill people and sex traffick women. Get help!
I'm done with Kuwagami that shit is so 2021. The real heated drama between men in Lost Judgment was Yagami and Nabe-san. This was literally the only time Yagami has ever flirted with a man, and failing the Nabe fight is the only way you can die in this game. Peak toxic yaoi!
This has been said so many times but Tsukumo really is a great character because they never went with the otaku pervert trope. But I'm going to take it further and say they accidentally made her a beautiful trans woman
I'm absolutely obsessed with this random portuguese woman who hasn't updated her blog in a decade but was so in love with Nishijima Hidetoshi to a mentally insane I genuinely hope she's out there living her best life whatever she's doing now...she's an inspiration
Absolutely NO plot twist had me shook like the Baba-chan snatchedt waist child bearing hips reveal girl looks like he used the warp tool in photoshop but its real and natural divine femininity
Is it safe yet for me to say that Chitose is one of the best characters RGG has ever written and the fact that so people only focus on Tomi is a crime against women....
Kimura Takuya has been a milf to me since his mid 20s but didnt hit dilf status until his late 40s and right now he still wields both milf and dilf dual citizenship
Even if gamers are fucking stupid I really appreciate how consistently RGG games have sympathized with homeless people, even if it's not the most deep and multi dimensional portrayal of the political circumstances surrounding homelessness. I guess that would be expecting too much
RGG also has an unfortunate track record of making their faceclaim characters not as attractive as the real actors but for Kuwana I can't imagine it any other way. It would be so scary if he had the same amount of sex appeal as Mefilas ITS NOT ALLOWED!!!