Franchise: Yakuza: Like a Dragon
Yakuza: Like a Dragon
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Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name
Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth
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Yakuza 1&2 HD Edition
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Kurohyou: Ryuu ga Gotoku Shinshou
Judgment
Yakuza 2
The Yakuza Remastered Collection
Like a Dragon: Ishin!
Streets of Kamurocho
Yakuza Online
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Kurohyou 2: Ryuu ga Gotoku Ashura-hen
Project X Zone 2
Yakuza 6: The Song of Life
Ryuu ga Gotoku Kenzan!
Yakuza Kiwami
Yakuza: Dead Souls
Yakuza
Yakuza 3
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Throughout several games in the Yakuza series, songs from Sega franchises will play in businesses like convenience stores and karaoke bars. While an official list of every song and where they were used throughout the series has not been finalized, some known examples include songs from the Sonic the Hedgehog series, the Phantasy Star series, Jet Set Radio Future, Nights into Dreams..., Clockwork Knight, and Space Channel 5: Part 2 among others.
YouTube playlist featuring a list of most of the convenience store songs used throughout the Yakuza series:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUNg56HR93De2SELMNHpgnyod3h7QMf6j
Yakuza 4 - Several songs from the Sonic the Hedgehog series including "Dreams of an Absolution" from Sonic the Hedgehog (2006):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zy9TXjwhJy0
Yakuza 5 - The Concept of Love from Jet Set Radio Future:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCC1y_g7qxs
Yakuza 5 - Live and Learn from Sonic Adventure 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhpFdVakIXo
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUNg56HR93De2SELMNHpgnyod3h7QMf6j
Yakuza 4 - Several songs from the Sonic the Hedgehog series including "Dreams of an Absolution" from Sonic the Hedgehog (2006):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zy9TXjwhJy0
Yakuza 5 - The Concept of Love from Jet Set Radio Future:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCC1y_g7qxs
Yakuza 5 - Live and Learn from Sonic Adventure 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhpFdVakIXo
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Starting from Yakuza 6: The Song of Life, most games in the Yakuza franchise have featured destructible environmental objects, even extending to stores and businesses. However, real-life businesses like Yoshinoya that were put into the series have never been able to be destroyed in-game even when fictional stores are breakable. You also cannot enter a real-life store when in combat, and any aggroed enemies that chase after you will suddenly no longer want to fight you should you enter a real-life store in the game.
subdirectory_arrow_right Yakuza 4 (Game)
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Through out the Yakuza series, the character of Goro Majima speaks with a Kansai accent, a Japanese accent associated with the Kansai region where Osaka is located. This accent is also stereotyped as being associated with criminals or gangsters. There are multiple instances where Goro Majima seemingly slips back into speaking in a Kanto accent, more associated with Tokyo and without this connotation, and this is even commented on by other characters, (with one notable instance being in Yakuza 4 where his sworn brother Taiga Saejima who speaks in a more natural Kansai accent informs him his accent is slipping) suggesting he puts up the accent to make himself seem tougher or more serious.
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The antagonist of the original Yakuza was voiced by Kazuhiro Nakaya, who later went on to voice Ichiban Kasuga, the protagonist of Yakuza: Like A Dragon. The two characters also have the same koi tattoo, leading fans to speculate on the parallels between both characters, but aside from their voice actors and tattoos, there are only surface-level parallels.
Beyond the Voice Actors database pages:
https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/franchises/Yakuza/
https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/Kazuhiro-Nakaya/
Yakuza Tattoos article/footage:
https://kotaku.com/the-meaning-of-yakuzas-tattoos-1793074894
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Joowq-IM6PA
https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/franchises/Yakuza/
https://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/Kazuhiro-Nakaya/
Yakuza Tattoos article/footage:
https://kotaku.com/the-meaning-of-yakuzas-tattoos-1793074894
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Joowq-IM6PA