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In this episode, we go underwear shopping, Gary Buster Holmes gets shish kebabed, and
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Kiryu says what we're all thinking.
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What the hell is this?
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I still can't get over the shish kebab.
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We skipped through a lot of the fighting just to speed up our note taking, but I couldn't
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skip over that part.
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Too good.
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You had to witness it.
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Thank you for coming back from our replay reviews.
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We are two friends who are here to replay, review, and analyze your favorite video games.
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And since Kathy has never seen the games before, it helps me view them through her fresh eyes,
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We hope it will be a similar experience for you.
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Alright then, Chapter 5, Hidden Past, Kiryu and Sayama arrive in Kamurocho.
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Sayama's not doing too good, so Kiryu takes her to a now-abandoned Serena.
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He then heads on his own to Tojo HQ to fill everyone in on what's going on.
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Why are they trying to force a romance plot between Kiryu and Sayama with her carrying
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him in the streets?
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Bridal style?
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Bridal style.
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Isn't that what it's called?
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Bride style?
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Or is it?
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I've never heard that.
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Let me, I gotta Google it now.
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Doesn't mean it's not a thing, but I've never heard of it.
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I guess it's called the Bridal Carry, not a Bridal Style.
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Bridal Style sounds better though.
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Anyways, they're working real hard to force a romance plot over some minor issue of getting
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shot in the shoulder, which I'm just kind of frustrated there.
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On his way there, he gets a call from Daigo, but soon another person takes over the call
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and tells Kiryu to meet him tomorrow at 1am at the Amano building if he wants Daigo to
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live.
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At the Tojo Clan HQ, they discuss all that's happening and they think that the Goryu and
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the foreign group are connected.
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Should we talk about Shindo now?
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Mmhmm.
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Okay, so Yayoi asks him, he's the Nishiki family patriarch, to give Kiryu some backup
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as the Amano building is in his territory.
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But he says, I don't think so.
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Basically the Nishiki family is still mad at Kiryu and they're still loyal to Nishiki.
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He's even dressed like him.
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But how cool is it though?
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Like it's kind of cool that he's still commanding respect a year later after his death.
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That's exactly what I was gonna say.
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Even though Nishiki struggled in the beginning, the fact that in the end his men still respect
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him, that relationship that he's built demonstrates how much of a great leader he is.
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Because you don't see Dojima's family willing to do that.
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That's why he's my KFC, he's my favorite character because the respect he still gets is amazing.
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This moment honestly pushes him so high up in just cool character.
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He just did so much and he earned it.
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And the fact that he grew up being pretty much emotionally abused by Kazama knowing
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that he's the backup child, yet he still was able to make something out of his name.
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I just love this character.
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So Yayoi, her name is so fun to say.
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She says she has something personal to discuss with Kiryu.
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And she gives him a warehouse key saying, the personal effects of several of the officers
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we lost last year are kept in there.
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Perhaps you'll find something that can help guide the clan through this.
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We don't find anything of Nishiki's, which I feel like is a bit of a slap in the face.
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I mean I'm glad that we find Majima's dagger, but it's weird that his stuff is the only
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stuff that we find.
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Agreed.
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Upon finding this dagger though, Kiryu gets the idea that maybe they need Majima to help
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them through this.
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So he tells his plan to Kashiwagi and Lady Dojima.
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And we learn that the Shimano family was absorbed at some point within the past year by the
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Nishikiyama family.
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Kiryu's line is, what if he were to come back?
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And Kashiwagi suggests looking for Majima in purgatory.
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I'm excited to see him again, but it's almost like Kiryu can't do it by himself that he
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needs Majima to come save the day.
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You're not going to get this because it's a movie reference, but it's like all of Justice
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League is all the superheroes are fighting and they can't win.
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And then Superman comes into the scene and he single-handedly saves the day.
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That's what it feels like he's not enough.
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We need Majima.
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And it makes me feel like Majima is the main character, that he's more powerful than Kiryu.
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That, and I also feel like he keeps trying to pass everything off on other people like
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Daigo first and now Majima.
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Which then makes me confused why everyone thinks so highly of Kiryu.
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If he can't handle things and he needs Majima to come into the scene, then why did he get
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so much respect to begin with?
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This is a series long question that we've had so far is what did Kiryu really do?
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Because Nishiki did way more, but he got way less respect, which is what led to him becoming
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a villain.
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Okay, moving on.
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Once back in Kamurocho, Kiryu gets a call from Sayama and she's pissed that he took off
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without telling her.
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But then she asks him to buy her some underwear and beer and then pretends like the phone
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is breaking out so that he can't say no.
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What a weird scene.
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He gets the stuff for her and goes back to Serena where she comes out in a towel and
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kind of practically flashes him.
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And I like my question is what is she doing?
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Based on the tone and the conversations she had, she's like annoyed with him all the time.
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So if I hated someone or was annoyed with them, there's no way you can get me to be
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in a towel and pretty much just rope in front of that person.
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But I don't understand.
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She had a robe with her, so you could have changed into the robe in the room you were
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just in and not just drop towel right in front of Kiryu.
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I was almost expecting her to have a sunflower tramp stamp.
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Because why else would you make her drop her towel like that?
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And then when she's in her robe, she barely has a cinch in the front.
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So it's a lot of chesting for someone who's obviously uncomfortable with what Kiryu has
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been doing.
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Very unprofessional, Sayama.
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Pull it together.
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Literally, pull the robe together.
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So Kiryu confronts her about her interest in the Tojo Clan.
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She responds that she had overheard Tamiyo, her adopted mother, saying the Tojo Clan is
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what made Karu's life a living hell.
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I'm kind of annoyed that the plotline is like the parental trauma kind of thing.
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She could have been a police officer for other reasons, but they had to made it into a situation
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where it's the parents' fault or someone hurt their parents and then now they're seeking
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revenge or seeking the truth.
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I've had enough of the orphans.
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So after their chat, they head to Purgatory.
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Kiryu is surprised to see Purgatory is now a construction site.
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Gary Buster Holmes approaches and tells him that the boss is waiting for him downstairs.
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This is where we find out that the florist moved to the Millennium Tower and Majima moved
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in to Purgatory to start Majima construction and his plan, Kamurocho Hills.
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But I do love that his character is consistent where he goes like Kiryu, that kind of crazy
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that we've seen from previous games.
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I do like how his character is consistent.
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And consistently inconsistent.
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He'll go from just insane, which we understand why Sayama goes, who or what is that?
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But then later in this scene, he'll go to just like super smart level headed talking normally.
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Kiryu asks Majima to help the Tojo Clan and he is quite resistant, but eventually agrees.
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If Kiryu fights in his tournament, big surprise, we have to have a tournament in every game.
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So this is where one of his opponents is Gary Buster Holmes.
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And I happened to have a rather large pole in Kiryu's pocket, which he uses in a choice
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manner.
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He lines it up perfectly with the pooper, the tooter, and then just smashes it in there.
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And then Gary Buster Holmes' knees go inward like those...
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It's almost as if, imagine Haruka standing still mid run when her knees are touching
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and just kind of going inwards.
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That's Gary Buster Holmes' reaction to getting a pole stabbed up his butthole.
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What a way to end your opponent.
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Who animated that?
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So Kiryu wins and Majima keeps his word.
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He says, let's hash this shit out over a drink.
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He says to Majima, I just want you to give them a hand.
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So he doesn't want him to come back to the Tojo Clan.
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He just wants them to help out a little bit.
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Are we sure it's not some kind of deeper plan that I'm going to first ask you for a hand
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and then an arm and a leg and then slowly pull you back into the Tojo Clan?
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I don't know.
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I kind of get the feeling that Kiryu doesn't know what the hell he's doing.
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Which is why I question in the previous episode, Kashibaki is like, what will Kiryu do?
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I mean, the man doesn't even know himself.
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We put Kiryu up on such a pedestal and it really just doesn't make sense.
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I need someone has to explain why Kiryu has so much credibility.
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If anyone says Kiryu is your favorite character, can you please tell us why?
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Because I'm curious.
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And part of that could be that he is flawed, which I understand.
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But in this game, especially, and it might have something to do with Kiwami's the remake
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of the original game, so maybe they were never planning on a sequel and that kind of had
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to force it a little bit.
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I think that could come into play a bit, but honestly Kiryu in this game just really irritates
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me.
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They talk through everything that's happening and Majima says, can't help but think someone's
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pulling your strings.
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So he does not trust this situation.
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Specifically, he doesn't trust Ryuji.
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He says that crazy f**k will kill you then steal your pants.
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Which is a great call back to you haven't seen it, but in Yakuza 0 there's a sub story
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as Majima where there's a young Ryuji and he steals your pants.
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He just goes around stealing people's pants.
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Oh my god.
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And it's so weird.
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So after this conversation, we pretty much learned that Majima never liked Turada and
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that people like Majima and Kashiwagi got sidelined when he took over.
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And eventually Majima just got tired of it and left the Yakuza.
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I feel like Kiryu choosing Turada as the chairman and then immediately like, peace, I'm out.
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That's so irresponsible of him.
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I feel bad for his friends that know him because they're the ones who are suffering with Kiryu's
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consequences of choosing a bad person.
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I feel like Kiryu should get somewhat the blame if Turada was a villain.
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So Kiryu returns to Serena and he and Sayama chat and he tells the story of his parents'
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deaths and that whole backstory involving Kazuma.
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This scene makes me sad I guess for Kiryu because I think he sunk so much into the Yakuza
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that not forgiving Kazuma was just not an option because that would be admitting that
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basically his whole life was a waste because he did everything that Kazuma asked him to
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do.
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It's not that I want him to not forgive Kazuma but I feel like there has to be a neutral
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like you accept the facts of what happened.
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You don't need to forgive Kazuma because the only reason why he got a chance to be a father
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figure was him killing his own parents.
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Kazuma was a manipulator and justified things using the wrong means and Kiryu is so brainwashed
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that he forgave him.
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And I feel like he could have just accepted the facts and leave it as it is and just keep
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moving forward.
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I still can't get over the fact that he forgave Kazuma so quickly.
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I can't either and that's why I kind of feel like he really didn't have an option
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because otherwise he would be forced to analyze his life and he doesn't want to have to admit
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that all the time and loyalty he gave to the Yakuza is him giving that to people who destroyed
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his life.
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And then Kiryu has a line he says, I'm not proud of my life as Yakuza.
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Kazuma did that.
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Yeah, the life you're not proud of is the life that Kazuma built for you.
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But you won't stop giving this man every benefit of every doubt.
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Is that lighter that he uses the same lighter from Yakuza Zero that he shared the lighter
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he shares with Mishki?
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I can't remember at the end who has it.
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I mean, I don't think Mishki has it but yeah, I couldn't remember either.
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I wondered that too.
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And there's one scene where I was like, Oh, no, it's not.
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But I don't know why I thought that.
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Okay, but I think it could be.
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They then head out for their their meeting at the building at one o'clock.
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That's all I have anything else before we get to Majima.
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Okay, so here starts one of the big, big additions in the Kiwami edition, which is the Majima
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saga.
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And we're in chapter one Tojo Clan reform.
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It's February 17 2006.
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So about 10 months earlier, Toronto holds a meeting and Tojo members are pissed about
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his reformation project.
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Basically you buy you buy your way in what you earn is how high you get in the rankings.
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So we meet a couple new patriarchs Uematsu and Ibuchi.
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So we learned pretty quickly that this meeting is to use the reformation process to determine
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the next clan captain.
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So they pull up a graph of all the family's earnings.
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And we see that Uematsu and Ibuchi are way, way higher earning than the rest.
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But Uematsu will be the next captain based off of this new process.
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The difference is so astonishing on the graph.
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So one how is no one questioning if this information is even accurate?
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Like who's tracking this?
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I almost feel like Ibuchi being so supportive of Uematsu becoming the captain.
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It's suspicious because he's not taking it.
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It almost seems like he wants Uematsu to take the fall or that Ibuchi is working with Tarada
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to try to get Uematsu to be like a front man of something, the puppet.
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Because Uematsu seems like he's all bark and no brains.
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Majima, he crashes the meeting and plops down in the captain's chair and he then summons
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his mentor role in a ginormous cart of cash, which makes him the highest earner.
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And he says next clan captain is going to be me.
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Majima is putting Tarada in a hard position.
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He either has to stick with his reformation criteria or abandon it, effectively admitting
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that he wanted a certain person as captain.
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And the reformation criteria was just a cover to like quell dissatisfaction among the other
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families.
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He played him.
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He played him so good.
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I love how smart Majima is because Kiryu could never.
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But also, I'm wondering if Tarada is really that shallow in thinking that all of a sudden
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changing this reform and having Uematsu is going to solve issues or is he pretending
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like he's stupid and shallow when he's actually a really calculating man?
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I think it's a little bit of both.
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It seems like he's trying to play everybody to, and I think Majima says something along
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these lines later.
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He's essentially trying to just get his own men around him and in higher positions, but
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he's using a cover of the reformation project to not just outright say he's doing that,
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but it's so transparent that he just looks stupid.
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And then his, so Ibuchi presses him like, hey, it's up to you.
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And his responses look to table the issue for now.
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How weak is that?
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What a weak response.
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Kiryu chose Tarada to be the chairman because he was a smart and neutral and fair person.
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But this is the man who, if he doesn't get his way and he's trying not to lose face,
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he's doing that.
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I love how Majima puts him to be in that spot of demonstrating his weakness.
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And the line that he says of, you can't mess with the Tojo Clan and not expect its dog
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to bite you.
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I love how he fully leans into his nickname.
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I just love how he doesn't give a flying crap about anything, like anything, yet he's by
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far the smartest person.
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It's because he doesn't care.
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That's why he's smart.
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Yeah.
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Exactly.
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Yeah.
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It's great.
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Everyone loves Majima.
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You can't, you just can't not.
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I kind of, I can understand why and why, Sierra, I was hesitant to like his character with
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the background and everything.
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I didn't really quite understand it.
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And I think I liked Kiryu's stories, like whenever we see his saga because of Nishiki.
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But now that Nishiki's out of the picture, I am fully embracing Majima and his smarts.
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So the meeting disbands and as Majima leaves, he bumps into Kashiwagi.
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Can I just say I like their dynamic?
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Oh my gosh.
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Yes.
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That's something I was going to mention.
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I, how should I say it?
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It's two highly intelligent men with completely different styles, yet when they come together,
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it's okay if they're different styles because at the end of the day it works.
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They have completely different vibes, yet they still mesh together when they have a
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common goal.
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Kashiwagi warns him saying Uematsu is not likely to take a slight like that lying down.
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Majima doesn't care.
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Back in Kamurocho, he's jumped by who he assumes are men sent from Uematsu, but one
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of them says you ought to be worried about your own family.
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So this is when it appears that Uematsu attacked his family and so he immediately goes to confront
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him.
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That's where we find him dead.
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He's already dead.
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I bet it's Ibushi who probably killed him because he was mad that he couldn't be top.
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So if he's not going to be able to be the puppet, there's no point in keeping him alive.
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It's definitely fishy.
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Anything else on Majima Saga Part 1 or should we go to Chapter 6?
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Chapter 6.
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Okay.
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Chapter 6 is Schemes.
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We're back to Date and Kuwara who meet with Yuya and Kazuki at Stardust.
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Yuya excuses himself to go get some snacks for them and they set a trap for Kazuki telling
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him investigators are about to come busting in and mention it's due to foreign groups
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being involved with the Millennium Tower bombing.
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They say if he's mafia, he'll go straight to his boys and before too long he does go
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running out of the building.
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It doesn't have to mean he's in the mafia.
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He could be running to his other friends who own bars on that street to warn them.
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They chase after him and then we're back to Kiryu and Sayama who track down the Amano
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Building.
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Why'd they wait till the last minute to start trying to find this building when they knew
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that they didn't know where it was?
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Because Kiryu's stupid and doesn't know how to prepare for things.
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I need Kazuma to tell me his plan.
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I don't know what that voice was.
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If it was not Kiryu.
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No you sound like Kazuma's dad.
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Came from the depths.
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I don't know what that was.
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Moving on, wow.
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So another wild goose chase.
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Eventually we are able to go into the building.
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Kiryu asks to go on alone since that's what the caller demanded and Sayama's not happy
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but does agree to this.
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So Kiryu fights his way up to the roof and once he gets up there he sees Date and Kawara
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as well as two Kazukis and his reaction is what the hell is this?
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Which I love.
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How did they get one person to look so similar to the other person?
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It's a Connor situation.
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We've got duplicates here.
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Only that one made sense.
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This one.
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Yeah.
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This one doesn't make sense, Cathy.
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To be honest, I don't get it at all.
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I don't even know if the writers get it.
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Well the other fact is how did they even match their entire outfit and hairstyle?
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They had to be stocking Kazuki.
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It makes absolutely zero sense in my opinion.
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And this is not going to be the first time in the series where there's magically a double
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of somebody.
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So I'm just going to tell you that now.
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They love doing this.
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Things get confusing and heated.
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Guns are drawn and then a fake Kazuki shoots both Kawara and the real Kazuki but they're
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not dead so that's good.
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What happened leading up to the shooting was Kawara ends up wanting to shoot one of them
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without reasonable evidence and Date's kind of hesitant.
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But then Date, why are you distracting him when he has a gun?
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If Date would have freaking get out of the way, they wouldn't have ended up being in
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the shooting situation.
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I get he's trying to stop him but his hesitancy, this is not the first time we've seen Date
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ruin things.
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And I'm just so annoyed at him right now.
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I know and it gets worse.
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Well we find out that this fake Kazuki is the one who called Kiryu yesterday.
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Kawara convinces Date to take a shot which grazes the fake's head.
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But then Sayama appears out of nowhere and takes him down.
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Why did Kiryu turn to look at Sayama like that?
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We both did the same thing.
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Why does he move like that?
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I made you rewatch that like three times because I thought it was hilarious.
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If you're a millennial, imagine the dramatic groundhog.
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That's how he moves his head.
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It looks like he's got a kink in his neck, he slept on it.
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Funny.
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And he has to turn everything to go look.
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It cracks me up.
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But I feel like this earns points in how cool Sayama is that she's staying so far away and
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she can manage a headshot and Date, I don't know if it's intentional or not, but that
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man can't shoot, that man loses kids, that man has a terrible relationship with his own
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daughter, that man is distracting when you shouldn't be, he can barely solve cases.
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How did he get to be so high ranking that he gets people respect when he's like the
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equivalent of Giryu in Police World?
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So they decide a situation is a bit too messy and they make a run for it when they hear
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sirens.
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Anything else on that scene for you?
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Okay.
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Final chapter of this part, chapter seven, the foreign threat.
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They rush Kazuki and Koara to a clinic Kiryu knows of.
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And again, we're just going everywhere except the hospital anytime we get hurt.
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And the fact they had such a long debate on what to do while these two people were pretty
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much bleeding out.
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And then they decide to run and jostle the two injured people who are bleeding out everywhere
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when there's multiple opportunities to get onto a bike or a moped and take you to where
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you need to go to avoid running into people.
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I just don't understand.
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They're standing there talking about it like they don't look completely obvious just for
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her and men piggybacking.
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You don't see that.
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That's not something you see.
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So they get to the clinic, drop off the injured, and then they're told that it's probably best
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for everyone if they leave.
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So they head out and discuss that they shouldn't tell Yuya anything.
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But then Yuya pops up, I don't know where, and they proceed.
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Kiryu proceeds to just try to tell him everything and Date has to cut him off.
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See I don't know how Kiryu made it this far.
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He's poorly written in this game.
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So after dealing with Yuya, Kiryu and Date head to Bacchus, now Bantam, to exchange information.
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While there, we learn Date used to work with Besho, who is Sayama's captain, I guess?
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Boss?
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Yeah.
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And that Kawara has a history of being too quick on the draw.
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You can get away with self-defense a few times, but to have that kind of track record of pretty
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much causing many genocides around in Japan, how do you get away with it?
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Which makes me kind of nervous about Kiryu's future if he's going to be hanging around
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Kawara, because Kawara is obviously a lot more powerful than what we think.
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Yeah, it seems that way.
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So after their chat, Kiryu meets up with Sayama back at the clinic, where Kawara is kind of
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roasting her a little bit.
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But when Kiryu shows up, two guys bust in right after him looking for a Kang, who we
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can assume is the Kazuki double.
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Sayama tries to question them, and they just punch her straight in the face.
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Unnecessary, guys.
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Why are we making...
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First we have a female slap, and then we have a female immediately thrown under the bus,
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and then now we have a female punched in the face.
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So why is Kiryu now suddenly mad about women being hit, because he didn't care when he
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slapped Haruka in the last game.
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For reals, what a hypocrite.
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Anyway, moving on.
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So after he takes them down, Kawara jumps on one to question them.
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Why does he fall on them like that?
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It makes me laugh, I'll show you.
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He tripped and fell, Leah.
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It wasn't intentional.
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He tripped and fell.
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He landed with his elbow on the floor.
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It's so funny.
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We find out that they're from a Korean syndicate, the Jinguyeon Mafia, and then all three of
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them leave to go meet Date at the bar.
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But before they do, perhaps my favorite line of the game is Kawara saying, I need to find
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a change of pants.
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First underwear and now pants?
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What is up with the scheme?
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And then he has the audacity to say, took you long enough when we get to the bar.
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We ran straight there.
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I don't know.
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You did not find pants in that time.
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They tell Date about the Jinguyeon Mafia.
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Apparently Kawara knows Korean and some history about this mafia.
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He says what they do care about is absolute loyalty.
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How does Kawara know Korean?
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It's a good question.
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He kind of brushes it off too.
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So after they get all caught up, Date says they may not be safe there as the bartender
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has been acting strange.
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And he found a picture of Kiryu and Sayama behind the bar.
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Kiryu stays behind to question the bartender.
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And while doing so, some goons bust in.
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And the bartender saying, please let us kill you.
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It's hilarious.
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I don't know what kind of response they're expecting to get when you ask someone, can
00:29:26
I kill you?
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Please let us kill you.
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What do you want him to say?
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Right.
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It cracks me up.
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It's ridiculous.
00:29:33
But of course, Kiryu beats them.
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And the bartender tells Kiryu a whole sob story.
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The bar's in debt after what happened last year.
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Kiryu's fault.
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Driven away customers.
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Someone came by offering to pay everything off.
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And that someone was from the Sengoku family, Pistachio.
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And they gave him the photos.
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I feel like Kiryu is the type of person who falls for the Nigerian prince scam every single
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time because he says this in Yomili.
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You take his word for what it is and then you forgive him.
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It's such a drawn out and unnecessary emotional moment.
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I don't give a crap about this bartender.
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Kiryu should have apologized for the ruckus he called that drove away customers last year.
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That's what should have happened.
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But no.
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Okay.
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So after this, Kiryu heads out to meet the others at Serena.
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And this is where we learn that Date is wanted for murder after the Amino building incident.
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Of course Date's into more hot water.
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Wouldn't be Date if he wasn't boiling.
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Well.
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Well, should we end it?
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I guess so.
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Right at one hour.
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Nice.
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Audacity on one.
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Three, two, one.
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