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There’s a new trailer for the Yakuza TV show, but I already know how it ends"I always wanted to be Like A Dragon: Yakuza"
“I always wanted to be Like A Dragon: Yakuza”
Image credit:Amazon Prime Video
Image credit:Amazon Prime Video
There’s a new trailer out forthat there Like A Dragon: Yakuza TV showthat Amazon’s spinning up. And being one of RPS' foremostYakuzasickos, I can say that I remain cautious about it, with perhaps a hint of optimism. It doesn’t look like it’s going for goofy, but instead opting for largely gritty and serious and almost entirely unrelated to the Yakuza games. Still, though, I do know how the show ends. It’s really obvious, actually, when you think about it.
Here’s the new trailer, which starts with a flashback, as kid Kiryu watches a dragon-tattooed Yakuza uppercut some guy in an arena:
Like A Dragon: Yakuza - Official Trailer | Prime VideoWatch on YouTube
Like A Dragon: Yakuza - Official Trailer | Prime Video
I almost wanted to put “the Colosseum??”, after “in an arena” just now. But going off the trailer, it really doesn’t look like it’ll hone in on Yakuza’s legendary daftness. I doubt there’s going to be an informant called The Florist Of Tsai, who then leads Kiryu into an underground pleasure city called Purgatory. He’s not going to meet a young man who’sreallyinto racing little cars around a little track. And no, there is no point in the trailer where he picks up a bike and cracks a man around the head with its spokes.
And I suppose that’s to be expected. If the show zeroed in on all of Kiryu’s extracurricular activities, it would probably come off as a bit naff. Sure, it works through the video game medium, but through TV, eh, probably not.
Amazon’s official blurb gives us some deets on the show’s plotline:
If you’re keen to give the show a watch, it arrives on Prime Video on October 24th.
