HIATUS I'd 1v1 Arakawa Masato

Yakuza focused sideblog for myself.

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Half Hiatus, mostly just clarification. Putting it under the cut so it wont clog feeds.

If it isn't evident already my schedule has been pretty rough lately as my IRL job's (ew) workload has gotten heavy and won't be easing up for a little while. I probably won't be online near as often so I can't particularly get to asks or DMs folks have been sending in. I know I already have a lot of asks on the backburner for months, but just an update that more immediate questions probably wont be answered now either.

I will still be keeping up with:

Kirin Mine Plushie (obv). Anyone who has bought one of the Kirin-Mine plushies has my business email! Questions about the manufacturing progress, shipping, etc, can be sent to me there or asked on Ko-fi. I should be getting an update from the manufacturer soon; shot them an email asking for a progress update.

Tojo Suggestion Box. Weekly updates on the suggestion box until FOREVER MARCH is completed. There may be a stall here and there, but I'm fully committed to finishing this out. There's a TON of asks that I've gotten for this that I do not have the time or space to address since the Y3 plot timeline is so densely packed, but I do have some plans after FOREVER MARCH is over.

Any prior commissions. Self explanatory.

After everything's done man I'm excited to finish a lot of the sketches I have and just flood this blog with them lmao. There's like a billion little half finished Mine and Daigo drawings and comics sitting around in my files (Kirin Mine AUs beloved...) as well as some other projects I really want to get to.

Thank you to everyone for all the messages and interaction, I really do appreciate it even if I'm not able to answer everything right now!

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Another update; it continues. The problems I've been having with my workplace have extended far past their due date, and a lot of things have been thrown off course due to the way things are panning out right now. I didn't get to clear up my schedule like I expected, so now am running into other obligations I'd already agreed to before all of this.

I'll probably be offline and away from any social media, save to post on Tojo Suggestion Box (my ray of sunshine in this) and respond to any inquiries about the Kirin Mine Plushie on Ko-fi. Otherwise, I really won't be seeing anything anyone sends me/tags/etc.

For the suggestion box, expect a few more 'downtime' easy question asks before I launch back into y3 chapters kfhd

Thank you guys so much for supporting me and engaging with my blog, and to everyone I've gotten to talk to in the yakuza fandom. It really has and continues to make my day <3!

UPDATE CINTIQ PEN IS BROKE WHY MUST I SUFFER

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Happy birthday to the special-est boy Mine Yoshitaka

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Happy holidays @rjcthmnt !! Hope this makes you smile :D

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I always thought I was woobifying him too much but RGG went and outdid me with this fit

Anyways I need to draw a full version of this sometime so I can make my own shitty standee and not have to support the merch rn

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“I suddenly noticed Kagawa-san looming over me from behind. He grabbed my hair and started pulling out hairpins one by one, ripping out the hair that had been set and secured in place. I worked in Ginza for 15 years, but that was the only time my hair, a tool of my trade, had been mangled like that. […] I had no choice but to endure the pain and humiliation. […] I didn't want to resist and risk him flying into a rage or have him target a different hostess."

The proof is a photograph showing Kagawa grinning as he grabs her hair. […] Newly obtained images reveal Kagawa, having grabbed the former mama's hair, burying his face in the nape of her neck and sniffing. Furthermore, when she turned to reprimand him, he wore a sullen expression and proceeded to stick his fingers under her armpit to sniff that scent. (Daily Shincho 2022-12-27)

Teruyuki Kagawa, the current face and voice of Goh Hamazaki, SAed two women that night, not one. “Mirei” (pseudonym) and the club’s former mama. The mama is actually the woman in the photos. This is the story behind them. Note that unlike with Mirei, Kagawa (via his agency) outright refused to apologize to the mama and discredited her story as a “distortion of logic” and “past the statute of limitations.” I don’t want to hear another word about he “apologized” and “changed” and “deserves redemption.”

I have hesitated to share images and descriptions so as to not retraumatize survivors like myself, but I think it is extremely important to have the details so they can't be dismissed, bearing in mind what he did to Mirei was even worse.

Please continue to support #REMOVEKAGAWA (link in notes). We're at 2.3k signatures right now and we got Yakuza 5 localized on 3.4k. We can do this.

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Post with the actual photos: https://x.com/04tenno/status/1973053307145912577

Daily Shincho (2022-12-27) 香川照之のセクハラ暴行、被害ママが真相を初告白　新たなワイセツ証拠写真を入手（全文） | デイリー新潮

Change.org (2025-09-28) Petition · Remove Teruyuki Kagawa from his role as Goh Hamazaki in Yakuza Kiwami 3

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It's not as if he's a minor character or just "another part of the game." I'd still prefer him gone even if he was, but I do want to stress this isn't a case where one could make the argument that you can't expect your media to be 100% ethically pure. I know that- but this is different.

RGG made Kagawa, the actor, a front and center part of their promotional material for K3's announcement stream. They talked about his skill during controlled question times on stage, had him record a message to the fans, recorded behind the scenes with him, etc etc. If they thought it suitable to emphasize him as a selling point of their product, then obviously it's going to be a deciding factor if one wants to buy that product at all. I won't be till something gets sorted out, not at full price anyway.

Aside from a purposeful boycott, it just puts a sour taste in my mouth that would dampen any enjoyment I got out of forking over a chunk of my paycheck to reward that kind of behavior. Not in this economy anyway Jesus Christ.

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Ughhhh, had to update the mod to be accurate. 🙄 Thanks RGG.

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idk why dripless techbro Mine looks like a Judgment character, he just does. Guy jumped to a different part of the franchise

What happened in-between 2005 K1 unused model to him getting fired that made him decide to do this

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im crying his dumb fuckass outfit

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I just wanna say, the way you draw baby Daigo is adorable especially with baby Mine I wish they could’ve met sooner.

Answering this year-old ask with more than a year old doodles I had locked away in my files of a teenage AU being punted around on discord

Kept this ask forever bc I meant to finish them but after a year ...

It's self indulgent and cutesy bc I never draw MineDai being serious; they get hit w the kawaii joke beam

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Im glad you didn't die in a hurricane but this is exactly what Mine Yoshitaka would do

The grindset cannot be sacrificed for anything

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The sequel, in which I was hit by a hurricane again that wreck'd most of my town but its ok because I have now flown across the globe to Yokohama and escaped the complete and total power outage of my area

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What a fun character to draw!

AAA dude TYSM !! I love it... my lil guy oughh

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Can I draw your sona......

Oh I'd be flattered! Thank you!

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i literally cannot get over ur mlp x yakuza shit ITS SO PERFECT and such a niche thing THANK YOU FOR PROVIDING SUCH CONTENT

I think about the horsies a lot honestly

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omggg your sona is so cool!!!

Thank ya! They're a weird lil fella who ive been meaning to update forever but here they are. Pile a random bones they picked up and shapechanging goop. That's sometimes a cowboy.

Fella needs a redesign/more variations drawn out hence why I never doodle the guy and instead just draw me this most of the time on this blog

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Drew my sona dressed up as meem a while back and its been a pfp for a bit on some discord servers... lil dude

Current pfp update as of today

(RGG Studios goes on to live a happy and fulfilled life after using my sona as a cushion)

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Thank you for saying it— that the yakuza games lately have been more meme-y, I hadn’t been able to put a word to it, but I’d noticed something was off as well and that they haven’t felt the same :/

I don't want to be too much of a hater since I wish to Let People Have fun but lmao. Putting most of my rambling below the cut.

I can't really verbalize it very well myself, but in general, my preference for the wild stuff is more the ridiculousness of the soap opera drama and playing it completely straight. (Even though it's guys on top of a tower tearing their shirts off to pummel each other over their conflicting ideals and symbolic tattoos)

I think post Yakuza 0 they've been increasingly making things goofier to different degrees. I do like silly, and I do like 7- but it's just a different kind of funny/whacky. I was fine enough with it with Ichiban I suppose because he's a different guy, this was a passing-the-torch thing, as well as a clear shift in just how the games work- but I just don't know about it for the Kiryu saga characters. There's a lot of embracing that it's a wild videogame in the more recent installments when the older ones were more trying to resemble yakuza films.

It feels like there's an increased awareness within RGG of their reputation as the crazy-zany studio and its affected some of the charm of the weirdness now that there's an expectation of it. Even the subs seem to reflect this; they always made extra jokes but IW even more so the subs were leaning into comedy even harder than the actual JP language dialogue. Felt like abridged/improv at certain points. I can't pretend like I know what's going on at the studio though, this is just a vibe based on how I've been feelin' for a bit.

TL;DR I like the cinematic over-the-top soap opera energy of the Kiryu Saga and haven't really been into the zany videogame vibes lately. It's clear though that the majority of fans prefer the latter; I hope they have fun w the game genuinely. I hope I can have fun with it too, but for now I'm just :I