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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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hi can you post wet cat mine by itself please...... its been killing me all morning hes so funny

damp and miserable

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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

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l m ao thank y a for the reassurance, but at the same time i like to think that the longer I take, poor Mine is locked into a groundhog day hellscape of endless March

Figured given its pretty context heavy lol. It's been a long-term project of mine to transcribe and translate the RGGO Mine stories myself (just in general, good practice and I'm just particular about formatting and reading sources for myself), but for this story and some other RGGO stuff Skelabra has a translation posted!

Essentially, the story goes over what Mine has been up to in the background, including a deal with Hamazaki, fight with some Triad guys, deal with Lau Ka Long (sending him after Kiryu via Rikiya), and then destroying the Hamazaki family. Dude was busy.

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Maybe i should put it to a vote 😊

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Thank you so much for writing in, and please don't worry about sending in any asks; its a whole lot, but another to the pile really doesn't hurt!

Actually I did intend to keep the blog on an open/closed schedule to try and manage asks, but only within the first few weeks it already tipped over a scale higher than I could ever possibly address. At that point I decided that since I objectively wont be able to get to all the asks, might as well leave the blog open at all times in case any extras come in that I can group together into one of the 'theme' posts, if that makes sense? I appreciate the concern though lol

I know I won't be able to get to every ask, but I do read all of them and have a blast doing it.

And thank you guys so much!! I really really appreciate it fkhd I can't say enough. I'm glad you guys like how I draw Mine and that the vibe comes across because MAN is it a struggle sometimes to draw these dudes. Fighting for my life not to chronic sameface.

Definitely didn't fit to what I was listening to while drawing it lmao

Here ya go !

Thanks for all the asks and I do know there are some that are months old that I still need to get to; RIP. I promise I'll get around to answering them once I clear up my schedule with the suggestionbox!

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What if your favorites from Yakuza were set in the Dune universe?

I'm gonna be real with you the only thing I remember about Dune was my dad loredumping and telling me to read those books + Asimov's Foundation series throughout my life therefore I never engaged with Dune content on principle.

Instead have sci-fi that my dad successfully got me into, sorry

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Mine with bird… it can speak for him

Petsitting but the bird actually really likes him