[ disclaimer: just some silly commentary from my mother while watching Yakuza 0. these are mostly out of pocket comments I found funny/interesting. ]
Please Don't Take Any of These Comments Seriously!!
we did have serious discussion on the side about the topics in the series.
[SPOILERS FOR YAKUZA 0]
[all screenshots from Gamer's Little Playground on Youtube]
she went on a storytime about how she got into a fight in highschool with a girl who was in a gang in chinatown.
"wait don't skip this, he sings good"
"ooh.... watermelon... I want watermelon now :3"
"oh I just remembered, I need to make an appointment for visionworks [the optometrist]"
she didn't think Lee was chinese. I even showed her his name in Chinese and she said 《(mandarin pronunciation) 李 文海 [lǐ wén hǎi] … (in cantonese) 你唔係[nei5 m4hai6](trans: you are not)》
I wrote a slightly longer post about it, but this was just silly. (pls don't take this seriously)
"Kiryu's new suit makes him look fat... but I think it might be Gucci" (classic casual older gen asian fat shaming) She said it was because of the double breast buttons, but I think the suit being white also doesn't help [i personally think he looks fine, nothing wrong with looking big or wide]
"Why does the sewer water look so clean? What kind of sewer is this?" For reference, we live in a city with shit water.
"What is he? stupid? He drove down the tunnel just to hit him once and then crash? stupid."
"Hey kid... just be yourself <3"
[this was the nicest she was to Nishiki LOL]
"They're not chinese... what kind of game of mahjong is this??? How come they're playing so quietly?" I told her it's because... they're TALKING in the scene and she just went "tch"
"oh that's going to blow up"
"i told you" when i asked her how she predicted it, instead of saying 'it's a predictable trope', she said "because if you're going to kill someone, that's how you would do it" [???? don't get on her bad side i guess]
[Oda speaking Chinese] (my ABC friends and I think his tones make his Chinese practically incomprehensible.)
my mom said "his Chinese isn't bad... if you know what's happening in the story and can read the subtitles. But not bad, not bad. I can understand him"
[she does think the NPCs speak much better Chinese though]
"no fucking way [in cantonese]" (i don't remember exactly what she said in cantonese but it basically translates to that)
"he [majima] should just shoot him [sagawa]"
almost every scene sagawa was in, my mom kept saying majima should kill him (lol)
"........ JAT MAA" [一 = jat1 (one) and 馬 = maa5 (horse)]
She's reading the chinese characters as chinese. but it sounds like she's calling Kiryu "one horse". she kept saying this every time the business card showed on the screen, and I was dying of laughter because kazuma to jat1maa5 is so funny to me (I had to later explain to her how it would be pronounced as Kazuma in Japanese)
"majima should just kill him"
"I just don't think they need to do all that killing for such a small plot of land D:"
mom: uh... she's becoming vegetarian?
me: ??? who's becoming vegetarian?
mom: makoto, like, she's unconscious
me: you mean a vegetative state? she's in a coma, mommy
mom: ah yeah, Cuomo (former NY governor)
"oh his claws seem dangerous"
"he could kill him, or maybe punch him hard enough that he becomes Cuomo (former NY governor)"
Sagawa: Did. Did you explain this all to me, then run back to your club to take one of your coworkers out to karaoke?
Majima: It was on the schedule! We've been planning this for days. Hours, even.
Sagawa: And then you opened and ran your club while I stood alone by the river smoking for four hours?
Majima: What can I say? I fucking hate you.
