#I FUCKING HATE NOT BEINF RESPECTED!

[dark-twist-fairytales]

Fucking done trying today.

Goodnight.

Fucking.. Vent in the tags, warning

[supreme-burrito]

I actually disagree with the above tags.

Most of Majima’s abusive behavior, especially in Kiwami, is extreme for sure.

I mentioned this on another post recently that the developers way back when in 2005 wrote Majima off as the ‘joke character’, essentially someone who can be the opposite Kiryu, chaos vs. disorder, yin and yang, etc. A lot of plot essentials that involve Majima in the first Yakuza game (not Kiwami) were just ‘because why not’.

No, I am not condoning harming employees to put people in line, but as time goes on, especially from the Majima Saga in Kiwami 2 onwards, this man freaking grows.

Funny enough if you play the original Yakuza and Yakuza 2 you wouldn’t have any context as to why Majima was suddenly a construction worker because the Majima Saga wasn’t a thing. That’s how much of a joke character people probably thought he was initially.

This is just a theory but they probably had Kamurocho Hills in mind as a plot point later down the line, but they didn’t know how to implement with foreshadowing in Yakuza 2 and they didn’t want to leave it in the background so the team looked at each other and said ‘fuck it, let’s make Majima a construction worker’

It wasn’t until Yakuza 4 which was five years later that they gave this crazy sonofabitch some back story with Saijima and the incident of 1985. And it only went up for him from there, with his peak of beinf promoted to playable character in Yakuza 0. People loved him so much that the devs wrote him a complete backstory and epic arc of love and loss based on Y0 that nullified his ‘just because’ behavior. The Majima everywhere mechanic made his purpose in Yakuza 1 more meaningful. But I digress.

Now there is a big difference from how Majima treats his men as time goes on in the series. In Yakuza 1, he was still part of the Shimano family as their captain, so he is still technically following orders from a direct higher up. In Yakuza 0 (which pretty much retconned 4 why IDK, because more drama?), we see how Majima lost his eye during his year of torture for his involvment with the 1985 shootout, which was by his boss’s own hand instead of tied up in chains in an open warehouse being stabbed by some random traitor. Shimano was the one who sent him to Sotenbori and work off at the Grand. I would pretty pissed at my boss if they did that to me. So the reason he is beating up the lackeys is because they are not his men, they are Shimano’s and he probably fucking hates his guts, based on Kiwami.

Now in Kiwami 2, we got the Majima Saga alongside the Majima Construction clan creator side content. Not just ‘Majima is a construction worker lol’. Majima is now his own patriarch, Majima Construction is HIS family. Yeah he still talks shit to them and occasionally kicks them around, but it’s observed to be a lot less than what we saw in Kiwami. His shit talking is based out of the love he has for his own men and what they are doing together by building Kamurocho Hills. In the Majima Saga, one of the mission descriptions is ‘Nobody hurts my boys except for me’. He loves his men and would kill and die for them (you know if he had to because he has definitely not killed before). He is still learning as a green patriach at this point, but he’s headed in the right direction.

And even as time goes on, Majima still keeps his carefree, sarcastic personality, but after the time skip in Yakuza 3 and 4 he now has a small army which respect him without question. He’s gotten wiser and knows how to run a family properly. In Yakuza 4, you fight Majima’s captains, not Majima, throughout the story.

In conclusion: Yakuza devs gave a character they probably thought everyone would hate or clown on one of the most complex and enriching character developments that you have to fully take in to appreciate how far the one-eyed dog has come since his cabaret club manager days. He’s not just a major charcater of the Yakuza franchise, he’s the second main character. You can’t have Majima without Kiryu and vice versa.

oh haha OOF