#partly because he’s a freak in height but also because he had full faith in him to do this character

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🌈 ✨ More Like A Dragon: Yakuza Adaptation Information ✨ 🌈

Using these two articles from Famitsu and 4Gamer, I’ve found more information that didn’t get put into any of the translated articles for some reason. There’s also this video of the press conference which helped as well.

(I had to make do with Google translate of course so the translation isn’t perfect so don’t take it too literally, but it still allowed for me to get an understanding of what type of stuff they talked about.)

•Something brought up quite a bit is the differences in the time periods. With change within the characters and the setting itself. They’re really honing in on that. It also seems the series goes back and forth between ‘95 and ‘05.

•They might be referring to Kiryu throwing himself in jail for Nishiki as a mistake which I find very interesting.

•Ryoma was told by the director, Take, to not imitate Kiryu to a T, and instead, add his own spin on the character. Something Ryoma notes is that Kiryu is “affectionate and hungry for love.” Which is very interesting.

•Ryoma got super dedicated to his role. So much so that he stated it was partly him and partly Kiryu, but he couldn’t separate him from himself. He also said he trained physically for months, and Take states that he did his own stunt work and fighting.

•Interestingly, through the body of work, the director also wants to make a point about the pointlessness of fighting which is certainly painting a picture for me. I imagine it’ll really affect the main plot’s conflict.

•The underground coliseum will be featured as I learned through this clip. Also, contains a little more about Ryoma fighting on his own.

•The most important bit of info, however, is this. Full stop.

Bonus:

•The eyes being drawn onto the dragon on the gold screen was intended to be a prayer ceremonial gesture to hope for the future of the live action. Thusly, Ryoma blessed it.