i put my heart and soul into this piece, i also made it into a video to the mitski song it’s based off of, which is on my tiktok @/ crowtow.n !!
i genuinely cannot think about them without my chest tightening, they make me feel so much. the tragic siblings, my soul aches for them SO MUCH. i’ve written so much about nishiki and kiryu, and i have so many thought about them at all times.
HE LITERALLY FITS EVERYTHING A SEXYMAN SHOULD BE!!!
Extremely Stylish, luxurious snake hide jacket, also has huge abs. mad dog of shimano, more like mad DRIP of shimano
man beats up thugs by breakdancing. i don't think i need to explain why this is so cool
he respects women like no other man in japan does. he runs the biggest cabaret of osaka, treats his workers right, and when he acquires a cabaret club (different thing), he grows it by beating up the owners of the other cabaret clubs and hiring their most popular girls
there has been a homicide, the victim is the dance floor. he sings and dances like the great one above took him up to an angelic studio and gave him a divine audio editing program. 24-hour cinderella SLAPS HUGE
the guy may have gone mad, but you can't deny his dedication to help kiryu relearn his fight. sure his way of doing this is clutching the guy in every corner and forcing him to fight brutally, but cmonnnnn, it's visual learning. that's what they do to montessori children as well
SLAY! YES! LOVE HIM FOR THAT!!!
i have many other reasons to put him up as a sexyman, but i suggest you to do your own research (play the YAKUZA SERIES bc while majima is really cool, there are other cool characters) bc the games are SO COOL and it's really cool to see our guy in action
ever think about the fact that nishiki largely spiraled the way he did because of being considered incompetent and unfavorable in comparison to kiryu by everyone important in his life, and thus was constantly neglected and forgotten about. and then think about how the bomb would never have had to go off if kiryu and/or yumi just paid literally any attention to him after the showdown. talked to him. helped him to his feet. kept an eye on him. anything. instead of more or less forgetting he was there and allowing him the opportunity to do what he did. do you ever think about that. i sure do
sitting all alone in a fancy room, with an computer voice singing. or, just standing in an empty room, all alone, singing with no audience. now im sure this also reflects the change in karaoke establishments irl from like 1988 to 2005, but you can also read into it that it reflects kiryu's situation.
kiryu's an ex-convict, which are heavily stigmatised in a lot of countries and societies. ten years in the joint prison have detached him from the world outside and he probably at least somewhat feels like an alien, an intruder on a world that isn't his.
yes, this is also me getting very emotional over "Tonight" I looked up the translation of the lyrics and it fucking made me cry. just imagine kiryu pre-show down, singing this, hoping in his heart that everything will be okay. that nishiki will come meet him and change back into the nishiki he remembers. then, kiryu post-show down, singing this again, that hope now nothing more but a wishful fantasy that will never become reality because nishiki is dead. Both the nishiki he knew from 88 and the nishiki of 2005.
especially contrasted against y0:
look how lively! the disco light, other people cheering you on, there for the same reason as you. (also akira is there because I HEART NISHIKI and i want kazuma to fucking spend time with him and GIVE HIM A HUG ALREADY!!!)
like when you compare these two pictures, these two scenarios... kiwami is just fucking sad, dude. like, karaoke is prob my favourite minigame but not in kiwami. in kiwami, it just feels miserable. just kiryu all alone in this very private room.
hi yakuza tag wats good. this image has been stuck in my brain for like a week i had to make it real. can you tell i normally draw little cartoon guys not realistic japanese men with psychological issues