I love how even I can never bring myself to say Kazama-san's name without the san. And yes, absolute pain. Tears, too. Jesus, the Yakuza games pulled me in more than I ever thought I could be pulled.
The entire cinematic is from the events of Yakuza 0 - there's nothing from Kiwami/Yakuza 1 in here because no matter how long it's been, no matter what they've gone through, Kiryu still loves and misses his sworn brother and only remembers the good times.
@@gazover_ you mean the turn-based combat?I think it is absolutely fucking terrible.I have put off playing the game for several days only because the combat is so boring.Glad other people can enjoy it though
I remember playing this song in Kiwami thinking it was a bit goofy. Then 200 hours and 11 canonical years later Kiryu was still lamenting the loss of his best friend, the song took on a whole new feel for me. Nearly teared up replaying it in 6. One of my favourites now.
Kinda sad that by the time you get to 6, Kiryu basically has nobody left. As I played through the games I was really feeling how he really just wanted to be left alone to live a normal life and how tired he was of being dragged into situations time and time again. Especially how the Tojo clan in 6 was literally non existent. I'm glad 6 was the end of his story. I just want the man to live in peace for once and not get roped into more shit.
I know it's not the best, but the fact that we're getting the two kyodai VA in the next Like a Dragon game is just so wholesome (Ichiban for Nishiki VA and.. well Dante Kiryu)
@@djemon1355 in 0, you have the brotherhood relationship between kiryu and nishiki, the daily activities they do together, the heartbreaking dilemma they have to face, and the team they both form. Hearing this song after nishiki's downfall and betrayal reminds you of the happy times in 0, and it hurts.
@@djemon1355 this song wouldn't made me care about nishiki if i didn't play 0 before kiwami. kazama grow on me on kiwami, but i would hated nishiki if i didn't see him in zero
Yakuza 0: Epic song between brothers having fun Kiwami: Still kinda epic, hope nothing bad happens Yakuza 2: Oh... Damn this shit hits different. Yakuza 6: Nishiki would be proud.
Baka Mitai is a parody of sad songs, and it's mostly taken as a joke, given the context of the pictures the reminiscence about. This song is 100% serious.
I actually played Zero before Kiwami and I knew absolutely nothing about the Yakuza series (except that there was a crazy guy with an eyepatch and a bat running around, beating people up while screaming Kiryu-chan… Majima strikes again, huh?) so I went in completely blind and… Hell, it just tore my heart out.
Same here. I remember being absolutely heart-broken when I saw Nishiki turned corrupt. I was hoping it was all some elaborate plan from the get go and that it would reveal he was on Kiryu's side the whole time.
listening to this in yakuza 6 instead of kiwami makes it more emotional because it made me realize that after all these years, hes still cant get over and forget what happened to him and Nishiki
I recently played this song and it caught me off guard because this song has been absent from some of the game (or I have skipped some of the karaoke in the game until 6) and immediately made me cry
Yakuza: conditions you to enjoy karaoke over several games as an upbeat break from the main storyline Yakuza 6: decides to piledrive your emotions into the floor with Tonight while tricking you with Today is a diamond, and then apologises with Hands. Damn I love this installment
*2005, and yes, it just hits so differently. I still have bad feelings on my gut when playing Kiwami because it's just tragedy after tragedy (specially if you begin with 0), seeing him end alone without his basically sworn-family at this point sucks so bad.
The biggest substory they didn't put in kiwami. Kiryu calling Nishikyama from jail to give him words of advice, wisdom and encouragement when he was having a rough time in the Yakuza. 😢
Sometimes I like to think that kiryu just has a crazy over-active imagination and that he's still back at the orphanage with Nishiki and Kazama making the games up in his head.
In Kiwami the song sounds hopeful, just like Kiryu hopes that Nishiki will come to his senses and things will go back to normal. After that it’s more solemn, cause those days are gone
To be fair i can understand why nishiki went crazy His sister died His best friend went to prison for a mistake he made All his family members treat him like sh¡t and always compare him to kiryu
Nishiki wasn't made for the Yakuza life that's the sad truth, he was weak not only physically but mentally too, he was just following his kyoudai steps
My heart man! It's so sad seeing Kiryu sing so beautifully about his brother and all the good times they used to have But it's heart warming to see and know that Kiryu remembers Nishiki as his brother and not the evil sociopath he became and we don't see 1 moment of Y1/Kiwami through the whole song, and only fond memories from 0 This song is beautiful
I really hope there’s a scene where Kiryus meditating in the Daidoji temple and all of a sudden he starts to remember every single loved one that had been killed flashes on screen. That would be the most painful thing in all of entertainment history
This is one of many, many parts of Yakuza 6 which gives it such an interesting feeling compared to the other games in the series. There's a definitely calmer and less OTT feel to it, far more introspective and personal, everything's very downbeat and with lots of callbacks to the past, tinged with regret. It's one of the reasons why I think with hindsight having just Kiryu be playable in it was the right decision.
I know it hurts...but there was a choice between Akira and Akiyama....that day kiryu's brother died...and the one that replaced his brother basically was born... since the explosion caused akiyama to earn all his fortune...so in other words I am glad the replacement for the 10 years in the joint guy was just as memorable as him with his grooving and sense of humor
I played Yakuza games from 0 to 6 and recently beat Yakuza 6. When I played this song for the first time it completely caught me off guard, and the lyrics along with Kiryu's memories really made me emotional. Only those who went through Kiryu's journey would get that haha
If only those 3 in the portrait knew what was going to happen. 2 of them are dead and 1 faked their death and isolated themselves from the people he loves
I kinda hate yakuza series how they they treated our main Mc without giving some peacefully live I mean even until on 7 series he still never retired and have happy family they still give some shitty reason to fight.
No matter how much shit life had forced Kiryu to Tiger Drop his way through since then, he will never forget the comparatively innocent years (emphasis on comparative) he spent with his fallen kyodai.
The picture with Kazama-san and Nishiki really drills a hole through your heart...
His true father and his true brother...
@@spaghettimkay5795 😭 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
I love how even I can never bring myself to say Kazama-san's name without the san. And yes, absolute pain. Tears, too. Jesus, the Yakuza games pulled me in more than I ever thought I could be pulled.
Its like swallowing an about to explode atom bomb
How can yall fck his name up? Its KazUma not Kazama.
Kazuma Kiryu
The entire cinematic is from the events of Yakuza 0 - there's nothing from Kiwami/Yakuza 1 in here because no matter how long it's been, no matter what they've gone through, Kiryu still loves and misses his sworn brother and only remembers the good times.
Which is why Kiryu is my favorite character. No matter what you've done, he'll show remorse and give another chance.
Kiryu never want to remember Nishiki as his enemy that why only has the good memory from 0.
It's more likely because Yakuza 6 and Yakuza Kiwami came out in the same year, so this was developed before the cutscenes in Kiwami were usable.
That's because it's the same movie that appears in Yakuza Kiwami karaoke.
@@The_McRib stop ruining the magic please
Good that they put this song in from the start of his journey at the end of it
Don't make me cry even more, please
@@b.w.c5933 Sorry broski, It's gotta happen Q.Q
God damn it now im sad again
I finished 6 a couple days ago.I hear he is in Y7 so im painfully going through the turn-based combat to meet him
@@pootisbardo019 it's not that bad(it's funni)
@@gazover_ you mean the turn-based combat?I think it is absolutely fucking terrible.I have put off playing the game for several days only because the combat is so boring.Glad other people can enjoy it though
I remember playing this song in Kiwami thinking it was a bit goofy. Then 200 hours and 11 canonical years later Kiryu was still lamenting the loss of his best friend, the song took on a whole new feel for me. Nearly teared up replaying it in 6. One of my favourites now.
Kinda sad that by the time you get to 6, Kiryu basically has nobody left. As I played through the games I was really feeling how he really just wanted to be left alone to live a normal life and how tired he was of being dragged into situations time and time again. Especially how the Tojo clan in 6 was literally non existent. I'm glad 6 was the end of his story. I just want the man to live in peace for once and not get roped into more shit.
@@cammy649 funny cause then he has to fight ichiban
I really have to fight back the tears with this one. Thanks for your post. It was well said.
@@cammy649 Even Haruka left him (Yea fuck you Sega for turning the best girl of Yakuza series into a fucking bitch)
I know it's not the best, but the fact that we're getting the two kyodai VA in the next Like a Dragon game is just so wholesome (Ichiban for Nishiki VA and.. well Dante Kiryu)
Even in the end, when the Dragon of Dojima's story is about to come to a close, he still has Nishiki in his heart.
And Nishiki is "back" as Ichiban. Ichi can never replace Nishiki, but he sure does remind Kiryu of him
Like A Dragon: Gaiden
Yakuza 8
The Koi isn't dead, It just became the dragon
Sei italiano, sì? 😁
The koi didn't ascend, it reincarnated.
The fish dragon on ichiban's back
@@PalloneWafer bruh
@@kazumakiryu2924 you wouldn't understand lol
This song hurts real bad after yakuza 0
Imo, and after kiwami 1 too
why after 0? like nothing happens to kazama or nishiki
@@djemon1355 in 0, you have the brotherhood relationship between kiryu and nishiki, the daily activities they do together, the heartbreaking dilemma they have to face, and the team they both form.
Hearing this song after nishiki's downfall and betrayal reminds you of the happy times in 0, and it hurts.
@@djemon1355 play kiwami
@@djemon1355 this song wouldn't made me care about nishiki if i didn't play 0 before kiwami. kazama grow on me on kiwami, but i would hated nishiki if i didn't see him in zero
Damn, Nishiki and Yumi died in the same spot Tachibana died in. No wonder why Kiryu was distressed.
Shit, you're right. Wonder if Kiryu ever come to hate that place.
@@amarrr89 If youre talking about Kamurocho... yes he absolutely hates that place
@@dingdong8629 kamurocho in general, the empty lot in particular
@@amarrr89 you mean the millenium tower was built on that empty lot im still playing through zero thats kind of cool.
@@amarrr89 The lot must be cursed. I mean everyone keep dying on this land.
The fact he's still singing it in Y6...
Yakuza 0: Epic song between brothers having fun
Kiwami: Still kinda epic, hope nothing bad happens
Yakuza 2: Oh... Damn this shit hits different.
Yakuza 6: Nishiki would be proud.
Yakuza 7: Wtf, this guy has the koi tattoo fish with a dragon combined.
@@elaina2047 Yakuza 7: Wtf, this guy is KO'd in one punch? And he's dreaming that he fought and defeated me?
i dont think the song is in yakuza 0 tho
@@saulgoodman862 I think he mean judgement song
@@剣聖葦名一心初代目葦 yakuza 7: why the hell Does this guy sound like you.
Itsuwa ni ru JUSTICE “breaking the law, breaking the rule.”😭
this is like baka mitai squared in terms of sadness
Baka Mitai is not supposed to be sad though
Baka Mitai is a parody of sad songs, and it's mostly taken as a joke, given the context of the pictures the reminiscence about.
This song is 100% serious.
bakamitai is literally nothing compared to tonight and today is a diamond
@@kiryuchan10 nah kamurocho lullaby
@@adrienamp1980 nah hands
I actually played Zero before Kiwami and I knew absolutely nothing about the Yakuza series (except that there was a crazy guy with an eyepatch and a bat running around, beating people up while screaming Kiryu-chan… Majima strikes again, huh?) so I went in completely blind and… Hell, it just tore my heart out.
Same here. I remember being absolutely heart-broken when I saw Nishiki turned corrupt. I was hoping it was all some elaborate plan from the get go and that it would reveal he was on Kiryu's side the whole time.
Wish i could've had such an experience. Thanks to the memes and random spoilers, i was waiting Nishiki to betray Kiryu during Y0
I guess Kiryu never got over the fact that Nishiki betrayed him
@@tokenslol they did not
@@tokenslol stop looking at the damn comments and play the games ;(
@@tokenslol haha millennium tower go boom boom boom
SPOILERS AHEAD
the melliniem tower was blown up by nishiki
@@tokenslol It's sad right? :'(
listening to this in yakuza 6 instead of kiwami makes it more emotional because it made me realize that after all these years, hes still cant get over and forget what happened to him and Nishiki
But he chooses to remember the good times. He still thinks of Nishiki as his brother.
I recently played this song and it caught me off guard because this song has been absent from some of the game (or I have skipped some of the karaoke in the game until 6) and immediately made me cry
Kiryu remembering Nishiki: *cries
Also Kiryu: Carboy is my new boy
Yakuza: conditions you to enjoy karaoke over several games as an upbeat break from the main storyline
Yakuza 6: decides to piledrive your emotions into the floor with Tonight while tricking you with Today is a diamond, and then apologises with Hands. Damn I love this installment
Kiwami 2:did somebody order 2 truckloads of majima's depression?
Cool detail: the lyric at 1:06 is the Japanese sub-title of Yakuza 0. "Chikai no Basho" (The Place of Oath)
Even after everything Nishiki did back in 2001, Kiryu never saw him as anything but his brother. Brothers till the end
*2005, and yes, it just hits so differently. I still have bad feelings on my gut when playing Kiwami because it's just tragedy after tragedy (specially if you begin with 0), seeing him end alone without his basically sworn-family at this point sucks so bad.
>2001
Don't tell me... Nishiki didn't only blow up the Millennium Tower?
He blew up 3 towers?!?!?
Sad Nishiki is gone but also disappointed he missed a point-blank shot
Idk, it sorta feels like he missed on purpose because he was broken up about killing his own brother.
He hit kazama from a distance he can manage a shot if he wants..if it wasn't kazama the guy at the end of the scope would probably have died
try shooting your brother without feeling emotion its hard man
Nishiki did redeem his aim by shoot shooting Kazuma (their dad) from a long distance
when he missed? don't remember he actually shot kiryu
The final shot with the photo really hurts
It shows how much Nishiki and Kazama meant to Kiryu
damn, my man sings a song for a brother
This song must really relate to you and anakin.
The biggest substory they didn't put in kiwami. Kiryu calling Nishikyama from jail to give him words of advice, wisdom and encouragement when he was having a rough time in the Yakuza. 😢
Sometimes I like to think that kiryu just has a crazy over-active imagination and that he's still back at the orphanage with Nishiki and Kazama making the games up in his head.
In Kiwami the song sounds hopeful, just like Kiryu hopes that Nishiki will come to his senses and things will go back to normal. After that it’s more solemn, cause those days are gone
Hard to get perfect in this song when your eyes are full of tears, takes a few tries
So nostalgic song....happy to see Nishikiyama again....
In memory of the best kyodai ever!
Nishiki may have betrayed Kiryu, but he is still best kyoudai
Can’t say it was legit betrayal. More like Nishiki went breaking bad and lost everything he valued in life to get to the top
To be fair i can understand why nishiki went crazy
His sister died
His best friend went to prison for a mistake he made
All his family members treat him like sh¡t and always compare him to kiryu
@@justarandombluebird8222 Im sorry to say this but Nishiki was weak minded so he could not handle the tragedies thrown at him
@@frootloop3568 true but still that a lot of stuff happens to him
Nishiki wasn't made for the Yakuza life that's the sad truth, he was weak not only physically but mentally too, he was just following his kyoudai steps
The cinematic caught me off guard...
Lost the 30 combo
You know I feel bad for Nishiki, but I can't get over the fact that he "killed" Reina.
This song is the hardest because halfway they hit you with the feels
Damn this song is hard to do perfectly even though it isn't particularly fast or difficult. I guess it's the tears blurring my vision.
Ain't bad boyz anymore :(
Forever bad boyz breaking za woldo.
Sad bois ):
i cant even finish the song without wanted to cry, i feel so bad for Kiryu.
Someone:a game can't make you cry
Tonight in Yakuza games:
Frienship with Judgement ended, now TONIGHT is my best friend
this song actually makes me tear up a little, the outro guitar riffs are so fucking perfect
The end of this karaoke made me cry 😭 😭 😭
This reminds me of my former best friend, we were like siblings, and now, no more, i guess that's why i can sing this with real pain, like Kiryu.
My heart man!
It's so sad seeing Kiryu sing so beautifully about his brother and all the good times they used to have
But it's heart warming to see and know that Kiryu remembers Nishiki as his brother and not the evil sociopath he became and we don't see 1 moment of Y1/Kiwami through the whole song, and only fond memories from 0
This song is beautiful
The fact that they're probably gonna put this in Gaiden too is gonna break my heart again. He's got nothing left but memories.
I really hope there’s a scene where Kiryus meditating in the Daidoji temple and all of a sudden he starts to remember every single loved one that had been killed flashes on screen. That would be the most painful thing in all of entertainment history
Yep they did.
@@Toe-collectorwell there wasn't that but what we did see was close enough lol
@@vienle4089 i forgot i left this comment lmao. It wasn't exactly as i said, but the ending was definitely the most emotional scene I have ever seen.
Playing it for the first time it's was nice. Playing when he got betrayed hurt.
Playing it after Nishiki died hurt even more
I dedicate this to my best friend who passed away, RIP kyodai.
This is one of many, many parts of Yakuza 6 which gives it such an interesting feeling compared to the other games in the series. There's a definitely calmer and less OTT feel to it, far more introspective and personal, everything's very downbeat and with lots of callbacks to the past, tinged with regret. It's one of the reasons why I think with hindsight having just Kiryu be playable in it was the right decision.
Even though Yakuza 6 takes place years later then the events from 0 and Kiwami 1, it still does sadden me how Nishiki betrayed Kiryu
I am not crying, something got in my eye.
To this day shit still breaks my heart
how do they expect me to get a 100 on this if i am bawling my eyes out
Dragon and Fish, friends forever !
Killer song
Even after all these years man...
Good ol' days.
I want cry
CRYIN IN THE CLUB RN
Just finished playing Kiwami and this song hits me like an entire tank division rolling over me ;-;
i love how this can fit in normal Yakuza as a heartbreak/romance song that just oddly fits Nishiki and Kiryu without Kiryu noticing it
this is my favorite song
I literally cried when I watch this video for the first time
i cry everytime. hurts to relate
Kazama should have insisted to introduce Nishiki into a boyband.
1:20 - 1:29 Best part
Damn, i went to karaoke for fun not for feels
He should've been singing judgement with Nishiki 🥺
I can tell Takaya was crying after he sung this for the game
Edit: I just realized Kazama and his voice actor are dead this hurts even more now
Wait his va died
@@Nomad958 Probably
He means kiryu adopted dad just to clear it up in case some were confused
I'm not crying, you're crying!
The cinematic hit me like a train out of nowhere, I kept fucking up the cues after the reveal.
Everything that happened with Nishiki still hurts.
I know it hurts...but there was a choice between Akira and Akiyama....that day kiryu's brother died...and the one that replaced his brother basically was born... since the explosion caused akiyama to earn all his fortune...so in other words I am glad the replacement for the 10 years in the joint guy was just as memorable as him with his grooving and sense of humor
Imagine at the end of yakuza 8, ichiban sings this in memory of kiryu
Dude, i'm not ready for that
I might be ready for Kiryu's death (probably not)
But i'm not ready for Ichiban's farewell to Kiryu
La serie yakuza meriterebbe molta più fama sia in italia che nel mondo
hai detto bene
I played Yakuza games from 0 to 6 and recently beat Yakuza 6. When I played this song for the first time it completely caught me off guard, and the lyrics along with Kiryu's memories really made me emotional. Only those who went through Kiryu's journey would get that haha
If only those 3 in the portrait knew what was going to happen. 2 of them are dead and 1 faked their death and isolated themselves from the people he loves
I hadn't heard of this Yakuza karoake song before and wanted to check it out. But then I started crying as soon as the 0 images started showing
No pago el internet para que me hagan llorar. :(
despues de jugar el yakuza 0, duele mas enfrentarte a nishiki en el kiwami :'(
*"YA-juss-tizu"*
Oh god my heart after play the 0 and kiwami why this hurt só much
Without you, I’ll always be nothing.
Wish we lived in the timeline where Nishiki lived and became a recurring villain only to get redeemed eventually.
WHO'S CUTTING ONIONS IN A KARAOKE STUDIO 😭
bro this song hurts so bad
...no i swear i'm not crying
i cry
this is my favorite karaoke song in the series
From breaking the law, to this... :(
Spoilers
I know It won’t make any sense, but what if Kashiwagi sung this in Yakuza 7 and it’s about Kiryu crying from his “death” in 3
Kashiwagi a little trolly
Pain
I kinda hate yakuza series how they they treated our main Mc without giving some peacefully live I mean even until on 7 series he still never retired and have happy family they still give some shitty reason to fight.
Pain: the song
Kiryu NEVER got over one thing, loosing his best bro😩😢😭
No matter how much shit life had forced Kiryu to Tiger Drop his way through since then, he will never forget the comparatively innocent years (emphasis on comparative) he spent with his fallen kyodai.
DUDE IM SAD NOW
I think this would’ve made sense to appear in K2, since it’s only a year after 1.
I’m gonna fucking CRY
Kiryu-chan is too sad to sing judgement
Wish Kiryu could threat Ichiban like the Nishiki in LAD 8. Or like a son, or friend.
why do this sound more christmas than sayonara silent night in my opinion
He is Just wanna sing judgment but can't
This song hits hella different in Kiwami 2 after playing 0 & K1.
17 happy diwali ❤❤
😭