There's a new trailer out for that there Like A Dragon: Yakuza TV show that Amazon's spinning up. And being one of RPS' foremost Yakuza sickos, I can say that I remain cautious about it, with perhaps a hint of optimism. It doesn't look like it's going for goofy, but instead opting for largely gritty and serious and almost entirely unrelated to the Yakuza games.
Still, though, I do know how the show ends. It's really obvious, actually, when you think about it. Here's the new trailer, which starts with a flashback, as kid Kiryu watches a dragon-tattooed Yakuza uppercut some guy in an arena: I almost wanted to put "the Colosseum??", after "in an arena" just now.
But going off the trailer, it really doesn't look like it'll hone in on Yakuza's legendary daftness. I doubt there's going to be an informant called The Florist Of Tsai, who then leads Kiryu into an underground pleasure city called Purgatory. He's not going to meet a young man who's really into racing little cars around a little track.
And no, there is no point in the trailer where he picks up a bike and cracks a man around the head with its spokes. And I suppose that's to be expected. If the show zeroed in on all of Kiryu's extracurricular activities, it would probably come off as a bit naff.
Sure, it works through the video game medium, but through TV, eh, probably not. Amazon's official blurb gives us some deets on the show's plotline: It will be interesting to see how and if the show will capture Yakuza's true spirit.
