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mini-mews · 10 days

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heyyyy i know i haven't been active at all (and i apologize for that uni and writers block is a bitch) but its 2am and i got inspo and energy to write a small angst drabble,,,so be on the look out for that :P

#ryu rambles #its xdh angst #please look forward to it

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minnies-duo · 2 months

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honestly nomad's debut showcase this morning is like motivating me to write for them like yesterday? be on the look out :)

#ryu rambles #i love them so much #nomad #nomad kpop

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skysmadness · 2 years

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i love the whole "steve being max's big brother" but consider !! jonathan ALSO becoming an older brother figure to max !

he knows billy was an abusive little shit and he also Knows how rough it is to live with someone like that.

so, in a true Jonathan Byers Nature, he starts to silently take her under his wing. looking after her quietly, which is easy considering how much she hangs out with his siblings at their house anyway

(he finds out he likes her a lot actually, he likes how snarky she is, her comments always make him snort especially when she uses them to drag mike to the ground and how much of a good friend and influence she is on el especially)

max won't admit this out loud but she's very very grateful. she notices jonathan's sudden awareness of her but decides not to say anything about it because she's not used to it at all and doesn't know how to act exactly. she has a feeling jonathan knows anyway.

#jonathan byers best character !!! best BROTHER !!!!!#stranger things #jonathan byers #max mayfield #ryu rambles

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bbahiyyih · 2 years

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up! is giving me old school snsd vibes and I love it 😭😭😭

#ryu rambles

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skywalkerbootleg · 1 month

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I'd get Tinder just to fill out the profile because I LOVE filling out forms and talking about myself

#tinder #dating #forms #filling out forms #online dating #dating apps #rambling #ryu rambles

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designernishiki · 1 year

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wake up babes new yakuza chart drppped

#yakuza #rgg #ryu ga gotoku #rambling #I love making charts can you tell

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pastelsapphy · 1 year

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mysme could have made zen a social media influencer but instead they gave him a 90s era computer and little to no knowledge of social media and i think that's hilarious

#mysme #mystic messenger #zen #zen mysme #zen mm #zen mystic messenger #hyun ryu #ryu hyun #hyun mystic messenger #hyun mysme #hyun mm #luc rambles

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mini-mews · 1 month

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💌 Send this to the twelve nicest people you know or who seem to have a good heart and if you get five back you must be pretty awesome. 💌

giggling kicking my feet btw >.< i love ya so much noona <3

#ryu rambles #oomf:silverstarburst #ilysm

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minnies-duo · 1 month

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when authors come into my inbox to thank me for reblogging their work or saying they liked my goofy tags

I get so shy like I love ya so much hehe shoutout to all the writers on here mwah <33

#ryu rambles #i get so shy #its like a celeb noticed me hehe

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moophinz · 7 months

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Man I was just suddenly overcome thinking about these two and how wild they are

Kiryu seems like the type of male fantasy you might expect from a franchise like this and in some ways he is but he’s sooooo different and much more. Way more. He communicates almost exclusively through caveman grunts and scary faces but he’s listening to everything someone is saying. Then he just drops the most insightful life experience knowledge several times. He’s dumber than a sack of bricks. And everyone who interacts with him knows this immediately. Everyone wishes he’d stop burdening himself playing the tough guy all the time and it ruins him. He tries to do right thinking he’s a danger to everyone and it’d be best to leave all the time but that ends up causing pain just as much. He’s not so secretly super into fighting. It’s one of his only other ways of communicating. Yet he’s also crazy about something that’s almost on par with Hot Wheels and is crazy determined about it. He has the social skills of a wet rag but people are drawn to him regardless. His heart is made of marshmallows no matter how many rippling muscles surround his frame. He’s deemed most fuckable man but does not want Sex. Dude even has too many morals for the mafia.

Ichiban is a big loud guy but he’s at the bottom shelf of life and doing everything to make it work. He can be aggressive just as much as he can be affectionate. He feels everything so strongly and cries whenever he’s overwhelmed with it. He talks so much. Sometimes even too much. His ability to read people is through the roof. Regardless of appearances of a brute who can become blinded by rage, he wants the best for everyone else at the bottom. Video games are special to him and he wants to be a hero who waves around a special bat instead of a sword. He thinks it’s bad to just go ham on an opponent and wants to let them get a few hits in because taking turns. Like in a game. He can be so nice yet so blunt with his words. His eyes are so warm and full of life no matter his age. He’s insulted by the very guy he sees as a brother but still views him like that anyway to the very end.

#middle aged men but they have more layers than shrek and onions #yakuza #ryu ga gotoku #like a dragon #kiryu kazuma #ichiban kasuga #this has been some fine rambling amidst everything I am experiencing

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sir-yeehaw-paws · 10 months

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Got talking about Tachibana and Makoto again and I’m feeling abnormal and upset. Thinking about how the only time we genuinely see Tachibana break is when he’s thinking about her. When all of his resolve and self-control cracks and splinters at the seams and he’s in tears begging Kiryu to bring him to his sister. A man who can get whatever he wants with a snap of the fingers-except his sister.

Thinking about Makoto who traveled so long and far, risking her life and ending up captured and blinded; to see her brother. Makoto who gets dragged into all of this because a bunch of people want an investment plot she inherited. Without her say and from a grandfather she barely new who didn’t even like her that much.

How Tachibana withstood torture with almost no cracking, and almost wins but makes the ONE mistake of laughing at Yoneda and gets killed for it.

How nothing ends up saving him. How Kiryu flips to murderous rage because he’s five seconds too late. How by the time they get Tachibana outside, and Nishiki has RUN across town to grab Makoto and bring her back, he’s just gone. She was so close. After years of separation. After a whole LIFETIME being beaten down because nobody accepted them but one another. How they left on bad terms. How their last memories are plagued by regret and guilt and Makoto can only reach out, touch his cold, dead body and sob. “It’s okay..you’re tired.” And lay her head on the heart she’ll never hear beating again. How with only a few blocks and handful of minutes between them, they just don’t make it.

Even on replays I can’t watch that scene without crying. It hits harder than a truck, it is some of the best writing RGG has ever done. Combined with incredible acting and framing and honestly!? FUCK when I say Yakuza 0 just tends to hit different: this is one reason why.

It hurts SO MUCH but it’s SO well done.

Anyway I’m fine this is outta my system I’m FINE-

#yakuza 0 #tetsu tachibana #makimura makoto #yakuza #thoughts posts #ryu ga gotoku #nate rambles

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cowboymantis · 2 months

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I am having so so so many feelings about Infinite Wealth and I've just been spamming my friend with essays about my overanalyzing brain that obsesses over every single detail in media I am obsessed with,, BUT THIS GAME IS JUST SO FULL OF OPPORTUNITIES FOR IT AAAAA!!!

I just wanna note some longer thoughts down, because I need somewhere to collect some of them,,,,

So yeah, uh, obviously:

LIKE A DRAGON INFINITE WEALTH SPOILERS

(any Yakuza game really, but this is the most recent one, so more likely that people haven't played that yet)

Number 1:

So first of all, Kiryu's parts are, because of the bucket list stuff, very focused on the past. He's trying to tie up loose ends, in his own way and how much he is actually able to do with the Daidoji restrictions.

So I think it was really fitting that he was the one fighting Ebina. In a way it felt like him fighting his past and trying to turn it around.

Now what do I mean by that? Let's start from an earlier point.

Basically, the game is a bit like a mirror to Kiwami in some ways.

Lani is like Haruka, hunted down by several groups of people and they even talk about this similarity being Kiryu's leading factor of motivation in helping her. I mean, there's also different mafias and a whole government conspiracy. But I mean, nothing new in a Yakuza game, but just one more thing added on top of it all.

Where it really starts to show and made me think "Ohhh...wait a second" is when Ebina held his speech about his past. Ebina and Ichiban, even though they didn't grow up together like them, are so similar to Kiryu and Nishiki. One being the Yakuza boss Arakawa's "favourite child", who also idolizes him, and the other one grows to hate him.

And I think this is also the moment where Kiryu realizes "Oh no...history is repeating itself again, isn't it..."

So at the end of the fight, when he actually breaks out in tears and begs for no one to die, it feels like all those deaths he couldn't prevent over all those years, good or bad people, just make him completely break down and he just wants this endless cycle to finally end.

Before the game came out, RGG and actors, in some occasions pointed out how this was a happier game. It makes you feel like looking up instead of being sad.

And while I was playing, I often just felt "Bruh, they lied to us. This game is so sad???", but after I then finished the game, I just sat there and felt such a big relief, the ending just was honestly perfect (well, I mean the cliff hanger was awful jddhd). But then later, it also made me think yeah, this is kind of like a positive version of Kiwami, isn't it? It just feels like it's in a way Kiryu's tying up loose ends with Kiwami's happenings. Fighting his past, finally getting over it in a way.

I thought more about this when I listened to Ebinas boss theme again, because one part has those bells(?) And they sound so much like in For Whose Sake. And then I thought back to the ending more and realized that the whole buildup of it was so much like Kiwami too!

In the finale, first you fight [Villain], who is also the main culprit behind a big government conspiracy. He has helpers with him, and attacks with a gun/guns.

At first you only fight the helpers, then him together with those helpers.

The music is intense and dreadful, everything feels really epic.

Then, after that fight, it goes to the REAL final boss fight. Inside a room, high up on the Millennium Tower, you fight him. Both Nishiki and Ebina are so similar already in their own ways. And the fight is more personal, with emotion behind it. Just that it ends with Nishiki killing himself, but Ebina, while he basically begs for Kiryu to kill him, survives.

The music during the fight has it's ups and downs (intensity-wise) and manages to feel both melancholic and relaxing, as much as they hype you up.

So yeah, it's all such a direct mirror up to the point how it ends. And Kiryu was trying his hardest to prevent things from happening again.

There are often similar themes and plots throughout Yakuza, makes sense, such a long running series, but I think in this particular case it's just so very fitting and it's just SO similar and fits the reflection and fix-it theme of Kiryu's part of the story so well. Especially with how Kiryu's tragic story all started with Yakuza 1 (going by release), still haunting him through every game with constant flashbacks, and now it ends with a story so similar.

Or well, let's hope so, I just want Kiryu to finally rest bruh 😭😭

Number 2:

"Rupture". The name of Hanawa's theme in Gaiden.

Just blatantly taking dictionary definitions here, but there are two ways the word "Rupture" works:

1) (especially of a pipe or container, or bodily part such as an organ or membrane) break or burst suddenly.

"If the main artery ruptures, he could die"

2) breach or disturb (a harmonious feeling or situation).

"Once trust and confidence have been ruptured, it can be difficult to regain"

Keeping that in mind, moving on.

Maybe listen to Hanawa's battle theme for this one, to really visualize it.

Now, whenever I put on the good ol' Gaiden All Boss Battle Themes video, whenever Hanawa's theme came on, I thought wow, this song is really completely different, huh.

But the nature of the song felt quite fitting for a character like Hanawa.

It starts of dark, mysterious, there's a sadness to it. Just like Kiryu now, he has been a man who once "died" and has since then been forced to live in the shadows, his every move being controlled by others. He's like a bird trapped inside a cage.

Then, the song picks up, becomes more intense.

Hanawa's internal struggle and his fight with Kiryu.

When you fight him, the whole scene around it honestly, is like the bird trying to escape this cage. And while nothing that happened was really "real", as in, no fatalaties would've happened because it was all a test, it did feel real for Hanawa and Kiryu. Now looking at the second definition for rupture, it's just like here, on a way more emotional level. And all so sudden. And this is the beginning of him being more and more risky when it comes to the Daidoji, and he keeps on helping Kiryu more than he should, its like his rebellion.

In Infinite Wealth, during the raid on the safe house, it was also all so sudden. It all happened so fast.

The music is picking up. It's nearing the end of the song, and everything becomes so loud and overwhelming - Hanawa suddenly gets shot and dies - then immediately after the wild and short final buildup, silence again. It's a slow, quiet somber tune, like at the beginning of the song, but now fading out... And Hanawa is declared dead.

The sudden rupture lead to immediate casualty, physical this time.

I'm sorry, I DON'T KNOW WHY I MAKE MYSELF SO MUCH SADDER OVER THIS SCENE. But come on, it's just... so perfect, right? 😭😭😭😭

I miss Hanawa so much man. I was really pissed that this is the way they let him go, but just now, after listening to his theme again for the first time since I even started Infinite Wealth, it felt like it just all made sense now. It just clicked. His theme is like a visualisation of his whole story throughout the games.

And it's honestly, sadly perfect. The composers for the Yakuza games are honestly such geniuses. Bringing out some of the best songs ever constantly and making them just feel so fitting for everything.

But yeah. Regardless of if this was meant to be interpreted similiary or not, it just kind of adds to it all for me personally. Especially since you could now maybe see his theme in Gaiden as a bit of secret foreshadowing?

I'd like to see it that way. And maybe, seeing a bit more importance in it all is what helps me to cope with his godawful death scene, RGG what were you thinking man 🥲🥲🥲

Number 3:

Eiji.

Oh boy. Uh, I don't really know yet what the general opinion on this pathetic wet cat (affectionate) is, but I really loved this character. In both a "you're such a damn loser" and "my poor little meow meow :(" way :'D

But most importantly, what I wanna focus on to follow the (over)analyzing theme: Eiji is like a mirror of Masato.

Now, Kiryu has his Kiwami mirror in his finale and Ichiban also has one. But I think this one is way more obvious and also very ironic.

Eiji starts off with trying to earn Ichibans trust and well- it immediately works, of course, it's Ichiban! But the tactic he uses for it, faking being disabled and needing a wheelchair. It was the perfect way to make Ichiban pay attention to him first, because it would remind him of Masato. I think Ichiban immediately just started to get attached to Eiji, and now I'm thinking that Eiji was probably a bit conflicted before he turned his back on him. But his deep rooted hatred was too strong for one nice interaction with a Yakuza, something he demonized, to stop him.

I think it was kind of funny how he was basically like "You're so evil, you Yakuza will NEVER be good people!!! See how good I am while I throw down this child tied to a wheelchair, down those stairs while holding a bomb!!! That'll sure show you evil Yakuza!!!"

Ah. He's so stupid 😭

And yet, whatever happened, Ichiban just constantly called him "Ei-chan", like he's still his bestie and everything is fine. Constantly protesting against it, Eiji probably felt more and more conflicted, because Ichiban is just such a big (and naive) sweetheart. (((Side note: What's not to love about him fr 😭😭)))

So by the finale, and after Eiji had time to say how much he HATED the Yakuza and also, y'know. The whole Bleach Japan thing. Kinda like someone else, hm? Someone else Ichiban constantly insisted on treating like a friend.

But Ichiban convinced him to just turn himself him, turn his life around. Just like he eventually managed to convinced Masato through blood and tears.

And the ending scene is literally an exact mirror to Yakuza 7. Ichiban carrying someone away...

Just in Yakuza 7, it is Masato, dying in his arms, and in Infinite Wealth, it is Eiji, and he's trying his hardest so he will get out of this completely unharmed, throwing himself in front of every danger facing them, getting beat up until he passes out by the end.

You could say this too, is like a good version of another game's ending, with a character mirroring a brother-like person to the main character.

Quite ironic how Eiji started off "imitating" Masato, only to end up like him. Just that one died and one lived.

And just like Kiryu did with Ebina, Ichiban tried his hardest to stop history from repeating itself. Stop more people dying again and again.

The logo having an Infinity symbol seems oddly fitting now, you could say each circle of the symbol is Kiryu and Ichiban, and their stories are intervined in certain ways. Just that their stopped the "infinite" circle from repeating once again.

Or...something like that. I'm trying to sound smart at 5 am, I need sleep I think 😭

#yakuza #like a dragon #ryu ga gotoku #lad #infinite wealth #like a dragon infinite wealth #lad infinite wealth #IM OVERANALYZING AND RAMBLING GAHHHH IM EMOTIONAL OVER THIS GAME

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designernishiki · 1 year

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