Dear Reader...

I looove the placement of kiwami 1 right after yakuza 0, because jumping directly from the late 80s to 2005 allows us to experience time very similarly to how kiryu did. I spent hundreds of hours roaming around 1988 kamurocho, befriending the businesspeople, dancing at maharaja, fishing and gaming and drinking at earth angel, and at the beginning of yakuza kiwami, I was deposited in a city that had moved on from all of that. I feel a little pang of sadness when I run by the building where the disco used to be, and I think Kiryu probably feels the same way. The player and Kiryu grieve kamurocho together while rediscovering it at the same time, which I think also puts the player in a better position to really understand how long 10 years is, and just how much of Kiryu’s life he missed out on.

How goddam perfect is this!! 😍😍. Omg.. I love him so much!