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my thesis on how nishiki, ryuji and mine are alive with basically no evidence other than my memory
nishiki is sort of on tender hooks here. my main reason for thinking heās alive is that kiryu and haruka survived the fucking bomb blast while only being a few couple of metres away from nishiki. koi boy himself was still quite a few metres away from the bomb when he shot it. itās possible he survived with some serious injuries (though somehow kiryu and haruka got out unscathed??? ššš); we donāt actually see nishiki afterwards - no dead body, only the sort of word that heās dead. was he fatally shot⦠erm⦠thatās not important. police showed up straight afterwards anyways so if he was still alive he couldāve gotten medical help.
does it make narrative sense for nishiki to die? yes. does it make narrative sense to bring him back? no. the daidoji couldāve got to him and recruited him i guess. they did it with hanawa/morinaga, who was also offscreened like nishiki (who technically was). we sort of just assume nishikiās dead, considering heās never been alluded to be alive, when technically we donāt really know if he truly is dead. kiryu and haruka surviving is the main point here, and seeing as how they miraculously sustained no injuries when being 10m at best away from the bomb, itās possible that nishiki miraculously survived while being 5m at the most away from it.
unlike ryuji and mine, thereās really no other hints at him possibly being alive.
in reality, i donāt think nishiki will ever be brought back. as much i want him to, considering the position kiryuās in now, it doesnāt really make much sense. it doesnāt make much sense anyways; nishikiās death is a large part of his [kiryuās] character, and alongside both yumi and kazamaās deaths, it marks the separation of kiryu from not only his youth but also the yakuza (or at least the start of it).
now, ryuji. my goat. my queen. the reason i am this insane over these comeback theories. unlike nishiki, ryuji has been hinted many, many a time to be alive, from as early as fucking dead souls (2011! FUCKING FIVE YEARS AFTER 2!)
dead souls basically fucking proves he could be alive, because he literally is, and is just missing an arm (binding vow? š itās been too long since iāve seen dead souls i canāt remember what the deal with his arm is). this is damning evidence, if i do say so myself. and heās just living life, working at a food stand (my goat). dead souls confirms that he couldāve survived.
ryujiās death itself is slightly more damning for this thesis (šŖ). does he die on screen, unlike the other two (nishiki is on tender hooks for this as i said earlier)? maybe. so what, maybe he technically dies on screen? the important thing is, two seconds after he fucking ādiesā, sayama and kiryu just start lipsing each other and donāt really pay attention to him. he got shot twice yeah, then got beat to hell by kiryu, but kiryu survived the same injuries (itās not like ryuji just stood there and let himself get ragged by kiryu) so. it cancels out. you donāt hear anything about ryujiās death after this basically (from what i can remember). BUT! because of dead souls, that immediately throws his on screen ādeathā into question. even if dead souls isnāt canon because it literally is a zombie invasion game, that possibility of ryuji being alive in canon is very much there. if itās possible in the ridiculous zombie spin off, itās possible in the main line.
so, next port of call, and also the most recent damning evidence. gaiden and 8. i remember there being a tweet from rgg about ryuji in gaiden (as in the coliseum) but i literally went through the western rggās whole account and couldnāt find it, so i might just be making that up.
this is from a gaiden trailer (most likely; i couldnāt find it myself), but i found it from here:(https://blog.ja.playstation.com/2023/11/06/20231106-ryu7gaiden/)
the article is from the 6th nov last year, so three days before gaidenās official release.
this is what two translations say from the picture (i canāt translate it myself). the second one makes more sense to me but i donāt really trust google translate. just thought iād mention this as it was from before gaidenās release.
anyways, onto gaiden itself. this fucking game oh my god. this is where most of the baiting for ryuji comes from.
exhibit a
genuine piss take. obviously this isnāt ryuji who you fight, but the game is explicitly hinting at the possibility heās still alive.
exhibit b
INCLUDING ME! even though in december itāll be 18 years since yakuza 2 came out and ryujiās death, hope has not been lost āšŖ. rgg is dangling ryuji in front of us. iām fairly sure this is from the akame mission about ryuji (ghost of sotenbori), and i did boot up gaiden to see if i could replay it, but i didnāt have a save where i hadnāt done it. well ryuji doesnāt actually turn up so š¤·āāļø thereās two fakes you have to deal with in the mission (if my memory serves), and with the one in the coliseum that makes it three times ryuji was baited in gaiden.
then of course, infinite wealth. there isnāt as much here, but itās still quite a big bait.
i mean what the fuck kiryu. do you know something we donāt.
yeah i booted up a save of 8 too. āā¦any moment now. if only that were possible.ā kiryu knows somethingā¦
thatās pretty much it for ryuji bait, from what i can remember and think of. another thing though is that rgg do clearly love ryuji, so it wouldnāt surprise me if they did bring him back. and considering how much theyāve baited us with a possible comeback in recent games, i think itās safe to assume theyāre up to something.
(also just want to mention the leaks awhile ago about a ryuji game. iām pretty sure itās based on his rgg online story which is set before 2 (1999 i think), so iām not gonna talk about it here.)
now, finally, mine!!! heās the most straightforward out of all three of them now because of 8. if we cast our minds back to yakuza 3, mine throws himself off a building along with richardson. and who makes an appearance in 8? richardson, alive. richardson being alive effectively confirms mine has at least a pretty big chance of being so too. one thing i do find funny is that mine wasnāt mentioned once in kiryuās memoirs of a dragon (from what i could see), but nishiki and ryuji are. i actually donāt think mine is referenced other than in kiryuās essence of remembrance, but he mightāve been and iām just not aware of it. i actually donāt know how if richardson survived mine didnāt, because the latter would not save the former from death if they hit the ground (that hospital is ridiculously fucking tall).
itās been 15 and a half years (exactly to the day!) since yakuza 3 released, aka mineās death, and out of the three heās the most likely to be alive. considering how richardson survived, i donāt even know if you can count mine falling off the building as an off screen, because now we donāt actually know if he did in fact die. before 8, it seemed pretty improbable that mine would be alive, but it was the same situation as nishiki.
also itās not the most ridiculous death that someoneās come back from from yakuza 3. lau ka long got shot in the forehead ON SCREEN and kashiwagi got ragged by a fucking helicopter minigun ON SCREEN and they both fucking survived š so mine taking a tumble off the top of a hospital isnāt the most extreme thing to survive. rgg also seem to like mine too, but we donāt see nearly as much hinting to him as we do with ryuji.
i had a little look on youtube and:
THINGS WERE TOUCH AND GO??? š what is this now the rubber floor??? i donāt even know.
would they bring mine back though??? i donāt really know again. i mean i just take richardson being alive to mine also being out there so. make of it what you will.
but there you go. my extensive knowledge and research on how the goats of rgg are still alive. on everyone elseās lives but mine the three of them are gonna come back!
[ID: two digital drawings of three iterations of kiryu kazuma that are intertwined in a downwards sequence. the background is a night sky with two framing clouds, and city lights, moon backlightning the three figures. the colors are tinted blue, and the image is held in a frame that is transparent on the outer part.
on top, kiryu is shown in his yakuza 3 okinawa outfit, in the middle in his yakuza 0 pinstrip suit and at the bottom, in a black shirt as he appears in infinite wealth.
y3 kiryu curls his right arm around y0 kiryu's neck, hand in a fist, his right hand comfortably lying on top of lad8 kiryu's head. his expression is a deep frown, as he stares at the audience.
y0 kiryu is turned to the left side of the image, as if running away, his left arm resting over y3's left forearm, hand slightly curled into a fist. his right arm curls forward over lad8 kiryu's shoulder protectively, palm held upwards. he is frowning at something off-frame, mouth slightly open.
lad8 kiryu has his right hand in a fist over his stomach and the left one reaching up to hold y0's left forearm. his expression is blank, as he stares at nothing, mouth slightly agape.
The second image is the same, only slightly less dark for visibility. /End ID.]