Fun fact about Takuya - Yagami's actor: He always supported Judgement getting PC Releases and argued with his studio to get it out there. He was essentially on our side

As far as I've heard, in the 2007 Ryu Ga Gotoku movie, Majima has the eyepatch on the wrong eye because the actor himself has issues seeing with his right eye, so he had to switch the eyepatch there.

The idea of a sunflower orphanage mini-triad comprised of angry 12 year olds is honestly substory material

Though late, Yakuza 5 has a missable dialogue option: When Haruka and Akiyama were discussing what to eat for dinner, Akiyama lists of a bunch of foods to eat, and Haruka then mentioms she wants to eat crab as she has never tried one. But if before this dialogue, as Haruka you eat at the crab restaurant, this part of the dialogue disappears.

If they plan on making "Like A Dragon Gaiden" a sub series of smaller scale games then I think it would be a great idea to adapt Ryujis story from RGGO into a Gaiden game

"Imagine if we get an English speaking villain in the future and they cast Terry Crews for him!" Danny Trejo, one year after this came out:

Honestly, Terry Crews would somehow completely fit into a Yakuza game.

Congratulation, Leon. You truly went balls out on this one.

One detail you didn't mention that contribute to the "Rubber Bullet" meme is that not only Saejima was tricked by that but Arai also got tricked in the same way making believe he killed Munakata

Another hint that Kashiwagi is still alive is in 8 wherein Daigo's summon he (in Ichiban's imagination) uses his necromancy powers summon the spirits of Sohei Dojima, Osamu Kashiwagi, Shintaro Kazama and Futoshi Shimano who proceed to gun down the enemies. In this summon Kashiwagi's feet are the only ones unobscured by purple mist just like Daigo's and against Japanese myth that ghosts don't have feet.

9:42 I started playing yakuza games because of the bakamitai meme. One day I randomly installed the game because I liked the song so much. I didn't even know what the games were about. While playing 0, whenever I passed a kareoke bar, I just had to sing bakamitai or judgment. So basically I started playing the yakuza games because of the kareoke.

Something tells me that Kiryu’s parents, who were killed by Kazama, are deep within the Seiryu Clan. Think about it, Kiryu is born in Yokohama, making one of his parents, likely the father, a yakuza of the Seiryu. Probably something related to Arakawa to an extent. What do you guys think?

Leon, you absolute mad lad. Thank you for the much anticipated iceberg video.

Just like "syntax error" there's something called "hotel kamurocho" that even tho it's outside of the map and you can't even walk near it, you can clearly see it (it's around the theatre alley, I think it's called that), it appeared from Yakuza 3 up till lost judgement

gotta love how this franchise just started becoming more popular despite being 10+ years old.

I know it's a bit late, but i have a few extra bits for the iceberg: -Takaya Kuroda & Goodfellas: Takaya Kuroda, Kiryu's VA has a rock band called "Takaya Kuroda & Goodfellas". There's even live recordings of him singing Yakuza Songs. And now that i'm talking about Takaya Kuroda -Kuroda's past in yaoi: Kuroda started in the dubbing business making yaoi (for the people that doesn't know gay-themed) drama cds. There's even an OVA called Finder which he voices a yakuza called Ryuichi Asami. This is referenced in a submission in Yakuza Kiwami 2 -Ryuka: in "Hyperdevotion Noire" an Spin-off of the Neptunia Series there's a character called Ryuka which is a parody of the Yakuza Series. Her costume uses the same colors as Kiryu, her Exe-Drive involves hitting with baseball bats or throwing bicycles to the enemies and there's even a CG with her as a Hostess

Timestamps includes spoiler warnings for spoilery entries: The Sky 4:20 Like a Dragon (The Title of the series) 5:21 RGG Studio 5:47 Dame Da Ne Meme 6:40 Mainline Games 7:10 Kiwami 7:49 (Yakuza 7 spoilers) Judgment Games 8:47 Karaoke 10:03 Face Models 12:18 Mr. Libido 12:45 Table Slam (Includes Vague Yakuza 2 Spoilers) The Tip 13:53 JAV Idols 14:58 Popularity Surges 18:06 Ichiban and Nishiki share the same voice actor 18:25 Fist Of The North Star: Lost Paradise 19:30 Amon Clan (Shows the Amon Fights from most of the games including dead souls and FoTNS LP in case you want to see those yourself) 23:44 Sam Lee (Vague footage of final few fights from 0 and 3) 25:10 Asset Recylcing 27:34 Sotaro Komaki 28:36 Shinji, Ryuji and Daigo in Yakuza 0 30:27 (Yakuza 2 Spoilers) Dead Souls 31:10 Cut Licensed Songs 33:44 Kenzan and Ishin 35:10 Kiryu and Ichinban Parrellels 36:05 Akiyama in Yakuza 1 37:08 Sent to America Meme (Yakuza 3 spoilers) 38:22 (Big Yakuza 4 Spoilers) Rubber Bullets 38:51 (Big Yakuza 2 Spoilers) Secret Koreans The Upper Body 39:40 (Big Yakuza 5 Spoilers) Majima and Park 41:05 Substories are canon 42:04 The Original Tanimura 43:31 Yakuza Movie 44:34 Yakuza 0 Fortune Teller 45:58 (Yakuza 7 Spoilers) Yakuza 1 English Dub 48:16 Kiryu's Scrapped Yakuza 6 Outfit 48:46 (Yakuza 7 Spoilers even in the title of the entry) Kashiwagi is still alive 49:47 Ryuji Spin-off leak 50:45 Kuroda and Nagoshi in Yakuza 5 51:46 Akira Yamaoka 52:16 Watase Spin-off 53:04 Fuma (More vague yakuza 3 spoilers) 53:49 Arase in Yakuza 3 55:19 Mafia City x Yakuza Collab 56:12 Kurohyou 57:03 Goodfellas 57:26 Yakuza Kiwami 2 Removed Content 58:16 FOTNS LP Parallels 59:33 Today Is A Diamond double meaning (Yakuza 6 spoilers) 1:01:25 Haunted PrintCircle 1:02:50 Cursed Tape The Body 1:12:40 Original Man in Black 1:13:41 (Spoilers for entire seires) Yakuza 6 Ghost Photos 1:14:15 Ichiban has schizophrenia meme/theory 1:15:33 Japan Retailer Exclusives 1:16:56 Lao Gui bug (Late game Yakuza 0 fight) 1:18:16 Playable Date 1:18:51 Yakuza 3 Cut Content 1:21:09 Judgment Sadako 1:21:38 Takashima and Kei Ibuchi 1:22:12 Akiyama Thug Look-alike 1:22:34 Mark Hamil Interview 1:22:47 Yakuza Themed Consoles 1:24:04 RGG Online 1:24:42 Saejima Toilet Stall scene 1:25:26 The Dragon's Path Comic 1:26:05 Yakuza 6 "Demo" 1:27:03 Hamazaki Duck Scene 1:28:05 Upscaled Butcher Knife 1:28:23 The Original Hamura The Lower Body 1:29:49 (Yakuza 3 & 7 Spoilers including in the name of the entry) Lau Ka Long is alive 1:31:20 Kiwami Mine 1:32:06 Kiryu and Majima in Project X Zone 2 1:32:54 Syntax Error Bar 1:33:30 Install Screens 1:34:23 Tattoo Competition 1:34:50 Nagumo's Voice Actor's Yakuza ties 1:35:59 (Big Yakuza 5 Spoilers) Baba is still waiting for Saejima 1:36:35 Yagami's Beta Model 1:37:50 Yakuza 0 and Ishin PS Vita Companion Apps 1:38:38 Yakuza 7 Substory Forget Me Not 1:39:29 Mark Hamil doesn't remember voicing Majima 1:39:55 Gatorade 1:40:16 Yakuza Stage Play 1:40:38 I'm Not Cold Anymore 1:42:03 Yakuza 6 Alpha Demo 1:42:55 Arase's Redemption 1:43:31 T-Posing Haruto 1:43:43 The Chicken of Dojima animation bug The Depths 1:44:48 (Massive Judgment Spoilers, includes name of the killer in the entry and the entry itself is a spoiler so beware) Killer doesn't gouge out any eyes 1:45:36 Komaki time traveling 1:47:24 Green Shadow Yakuza 4 Substory 1:49:33 Kurohyou TV Series 1:50:06 Nagoshi in the Kurohyou TV Series 1:50:36 Living Mannequin 1:50:53 Prequel Movie 1:51:27 (Yakuza 6 and 7 and spoilers) Joon-Gi Han is Immortal 1:54:00 Nagoshi as Jingu 1:54:20 World War Amon (Dead Souls Amon Boss Fight Spoilers) 1:55:33 (Ishin Spoilers!!!) Takechi Hanpeita's hair 1:56:12 Yakuza characters in Binary Domain 1:56:48 Majima canonnically published a song 1:57:49 Kurohyou Secret Bosses 1:58:59 Dead Souls Poster in Fairy Odd Christmas Movie 1:59:15 (FOTNS LP Amon fight spoilers) Jo Amon is dead theory The Abyss 2:00:28 (Big Yakuza 7 Spoilers) RGG Online Lore 2:08:31 Kurohyou Manga 2:08:46 RGG Kizuna 2:09:10 Chef Tatsuya Resturant Outrage 2:10:09 (Slight Yakuza 3 Spoilers) Hamazaki was planned to be a boss 2:11:00 Dead Souls Happened 2:12:11 (Yakuza 1 Spoilers) Kiryu's Parents 2:12:37 What Happened In Bacchus? 2:13:29 Yakuza in Taiko no Tatsujin 2:14:04 The Return of Shimano 2:14:35 Yakuza 0 Walkman 2:15:02 UFOS In Yakuza 6 and Lost Judgment 2:15:56 Empty Tojo Clan 2:16:22 Kurohyou Cameos 2:17:06 (Kurohyou 2 Boss Spoilers kinda) Ichiro Tanaka 2:17:47 Child Tr*fficking in Kenzan 2:18:27 Yakuza 3 Poster in Gran Turismo 2:18:46 (MASSIVE YAKUZA 7 SPOILER WARNING) is Alive Theory 2:19:39 Yakuza 4 Saejima and Haruka Scene... 2:21:40 Who Is Hangman? 2:22:50 Yakuza Leather Book The End!

That upscaled butcher's knife actually exists in real life and is actually used for cutting up bluefin tuna (maguro), which aren't small to begin with. Also, RUBBER BOOLITS. As for Ichiro Tanaka, "the leather club is two blocks down..."

Only 30mins into the iceberg and man gotta say, really digging how professional and well made this is, would love to see more videos done this way

The Shizo thing is probably only applied to Ichiban in particular because of one scene early in the game, when he freaks out about how some enemy "transformed" at the start of battle, and everyone else in the party wonders wtf he is talking about. He is canonically seeing this, and he's the only one who's seeing it.

unironically want a yakuza online lore video now

Have yet to finish watching but congrats on completing this video project 🥳 1:41:00 I highly suspect this lady is supposed to be a reference to a Japanese Yokai called the Yuki-onna. Particularly, of the "water beggar variation". I say this because you give her hot food (oden) for the substory, the setting of Yakuza Zero is in December 1988 (so during winter) and she somewhat fits Yuki-onna description just slightly modernized to fit the era (she's wearing a white sparkly bodycon dress). I suspect she was draining the Gandhara clerk's vitality but when she was given oden she was "not cold anymore" and so the guy recovered.

Inspiring content! From one yakuza fan to another, I gotta tell you how much I look up to you as a creator (and as a representative of the fandom). These type of videos take a huge amount of time and effort, so don't worry about how long it took, I promise you nobody judges you as harshly as you do yourself. I have a couple of ideas that I'd like to make but they can sometimes take months to actually materialize, so I understand what you mean completely during the break segment. Keep doing what you do, Leon, your fans will always tune in and help your videos reach a broader audience, regardless of how long it takes you to upload. Can't wait for LaD:Ishin to come out so we can see you talk about that game in the near future!

This is amazing. I was Kiryu for Halloween and the entire night was me explaining the series and just telling people to play/watch the game. Now i can just share this video. ❤

As a semi-new Yakuza fan (started with 0 a little over 2 years ago), videos like this are always a super fun AND entertaining watch, so thank you for putting in all this effort! Keep doing what you do.

Ichiban's "Schizophenia" is literally his wild imagination mixed with his childhood addiction with Dragon Quest, he literally says that a lot of times in LAD but some people like to do those massive reaches about video game logic lmao

Fantastic stuff, a pleasure to watch through and through. As a thank you, I give you my "Kuroiwa killed Tanimura" theory: Near the beginning of chapter 12 in Judgment, Ayabe describes to Yagami a story he's heard. The story is a reference to the ending of Yakuza 4, and considering the context and the way it is presented, it seems like the writers wanted the player to suspect that Kuroiwa might have killed Tanimura.

Just because this video exists I am already very grateful, thank you very much for making this video, it will be an adventure to watch it until the last second

Leon diving deep into that Yakuza lore. I love it.

It’s funny how if you get caught with drugs in Japan(even if it’s not actually drugs)you’re the worst evil person ever over there But if you get caught with actual CP, “Ehhh slap on the wrist, 6 months, you get to keep your career.”

I haven't watched it all, but I hope he mentions the crazy amount of product placement. Many of the restaurants and food items are known, though few of them skirt by because they're Japanese brands, so fans might not know they exist IRL. When you go to a bar, the drinks are all real bottles of stuff you can buy, and the bartender even describes the drink to you for several sentences. (Very subtle, RGG.) Several Pepsi products are shown in some games, including Mine drinking from a Gatorade water bottle in Y3 (removed in the Remaster) Less known is that some character's clothing is product placement too, notably Akiyma's watch in 5 & Saejima's green parka in every release after Y5 is a brand name. Even billboards & stores in the streets that you can't enter, some of them are real businesses.

Thank you for making this. Yakuza saved me in 2016 when I was hella deep into a depression abyss. I played 0,1,2,6 all in a row after seeing the heartfelt review EyepatchWolf made.

1:20:41 Actually, 4 substories were removed. The Michiru substories, yes, but also an AxA substory where you face off against a "Quiz Master".

This is gonna be good

Amazing video, Leon! I was so happy to see this video in my notifications. Thank you for all the effort and time you put into this. I learned so much from it.

I mentioned this on someone else's yakuza iceberg but in no more heros 3, Miike is mentioned and makes a cameo. What's interesting is Travis and Bishop mention the yakuza movie, and in Persona 5 Strikers, Makoto mentions a movie called like a yakuza. (Also persona and yakuza share names and a yakuza costume pack is in persona 5 dancing, and morgana and kiryu are playable in monkey ball hd) I joked saying that yakuza is a movie in the persona and nmh franchise and said nmh and persona sharing a universe would be insane.

Watched the entire vid within a couple of days, incredibly informative and entertaining. Amazing job, Leon! Thank you for your efforts, would be happy to see more similar content in the future.

Awesome work man! I appreciate the effort that goes into longer videos like this and was surprised at how much stuff I still didn’t actually know about Yakuza.

Great video! Can't imagine the effort you've put into this. For the Yakuza 6 Alpha demo tho, I'm pretty sure it wasn't just a Japan exclusive. It was available in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan at least and they even have proper Chinese translation for the demo.

Thank you so much for making this. Learned a lot about this fantastic series!

Great video! This was very well made. Would love to see more videos like it

I'm only just getting into Yakuza, and this video really opened my eyes of all this series has to offer. The intermission but also made my day, few KZfaqrs are as real as you are.

Watched it all in one go. Didn't mean to, actually, but I couldn't get myself to stop and continue watching later :D Although I at least briefly heard about majority of this stuff, I really enjoyed revisiting it and of course learning something new. I also have a couple of things to add from myself: 1) In Takashi Miike's Yakuza movie there's one cop that's being portrayed by Show Aikawa, who later became a likeness model and a voice actor for Takasugi in Yakuza 5. Also Kurohyo TV series features Hideo Nakano (Shibusawa) on some role. 2) About Hiroyuki Miyasako (Nagumo) participating in real-life yakuza hosted party. Among other comedians who were involved in it there also was Yoshinari Fukushima, a likeness model for Kamurocho's Mr. Moneybags in Yakuza 0. 3) This one is regarding a certain Haruka's substory In Yakuza 5, where she auditions for a collaboration with Watami restaurant chain. First, both of Watami executives in this substory have likeness and names of respective real-life executives from this company (along with Sushi Zanmai and Kushikatsu Daruma presidents in Y5 and Ikinari Steak president in Judgment). Second, real-life Watami actually had a collaboration with RGG at that time, with Haruka appearing on many of their promo posters and stuff. Third (and this is pretty grim), Watami is notorious for its labor conditions. Their president said to have been constantly pushing the employees to overwork even if they die. One particular case involved a personal letter to one worker with a suggestion to consider suicide. Unfortunately, at least one of their employees took their own life because of it. Google "watami black company", if you want to read more about this shit. With that being said, thank you very much for the video! I've been occasionally checking your channel waiting for its release for quite a while, and it's been a treat to finally watch it. You've put an immense work into it, and I'm delighted to see that Yakuza community has such passionate and dedicated content creators. Keep up the great work!

This is incredible dude, thank you so much for this, you are the best.

saw the first time you mentioned this on one of your streams and im glad this video is finally here your a true legend for making this video! and thank you

I cant express how much i enjoyed this banger of a video. Thank you for putting so much effort and giving us amazing content Leon!!!

Holy hell! Finally! Great seeing this in action after alot of teases on stream. This is one worthy wait!

This was such a delight to watch! You put so much thought, care, research, and love into this. I loved every second and learned so much about thus amazing franchise🥰🥰🥰

Amazing video, watched it from beginning to end! For the record, I would watch the crap out of an RGGO lore video that covers the story. I've been playing it a lot and while I enjoy it purely on the meme factor of making the wackiest teams, I've always been interested in what the plot was actually about and who all the new characters are.

The online literally has so many answers to cliffhangers from the game it's a shame it never got an english translation for western fans. There is a channel called Hisanas I think, which posted a couple chapters translated. It literally has the answers to if Nishiki did or not order Reina's death, what happened to the scammy-scum doctor from Kiwami, LITERALLY the whole Ryuji campaign etc etc.

Finally!! Been waitin for months for this! Can say I'm really satisfied!! Great job Kyodai!

Such a great vid, love to see the series getting great content like this.

Freaking incredible youve outdone yourself leon. I watched another iceberg on Yakuza and you by far did alot better more detailed and the love shows.

YYYYYYOOOOOOOOO FINALLY! I asked so many times for it and its finally here ty so much for your work! :D

I must say, your videos have improved dramatically in term of quality and presentation over the years. Been following your work ever since I fell into the hole with Y0, and I can't get enough. Your work is definitely appreicated. Take care!

Worked on this while streaming all the time. Actual legend Mr. Leon7 keep up the great content Also great narration made it better

This video is really insane, congrats what you've done Leon!

Was waiting for this, thanks so much man :D

This video has so much interesting stuff that I didn't knew about the series, and I've been Yakuza fan since 2018. Thank you Leon, great video!

Hell yeah! The main Iceberg I've been waiting for!

Holy shit this video is a treat to watch and the editing style is amazing

This was well presented and despite it being over two hours, it didn't drag. Great work man! 👍🏾

Good job for making this video, I do hope yakuza series will have a long live and many more players will come to the series.

Good job sir! This was my first iceberg. This was so good

Great video. Also, for Yakuza: Like a Dragon, I believe there's a Sleeping Dogs reference only in the English dub. It's when Kasuga confronts Tendo in the Millennium Tower about the recording, saying how Ryo Aoki "couldn't let sleeping dogs lie." Aoki's English VA is Will Yun Lee, who's well known for voicing Wei Shen, the protagonist of Sleeping Dogs.

been looking forward to this one, thanks for your work on it. balls out

Awesome! So worth the wait! You the man!

Amazing work kyodai!

I am so Happy right now! Great Job!!

10 years in this video made it actually pretty awesome, keep up the good work leon

man the wait is finally over I would like to congratulate you on finishing one of the Biggest projects so far

You're a real one for this, would definitley love to see you do more edited videos like this, much love 🙏

Thank you for taking the time to make this, Leon.

Awesome video 🔥🔥 I really noticed your effort on this one

Fair play leon you finally were able to get this video out. Bet your happy with yourself getting this uploaded but I know I'm happy to watch it keep up the work up man happy to see this finally out

I came across your channel about four years ago. Watched some gameplay of the Yakuza series and when it came out on Xbox one. I’ve played Yakuza 0-Like A Dragon. All these years later thanks to this iceberg video, I finally decided to subscribe to your channel. I love watching the original games back on the PS2 and PS3

Excellent video Leon, I really enjoyed it. Also informative, found out a few new LAD facts I didn't know about.

Idk how Kashiwagi flew right under my radar in 7. He was always one of my favorite characters. Thats amazing. I absolutely love that. Great work with this! I really thought i knew more about this series having played all of them besides the untranslated stuff.

Amazing video pal! I hope more people like you make videos and talk about the underrated masterpiece that is the yakuza series.

finally got round to watching this. learnt many things I didn't know after playing all the main games. great job clearly a lot of work went into this

Whooohoooo, it's here! So glad I get to sit and enjoy this. I'm getting food ready. This is a movie experience.

This video brings me so much joy thank you Leon 👏🏻❤️

We greatly appreciate all your hard work. Here's to continuing the rising popularity of Yakuza!

Great stuff Leon! Thanks!

The Video is great! Thanks for the work

Incredible work Leon, love the video!

Great video, I'm still in awe that such a dig bick OG such as yourself missed out on the kenzan and ishin amon fights

That was a great video. Thank you so much for it! ❤

YakuzerMan coming to us with a banger. Great job Leon

What an awesome video, congratulations and a big thank you!

Stumbled across your channel today and fell in love with your style and love for the games. Hope to see much more from you!

Man, can't wait for the update to this video since IW wraps up so many of the things you mention.

Holy shit, you actually did it! As an another iceberg fan myself, this some good shit.

Congrats Leon for such a great video and for a video with 2hours 🤟🏻

This was such a wild ride. Great video pal Long live the Yakuza series

omg I watched the whole damn thing lmfao, good ass vid leon!

I really had fun watching this, thank you!

damn it went pretty fast. nice video as always, Leon

honestly iv never seen your content before however this video was so good, and your mid section break was very honest and heartfelt, you got a like and subscribe from me

I enjoyed every second. Well done!👍