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- 0:00In this episode, Kiryu has an unpleasant visit to a public restroom,
- 0:05Date gets hammered,
- 0:07and somebody comes back from the dead.
- 0:10I'm feeling hammered is quite literally,
- 0:13but also who has pleasant experiences in the bathroom?
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- 0:33almost like I'm discovering them again for the first time.
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- 0:44We're back in time again during Kiryu's absence to see Nishiki's perspective once again.
- 0:51He's talking to his sister's doctor.
- 0:54It sounds like her best chance for survival
- 0:56is a $30 million black market heart for a transplant.
- 1:02So we first see Nishiki slapping woman and now potentially harvesting organs.
- 1:09And so it's, I feel like it's a slippery slope.
- 1:11He's just going to go downhill from here.
- 1:13To be fair, I don't think he's doing the harvesting.
- 1:17I think he's just funding the harvesting.
- 1:21It's not any better.
- 1:23It's a little bit better.
- 1:24It's a sliver.
- 1:26We then see Nishiki begging with his top guy to earn the $30 million.
- 1:32And he says that he doesn't care how he just needs it.
- 1:35Is this giving him too much power?
- 1:38Of course, this guy was waiting for this chance.
- 1:40Like the fact that he was stepping on Nishiki's head.
- 1:43I feel like this is probably the start of Nishiki pissing Kazama off.
- 1:50I wouldn't be surprised if Matsushigi, if that's his name,
- 1:54if he betrays Kazama and Nishiki has to take the blame for it.
- 1:59I just feel like Nishiki doesn't have much power right now.
- 2:02And he's in panic mode.
- 2:05Yeah, he's in a tough spot.
- 2:07He doesn't have enough time to earn power.
- 2:10And so this is why he's on the floor begging.
- 2:13But the stepping on his head is so annoying.
- 2:18His head is so unnecessary.
- 2:20That's beyond disrespectful.
- 2:23But the thing is, I don't understand why Nishiki didn't go to Kazama or
- 2:27Kashiwagi to ask for help or anyone else.
- 2:30Why go to the one guy who you know he's getting for your spot and doesn't even look up to you?
- 2:35Well, that brings up a good point.
- 2:37Why didn't he go to Kazama?
- 2:40Did he not think he would do anything for him?
- 2:42Or maybe he's gone to him for help before and he didn't do anything?
- 2:47I don't know, but it seems like, yeah, you would go to a father figure.
- 2:52So maybe he isn't as, I don't know, as much of a father figure to Nishiki as he is to Kiryu.
- 2:58I don't know.
- 2:59I think Nishiki knows that Kazama probably fares Kiryu more and by going to him just kind of shows
- 3:06that he's not powerful enough.
- 3:08Although, why would you even blame Nishiki for needing money when he's
- 3:12when the surgery is outrageously expensive and it's for his sister who Kazama should know?
- 3:19So it's not only his fault and I don't understand why you wouldn't help him.
- 3:24All right, we are back to present day.
- 3:27Shinji calls Kiryu at Serena to tell him that he's on the run with an unconscious Kazama.
- 3:33He says he's going to hide him somewhere safe because he believes
- 3:37it had to be someone inside the Tojiklan that shot him.
- 3:40Any thoughts on this?
- 3:41First of all, I love Shinji for taking the initiative to actually help Kazama,
- 3:46unlike everyone else watching him bleed out.
- 3:49Shinji calling Kiryu and telling him what his plans are shows his loyalty is with Kiryu
- 3:56that he believes that Kiryu didn't shoot him.
- 3:59So yay for Shinji.
- 4:03Kiryu heads to West Park after Date suggested that he head there to meet
- 4:08the florist of Sai, an information broker.
- 4:11So this guy has a whole secret city.
- 4:14What the heck is going on here?
- 4:16First of all, I need you to tell me how are we feeling about his choice in clothing?
- 4:22He is, he's comfortable with his body.
- 4:27He's got a choice outfit on.
- 4:29It's unique, but yeah, good for him.
- 4:33He offers Kiryu the information that he's looking for
- 4:35on the missing money and Mizuki and Yumi.
- 4:39If he can beat three fighters in the underground fighting ring.
- 4:42But of course he succeeds and the florist tells him,
- 4:46number one, that Sarah covered up the robbery of the 10 billion yen and Nishiki exposed it.
- 4:52He says that his best guess is that Nishiki is the one who killed Sarah
- 4:56and that Yumi stole the money.
- 4:59And he says that because Tojo Intel says that Mizuki closed Aris and vanished
- 5:04right before the robbery.
- 5:06So I have a question.
- 5:09Because during all of this, he says that he wouldn't be surprised if Nishiki is gunning
- 5:13to be the next chairman.
- 5:16But so far from what we've heard, Nishiki wants to go independent.
- 5:21So what do you think his motive is?
- 5:23Here's where my theory comes in.
- 5:26All these rumors is something that Sarah and Nishiki are doing and spreading,
- 5:32and it's all part of a plan.
- 5:35I'm thinking that Sarah told Nishiki to expose this amount of missing money
- 5:40during that emergency meeting.
- 5:41And it's fine if we spread some rumors saying that you're the one killing me
- 5:44and you're gunning for like the next position for the chairman,
- 5:48just to start some civil war within the Tojo clan.
- 5:52And if people know that Nishiki killed Sarah because he wants to be the next person,
- 5:56whether or not that's the case,
- 5:58it's going to get people to start freaking out and trying to start fighting amongst each other.
- 6:03While Sarah is going to be safe because he's theoretically dead in this case,
- 6:09I think he just is using his name as a way to start some of the civil war.
- 6:15Ruthie Nishiki is using his own name to start.
- 6:18Sarah Or I guess like spreading rumors out there that
- 6:22he's the one who wants to sit in the next position, like he's gunning for the position.
- 6:26Sarah Well, that's my question, though,
- 6:28because this is the first time that we've heard that that's what he's planning to do.
- 6:33Because Kazuma and people associated with Kazuma have said that he wants to go independent
- 6:40and form his own clan, essentially.
- 6:42Ruthie I think that Nishiki personally wants to be independent,
- 6:47but for the sake of Sarah, he's going to start saying that I want this position.
- 6:52Sarah So you think he's helping or he's using Sarah to get what he wants?
- 6:57Ruthie I think he's helping Sarah.
- 6:59Sarah Okay.
- 7:01Next thing we know, a bleeding Date shows up at the entrance to West Park.
- 7:06They check footage to see what happened to him and see that he got shot by some guys who kidnapped
- 7:11Haruka. But with Date facing some unsavory parkgoers, Kiryu comes to the rescue, at which
- 7:18point Date tells him that the men who took Haruka were from the Majima family.
- 7:22Sarah What is Majima doing? Like, there's other ways to
- 7:26provoke Kiryu into a fight? Why would you kidnap an innocent child to do that?
- 7:30Ruthie I think he's just bored, honestly.
- 7:34And then the florist tells him that the van stopped at the batting cages, so that's where Kiryu heads
- 7:39next. Kiryu arrives at the batting cages, where Majima and his men are waiting for him.
- 7:44And so yeah, it sounds like he took Haruka just to have a reason for Kiryu to fight him.
- 7:51Do we need to talk about the baseball?
- 7:53Sarah I mean, if you're walking in there,
- 7:56why wouldn't you turn those machines off?
- 7:58Ruthie You know, it's Majima. Why does he not do some
- 8:03things and do others? I don't know, but it's hilarious. He gets hit square in the head with
- 8:09the baseball. They're talking it out a little bit after the fight. And one of Majima's men
- 8:16runs at Kiryu with a knife. But Majima is not happy about it, so he moves in front of Kiryu
- 8:21and gets stabbed in his place.
- 8:23Sarah I think that if I hadn't watched
- 8:27YSR to know how cool Majima was and everything, I would think he's crazy to the borderline,
- 8:35annoying how he just stirs the pot in this and drags other people into this chaotic realm of
- 8:45chaos. I don't know how else to explain it. It's just he's just everywhere and creating
- 8:50troubles just so an opportunity to fight with Kiryu.
- 8:53Ruthie But here's another question. Obviously,
- 8:57Majima knows, if not who Haruka is, that she's important to Kiryu. So do you think that he's
- 9:04figured this out on his own or was this kidnapping at all ordered by Shimano? So my question is,
- 9:12who knows about all the stuff going on involving Haruka? Do you think Shimano knows about it or
- 9:16is Majima just keeping that good of an eye on Kiryu?
- 9:19Sarah I think he's just obsessed with Kiryu and
- 9:23doesn't need Shimano to tell him orders. But even if Shimano told him to kidnap Haruka and everything,
- 9:30I don't know if Majima would still carry out the orders. I know he previously said that Shimano
- 9:36would say jump and I'd say how high. But at the same time, I feel like Majima has his own man and
- 9:43even if Shimano told him to do something, if Majima doesn't agree, he's not going to do it.
- 9:48Ruthie Yeah, I think you're right because
- 9:52when at the funeral when we know that Shimano told Majima, you're like, oh, you gotta help stop
- 9:57Kiryu, he sort of saves face with Shimano by like getting in a fight with him, but he lets him go.
- 10:04And then if this was kidnapping was ordered by Shimano, he does the kidnapping, again,
- 10:10saving face, but then lets her go. So it seems like either way, he does what he wants, and he's just
- 10:17trying to keep the boss happy. Kiryu and Haruka are reconnected and she tells him and Date that
- 10:24some guy she didn't recognize set her free and asked her if she still had the pendant. He also
- 10:30told her to take care of it because it's worth a billion yen and to tell Kiryu about it. First
- 10:36question, is this more proof that there is a plan in the works and Haruka and Kiryu are just pawns
- 10:42because clearly this person knew where Haruka was and who Kiryu is. I have a good feeling I feel
- 10:48like this guy who came to tell Haruka to run is Kashiwagi because of like the body shape and being
- 10:58involved in playing, but also smart enough to carry on his own actions and everything.
- 11:04Okay. Another parallel, Makoto is the key to the empty lot and they're all fighting to find her.
- 11:12And in this case, everyone's fighting to find the pendant, which if they all understand that,
- 11:18why aren't they protecting the pendant even a bit more? Why are they just letting
- 11:22a child protect this with her life? I think they just found out about the importance of it.
- 11:29I think she just found out about the importance of it. And this is when we see a flashback to when
- 11:34Yumi gave the pendant to Haruka and she told her to tell nobody about it. We know that Yumi gave
- 11:41her the pendant and the code to get up to the bar. And now this guy is telling her that he knows about
- 11:50the pendant and to tell Kiryu. So are all of them connected? Are these two people connected to Haruka
- 11:58and they're just using Haruka to like smuggle this pendant?
- 12:02I'm going to base this off the assumption that Haruka really is Misuki's daughter. And I think
- 12:08the reason why that this is all happening in Haruka's involved is that all Misuki's wealth
- 12:16and everything that's hers, all those assets are all going to be Haruka's. And so that's why
- 12:21she needs Yumi to tell them like a hundred percent of everything goes to her. I don't know where I'm
- 12:26going to go with this theory, but that's, that's, I'm going to start the theory out here and I'll
- 12:31wrap it up when I get more information. It's a theory in progress. All right. So chapter six,
- 12:38we are back in time again to see where Nishiki is at. Turns out Matsushige took Nishiki's word of
- 12:45by any means necessary to heart as he has been encroaching on Kashiwagi's territory. Nishiki's
- 12:52pissed. This is maybe the first time we see him actually be kind of assertive, but it doesn't work.
- 12:59He throws Nishiki to the ground and says, you can't do anything on your own. You think Matsushige is
- 13:05just a hundred percent an ass or do you think it was actually necessary for him to encroach on
- 13:12Kashiwagi's territory? Or is he doing that as a lesson to Nishiki to say like, you better be
- 13:17careful what you, what you say. I think Matsushige is just trying to piss off everyone that Nishiki
- 13:25would rely on just so that they all get rid of Nishiki and asserts him well. I think he's just
- 13:30power hungry to start taking other people's land. Power hungry and butthurt. Because I think he's
- 13:35a little upset that Nishiki got a family and he didn't. I don't think he actually cares for
- 13:41Nishiki, whether he learns a lesson. I think it's just an opportunity for him to flex on Nishiki.
- 13:46Okay. So you don't think there's any of him wanting to like help Nishiki grow the family?
- 13:53No, there's no kindness in his heart. Well, we'll wait though. Because there is selfishness to this.
- 13:59If he helps Nishiki be a better patriarch, it helps their family grow. So do you think there's any,
- 14:07any part of him who's trying to get Nishiki to be a stronger patriarch so that he can benefit
- 14:14off of it? I don't know exactly how, how taking over someone's family works. But maybe the only
- 14:19reason he would help him is so that once the family's bigger, he's going to throw Nishiki out
- 14:25and just take over and like change names. And then now that they've already established a bigger
- 14:30family, then he gets to say, it's my family now. Yeah. It's hard to tell if he's full on just
- 14:36trying to sabotage Nishiki, which I think is probably the most likely scenario. Or if he's
- 14:42trying to sabotage Kazuma and Kashiwagi for passing him over. Maybe it's both. We then see
- 14:51Kashiwagi really letting Nishiki have it. But he does ultimately forgive Nishiki as long as it never
- 14:57happens again. But he also comments, this would have never happened if it were Kiryu. And that
- 15:03seems to hit Nishiki pretty hard. It does. They're brothers, but they're also competitors. And I
- 15:09think deep down Nishiki knew that Kazuma and Kashiwagi always favored Kiryu a bit more. But this is
- 15:18one of the beginnings of those final straws that lead up to pissing Nishiki off enough that he's
- 15:25not going to care about them anymore, I should respect. And I think that this is what also drives
- 15:32the wedge between his bromance between Kiryu and Nishiki. And it also kind of explains that smirk.
- 15:40Because Nishiki, at that time when he was smirking at Kiryu, he was already at a better state.
- 15:48A better spot than him. So I feel like you can see why that he did what he did. Even though Kiryu was
- 15:54in jail, Kiryu was still the favorite of the leaders. Well, yeah, it would be hard. I mean,
- 16:00Nishiki's from what we've seen pretty much gone his whole life being like Kiryu's shadow. But we
- 16:07haven't really seen anything that Kiryu has done to earn that, I feel like. Because the events of
- 16:13Yakuza 0 were all Kazuma's plan. So you could surmise that even at that point, Kazuma was more
- 16:20focused on Kiryu. And I mean, he didn't tell Nishiki about the plan, never approached him,
- 16:27never told him like, oh, don't do this, don't do that. So I was like, what did Kiryu do to make
- 16:34Kazuma like him so much better? Like, I can't imagine being Nishiki in that situation.
- 16:40Well, Kiryu is summoned to the florist where he is tasked with helping the florist's son, Takashi,
- 16:45and his girlfriend, Kyouka, shake off some Yakuza. So he gets to the florist's office. The florist
- 16:54kind of explains a little bit what's going on. And he's watching a feed of his son and his girlfriend.
- 17:01And Kiryu walks up and looks at the monitor and says, she's a nice girl. He's got good taste.
- 17:10Eww. It's a bit too creepy for me. It's like he forgot 10 years went by when he was in prison,
- 17:16like you're not 30 anymore, which would still be a little creepy. But then it's even worse,
- 17:21the florist was like, yeah, she's, she's a good one or something. Like his response is equally like,
- 17:27do we have to? It's terrible locker room talk. After that, a little bit of awkwardness, we find
- 17:35out that Kyouka is the daughter of a Yakuza patriarch, and has stolen some money from him.
- 17:41So of course the Yakuza are chasing her to get it back. And then on the way to go find them and
- 17:47help them, Kiryu bumps into Tamara, who was supposed to be dead. And he tells Kiryu that the florist
- 17:54faked his death so he could work for the florist. I don't understand.
- 17:59It was a useless interaction.
- 18:00Yeah. Well, and this guy we met for like five seconds, maybe 10 at the beginning of the game.
- 18:06And then we learned from his buddy Aoki that he's supposedly dead after looking into Kiryu's case.
- 18:14Like, is there any more importance to this character?
- 18:18I literally forgot who he was.
- 18:19Right.
- 18:20And I had to ask you, who's this guy? It's weird, but I guess, yay, good news. Someone's not dead.
- 18:28He does make it to Takashi and Kyouka and eventually saves them. And then Kiryu gets a call from Reina,
- 18:34and she says that Date is at Serena blackout drunk. Kiryu is back to being tasked again,
- 18:42with helping with some father-child relationships. Reina tells Kiryu that Date is dead.
- 18:48And then she says that Date is supposed to meet his daughter, Saya. So Kiryu goes to find her.
- 18:55Turns out she's kind of sort of trying to be a prostitute to pay some guy back.
- 19:02I mean, anything from you so far, it's been a lot to take in.
- 19:05Not much, but you're wondering what the heck happened.
- 19:08It's really random. It's really weird. But Kiryu does track down this guy.
- 19:13And it turns out that he is a host that Saya likes, and he's paid her tab using a loan he took out.
- 19:20But then also Date shows up out of nowhere, seemingly not blackout drunk anymore.
- 19:25And he kind of blows it. He really blows it with Saya, who's upset with him.
- 19:30She's a brat. I just irritated at her.
- 19:36I agree with you, but at the same time, Date was blackout drunk when he was supposed to meet with her.
- 19:41That's pretty bad.
- 19:45I'm not a fan of Date, though. I will say that.
- 19:49But Date is able to get the name of the loan shark out of whatever his- I didn't write his name down.
- 19:55I guess I didn't think his name was worth- was it Shota?
- 19:59Shoya, I think.
- 20:01One of those. Show something.
- 20:03He's able to get the name of the loan shark that...
- 20:05Show something. Took the loan from him.
- 20:11So Date finds him, but he doesn't come back for a while, so Kiryu takes Saya to go after him.
- 20:19So we get to the loan shark office, right?
- 20:21Date's being attacked. It seems like- oh, it is Shota. I wrote his name.
- 20:25I wrote his name down here. It's Shota.
- 20:27It seems like he's running things.
- 20:29So has he been scamming Saya this whole time? Because we were told that he owned the loan shark money, but now it seems like he's collecting for him, almost.
- 20:39I feel like it's not collecting. I think he is the loan shark owner that he purposely makes himself innocent and says,
- 20:49It was because of you that I am taking all this money out and you need to pay me back. Like on the flip side, he also is the loan shark. He's borrowing from himself and then adding the interest, so he makes his victims feel pressured to pay off the interest.
- 21:05Kiryu should take a bat to his head.
- 21:09By the way, before we get too far, Saya does try to run away, but she gets jumped by some people, by the loan shark people.
- 21:17And Date and Kiryu are coming to her rescue, and one of them says to them, pointing out their old men, and saying, I hope you've got a will before they fight them. I thought it was a great line. Fantastic.
- 21:33But we then see one of the best moments in the whole series, the door kick.
- 21:40Mm-hmm. It's pretty fantastic.
- 21:43I'm sure we'll post a video of it. But Kiryu kicks the door open, and some poor man is standing on the other side of that door, and he just... he takes flight. He goes flying. It's hilarious.
- 21:59Kiryu and Date fight off the bad guys, and Date and Saya make up after he slaps her, of course. I feel like you might have some comments about that.
- 22:09I feel a bit split in terms of how I feel, because I was not supportive of Ishiki slapping Marina totally uncalled for, but in this instance, I don't like how he slaps her.
- 22:26But she did get into a lot of mess, and if it wasn't for Date, she would have ended up having to do a lot of things against her will.
- 22:35And so I'm glad that she's grateful that her dad saved her, and that she probably has a better relationship with her dad. I feel like the slap was a wake-up call that she needed to show how wrong she was, but I think that he could have handled it better.
- 22:51It's also a bit of a hypocrite, because you say that you're her father, but yet you've done nothing to be her father the last 10 years. Was it 10 years that he left them?
- 23:01So I feel like he doesn't really have much ground to stand on in saying that I'm your father when he hasn't been acting like one for the last 10 years.
- 23:08Yeah, I think they're both not doing a great job, but hopefully they will after this incident. There's a surprising amount of slaps in this game, I'm realizing.
- 23:20But later on, Date is at the police station, where I think he's threatened to stop working on the Sarah case, and then he leaves the room, and after he has left, two suits come out of another room where they have been eavesdropping, apparently.
- 23:37And from conversation, it sounds like they know Kiryu and Date are connected, and they think Kiryu kidnapped Haruka. Is that what you gathered from this?
- 23:47From what I understand watching it, it seems like those two people are either Yakuza or some other organization, and it seems like they're trying to get to the pendant, but they don't know how.
- 24:02And all they know is that Date, Kiryu, Sarah, and all the stuff there, it's all interconnected, but they just don't know what it is. But they also have the police under their thumbs that they can help.
- 24:15Okay, so here's what I believe we know so far about this, about these two guys. Someone submitted an anonymous missing person report, which I'm assuming was Haruka is the one who's missing.
- 24:29Who submitted it, we don't know. And then the first guy says to Sudo, is this something Division 1 can take on? So I think Sudo is a cop, but in a different division than Date.
- 24:41The guy who says that to him, I have no idea if he's part of the police or what organization. So it seems like someone is trying to get Kiryu arrested and probably get to Haruka.
- 24:54And how does the police know about all this stuff without having Yakuza connections? Because right now it's the Yakuza that's really after Haruka, and the police don't really know about that.
- 25:04Even if they know there's a missing person report, without those connections, they wouldn't know why and how and who is kidnapping Haruka.
- 25:15And so I'm curious how the police know all this stuff.
- 25:18We don't know a whole lot, but we know something's up. Hopefully Date is not in danger. I know you don't really love him so far.
- 25:25Do you blame me?
- 25:27He did save Kiryu, but yeah, he kind of botched it. He was blackout drunk when he was supposed to meet his daughter.
- 25:34He let Haruka get kidnapped, and he was supposed to be watching Reina, and that's when he got blackout drunk.
- 25:44Yeah, he's not drinking.
- 25:47Well, anything else you want to talk about before we close it out?
- 25:50Not much. I think this episode is pretty chill.
- 25:54It's a lot of... I don't want to say filler, but filler. This is the best word I can think of.
- 26:02It's a lot of stuff that doesn't immediately seem important to the story, but we'll see if it connects later on.
- 26:09Don't forget to look for Majima in our YouTube thumbnails. Let us know on Instagram or email us.
- 26:17If you find all of them, we might give you something. It depends how many people are trying, but the next gameplay should be up now.
- 26:26Majima is harder to find this week, and he will keep getting harder. But he's still there, I promise.
- 26:33Anything else or should we log off?
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