Perhaps the hardest thing about this month is finding romance manga that are messed-up enough to fit the theme but aren't awful. This yea...
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Review: YAKUZA FIANCE
Perhaps the hardest thing about this month is finding romance manga that are messed-up enough to fit the theme but aren't awful. This yea...
Holiday Review: YAKUZA LOVER
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Yakuza Lover, by Nozomi Mino, is a shojo manga that feels like it should be a josei series. This steamy romance stars a college student who gets caught…
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The Yakuza brand of stylish combat and badass special movies is just as fun today as it was nearly a decade ago.
A review of Yakuza 0 (PS4)
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Yakuza Fiancé: Romance and Violence in the Yakuza World
Power, betrayal, and romance; Yakuza Fiancé delivers a gripping blend of all three. But does this series truly live up to its promise of a darkly compelling love…
Female Yakuza Tale: Inquisition and Torture (1973) review
Teruo Ishii is unable to deliver what made the first film so enjoyable: the visual celebration of Ocho Inoshika’s phallic fury.
Batman Ninja vs. Yakuza League Anime Film Review
Batman Ninja vs. Yakuza League is an insanely fun film. It's got the perfect mix of action and comedy while still providing a story that looks into what…
First Look: Yakuza Fiancé
Somei Yoshino is a friendly, well-mannered high school girl who lives an entirely normal life – other than the fact that her family is yakuza. However, her peaceful…
Yakuza Lover, Vol 1
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How Yakuza Speak Japanese
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Swearing Off Yakuza Shows
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Anime Like Yakuza Fiancé
After years of tension, the Osaka's Somei and Tokyo's Miyama yakuza families have called a truce, one built on the engagement between the grandchildren of
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Yakuza Lover GN 2
Instead of just weeping prettily, Nozomi Mino shows she's willing to draw Yuri as messy, even ugly in her anger.
Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii Game Review
This is the most fun I've ever had playing Like a Dragon, and that is saying something given the series' pedigree.
Manga Pulse 423: Creepy Yakuza
Dust off the shelf and dig through the piles. It’s manga time once more. Tim has Gokusen. It’s about the granddaughter of a yakuza boss who’s become a teacher. She…
Hiroware Koneko to Moto Yakuza / Ex-Yakuza and Stray Kitten by Kamimura Riddle
Long time readers of Mangakast know that I have a weakness for certain things. Yakuza is definitely on that list, but also… cats. You guys, you guys! Hiroware…
Spiraken Manga Review Ep 57: Gokusen (or Yakuza Ojou Teaches Math)
In this episode of the Spiraken Manga Review, Xan reviews the Yakuza esque Josei Series, Gokusen ----more---- Xan had a blast at Anime Next and can't wait for MangaNext. Send…
Review: Kubi – in Beat Takeshi’s Bloody Epic, Samurai are Queer Yakuza
Internationally famed director Kitano Takeshi is back with his new samurai epic, Kubi. The violent, darkly funny film has some surprises in store.
My Top 5 Anime Yakuza Characters
So I just finished JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind a little while ago, …
Manga Talk: Yakuza Reincarnation Volume 1
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Yakuza Graveyard Now Streaming on Arrow
The good people from alternative streaming service Arrow have sent us details about a film just released this July. Yakuza Graveyard tells t...
Manga Nibbles: My Little Sister Stole My Fiance Chapters 1-3 Quick Look
Once and a while I like to scroll through BookWalker and see what new series there are that I haven’t heard of yet and see if there are…
Spiraken Manga Review Ep 575: Yakuza Fiancé Raise Wa Tanin ga Ii
In This Episode, Xan reviews a seinen manga about arranged marriages, psychotic fiancès and weird overtures of love. Is it romantic? Well sit back and find out as…
Yakuza Fiancé: Raise wa Tanin ga li, Season 1 (2024)—Rapid Review
It’s good but not great. Here are my thoughts for Season 1.
My Sister Took My Fiance and Now I'm Being Courted by a Beastly Prince Volumes 1 & 2 Manga Review
My Sister Took My Fiancé and Now I'm Being Courted by a Beastly Prince is off to a solid start. It may not be wholly innovative, but Cordelia…
Altered Carbon: Resleeved – In Come the Yakuza!
Altered Carbon is another series is on Netflix in which I watched whatever is available, which is two seasons. It has been cancelled and honestly, this series was…
63: The Sickos Hoot Over Yakuza 7
Your Sickos reflect on how a year of quarantine has changed how the four pillars of modern misery shape our lives (spoiler: they all just got worse). Then,…
Jojo's, Yakuza And The Death Of Sincerity
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Yakuza Fiancé: Raise wa Tanin ga Ii
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The Great Yakuza War is Over! (Maybe)
The conflict has cost over 90 lives in blood-soaked scenes that wouldn’t have been out of place in a Takashi Miike film.
Yakuza Lover: Volume 1 – A Chance Meeting
With this manga comes another exploration into something that I was infinitely curious about. Especially since Yakuza and normal people having relationships with members or former members from…
Terror of Yakuza (沖縄やくざ戦争, AKA Okinawa Yakuza War, Sadao Nakajima, 1976)
A recently released foot soldier is caught between his psychotic boss, an amoral underling, and the encroaching mainland yakuza in Nakajima’s jitsuroku gangster picture
Ex-Yakuza and Stray Kitten – Manga First Impression
I'll give you three guesses as to what Ex-Yakuza and Stray Kitten is about. If you thought, it's about a really cute story, you're right!
Ryu Ga Gotoku 7 (Yakuza: Like a Dragon)
Yakuza: Like a Dragon, is vastly different from its predecessors. For one, it features a completely new protagonist, Kasuga Ichiban, and the story is primarily about an entirely…
Raise wa Tanin ga Ii (Yakuza Fiancé) – 04
I kind of hate this whole syndrome of trying to figure out whether the mangaka realizes their protagonist is a horrible person.
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This isn’t going to become a regular feature. It’s more of a situational thing. I just happen to be stuck in the middle of some very long games…
Raise wa Tanin ga Ii (Yakuza Fiancé) – 06
On some level this Osaka-Tokyo culture clash is at the heart of the premise.
Raise wa Tanin ga Ii (Yakuza Fiancé) – 05
This episode was pretty different tonally than the first four, and in some ways probably the most interesting.
Is it wrong to do Real Estate in an 80s Crime Drama? – Yakuza 0 – Review
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First Impression: Yakuza Fiancé: Raise wa Tanin ga Ii
Yoshino is the beautiful granddaughter of a Yakuza boss. She lives a normal life in Osaka until her grandfather brings up her love life (or the lack thereof).…
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Having Ishida Akira play a teenaged yakuza S&M freak is an interesting choice.
Visiting Japan Via Videogames (Persona, Ghosts of Tsushima, Yakuza)
Is reading manga, watching anime, playing Final Fantasy, and blasting bad guys in Call of Duty scratching that travel itch for Japan? I kno...
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Third Impressions – Raise wa Tanin ga Ii (Yakuza Fiancé)
The three-episode rule is (as usual) out the window in this case.
8 Yakuza Anime With Japanese Gangsters in All Forms
That said, those looking specifically for yakuza anime in the sea of anime about thugs, gangsters, and other organized crime will have a tough time finding
Some thoughts on volumes 1-4 of Yakuza Lover
This manga hit the scene pretty hard a few months ago, due to it being newly translated at that point. I saw some reviews, was curious enough about…
