Like a Dragon: Yakuza Show Won't Have Time for Karaoke, But Singing 'May Come Eventually' | Push Square
Amazon's upcoming adaptation Like a Dragon: Yakuza will, tragically, not have the runtime to tackle Kazuma Kiryu's enduring passion for karaoke, it's been revealed. However, all hope is not lost as raucous, drunken singing «may come eventually».
Unfortunately, the show's first offering will be just six episodes, so the sillier side of Ryu Ga Gotoku's enduring universe may be sidelined, at least at first. That's according to The Gamer, which attended a roundtable interview in which producer Erik Barmack was hit with the hard questions (thanks, Eurogamer).
Of course, Barmack has to wait and see if the series will be picked up for future seasons, but in response to the question of karaoke, he said: «When you start to figure out how to boil down this world into six episodes… there's so much source material to pull from. As this series is an origin story, we wanted to ensure fans were emotionally connected to these characters… It's a balance that has to be found between the world that is so quirky and these characters, which need to feel real to everybody who is watching the series.»
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Are you sad that we won't see live-action Kiryu and crew belt out some karaoke bangers, at least in the first season? Prep for your own karaoke performance in the comments section below.
Khayl Adam is Push Square's roving Australian correspondent, a reporter tasked with scouring the internet for the richest, most succulent PlayStation stories. With five years of experience as a freelance journalist and mercenary wordsmith, RPGs are his first great love, but strategy and tactics games are a close second, genres in which he is only too happy to specialize.
They'll patch it in.
“But Singing May Come Eventually”
They’ll- Ah crap-biscuits, the joke was already made.
I feel like once you establish Kiryu as a character with the first series being the lead up to 1, it’s very easy to have an episode here or there which acts as a standalone adaptation of a substory, or leans into the
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