Yakuza lead shuts down speculation over Kiryu's love life, and fans are devastated
A lead Yakuza dev has played down Kiryu's comments in a past trailer, and series fans can't handle it.
Last month in June, Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio showed off a new scene for the upcoming Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, where protagonists Ichiban and Kiryu exchanged comments about love. Kiryu's comments, though, lead many to believe he'd proposed to a woman before, and that woman could very well be Yakuza Kiwami 2's Kaoru Sayama.
Fans were lead to believe this by Kiryu flippantly remarking "I proposed before," to Ichiban. Since Sayama is pretty much the only serious romance Kiryu has had before in the entire Yakuza series (yes, we're discounting Yumi Sawamura), a lot of people out there were jazzed to think there was more to discover about Kiryu and Sayama's potential romance.
But that's not how RGG Studio intended the comment to be received at all. "With regards to the answer made by Kiryu and the mentioning of the proposal, it was actually very lighthearted," RGG Studio director Masayoshi Yokoyama explained in a new interview with Gamer Braves.
"There wasn’t much depth to that answer. He just kind of wanted to go with the flow of the conversation and say, 'Hey, you know what, I proposed before' without thinking much into it," Yokoyama continued. "So there won’t be any kind of further talking to the actual proposal in the background of that conversation because it was mainly just out of fun."
It's an absolutely wild comment for Kiryu to pass off as unserious, in all fairness. Yakuza fans are feeling that exact way about Yokoyama's clarification for the scene, and they're taking to Reddit in droves to mourn together.
"Why are they so fucking afraid of giving Kiryu a normal relationship?" writes one Reddit user who's very
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