More Yakuza Kiwami 2 thoughts:

“Drinks beer out of aluminum cans” is such efficient shorthand for a specific type of 25-35 year old noir tomboy tsunderes

There’s definitely a stereotypical Japanese beat cop face

This and Yakuza Zero’s takes on “Dontonburi” are making me appreciate the nuances of Kansai identity, and how its common translation as Dixie southernness isn’t quite right

The Cabaret Club Fever music sounds almost happy hardcore, which makes sense for 2006 Japan

Cops having moral dilemmas about shooting people attacking them, or legal dilemmas about a group including two cops and one retired cop shooting a guy who had already shot two of them during a terrorism investigation, is WILD