New YONG YEA dub just dropped for Yakuza 8.

New YONG YEA dub just dropped for Yakuza 8.
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  1. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    YOOOOONG OUT OF BUSINESS

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      lul

  2. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    Why can't western dubs hire actual decent VAs again? They do it in foreign dubs.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      Real voice actors are too expensive thanks to unions

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        Why doesn't anyone else do it like From? Skip the celebs, skip the con-circuit VAs and look for some decent no-name theater people who need an extra gig.

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          Because you'd have to hire Brits and Americans spaz out when they hear a Brit speak in a video game.

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          fricking this so bad. theater gays can make some really good voice actors

          • 7 months ago
            Anonymous

            they can actually sing, too

          • 7 months ago
            Anonymous

            Surprise, that's the case in japan too.

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          Because that’s marginally more expensive and Sekiro proves that most who single out From’s casting choices as a huge part of their appreciation for them and their games will still play them dubbed even when that goes against said notion. Why spend extra cash when you’ll get the same reception?

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          Because the Japanese have an exclusive contract with those theater bongs. The moment some burger steps in its game over.

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        >union VAs
        >good

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        Why not just hire actors who don't belong to unions?

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          that's what they did. they hired a youtube actor.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      No casting done, they just phone up an intermediary company that hooks all the nepotistic talentless fricks together for yet another mediocre, soulless VA job.

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        Why can't western dubs hire actual decent VAs again? They do it in foreign dubs.

        I think SEGA is trying to get free advertising with youtuber VAs.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      Because for whatever reason it's now illegal for voice actors to voice characters that aren't the same race as them because it's "appropriation"

      See: all the Simpsons characters who lost their original voices like Hibbert, Carl, and Apu

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        Yong isn't even japanese though, that feels even more racist than if they just got a white guy. literally
        >AR ROOK SAME

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          They don't care, he's adjacent enough because he's Asian, unlike Darryl.

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        >Born to Korean parents and raised in Venezuela before moving to America at the age of 14

        he's not even japanese why is he voice acting kiryu then ?

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          Jingweon voice massacre

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          theyre all slanty eyed does it really matter which state in china they came from

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      VA from actors don't sell the game but from a media person does. Cdpr opened this Pandora box

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      Because the vast majority of english-speaking customers lap it up. Just look at how many people say things like "it's just as good, if not better than the original, you're just a weeb" on Ganker alone. Now imagine how it is with normalgays.

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        This. The customers usually don't care, no matter how awful the dub is. Yakuza is a big exception since the series is well known for its japanese dub even in the west.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      Here's the deal
      Voice Actors for games, english dubs of japanese games, and the like are like a step below the usual voice actors who not only do voice acting but also act in some movies. Unless you're a part of the upper limit of actors turned voice actors, you're not going to make SHIT for money.
      So why would there be a big pool of voice actors pursuing this sort of job when it pays so little? Passion may count for something but it isn't going to fully pay the bills when you're pursuing a career that is like E/F-Tier Acting in the payment department. So since the pool shrinks, the people in charge of dubs who are with localizers usually just hire people they know and it's no secret that localization companies in general are nepotistic as frick.
      But the generation of e-celebs with pre-established audiences on YT and other platforms broke open a new pandora's box for cheap voice acting dub payments. Since there's literally nobody else actively pursuing these jobs, they go to the Youtubers instead because not only can they pay cheap, the money might be guaranteed because your modern e-celeb worshiper are guaranteed sales.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      Westoids are pozzed

  3. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    I keep expecting Kiryu to tell me about lootboxes or something

  4. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    >saejima sounds more like kiryu than anyone else
    should've just used that guy instead

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      Should've just stuck with Darryl Kurylo

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        can't have a white guy voicing an asian character, now. that would be wacist.

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          Isn't Matt Mercer voicing Majima

          • 7 months ago
            Anonymous

            until i complain on twitter about it enough, through 600 sock accounts.

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        Daryl Kurylo has a great voice but his delivery still sucks as much as it did back in the dub for the original yakuza

  5. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    Why does he sound so unnatural?

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      hes putting on a fake gravely voice that he cant do

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      What-uhhhhhh do you mean-uhhhhhh? Tough guys-uhhhhhh always heavily-uhhhh exhale when they speak-uhhhhhhhhh.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      It sounds like it's either filtered or spoken through a tin can, it's not natural for his voice

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      Because he has a crappy range and is not a good voice actor.

  6. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    >can't finish a sentence without running out of breath

  7. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    If after this long you’re still choosing to play anything dubbed you have absolutely no right to complain about any voice performance or performances. You don’t have any excuses at this point, you are can’t pick the shit option of your own volition and then act affronted by how shit it is anymore
    You can however shit on dubs in general, because they deserve to be

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      No one is playing the game dub you moron. Almost everyone is playing it subbed and we are just here to laugh at yongyea shit performance and massive hypocrisy

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        >No one is playing the game dub
        Naive or just in denial?

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous
      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        I dont think so. Fans see pretty vocal about playing it dubbed over subbed, more so than most other series.

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        CohhCarnage, a so-called Yakuza "superfan", who was one of the people with a cameo in the Isshin remake, played Y7 with the english dub from Day 1 and said he preferred it (without ever listening to it in japanese first). Normalgays, and especially americans, do not care about voice acting at all, so long as it saves them from having to read a single line of dialogue and due to their inherent insecurity they will talk shit about anyone who prefers the original.

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          7's dub is really good.

          • 7 months ago
            Anonymous

            Thanks for immediately proving the point, dubgay.

          • 7 months ago
            Anonymous

            It really isn't. There are a handful of good VAs in it, while pretty much the entire cast of side characters sounds like shit.

          • 7 months ago
            Moose

            It's not. I did everything but substories on my NG+ run in English to see how it was after everyone kept saying it was a decent one.
            >See

            Ichiban's VA is completely fine, I have no idea what you're on about. His karaoke song is a bit muted compared to his main story stuff, but he works just fine as an EN Ichiban and does the final scene of 7 fine.


            Nanba is the one who sucks absolute ass and not only doesn't play the character as he's supposed to be, but portrays him as a complete butthole who constantly brushes people off when JP Nanba is nothing like that. I genuinely can't believe this guy voiced Yagami because he's terrible as Nanba, and even as Yagami he's also unfitting for the character completely even though his performance there is better. Watching the LJ ending with the EN dub is honestly one of the worst things I've experienced, no one fits outside of maybe Kaito, it's insane. I had to rewatch it in JP just to feel better.

            Sawashiro, Zhao, and Han are by far the best parts of the EN dub, and even then Han is just an okay fit for the character at best. for my takes on Ichiban, Nanba, Sawashiro, Zhao, and Han.
            >Adachi is fine but he sounds younger than he is sometimes, and his karaoke is one of the worst in the entire series because of them using a joke take.
            >Saeko is generic female #1545123.
            >Seong-Hui constantly sounds like she's on Xanax.
            >Arakawa is pretty much the only one who can pronounce the names correctly but Sulu switches between actually voice acting to reading off a script mid-sentence sometimes and it's super jarring.
            >WEI SHEN MOTHERFRICKER WHO ARE YOU is fine as Masato but it's really hard to separate him from his performance as Wei Shen since it's 1:1 the same voice and his performance really doesn't distinguish itself from that until like midgame when you start seeing him get more conniving.
            >Ishioda is the only Omi Alliance member who has a deep New Yorker accent which sticks out like a sore thumb when everyone isn't despite everyone supposedly being from Kansai so there's no consistency.
            >Kiryu is fine and he's better than his performance was in 1 by a mile.
            >Majima is a mix of "fine I guess" and "Generic Anime villain".
            >Saejima is perfectly fine from the few lines he has and fits him as a character.
            >Daigo is perfectly fine.
            >Watase fits his character but he sounds a bit too wimpy.
            >Hoshino would have been fine if they didn't literally cut to a scene with Ogikubo or another Daidoji guy and he literally has the exact same voice, performance, and inflections as Hoshino.
            It's all over the place.

            are these porn stars?
            I recognised aika as one of the girls from another place, but who are the rest? Is there a list of the girls

            Yuki and Koyuki are OCs. The Platinum girls are all either gravure starlets or JAVs and they use the same name as their "acting" names.

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          >CohhCarnage
          Who? I had to look into this to check
          >man silently plays videogames for money
          Ah one of those types. Well it doesn't matter his dick riders aren't buying the game.

  8. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    >thought ichiban's VA in 7 was good
    >play the 8 demo with the dub to hear yong
    >jesus he sounds fricking terrible
    >ichiban shows up
    >laugh because of the difference between them
    >pause then game after laughing to rub rub face and sigh

  9. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    He's doing this thing where he exhales very sharply after every sentence, it's very strange.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      Yeah, it happens to me too when I try to do a deep voice. Dude's voice just doesn't work for this.

  10. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    I really hate that I'm going to have to put up with godawful YongYea performance just to enjoy Kaiji Tang as Ichiban.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      Based. That guy should beat the ever living shit put of Yong for tarnishing his Ichiban's performance with his israelitetoob non acting skills.

  11. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    did they actually pitch his voice down in edit?
    feel like it sounds a bit lower.

  12. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    jesus christ i seriously hate dubs
    I'd like it if just once they tried to make them sound like normal people.
    Not over-dramatised caricatures emulating Japanese intonations, just straight regular americans, like they're acting for a TV show.

  13. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    My only solace is that Yong is a fricking moron who is certainly quadrupled vaxxed

  14. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    Sounds really good! I was waiting for this. I may just play dub now with my bro killing this role. Eyepatch guy seems a little off.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      found the triple vaxxed homosexual

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        Not even once and it's alright to have different opinions. We can all get along. If you want to stick to reading and not understanding, that's fine. This is a video game and dub should be standard, imo, especially if it's a western release period.

  15. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    Obsessed, nobody plays Ya-koozer with eng dubs anyways

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      it would be 10 bux cheaper with jp+subs so my money is directly enabling this nepotism shite

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        You are so full of shit.
        GREED is making your games cost more.

  16. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    Is English his second language? Seems like he's trying really hard to not sound like a beaner.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      yeah he's venezuelan, mutt spanish is his first language. he migrated to america when he was 14.

  17. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    This is probably super autistic but holy frick, the audio mixing on the dub sounds SO fricking bad. It's like they just slapped all the voice tracks on top of everything else, panned to center, hit normalize, and called it a day. There's no sense of space at all

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      the frick were they supposed to do?
      add reverb on the voice tracks?

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        Hire somebody else.

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        Yes, you add reverb depending on the vocal depending on the place he's in, it makes the vocal blend in better with the mix, the voice sounds way to raw and clean

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        Good grief, I'm not saying they need to make it sound like a fricking concert hall or parking garage. But if Kiryu moves away from the camera his voice should not be the same volume / occupy the same physical space as Ichi and the new guy. There's no effort to blend anything in the mix.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      *Recording Booth*
      >Yong: I got it from here.
      >Staff: Okay just shut the lights when you're done.

  18. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    pretty eh

  19. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    why didnt they hire a real voice actor

    young gay isnt even a big eceleb that could boost sales eithera4wydw

  20. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    Trying too hard

  21. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    Why the frick would they hire a literal ESL to act in English?

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      I'm glad you're enjoying your buzzwords zoom zoom gay.
      You should swallow a couple AAA batteries and down them with bleach for your next quirky act. FR Fr

  22. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    It sounds so forced, he just doesn't have the timbre for it

  23. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    >HUHNNNN IF THERES ONE THING
    >KIRYU CHAN SENPAI!!! WHATS THE MATTER
    >HUHHNNNN IS SOMETHING THE MATTER KIRYU
    I fricking hate all english VAs for these fricking asiatic games who think you need to do a breathy exhale into every single line. Fricking stop!

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      > who think you need to do a breathy exhale into every single line
      but that's how they do it in japanese the whole time......

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        asiatics speak from the diaphragm so its guttural for real. These english VAs just sound like theyre trying to be Kaiba after getting a rough handjob from a gal with dry hands

  24. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Yong gets bullied hard enough that he kills himself
    >Police find the body after a smell complaint
    >A note was left
    >Yong out

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous
    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      When I first started watching his videos I imagined him killing himself with the sign-off "I'll see you guys in the next life. Yong out" BANG

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous
  25. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    Can someone tell me how Yakuza is constantly getting games? It's like, one releases and you're already supposed to be excited for a new one that's coming out in just a few months.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      They're cheap to make and filled to the brim with product placement, also japanese fujos love the men.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      They re-use assets and minigames and game mechanics etc. over and over so it's faster to produce. The new main game has a new setting so it took longer to make.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      this was a bit of a newer thing as they had the spinoff game (man who erased his own name) and Y8 around the sameish time, Im assuming one finished earlier than expected and one finished later than expected and nusega just needs to keep the slop coming. The truth is Yakuza died with 0, 7 onward is shit, a complete tonal mess and that homosexual yakuza larper who works for the chinsects was the only guy with any real creatove vision

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      Because spinoffs. The main numbered game is actually years apart, usually 2 to 4 years.

  26. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    this clip just reminds me that everything would be okay if Haruka wasn't a moron
    also why the frick are all the tojo guys homeless now

  27. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    Man why the frick do Americans always pronounce the Japanese names in such obnoxious fricking ways?
    I get it it's their accent or whatever, they say it as they would say something else in English but holy frick it make me cringe every single time I hear it.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      this, youre speaking english drop the chans and shit and speak english
      >lets go the bar and grab some brewskis KIIDIIRRUU CHON
      sounds like some shit a weeaboo in middle school would say after watching a few too many eps of inuyasha

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        Because if you don't do that then the anti-localization weebs will get mad

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        In yakuza's case you have to do that because the story deals alot with japanese social hierarchy. How are you supposed to translate terms like aniki, ojiki, oyassan etc in english? At that point might as well leave the honorifics alone.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      To be fair, even something basic like saying kiryu's name as kazuma kiryu is shit compared to kiryu kazuma

  28. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    >the fricking sound he makes when he's supposed to be coughing up blood

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      imagine the sounds he'll make when he has to piss his eyes out in gaiden

  29. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    maybe its because I dont speak japanese but hearing every character on screen dishing out at least one fricking line makes me sick. SHUT THE FUUUUUCK UUUUUP YOU DONT ALL NEED TO TALK

  30. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    IT'S JUDGMENT TIME

  31. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    >English dub still uses honorifics
    Wasn't the entire point to give a localised dub for the gays who don't give a frick about accuracy and have the sub track remain accurate?

  32. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    It's even more funny when every male dub actor in this tries to put this "grumpy badass main character" voice. Like you could barely tell a difference between Kiryu and Majima's dub voice here, but then Daigo opens his fricking mouth and he suddenly sounds like Saejima despite both Majima and Daigo having softer/thinner voice in jap original.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      K7 had a similar problem, morons will say K7s dub is good but every male character sounds like they were grabbed from the Troy Baker Bargain Bin

  33. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    WHY THE FRICK DOES HE KEEP ON EXHALING AFTER EVERY SINGLE LINE LIKE HE'S SOME OBESE PIECE OF RUNNING OUT OF BREATH????

  34. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    this is such a robotic performance, he's enunciating everything too hard and trying to sound like le gruff badass

  35. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    I expected way worse from all the b***hing about it. Maybe its just because I grew up with 90's early 2000's dubbing where this would be considered above average but he is not that bad just seems horribly miscast and poorly directed.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      the Goldpill is that Ichis VA sucks AS BAD as yong does and the english dub across the board fricking sucks

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        Probably I have never heard the English dub till now

      • 7 months ago
        Moose

        Ichiban's VA is completely fine, I have no idea what you're on about. His karaoke song is a bit muted compared to his main story stuff, but he works just fine as an EN Ichiban and does the final scene of 7 fine.
        Nanba is the one who sucks absolute ass and not only doesn't play the character as he's supposed to be, but portrays him as a complete butthole who constantly brushes people off when JP Nanba is nothing like that. I genuinely can't believe this guy voiced Yagami because he's terrible as Nanba, and even as Yagami he's also unfitting for the character completely even though his performance there is better. Watching the LJ ending with the EN dub is honestly one of the worst things I've experienced, no one fits outside of maybe Kaito, it's insane. I had to rewatch it in JP just to feel better.

        Sawashiro, Zhao, and Han are by far the best parts of the EN dub, and even then Han is just an okay fit for the character at best.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      I can probably tolerate it if this is an anime game, but kiryu has kuroda's face so it's harder to believe.

  36. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    >people think Number One's English voice actor is bad

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      ichis VA is about as good as the guy who voices Bookee Dewitt in bioshag trinity

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      >they killed Wei Shen in the same game he was introduced

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        he just changed his name again and started from the bottom. That was a laughably tiny pp knoife

  37. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    >that nasal voice
    it feels like a parody dub from the 00s on youtube

  38. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    Will Yun Lee would have been a better Kiryu.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      Damn, I forgot about this game. I should get to replaying it some day.

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        I replayed it after and man nostalgia blinded me. the story is messy and the characters are super basic at times

  39. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    only asian voice actors should play asian characters

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      >only japanese voice actors should play japanese characters
      ftfy

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        why does Kuroda dress like he's euphoric

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          I remember someone saying Sega was very unhappy with him attending way too many handshake events with fujos on his own.
          >M'lady

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous
        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          Euphoric? More like a pimp.

  40. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Majima, Saejima, Daigo back AGAIN

    What the FRICK are they doing with this franchise?

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      well, yakuza died out irl too, now it's just shenanigans

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      to be fair they did them dirty by brushing them off as irrelevant in supposed "send-off" of Kiryu in Yakuza 6, despite them being an important character for Kiryu until 5.
      If this really was to be Kiryu's send off for real, I hope they give them a moment to shine, and actually do something for Kiryu instead of being a background character.

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        >If this really was to be Kiryu's send off for real
        He's coming back in 8 though. They'll never let him rest.

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          that's what he means, but lots of people are expecting this to be the send off.

          I disagree. Kiryu does have one last game though. Maybe they really do ice him or retire him in Y8 but I just don't see it because Gaiden was supposed to be a DLC. Why tf would you make that a DLC if you're gonna ice Kiryu? That part makes no sense to me because it kinda feels like a setup to resolve the orphanage plot line and Haruka/Haruto stuff they seemingly dropped in Y6.

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          That's what I meant, I'm pretty sure they are redoing the send-off in 8 because everybody hated Y6 in Japan

  41. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    what are the tojo chuds doing in antartica?

  42. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    Frick you morons, at least I AM Kiryu.

    YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG OUT

  43. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    JUDGMEEEEEEEEENT

  44. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    le deep anime badboy voice

    also it sounds so fricking bad how the keep the honorifics in the dub. what a disaster

  45. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    Cute and Wholesome Kiryu-Haruka Nakadashi SEX!

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      nandayo

  46. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    sounds like he's trying too hard to sound gruff
    kinda like David Hayter trying to voice Big Boss in PW but all that comes out is the fricked up Old Snake voice from MGS4 that makes him sound 40 years older than he actually is

  47. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    >playing the dub
    >ever

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      most yakuzas want me to play them twice, might as well make the ex-hard playthrough even harder

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      in the end it comes down to this.
      I get to make fun of the shit Eng VA without it affecting me because I play the game in the correct way.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      You can’t argue or reason with dubgays, they’ll give you any old excuse; “nips all sound the same”/“imagine playing [insert classic Japanese franchise here] in Japanese”/“this dub is actually good though, way better than the sub” etc. In the end they just don’t want to play Japanese games with Japanese audio because it bothers them for some reason, which I’d probably have less issue with if they were honest and didn’t feel the need to cope with that bullshit out of some inane insecurity about it

  48. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    When's the english dub of Gaiden supposed to drop, anyway?

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      I would say, logically, they would drop it at the Geoff Awards and then do a marketing push for Y8, maybe even announce spinoffs or remasters, etc. But this is Sega. They will spend stupid money on the worst shit and just not even advertise it outside of twitter.

  49. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    Gonna be honest, I'm a little Yonged out.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous
  50. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    the real tragedy (comedy) of this whole shitshow is that by casting Yong it just shined a massive spotlight on something that is usually supposed to go unnoticed. A lot of people can sit back and enjoy the Y7 dub, even though to me it sounds awful and full of anime growling voices. But when you ask people to really listen to something, damn it is gonna hit home and not just for Yong. For the entire cast. I wouldn't be surprised if people switched to the jap voices over this whole thing even though they prefer dubs.

  51. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    >tfw the last we see of akiyama is him jobbing to everything under the sun in 6
    >then he appears for a whopping half second in the studio logo splash in gaiden

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      Bro Shinada DOESN'T EVEN APPEAR

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      >They keep reusing his model even though he literally never shows up
      What did akiyama do to earn this disrespect

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        Busy voice actor
        Also he's showing up in 8

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          He is?

          • 7 months ago
            Anonymous

            Yeah, poundmate
            Got leaked

            • 7 months ago
              Anonymous

              >poundmate
              Dammit

            • 7 months ago
              Anonymous

              What do you mean got leaked, he's literally in the trailer

              • 7 months ago
                Anonymous

                Oh damn
                Idk how tf i missed him, Date and Kaoru

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        They want to keep using Akiyama but his voice actor is one of the most prolific you can get, his schedule is far busier then everyone elses.

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        Akiyama was actually planned to have the role of Nick Ogata in Y7
        Shame it got cut due to the scheduling conflic

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Tanimura was great
      >Never shows up again because of face scan actor drama

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        He actually appears for a half second before it becomes 6/7 stuff for the rest of the intro

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        Pretty sure they weren't planning on bringing back Tanimura either way as most of actor cameo of Yakuza games are one-offs
        Also the reason why they couldn't use his face in reboot was not because of the drama, but because he retired

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        Well, they already recasted the guy. The only reason why he didn't come back is simply because rgg didn't want him to.

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          >The only reason why he didn't come back is simply because rgg didn't want him to.
          I thought it was because he retired. The claims against him were proven false, but he ended up bowing out of the entire industry probably because he realized how shitty it was when everyone literally turned on him in a short span of time.

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        stop with this fricking fake shit, you don't even know what the frick you're talking about, you're just spouting shit that redditors because they go "OOOOOHHHHH I'M THEORIZIIIIING"

        the drug allegations didn't happen until 2016, before the japanese release of Yakuza 6

        Tanimura had already been mentioned in Yakuza 5

        he was also not featured in either Ishin or Y0, and there's also no evidence of him getting cut from Y6, so RGG NEVER had the intention of bringing his ass back

        fricking morons believing everything they read on the internet

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          to add on top of that, Tanimura has appeared multiple times on their gacha game with the new face from 4 remastered

  52. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    What the frick. How do you go from having actors like Mark Hamil doing the English dub to this. The celebrity cameos in the Japanese dub at least gravitated towards celebrities who could act competently.

  53. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    Fake deep voice
    >Hey guys Kazuma Kiryu here also known as Dragon of Dojima. If you want to be strong like me, drink onions!

  54. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    >meanwhile someone put japanese kiryu's voice through AI and generated an english version which sounds 100% better than what we got:

    with a few tweaks it would be perfect. once the game is out im 99% sure someone will make a mod using AI generated kiryu.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      this is why they fear the ai, it's better

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        this, no wonder voice actors are shitting themselves over AI

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      honestly pretty good except for the slip into a british accent
      yong my brother don't look

  55. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    Is his name "kiryu" because that's how Japanese people would pronounce "kill you"?

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      no, kiryu is just a japanese name.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      no, kiryu is just a japanese name.

      It has Ryu in it which is dragon in Japanese

  56. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    I don't understand how a casting director pushed this guy through. I know why he got cast but it's just a huge mess

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      Maybe he's secretly a subgay and it's an act of sabotage.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      he sucked and fricked his way into that role

  57. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    yooo kaito files is kinda shit..

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      I'm glad someone else thinks so. It was incredibly boring and disappointing

  58. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    Real talk though.
    If his voice is pitched lower it would be more tolerable

  59. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    HES SO OUT OF BREATH FROM THE LUNG CANCER BRAVO

  60. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Has to let out air/slight sigh at the end of every sentence
    why? Is he disabled in some sort?

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      Kiryu has cancer

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      Yes. He heard the term 'pause for dramatic effect' once in his life and had to breathe all over the mic to prove that he's a real VA who earned Kiryu.

  61. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    How 5 should have ended and 6 should have begun.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      Kiryu will never do that. From which part of Wyoming are you moroning today?

  62. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    This is really bad. I never listen to dubs tho but holy shit yong really fricked it up. He should be removed from the game before they patch the dub in.

  63. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    > Judgment 3
    > Amasawa and her class are going on a trip to Hawaii
    >.... And Yagami must come too, why? Uhhhh BECAUSE HE JUST HAVE TO OKAY!?

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      >due to unexplained reasons, Yagami has to repeat highschool if he wants to keep his agency

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      Yagami is going to be in his 40s by the next entry. It'll be a Yagami goes to Hawaii due to his midlife crisis.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      They will have graduated by the time Judge 3

  64. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    Jeez. I hoped we wouldn't have to do this but we're going to have to ban all discussion regarding Yong Yea. I'm embarrassed by the level of toxicity on this board lately.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Defending or praising him is also banned
      Kek, at least he's being fair.

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      >do something more useful
      You mod a fricking reddit page for a videogame series. Zero self awareness. All you have to say is discussion of youtube man is banned.

  65. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    Do people actually think we're getting a judgment 3? lol

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      Yagami got blown by Johnny. Japan has pulled all of his Burger King ads. It's over unironically

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        What, so everyone repped by Johnny's is fricked now, or was he involved in some deeper shit?

        • 7 months ago
          Anonymous

          He is not in deeper shit but everyone who worked under or used to work in Johnnys is fricked now because no one wants to associate with the old diddler's work
          Even if SEGA was fine with that Kimura is probably not going to accept it anyways as his main work is appearing on TV, and now that job is gone he's probably going to retire. I doubt he is going to work by any means considering his age and the trillions in his bank account.
          Besides, RGG already had enough of contract hell with Kimura even before the incident, now that everything got more hectic and unstable due to the exposè, I'm pretty sure they want to stray away from it.

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        What happened?

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      Yes? They'll just memory hole Yagami and continue with Sugiura/Kaito as protagonists

  66. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    >I have cancer
    >is that why your voice sounds so shit?

  67. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    Is cancer turning his hair white? Why does he have black hair in some scenes but white in others?

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      He gets progressively worse throughout the game

      • 7 months ago
        Anonymous

        I wonder if it'll affect his stats?

  68. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    He sounds a lot better here, I think, than in the Gaiden stuff
    Like, I probably wouldn’t guess it’s Yong from just this trailer

  69. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    >YONG OU-ACK!

  70. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    A fricking hobo could do a better job

  71. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    Absolute Shame on everybody wanting Yong to Anne a hero. Have you no empathy? Is as if hypocrisy wasn't enough, you have to wish the worst for him?

    Truly shameful.

  72. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    This is the first time I'm hearing him and honestly, I think he's fine. Japs are all about melodramatic garbage, they're incapable of nuance.

  73. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    bro needs to lay off the ambien

  74. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    I actually liked the Like a Dragon 7: Like a Dragon dub but this Yongyea guy and his painfully awkward "trying to be a tough guy" 'deep' voice will singlehandedly make me go back to Jap audio.

  75. 7 months ago
    Anonymous

    are these porn stars?
    I recognised aika as one of the girls from another place, but who are the rest? Is there a list of the girls

    • 7 months ago
      Anonymous

      Yuki and Koyuki (left and right) is the game's original character and they're not face scans

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