@@pistachiodisguisey911 i expect more from Scots, have high respect and expectations for them. gta is rather mediocre to be frank. it is getting woke which is the worst part.
@@MrNajibrazak oh for sure I agree, Rockstar has fallen off hard in recent years, hope they eventually make a comeback instead of shitty gta online updates
I think one other case that deserves to be mentioned about Sega (even if it isn't tied to Sega directly) is that one of the actors for the Yakuza series had involvement with the Yakuza
The Yakuza probably is more common in Japan than you think. You are just looking through the eyes of an American and how our gangs work. Yakuza has always been portrayed as more professional so they are probably more common in Japanese society than you think. All those 'HOST' and Dating with paid players and macs type Clubs could be ran by the Yakuza or play a part in them. Look what a host club is if you don't know
I always said that if the smash bros community just approached Nintendo as if they were crime bosses, then there wouldnt be so many problems with organizing events
Using a crane to lob an arcade cabinet in front of a company headquarters in order to send a message is the most Yakuza thing I’ve ever heard of. They should incorporate that into one of the games 😂
their corrupt influence really affected companies like atlus , they dont care about female protagonists and when they make one with a female MC they make sure it is mediocre compared to their male MC exclusive games. buddism and confucianism gave boost to sexism and misogyny. meanwhile while sexism exists in the west there are more examples of player choice and more female MC games. The lack of respect towards females in general are also a factor to Japan population decline, not just financial reasons. a japanese girl was interviewed and she says its a thing in Japan where a lot of boys don't beleive in "ladies first" and want to place themselves first in everything. So like Korea, more girls reject the opposite sex since they are not treated as equals.
I think it's an important point of distinction that there are no substantiated claims of Sega having yakuza ties prior to the Sammy buyout/hostile takeover in 2004. The exodus of employees and shift in culture was enormous - it's literally a different company in all but name and just a small handful of employees. As an old Sega die-hard, it's beyond sad to see the degree to which they ruined Sega's name and reputation. There have been occasional highlights (the arcade division stayed solid until the late 00's, Valkyria Chronicles was uncharacteristically Sega for a 2008 game), but I almost wish they could have just been put to rest rather than be Sammy's front.
Sega's decline also makes me very sad and i wonder what could've been. I got a Dreamcast at home and it's one of my favorite systems, even as a diehard Playstation fan
@@anikihistory Can't believe I forgot to say this in my comment, but GREAT VIDEO. Nothing but respect to that - PlayStation is rock-solid, Sony is an awesome publisher.
They had originally settled to merge but due negotiations falling through Sammy went through with a hostile takeover. If anything Sega has gone from strength to strength the last 17 years. I think what Sega needs to do is rebuild its internal studios to what they where before in the 90’s.
Pretty sure Sega was having some issues before the buyout. They were doing great in the early 90s and then something happened. And from looking at interviews and such we know SoJ and SoA were butting heads constantly.
I heard approx 10 years ago Japan started an effort to weaken the Yakuza. They pretty much had their hand in every industry there and were ingrained within the Japanese economy. I think this is part of the reason why the Japanese economy has tanked around the same time.
Sane thing happened in North America with italian mafia. They had their hands in many areas, as soon as they got removed, the prices for services skyrocketed and even became impossible for some. It was unreal, came out around the same time, about 8 to 10 years ago
The JP economy tanked because the BOJ deliberately created a massive financial bubble to transform it to a more US, neoliberal style economy. Professor Werner has written an excellent, very well evidenced book on this called “Princes of the Yen”
I also heard of another story where sega offices got raided by Yakuza who started trashing master copies of master system and genesis games. Which is often cited as the reason why rereleases and remasters are always the same 15 or so titles instead of Sega's full IP list. The Masters simply don't exist as they were destroyed in that raid.
Damn really? I know that video game companies are bad at preserving source code but the Yakuza destroying it is a whole different story haha Guess we really have to take at least one more look at the Yakuza and the video game industry, so much stuff to talk about!
I think you are confusing music with video games bro. There should be no reason why Sega can’t release any of their back catalogue, anybody can just go download their full catalogue right now and put it on a cartridge if they so wish. Never mind sega themselves.
@@golangismyjam There's nothing stopping them from releasing the ROMs with emulator software. Remasters are more difficult without the source. Many (not all) resources can be extracted from the game's retail ROMs but it's often a complicated process. Binary code can't be reliably decompiled back into human-readable source. It might function but won't resemble the original source code. Even if you can solve those big problems you're still missing comments that explain how the code works.
Some masochistic people enjoy dissasembling games just for fun, it's just there is unfortunately a disconnect between those people, and the corporate legal departments whose job it is to send them cease and desist letters. If there wasn't such an openly hostile relationship between the two sides, we might have been able to see some amazing collaborations...
Yep, both Nintendo and SEGA were involved in other businesses long before they made Video Games. There was a reason why Nintendo has been around since 1889 and SEGA has been around since the late 1940s.
@@gjergjaurelius9798 It annoys me that when people are talking video game history, Nintendo's origins get at least a nod but Sega is treated as if it popped into existence with the Master System, the SG-1000 gets a mention if you're lucky.
@@gjergjaurelius9798Never did get the Yank insistence that SEGA was American due to Standard Games as they really aren't when you analyse everthing objectively. Sega of America is the newest one, and it's often treated as the black sheep part of SEGA, though Sega Europe technically predates it but even calling the now defunct Standard Games American is a bit of a stretch because although it may have some limited operation in LA at one time, it was actually started in Hawaii - a land that is not only not geographically American mainland but actually has as much history with nations like Japan, Scotland (the nation that makes up the Northern part of Great Britain) and Polynesian figures from these lands etc. Though it's monarchy had successfully united the lands for just 80 years, the Hawaii Princess - Ka’iulani was not only the daughter of Archibald Cleghorn, the Scottish born (from Edinburgh) horticulturist and collector of customs, she also became the leading voice in the campaign that would restore the Kingdom of Hawaii after the monarchy was overthrown in 1893. Looking at the current State Hawaiian flag - it uses the British-wide UK flag called the Union Jack (which is the blue and white Scottish saltire (matches the Sega logo), the red and white saltire of Ulster and the red and white cross of the English national flags combined) which began to be first designed in the year 1606 - after James VI of Scots took over the English throne in the year 1603 along with the Scottish nobility - which began the process of what would lead to the political union between the two kingdoms of Scotland and England by 1707, so why is that you might ask? Because the Hawaiian king had flown it out of respect for King George III and as a sign of friendship with Britain. During the War of 1812, Americans on the islands were unhappy with such a partisan act. ... When Kamehameha commissioned a flag for the Kingdom of Hawaii in 1816, the designer incorporated the “Union Jack”.” Interestingly though, Cleghorn, who is remembered particularly for all the planting of the banyan trees became a great close friend and advisor to the King Kalakaua and the Queen Lili’uokalani and also served as the Royal Governor of Oahu in the 1890’s. When the famous Scottish author who wrote the most famous pirate lore - Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson met Cleghorn and his family after arriving in Hawaii on assignment for a US publisher. The Journalist Billy Kay detailed how Stevenson, then one of the world’s most famous writers following the success of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (also written by Robert) become an ally of King Kalakaua and the royalist movement and was also a regular guest of the Royal Household, where he had a lot of hospitality and drink and where he met Princess Ka’iulani when she was 13, the niece to the King. It was also Scotland that modernised and industrialised Japan after the Scottish Enlightement and before the USA got involved with Japan after the war, Thomas Blake Glover of Aberdeen in Scotland is considered the father of modern Japan and is still revered there and is popularly known as 'The Scottish samurai' and has statues in Japan. But that aside, on SEGA itself, it's most immediate direct antecedents would be Seizou (Nihon Kikai Seizou) and Goraku (Nihon Goraku Bussan) and Rosen Enterprises as well as Standard Games, so you could say analogically these four are like SEGA's grandparents and most immediate relatives. That's not to say there was never any American input, but SEGA is a lot bigger than just American involvement and when we make this claim based on one element of SEGA, it's useful to take it all into consideration and weigh everything up. P.S. As well as Sega having some Asian root and a strong western heritage to a degree, if you're wondering why the name 'Service' was used with the colour scheme etc, it was because at a time, SEGA made content for 'Service men' during the war effort - that was the core audience of who they made products for so the word 'Service' was used as part of the name to combine with games- i.e., 'SE' from service - to 'GA' from Games = SEGA. It's kind of like the Sikhs or Samurai's motto of 'to serve' in both their military heritage.
@@PredatorUpHill"Service" has nothing to do with military servicemen. It means "we provide friendly service", and it was a common name for a business just like "Quality". "Service Hardware Store", "Quality Hardware Store", etc
There's no surprise of any yakuza involvement in anything based in Japan. They are involved in anything that generates revenue. They're business men. They run Japan from the street level.
The primary factor that were presenting the ties were the components and process of production of Gaming Controller components and the mechanisms that were patented that were required in opening slots of the game console. Various style of wiring and outlet plugin cord and flux solder paste that was either directly related to individuals affiliated as presumable Yakuza or were just familiar with the Group and how this could be initiated in the export and manufacturing industry for initiatives in the Corporate sector.
I heard rumors about Sega's involvement with organize crime, but I didn't realize it ran that deep. Great video. Speaking of businesses involved with the Yakuza, I heard that pro wrestling and MMA has ties with organized crime. That would be a very interesting video if you ever decide you want to look into that and find out any information. Keep up the great work!
The Yakuza' involvement in other areas like sports and entertainment is what i am interested in the most, actually! If i can find good sources i'll definitely cover MMA and wrestling as well 😁 Thanks for the comment and thanks for watching, appreciate it 🙏🏻
you should also look into konami;s possible ties as the way they shifted wholesale from making videogames to mostly making pachinko machine that often have budget in line with triplle a games around a decade ago and now mostly release remakes and farm out to other companies rather than deal with in house like they used to do...is highly suspicious.
I am already looking into more similar stories for a future video, including Konami if possible. Though i can't promise that i can find anything more criminal than them abandoning their amazing franchises for so long 😝
I'm surprised you didn't touch on the rumors of Yokoi Gunpei's death potentially being linked to Yakuza after he left Nintendo and worked on the Wonderswan at Bandai
Honestly, I always feel like Nintendo has some yakuzaesque vibes from being a big time Japanese company. I thought that it was just in my head. Sega, on the other hand, while I am not surprised at all. I did not know they had Yakuza ties themselves, it was obvious give how big the Yakuza games are, but also schemes like them as well given their history of shady business practices and employee abuse.
Didn’t Gunpei Yokoi died in a car accident a year after left Nintendo and started working on a game boy competitor for a rival company? That accident looks a little suspicious.
The midnight delivery of the Super Famicom wouldn’t work today. As soon as the driver was given the route, they would pull out their cell phone and call the Yakuza.
You did NOT miss an inch, my dear friend... It's so crazy to think about Nintendo's origins, when they are pretty much the most "family-oriented" of the console and game companies!
So far my first video is the only one that got demonetized, because of a 2 minute long song that i used! Haha Thank you btw, glad you're enjoying the content 😁
I know that everyone's experiences are different, but for me what got people worldwide into the Yakuza was obviously Beat Takeshi, right from Violent Cop, there was a resurgence in interest for those films throughout the 1990s. I'm a massive fan of Yakuza movies and have worked my way back into the 1970s and classics like the Graveyard of Honour films and even further back with the Zatoichi films. I also do like the Yakuza games, but from watching all those movies first. You know on the DS lite 42 games or clubhouse games there is Hanafuda and I got to enjoy it a lot, reminds me of the sort of thing that Samurai would do, it being based on knowing flora and the seasons, like in Samurai art and poetry. They do explain that it was their first game that they made, so I suspected before your video started that any Yakuza connection for them would be connected to the Hanafuda cards.
Nintendo - 'Us, Yakuza, No we are all about the cutesy characters!'. Sega -'Hold my sake!'. Kazama Kiryu-San Entered the Chat, and beat everyone else out of it!
I'm always amazed at how people are so bewildered, despite Nintendo's name are literally [DUTY FREE] Heavenly/Pleasure Hall/Shop so it's pretty fitting when it was founded way back then, people really did have a wonderful imagination; i guess that makes for a good content, i suppose. . NIN:任 = Duty as in Duty Free, idk why people seems to interpret this as something else. TEN:天 = (Ten)gu but it's more used in context as "Heavenly"/"Pleasure", or activities related to red light district. DOU/DO:堂 = Hall, can be used as shop.
Interesting ..doesn't surprise me though ... never mind Japans consumers ....think of how big it was in the West when Nintendo and Mario Bros came out in the 80's. Almost every kid had one or a old school folding hand held. I was obsessed with those hand helds. Like the really nice heavy ones with the gold covered tops and bottoms that had a scrolling screen. Remember the sky blue Mario hand held that had a full Mario game that scrolled sideways and the game would switch up for different levels? Pretty cool for it's time and pricey for what it was. Asian girls in my elementary school would bring them back from Hong Kong.
Did you know Hiroshi Yamauchi wasn't actually a human being? He was a vessel that enclosed 7 yakuza oni spirits from 7 different regions in Japan. These oni monopolized the gambling in Japan with the hanafuda Nintendo cards and put a spell so that no other company could produce cards, truly evil. Yamauchi, often referred to as "大魔王 ティラノ天堂" (Great Evil King Tyranotendo), tyranized the video games market with his monopolic practises, it is said that the Master System or the PC Engine didn't actually ever exist, and that they were invented time after so hide the fact that the Famicom was actually the one and only console existing in Japan.
Hmm...not enough context laid down for the yakuza. That you said that they were "mafia" is, while close, not exactly right either. The reason they think themselves as chivalrous is because yakuza originally started off as mercs who protected towns and this eventually evolving into it becoming a protection racket and evolving further from that point. That kakuribeya is just a common thing done by companies. Employees the company wants to remove are placed there and given menial tasks. The idea is to sap the employee's willingness to work until they choose to quit. That way, the company can't be held liable for forcing the employees to quit since they choose to do so on their own. It's a grey zone. What's also a grey zone is pachinko. Legally, it's not gambling because, if I remember how it was explained, there is no direct exchange to money happening. You bring your winnings to the exchanger next door to redeem them for items like you would in an arcade using tickets. If you ever played the game center in Pokemon red, blue (green), or yellow, that's exactly what this is. Another comment said it already, but I'll say it again, that whole break down of the Nintendo name is such a stretch. Pick whether you want to provide information or theorize, not both because that's confusing and very possibly misleading. Lastly, another comment said this also again but sources. If this is meant to be informative, then please provide your sources.
Thanks for the constructive criticism, appreciate it! The point about theorizing and providing information at the same time is interesting, i can see how that can be confusing. Sources have also been added since that comment was posted, I put it into the video description 😊
@@anikihistory At this point of life after witnessing it all I am more insterested to know more about Namco and how they manage to stay clean than to know how evil & ruthless ppl can be. tell us stories about good Japanese people and companies of today which the world should hear about.
I yesterday just somehow came to you "Gang " and "Yakuza" Videos and they are so interisting and well written, keep up the good and Informational Work ! :)
I still like the theory that Sega's international offices didn't want people to know about the connection with the yakuza, so they called RGG just Yakuza internationally so bury any searches for "Sega yakuza" online. Kind of like naming the horse in Elden Ring "Torrent".
That's a funny theory lmao and it would actually kinda work because researching this stuff was kind of a pain in the ass. Looking for pictures of Yakuza on google for my videos is also pretty hard because of the games. I love the Yakuza franchise but man they make my life hard sometimes haha
Interesting history about these two gaming titans. I was born in 1978 and was a big fan of both companies. The late 80's and mid 90's were a great time to be a kid. Today, all games are beautiful, but they lack a certain verve or magic, if I can use that word? Great story, graphics that fit and musical scores that were top notch. Overall, the SNES is my favorite system ever. Super Castlevania is my all time favorite, probably followed by Link to the Past. Thanks for the great presentation and history!
I was born in 93 so i am about two console generations younger than you, but i totally know what you mean. I still look back fondly especially on the SNES and PS1. There is a certain simplicity and magic connected to these old games. As much as i love modern games, they often lack that. Thanks for the great comment and for watching btw, much appreciated my friend 🙏🏻
This doesn't surprise me at all. It'd be like being shocked at mafia ties in walt Disney or something. Back then (1920-30s) if u made any large amount of money, u WERE gonna rub shoulders with mafioso's, it's just a matter of when.
I agree ...he'll get the numbers soon hopefully ....needs to find the algorithm for a certain day and always upload on that day and UA-cam will do the rest.
@@anikihistory your videos awesome bro! No need, it's good seeing you reply to viewers, really cool of you my man. Also very interesting topic, quick question, does the sega have a deeper meaning like S. E. A. G. A, does it stand for anything or was that just their name for the brand and ran with it? The part where they dropped a freaking arcade machine was a pretty strong statement, very umm creative but seems they got their point across crystal clear. 😅To say the least.
@@Freakinkat Yeah that whole arcade machine story sounds like something straight out of a movie right. Dude is a badass haha SEGA is apparently short for "Service Games". Gotta admit, SEGA sounds way less boring 😁
@@anikihistory that will be really interesting. Especially if its somehow related to pachinko, at least i recall seeing lots of konami branding at the pachinko parlors when I was last there. Its also kinda shady how much new pachinko machines use anime characters and stuff to get younger people in.
I think one other important thing to mention is that pachinko, like other gambling machines, don't only turn a profit but the system is ideal for laundering money. "Dirty" money gets turned into tokens like metal balls or chips and wins are later paid out with that money now clean. The profits are also hard to gauge because things like winning percentage on modern gambling machines can be adjusted.
You mention Nintendo and Sega... but it would not surprise me if Sony had some deep ties as well. Powerful companies oft need powerful allies after all.
Oh i'm sure, hard to find a big company in Japan without any Yakuza links. I'll cover more in the future, maybe even Sony if there is something interesting to talk about 😁
When you say Pachinko and Gaming company. The first thing that came to mind was Konami. They’ve also been getting rid of their game developers throughout the 2000s and 2010s. But as for being near an airport. I have no idea on that one. It wouldn’t surprise me if they were involved to a degree as well though.
Another great video, thank you. You explain things in a clear and concise way that's easy to digest. I never knew that (Nin)Ten(Do)/Tengu were related... so NinTenDo is basically the Way of the Chivalrous Tengu(Oni)..? COOL (I have a Yamabushi Tengu Noh mask tattooed on my chest, which goes Hikae[over my shoulder] onto my sleeve of SoJoBo, king of the Tengu, teaching Minamoto Yoshitsune to use the Sword)
Whether or not these speculations are correct (particularly regarding Nintendo's name), they were so well explained and fascinating. And I remember reading somewhere that a possible translation of Nintendo was something like "Work hard but in the end it's in God's hands" (similar to what you mentioned here: NO IDEA how correct it is though). Excellent video!
Former Nintendo employee here. Yes that's a nice snazzy juiced up translation for sure. Ultra subjective and fun. The objective, face-value meaning is simply, "We as an organization depend on the heavens for circumstances out of our control". I hope that helps!
Even now, a newly employed person at Nintendo is educated about how to play Hanafuda games. I heard such a thing from my friend who has worked for Nintendo for about two decades.
I wouldn't be surprised if that were the case, based on how they operate in the console space. It wasn't enough for them to dominate the console space, but they seemed content with driving a knife into Xbox at every opportunity it could with their frequent exclusivity deals and stranglehold on the Japanese market.
5:50 As someone who studies Japanese and has a decent knowledge of Kanji, this entire section just seems like completely conspiracy theory levels of silliness. 天 isn't just used in tengu 天狗, It's also used in 天気 Tenki for weather or 天才 Tensai for genius. You could've picked either of those or many more of the other words that use that kanji to come to a conclusion but oddly chose Tengu? As for 鼻 nose and 花 Flower, based on where you place intonation the words are actually completely different which is contrary to what you stated at 6:30. THis quick video demonstrates that (ua-cam.com/video/_ST6PQPa99c/v-deo.html) Also, Hana はな is also a female name such as the late pro wrestler, Hana Kimura (木村花). Kanji actually isn't that complex and once you learn Japanese, it makes a lot of sense. I think maybe consulting with Japanese speakers before making videos like this woud help. 8:40 Did Nintendo founder yamochi *possibly* show appreciation to his main customer base with his company's name there is certainly some sort of connection... Possibly? Is this a factual video or mere theory with no evidence?
You're right, it's just a silly theory but one that i wanted to talk about since i thought it's interesting, especially since no one seems to be sure what Nintendo actually means 😊 As for the whole kanji thing, the theory links 天 to 天狗 instead of other words like 天気 because of the Tengu's symbolic meaning for gamblers, which also brings the whole Hana thing into the mix with the rubbing of the nose as a code etc. Though i am far from perfect when it comes to Kanji, i think that the Japanese do have a tendency to use them in creative ways that go beyond their literal meaning, which might also be the case here, who knows right? 😁 Thanks for taking the time for writing a detailed comment like this though, discussing all of this and bringing in different viewpoints is what makes it all more fun 🙏🏻
I still have my original Nintendo and Gameboy systems for over 35 years and still works. Japanese technology at its best. Excellent video ANIKI. Keep it up!!
Please ignore the fact that i titled both chapters as "Chapter I". 🥲 Thank you!
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Whats up with that THUMBNAIL 😢 🩲
@@selfloveybear5556 Gotta show off those badass tattoos, right? 😎🐉
@@anikihistory even the a**Cheek ones
If any Japanese company has been around since the 80s or before then, they have dealt with the yakuza
That’s why the Yakuza games were so good. Sega had lots of insider information and experience.
i feel that way about gta
@@sopretty43vr gta is by scottish people so u would be wrong
@@pistachiodisguisey911 i expect more from Scots, have high respect and expectations for them.
gta is rather mediocre to be frank. it is getting woke which is the worst part.
@@MrNajibrazak oh for sure I agree, Rockstar has fallen off hard in recent years, hope they eventually make a comeback instead of shitty gta online updates
@@MrNajibrazak 🤨
now I understand why Nintendo lawyer act like a Yakuza
and why Sega makes good Yakuza games
YES
I think one other case that deserves to be mentioned about Sega (even if it isn't tied to Sega directly) is that one of the actors for the Yakuza series had involvement with the Yakuza
Oh now that's interesting! Do you happen to know the guy's name? If not i'll dig a little deeper myself
@@anikihistory Hiroyuki Miyasako
@@k_kubes oh cool i'll look into it! If i end up making a video i'll make sure to give you a shoutout 🙏🏻
I believe he was supposed to be in Yakuza 6 right?
The Yakuza probably is more common in Japan than you think. You are just looking through the eyes of an American and how our gangs work. Yakuza has always been portrayed as more professional so they are probably more common in Japanese society than you think. All those 'HOST' and Dating with paid players and macs type Clubs could be ran by the Yakuza or play a part in them. Look what a host club is if you don't know
I always said that if the smash bros community just approached Nintendo as if they were crime bosses, then there wouldnt be so many problems with organizing events
god that is so based
yeah the melee community just needs to be bad ass yakuza guys
@@omarduran9787i like this idea considering how scummy Nintendo is
Well smash bros community itself truly scummy to predator children
“No, don’t step closer, no… no NOOOOOO!!!”
Yakuza: Hand over the Super Nintendos
Nintendo: Get in line like everyone else
Imagine all those poor Yakuza members who didn't get to play F-Zero on launch day 🥲
Imagine all the crimes avoided because yakuza got distracted playing mario
Using a crane to lob an arcade cabinet in front of a company headquarters in order to send a message is the most Yakuza thing I’ve ever heard of. They should incorporate that into one of the games 😂
Lmao i know right? That would be a fantastic side mission for one of the games
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@@anikihistory Crane operating side mission sounds fun!
Given that the Yakuza have their hands in corporate practices, of course they’d be present in the story of Sega and Nintendo.
their corrupt influence really affected companies like atlus , they dont care about female protagonists and when they make one with a female MC they make sure it is mediocre compared to their male MC exclusive games. buddism and confucianism gave boost to sexism and misogyny. meanwhile while sexism exists in the west there are more examples of player choice and more female MC games. The lack of respect towards females in general are also a factor to Japan population decline, not just financial reasons. a japanese girl was interviewed and she says its a thing in Japan where a lot of boys don't beleive in "ladies first" and want to place themselves first in everything. So like Korea, more girls reject the opposite sex since they are not treated as equals.
@@fivefive9514 "Buddhism and confucionism gave boost to sexism and misogyny". OMG, what freaking idiot.
@@fivefive9514 the west also has population decline
@@fivefive9514SJW Go Away.
I'm Pro-Yakuza now, go away!
@@huks9380ruined their woman victimhood moment
I think it's an important point of distinction that there are no substantiated claims of Sega having yakuza ties prior to the Sammy buyout/hostile takeover in 2004. The exodus of employees and shift in culture was enormous - it's literally a different company in all but name and just a small handful of employees. As an old Sega die-hard, it's beyond sad to see the degree to which they ruined Sega's name and reputation. There have been occasional highlights (the arcade division stayed solid until the late 00's, Valkyria Chronicles was uncharacteristically Sega for a 2008 game), but I almost wish they could have just been put to rest rather than be Sammy's front.
Sega's decline also makes me very sad and i wonder what could've been. I got a Dreamcast at home and it's one of my favorite systems, even as a diehard Playstation fan
@@anikihistory Can't believe I forgot to say this in my comment, but GREAT VIDEO.
Nothing but respect to that - PlayStation is rock-solid, Sony is an awesome publisher.
@@OriginalName90 Thank you, much appreciated! Stay tuned for more, maybe i'll find some dirt about Sony too haha
They had originally settled to merge but due negotiations falling through Sammy went through with a hostile takeover. If anything Sega has gone from strength to strength the last 17 years. I think what Sega needs to do is rebuild its internal studios to what they where before in the 90’s.
Pretty sure Sega was having some issues before the buyout. They were doing great in the early 90s and then something happened. And from looking at interviews and such we know SoJ and SoA were butting heads constantly.
I heard approx 10 years ago Japan started an effort to weaken the Yakuza. They pretty much had their hand in every industry there and were ingrained within the Japanese economy. I think this is part of the reason why the Japanese economy has tanked around the same time.
Sane thing happened in North America with italian mafia. They had their hands in many areas, as soon as they got removed, the prices for services skyrocketed and even became impossible for some. It was unreal, came out around the same time, about 8 to 10 years ago
The JP economy tanked because the BOJ deliberately created a massive financial bubble to transform it to a more US, neoliberal style economy. Professor Werner has written an excellent, very well evidenced book on this called “Princes of the Yen”
@@Left4Cigarettes I had no clue about anything you said, thanks for that information
The Government hates concurrency. So they can be the Only Mafia.
Man, the background music just made me redownload the entire yakuza series again.
Ikr? I wish i had more time, i didn't even get around to playing Like A Dragon Isshin yet 🥲
I also heard of another story where sega offices got raided by Yakuza who started trashing master copies of master system and genesis games. Which is often cited as the reason why rereleases and remasters are always the same 15 or so titles instead of Sega's full IP list. The Masters simply don't exist as they were destroyed in that raid.
Damn really? I know that video game companies are bad at preserving source code but the Yakuza destroying it is a whole different story haha
Guess we really have to take at least one more look at the Yakuza and the video game industry, so much stuff to talk about!
I think you are confusing music with video games bro.
There should be no reason why Sega can’t release any of their back catalogue, anybody can just go download their full catalogue right now and put it on a cartridge if they so wish. Never mind sega themselves.
@@golangismyjam they are already the compiled versions.
@@golangismyjam There's nothing stopping them from releasing the ROMs with emulator software. Remasters are more difficult without the source. Many (not all) resources can be extracted from the game's retail ROMs but it's often a complicated process. Binary code can't be reliably decompiled back into human-readable source. It might function but won't resemble the original source code. Even if you can solve those big problems you're still missing comments that explain how the code works.
Some masochistic people enjoy dissasembling games just for fun, it's just there is unfortunately a disconnect between those people, and the corporate legal departments whose job it is to send them cease and desist letters. If there wasn't such an openly hostile relationship between the two sides, we might have been able to see some amazing collaborations...
Yep, both Nintendo and SEGA were involved in other businesses long before they made Video Games.
There was a reason why Nintendo has been around since 1889 and SEGA has been around since the late 1940s.
Sega was started as a American out of all things. Back in the 50s .
@@gjergjaurelius9798 It annoys me that when people are talking video game history, Nintendo's origins get at least a nod but Sega is treated as if it popped into existence with the Master System, the SG-1000 gets a mention if you're lucky.
@@felonyx5123they don't know about good ole SErvice GAmes
@@gjergjaurelius9798Never did get the Yank insistence that SEGA was American due to Standard Games as they really aren't when you analyse everthing objectively. Sega of America is the newest one, and it's often treated as the black sheep part of SEGA, though Sega Europe technically predates it but even calling the now defunct Standard Games American is a bit of a stretch because although it may have some limited operation in LA at one time, it was actually started in Hawaii - a land that is not only not geographically American mainland but actually has as much history with nations like Japan, Scotland (the nation that makes up the Northern part of Great Britain) and Polynesian figures from these lands etc.
Though it's monarchy had successfully united the lands for just 80 years, the Hawaii Princess - Ka’iulani was not only the daughter of Archibald Cleghorn, the Scottish born (from Edinburgh) horticulturist and collector of customs, she also became the leading voice in the campaign that would restore the Kingdom of Hawaii after the monarchy was overthrown in 1893.
Looking at the current State Hawaiian flag - it uses the British-wide UK flag called the Union Jack (which is the blue and white Scottish saltire (matches the Sega logo), the red and white saltire of Ulster and the red and white cross of the English national flags combined) which began to be first designed in the year 1606 - after James VI of Scots took over the English throne in the year 1603 along with the Scottish nobility - which began the process of what would lead to the political union between the two kingdoms of Scotland and England by 1707, so why is that you might ask?
Because the Hawaiian king had flown it out of respect for King George III and as a sign of friendship with Britain. During the War of 1812, Americans on the islands were unhappy with such a partisan act. ... When Kamehameha commissioned a flag for the Kingdom of Hawaii in 1816, the designer incorporated the “Union Jack”.”
Interestingly though, Cleghorn, who is remembered particularly for all the planting of the banyan trees became a great close friend and advisor to the King Kalakaua and the Queen Lili’uokalani and also served as the Royal Governor of Oahu in the 1890’s.
When the famous Scottish author who wrote the most famous pirate lore - Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson met Cleghorn and his family after arriving in Hawaii on assignment for a US publisher. The Journalist Billy Kay detailed how Stevenson, then one of the world’s most famous writers following the success of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (also written by Robert) become an ally of King Kalakaua and the royalist movement and was also a regular guest of the Royal Household, where he had a lot of hospitality and drink and where he met Princess Ka’iulani when she was 13, the niece to the King. It was also Scotland that modernised and industrialised Japan after the Scottish Enlightement and before the USA got involved with Japan after the war, Thomas Blake Glover of Aberdeen in Scotland is considered the father of modern Japan and is still revered there and is popularly known as 'The Scottish samurai' and has statues in Japan.
But that aside, on SEGA itself, it's most immediate direct antecedents would be Seizou (Nihon Kikai Seizou) and Goraku (Nihon Goraku Bussan) and Rosen Enterprises as well as Standard Games, so you could say analogically these four are like SEGA's grandparents and most immediate relatives. That's not to say there was never any American input, but SEGA is a lot bigger than just American involvement and when we make this claim based on one element of SEGA, it's useful to take it all into consideration and weigh everything up.
P.S. As well as Sega having some Asian root and a strong western heritage to a degree, if you're wondering why the name 'Service' was used with the colour scheme etc, it was because at a time, SEGA made content for 'Service men' during the war effort - that was the core audience of who they made products for so the word 'Service' was used as part of the name to combine with games- i.e., 'SE' from service - to 'GA' from Games = SEGA.
It's kind of like the Sikhs or Samurai's motto of 'to serve' in both their military heritage.
@@PredatorUpHill"Service" has nothing to do with military servicemen. It means "we provide friendly service", and it was a common name for a business just like "Quality".
"Service Hardware Store", "Quality Hardware Store", etc
There's no surprise of any yakuza involvement in anything based in Japan.
They are involved in anything that generates revenue. They're business men. They run Japan from the street level.
Recently, Japanese government launching police crackdown on Yakuza operations
The primary factor that were presenting the ties were the components and process of production of Gaming Controller components and the mechanisms that were patented that were required in opening slots of the game console. Various style of wiring and outlet plugin cord and flux solder paste that was either directly related to individuals affiliated as presumable Yakuza or were just familiar with the Group and how this could be initiated in the export and manufacturing industry for initiatives in the Corporate sector.
I heard rumors about Sega's involvement with organize crime, but I didn't realize it ran that deep. Great video. Speaking of businesses involved with the Yakuza, I heard that pro wrestling and MMA has ties with organized crime. That would be a very interesting video if you ever decide you want to look into that and find out any information. Keep up the great work!
The Yakuza' involvement in other areas like sports and entertainment is what i am interested in the most, actually! If i can find good sources i'll definitely cover MMA and wrestling as well 😁
Thanks for the comment and thanks for watching, appreciate it 🙏🏻
@@anikihistory I just subscribed to your channel. Looking forward to your future videos!
@@anikihistory cough cough... Kitano
@@anikihistoryif you don’t already know where to start, Pride FC is the way to go, the rings king of kings scandal, the anoki boom baye issue, etc.
@@vietnamsemonky4082 that's super helpful my friend, thank you! 🙏🏻
I always thought the Late Nintendo President Yamauchi (from 80s and 90s) looked like a Yakuza Boss. Seriously, look him up.
I thought exactly the same thing! Look up the character Ishida from the HBO show Tokyo Vice, he looks exactly like him lmao
@@anikihistory yes yes, truly. Lol
you should also look into konami;s possible ties as the way they shifted wholesale from making videogames to mostly making pachinko machine that often have budget in line with triplle a games around a decade ago and now mostly release remakes and farm out to other companies rather than deal with in house like they used to do...is highly suspicious.
I am already looking into more similar stories for a future video, including Konami if possible. Though i can't promise that i can find anything more criminal than them abandoning their amazing franchises for so long 😝
Look into how they treat employees.
@@thekittenfreakify you got something to look forward to very soon 👀
I once saw a comment that claimed Nintendo once had ties to the Yakuza, but never elaborated. This video finally cleared that up!
Nintendo genuinely acts like yakuza about their games tbh
True hahaha
Who knows, maybe they'll come after me for making this video 🚨
@@anikihistory Oh no, I hope not! :(
Their spirit remains alive with their anti consumer practices and the takedowns of emulators.
@@therealjaystone2344 Ikr?
Nintendo supposedly file a copyright claim on the new game called Only Up. Now the game is de-listed from Steam.
If a Yakuza shot someone from Sega would it be considered blast processing?
oh you
Brilliant
I'm surprised you didn't touch on the rumors of Yokoi Gunpei's death potentially being linked to Yakuza after he left Nintendo and worked on the Wonderswan at Bandai
I actually left that out since i think it might warrant its own video in the future!
Honestly, I always feel like Nintendo has some yakuzaesque vibes from being a big time Japanese company. I thought that it was just in my head. Sega, on the other hand, while I am not surprised at all. I did not know they had Yakuza ties themselves, it was obvious give how big the Yakuza games are, but also schemes like them as well given their history of shady business practices and employee abuse.
Didn’t Gunpei Yokoi died in a car accident a year after left Nintendo and started working on a game boy competitor for a rival company? That accident looks a little suspicious.
Yeah lots of people seem to talk about that, i'll look into it in the near future!
The midnight delivery of the Super Famicom wouldn’t work today. As soon as the driver was given the route, they would pull out their cell phone and call the Yakuza.
This is truly one of the most underrated videos i've ever seen
Glad you say so, that means the quality is where it should be 😁 thanks for tuning in!
Yet another top tier game doc UA-camr who invokes a state of shock upon realising how few subscribers they have. Keep going, you'll get there
Thank you so much! 3k is already a crazy number to me but we'll see where this whole thing goes 🙏🏻
You did NOT miss an inch, my dear friend... It's so crazy to think about Nintendo's origins, when they are pretty much the most "family-oriented" of the console and game companies!
To be family oriented they also have to be quite strict also
The story of Nintendo having to deliver snes’s while the yakuza try to take them out makes the perfect sequel to Tetris
Imagine a heist movie directed by Michael Mann about the whole thing. Guaranteed banger 🔥
UA-cam actually recommended some gold to me for once. Answered some questions I was always curious about. Great video!
Glad to be blessed by the algorithm for once and making it into your recommendations haha
Thanks for watching man!
First i've heard of Kakuribeya. That's wild!
Japanese companies are the kings of being toxic! 😅
14:05 Accurate depiction of the yakuza lifestyle, 24-hour Cinderella 🤣
What a phenomenal channel my man! Hope you don’t keep getting demonetized. Looking forward to much more
So far my first video is the only one that got demonetized, because of a 2 minute long song that i used! Haha
Thank you btw, glad you're enjoying the content 😁
I know that everyone's experiences are different, but for me what got people worldwide into the Yakuza was obviously Beat Takeshi, right from Violent Cop, there was a resurgence in interest for those films throughout the 1990s.
I'm a massive fan of Yakuza movies and have worked my way back into the 1970s and classics like the Graveyard of Honour films and even further back with the Zatoichi films. I also do like the Yakuza games, but from watching all those movies first.
You know on the DS lite 42 games or clubhouse games there is Hanafuda and I got to enjoy it a lot, reminds me of the sort of thing that Samurai would do, it being based on knowing flora and the seasons, like in Samurai art and poetry. They do explain that it was their first game that they made, so I suspected before your video started that any Yakuza connection for them would be connected to the Hanafuda cards.
True for me as well. I'd love to see a video about the connections between the Yakuza and comedians in Japan
Nintendo - 'Us, Yakuza, No we are all about the cutesy characters!'.
Sega -'Hold my sake!'.
Kazama Kiryu-San Entered the Chat, and beat everyone else out of it!
So that is why Sega vs Nintendo had so much vile hate behind not just strong opinionated fan bases
I'm always amazed at how people are so bewildered, despite Nintendo's name are literally [DUTY FREE] Heavenly/Pleasure Hall/Shop so it's pretty fitting when it was founded way back then, people really did have a wonderful imagination; i guess that makes for a good content, i suppose.
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NIN:任 = Duty as in Duty Free, idk why people seems to interpret this as something else.
TEN:天 = (Ten)gu but it's more used in context as "Heavenly"/"Pleasure", or activities related to red light district.
DOU/DO:堂 = Hall, can be used as shop.
Interesting ..doesn't surprise me though ... never mind Japans consumers ....think of how big it was in the West when Nintendo and Mario Bros came out in the 80's.
Almost every kid had one or a old school folding hand held.
I was obsessed with those hand helds.
Like the really nice heavy ones with the gold covered tops and bottoms that had a scrolling screen.
Remember the sky blue Mario hand held that had a full Mario game that scrolled sideways and the game would switch up for different levels?
Pretty cool for it's time and pricey for what it was.
Asian girls in my elementary school would bring them back from Hong Kong.
Did you know Hiroshi Yamauchi wasn't actually a human being? He was a vessel that enclosed 7 yakuza oni spirits from 7 different regions in Japan. These oni monopolized the gambling in Japan with the hanafuda Nintendo cards and put a spell so that no other company could produce cards, truly evil.
Yamauchi, often referred to as "大魔王 ティラノ天堂" (Great Evil King Tyranotendo), tyranized the video games market with his monopolic practises, it is said that the Master System or the PC Engine didn't actually ever exist, and that they were invented time after so hide the fact that the Famicom was actually the one and only console existing in Japan.
Brilliant
@@anikihistory It's a copypasta, in case you're wondering :D
@@PrekiFromPoland I never read that one before, that's hilarious hahaha
Chapter 1 was really informative. Can't wait for chapter 2!
I appreciate the use of yakuza music
That soundtrack is just incredible, had to put it in there 🔥
Sega isn’t shy about it too
Hmm...not enough context laid down for the yakuza. That you said that they were "mafia" is, while close, not exactly right either. The reason they think themselves as chivalrous is because yakuza originally started off as mercs who protected towns and this eventually evolving into it becoming a protection racket and evolving further from that point.
That kakuribeya is just a common thing done by companies. Employees the company wants to remove are placed there and given menial tasks. The idea is to sap the employee's willingness to work until they choose to quit. That way, the company can't be held liable for forcing the employees to quit since they choose to do so on their own. It's a grey zone.
What's also a grey zone is pachinko. Legally, it's not gambling because, if I remember how it was explained, there is no direct exchange to money happening. You bring your winnings to the exchanger next door to redeem them for items like you would in an arcade using tickets. If you ever played the game center in Pokemon red, blue (green), or yellow, that's exactly what this is.
Another comment said it already, but I'll say it again, that whole break down of the Nintendo name is such a stretch. Pick whether you want to provide information or theorize, not both because that's confusing and very possibly misleading.
Lastly, another comment said this also again but sources. If this is meant to be informative, then please provide your sources.
Thanks for the constructive criticism, appreciate it!
The point about theorizing and providing information at the same time is interesting, i can see how that can be confusing.
Sources have also been added since that comment was posted, I put it into the video description 😊
bruh my Yakuza mate Kiryu is definitely involved with SEGA, I got proof on my Steam Deck
An ex Sega employee once said that Nintendo and Namco are *probably* the only clean game companies, while Sega is actually just run by criminals.
That was Nanashi, who did all the SEGA interviews in this video, actually! I think it's very interesting that Namco managed to stay clean somehow
Maybe nobody has aired the dirt yet.
@@anikihistory At this point of life after witnessing it all I am more insterested to know more about Namco and how they manage to stay clean than to know how evil & ruthless ppl can be.
tell us stories about good Japanese people and companies of today which the world should hear about.
Signal handedly one of the best and most informative videos I’ve ever seen keep up the good work
Wow what a compliment! Thank you very much sir 🙏🏻
I yesterday just somehow came to you "Gang " and "Yakuza" Videos and they are so interisting and well written, keep up the good and Informational Work ! :)
I still like the theory that Sega's international offices didn't want people to know about the connection with the yakuza, so they called RGG just Yakuza internationally so bury any searches for "Sega yakuza" online. Kind of like naming the horse in Elden Ring "Torrent".
That's a funny theory lmao and it would actually kinda work because researching this stuff was kind of a pain in the ass. Looking for pictures of Yakuza on google for my videos is also pretty hard because of the games. I love the Yakuza franchise but man they make my life hard sometimes haha
Who knew the Yakuza loved singing and rc cars so much
Don't forget about how much they love Kart racing!
"I just was informed my sister was captured by the tough guys behind, I think, Daytona USA and Ivy the Kiwi."
They threatened her with Time Crisis lightguns and took her away! 🔫
They weren't kidding when they said Ryu Ga Gotoku was accurate. They had direct source.
Damn, seems like it gets hectic with the Yakuza. Good vid btw 👍🏾
Imagine all the stuff we don't know about yet 👀
Thank you! 🙏🏻
@@anikihistory true, some things are really under wraps
Interesting history about these two gaming titans. I was born in 1978 and was a big fan of both companies. The late 80's and mid 90's were a great time to be a kid. Today, all games are beautiful, but they lack a certain verve or magic, if I can use that word? Great story, graphics that fit and musical scores that were top notch. Overall, the SNES is my favorite system ever. Super Castlevania is my all time favorite, probably followed by Link to the Past.
Thanks for the great presentation and history!
I was born in 93 so i am about two console generations younger than you, but i totally know what you mean. I still look back fondly especially on the SNES and PS1. There is a certain simplicity and magic connected to these old games. As much as i love modern games, they often lack that.
Thanks for the great comment and for watching btw, much appreciated my friend 🙏🏻
@@anikihistory Thank you!
This doesn't surprise me at all. It'd be like being shocked at mafia ties in walt Disney or something. Back then (1920-30s) if u made any large amount of money, u WERE gonna rub shoulders with mafioso's, it's just a matter of when.
Crazy to think that all video games as we know them today originated from playing cards
Keep em coming, you deserve soo much more traffic
I agree ...he'll get the numbers soon hopefully ....needs to find the algorithm for a certain day and always upload on that day and UA-cam will do the rest.
Just need that algorithm luck like on my first video, i'm not giving up 😁 Thanks for watching!
This was fun watching. Thank you!
Love the videos, man. Keep it up!!!
Thank you! More content on the way 👨🏼💻
13:02 you had the perfect chance to play the "Sega" little intro
Damn... almost makes me wanna reupload the whole thing haha
@@anikihistory your videos awesome bro! No need, it's good seeing you reply to viewers, really cool of you my man. Also very interesting topic, quick question, does the sega have a deeper meaning like S. E. A. G. A, does it stand for anything or was that just their name for the brand and ran with it?
The part where they dropped a freaking arcade machine was a pretty strong statement, very umm creative but seems they got their point across crystal clear. 😅To say the least.
@@Freakinkat Yeah that whole arcade machine story sounds like something straight out of a movie right. Dude is a badass haha
SEGA is apparently short for "Service Games". Gotta admit, SEGA sounds way less boring 😁
Why not Konami? They have a history of being related to slot machines.
I got a sequel planned, i'll see what i can find out about Konami!
@@anikihistory that will be really interesting. Especially if its somehow related to pachinko, at least i recall seeing lots of konami branding at the pachinko parlors when I was last there. Its also kinda shady how much new pachinko machines use anime characters and stuff to get younger people in.
11:25 am I hearing Yakuza chase music playing over this section lolol? If it is, excellent choice!
Yeah man it was such a perfect fit for that part haha glad i'm not the only one who thinks so
Loving the channel. Hope you keep it up 😀
For sure! Thanks for watching 😁
Yamauchi family always gave me Yakuza vibe i dont know why, maybe Mario is Sicilian gangster we will never know :D, great video
Very well done love the background music too
Glad you liked it! I always try to find recognizable music that fits the mood as well 😁
Fascinating stuff. I grew up a big Sega fan boy and still am to this day. Love the music from Shining Force II used in this video. 👍
I think one other important thing to mention is that pachinko, like other gambling machines, don't only turn a profit but the system is ideal for laundering money. "Dirty" money gets turned into tokens like metal balls or chips and wins are later paid out with that money now clean. The profits are also hard to gauge because things like winning percentage on modern gambling machines can be adjusted.
Always appreciate including sources!
Segas yakuza will be a forever classic, it’s a amazing series and I’m glad they are still making games. New ones out later this year can’t wait
You mention Nintendo and Sega... but it would not surprise me if Sony had some deep ties as well. Powerful companies oft need powerful allies after all.
Oh i'm sure, hard to find a big company in Japan without any Yakuza links. I'll cover more in the future, maybe even Sony if there is something interesting to talk about 😁
@@anikihistory sounds good. think I'll subscribe to see what you come up with. Cheers m8!
@@gamingchinchilla7323 Got something in the works you might like!
Thanks for the sub btw, much appreciated 🙏🏻
When you say Pachinko and Gaming company. The first thing that came to mind was Konami.
They’ve also been getting rid of their game developers throughout the 2000s and 2010s.
But as for being near an airport. I have no idea on that one.
It wouldn’t surprise me if they were involved to a degree as well though.
Another great video, thank you.
You explain things in a clear and concise way that's easy to digest.
I never knew that (Nin)Ten(Do)/Tengu were related... so NinTenDo is basically the Way of the Chivalrous Tengu(Oni)..? COOL
(I have a Yamabushi Tengu Noh mask tattooed on my chest, which goes Hikae[over my shoulder] onto my sleeve of SoJoBo, king of the Tengu, teaching Minamoto Yoshitsune to use the Sword)
This was a phenomenal video to watch. Very informative, loved it
How many nintendo employees lost the tips of there fingers over the failure of the wii u?
That's why I'm so in loved with the Nintendo ❤. They have Yakuza DNA in a good way today. Can't wait for a Switch 2 !
Bringing what’s in the Dark into the Light…Outstanding!!!!
It's not really strange at all, up until the 2000s every Japanese corporation was forced to have at least a little bit of dealings with the Yakuza
Something tells me that those Yakuza diapers are padded in the front.
Considering Nintendo has been around for over a century, it wasn't a matter of if, but when.
Good point
Whether or not these speculations are correct (particularly regarding Nintendo's name), they were so well explained and fascinating. And I remember reading somewhere that a possible translation of Nintendo was something like "Work hard but in the end it's in God's hands" (similar to what you mentioned here: NO IDEA how correct it is though). Excellent video!
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it! I never heard that translation before but i think it's so interesting how many theories about it are out there 😁
Former Nintendo employee here. Yes that's a nice snazzy juiced up translation for sure. Ultra subjective and fun. The objective, face-value meaning is simply, "We as an organization depend on the heavens for circumstances out of our control".
I hope that helps!
@@koshobai Thanks a lot!
Channel created this year and already got 100k on a video! 😱 I already know you’re gonna be popping out great videos bro ! 🙏🏽 Luv from DownUnda ❤️🔥🇦🇺
Yeah i feel incredibly lucky to have so many amazing viewers already! Thanks for watching 😁
Even now, a newly employed person at Nintendo is educated about how to play Hanafuda games. I heard such a thing from my friend who has worked for Nintendo for about two decades.
I would be also very interested in the connections of Sony to the yakuza or if they even have one
Yeah i'm just as curious as you are, i will definitely look into more companies and their shady connections in the future 😁
I wouldn't be surprised if that were the case, based on how they operate in the console space. It wasn't enough for them to dominate the console space, but they seemed content with driving a knife into Xbox at every opportunity it could with their frequent exclusivity deals and stranglehold on the Japanese market.
5:50 As someone who studies Japanese and has a decent knowledge of Kanji, this entire section just seems like completely conspiracy theory levels of silliness.
天 isn't just used in tengu 天狗, It's also used in 天気 Tenki for weather or 天才 Tensai for genius. You could've picked either of those or many more of the other words that use that kanji to come to a conclusion but oddly chose Tengu?
As for 鼻 nose and 花 Flower, based on where you place intonation the words are actually completely different which is contrary to what you stated at 6:30. THis quick video demonstrates that (ua-cam.com/video/_ST6PQPa99c/v-deo.html) Also, Hana はな is also a female name such as the late pro wrestler, Hana Kimura (木村花).
Kanji actually isn't that complex and once you learn Japanese, it makes a lot of sense. I think maybe consulting with Japanese speakers before making videos like this woud help.
8:40
Did Nintendo founder yamochi *possibly* show appreciation to his main customer base with his company's name there is certainly some sort of connection...
Possibly? Is this a factual video or mere theory with no evidence?
You're right, it's just a silly theory but one that i wanted to talk about since i thought it's interesting, especially since no one seems to be sure what Nintendo actually means 😊
As for the whole kanji thing, the theory links 天 to 天狗 instead of other words like 天気 because of the Tengu's symbolic meaning for gamblers, which also brings the whole Hana thing into the mix with the rubbing of the nose as a code etc. Though i am far from perfect when it comes to Kanji, i think that the Japanese do have a tendency to use them in creative ways that go beyond their literal meaning, which might also be the case here, who knows right? 😁
Thanks for taking the time for writing a detailed comment like this though, discussing all of this and bringing in different viewpoints is what makes it all more fun 🙏🏻
@@anikihistory Yeah for sure and it's was an interesting watch for me in the end regardless.
@@mariotaz Glad you enjoyed it anyway! This one was actually super fun to make, the SEGA part made me feel like a detective haha
I'm surprised I understood every single kanji in the comment 🎶
@@MUZUKUN-YT 頑張ろう
So Nintendo started as a gambling company… damn, makes sense lmao they never lower any prices and hate consumers who don’t pay in to it
Their price policy might be the most criminal thing about them! Haha
I still have my original Nintendo and Gameboy systems for over 35 years and still works. Japanese technology at its best. Excellent video ANIKI. Keep it up!!
Retro consoles are indestructible, I swear haha
Thanks for tuning in!
0:08 holy shit god bless that VCR withstanding the weight of that CRT TV sitting on top of it
Electronics in the 90s were just built different man hahaha
Thank you UA-cam algorithm for recommending me a channel all about Yakuza instant subscribe
I wanna thank the UA-cam algorithm for recommending me to you 😁
Welcome aboard! 🤝
I found this video on reccomended ima sub much respect for making this video
Glad that the UA-cam algorithm brought you here! And thanks for watching and subbing, much appreciated 🙏🏻
Fascinating. Great video
Ryu Ga Gotoku, 100% Yakuza approved!
100% realistic too, no silly stuff anywhere to be found in the Yakuza franchise 💀
The real world underground stories you hear sometimes from japan makes kidnapping story belivible as it feels the same
As a SEGA fan IDK about Nintendo, but SEGA has definatley deep ties with the Yakuza so deep that they made games about them and for them.
Wow, well-executed original video essay concept awesome.
I'm still learning this video essay stuff but i am glad some people are enjoying it already. Thanks for watching! 😁
Well you know what they say.. Sega does what Nintendon't! 😉
Awesome channel my dude !! I'm digging the content 👍😎🙏
Thank you! More on the way 😎
Truly enjoying your channel so much
superb use of lullaby of outlaws
Such a great song
Rockstar Games had a interesting connection to the Yakuza
So does this mean that the SEGA and Nintendo console war was also a gang war?🤔
14:10
That actually had me laugh out loud dude.
The Yakuza in a nutshell! Haha