I’m pretty sure it’s going to be one of those pups that kill her in the end. Hell v got pretty close to asking for her dues and if she didn’t have the info v needed I’m pretty sure Tamara would have come knocking Wacaco walks a vary fine line with her loyalty’s and disloyalty. One day she will slip it’s just as if right now she’s the best tight rope walker around
A detail I really love about Wakako is that she's a good decade younger than Hanako and Rogue. She's clearly rich and powerful enough to afford to chrome her body to look younger like them, but I really think she chooses to look elderly. She knows that if she looks young and pretty, the Claws won't take her seriously. She's weaponized her age to give herself advantage (I wouldn't be surprised if she added a few decades to her appearance when she was younger, so she wouldn't be brushed off by the misogynistic Claws)
Not just misogynistic. I think her apperance is heavily related to that part of eastern culture where old people should be treated with great respect no matter who they are and what they've done with their life. Looking like an old lady she shows everybody in the Tiger Claws that she belongs to a very high place in the hierarchy.
I always thought this about Wakako. I knew she chose these things because they gave her an advantage, an advantage that within such a deeply rooted and historically rich culture, she could benefit greatly. No matter how terrifying she is though, imo, Wakako is still a woman who longs for real connection, not grafted together out of sheer respect and necessity. To me, her life feels like it is stuck, constantly revolving around her past, even as she, personally, has moved on and forward in her life. I think she also keeps her old age visible to remind HERSELF that she is a person that matters. Another act of defiance against the crippling and unyielding pressures of Yakuza/Tyger Claw forced destiny.
She also keeps such little apparent security. Compare that to Hands and Rogue, for example; there’s both an invitation and a threat there, the former for the foolish and the latter for the more circumspect.
Characters like Wakako is why i love the Cosmopolitan mods, that have characters speak in their native languages, her Japan localized voice actor, Kaoru Katakai, really gives her that sinister tone of voice that reminds you youre basically dealing with the godfather.
I still can't get over the fact that she told fingers to sell Evelyn to the scavs. I remember learning that it shows that even more decent fixers got some serious dirt on them. If she never said thst msybe Evelyn would've had a better less tragic fate.
The only Fixers who actually want good are Regina and El Capitan, both actually really care about their area and the people in it. I hesitate putting Mr Hands here bc he is a nice guy and helps V out but for him it’s also mainly about business
@@fatford4209 Even if it's just business he does seem to care about the people of Dog Town and Pacifica. Sure maybe not on the level as Regina or El Capital, but he still does care
@@fatford4209 Regina hints at a darker side the whole time and we never find out more about the corp that she gave the Cyberpsychos to. She's the nicest to be sure, especially because she apparently doesn't murder people who cross her, but she's definitely made compromises. As the Russian/Chinese gigs show. And the fact that some of the fixers see you as a bleeding heart and send those gigs your way while you can find logs of more cutthroat varieties of gigs they send to others.
All Fixers are bastards. Yes, even Rogue, Regina and El Capitan. It's as simple as that. Everyone else are pawns on their chessboard. The main thing that differentiates the Fixers is 1. Competence 2. Personal code 3. How they treat their pawns In that sense, some Fixers are worse/better than others. But they are still bastards.
Wakako's ruthlessness and cunning are pretty fitting for her association with the Tyger Claws. Tigers are infamously vindictive and relentless predators, and they're prone to ambushing their prey. I would always do my best to treat her with respectful deference, because so long as you stay in her good graces she's reliable. She's lived to a ripe old age in a city where that is a rare thing indeed.
Loved the inclusion of Danger Gal Dossier. Wakako is a fascinating character. And probably broken a lot of times. Maybe that's why she lost her humanity...
This is such a big part of why I love your analysis videos; You hit the mark of keeping a human touch while providing critical analysis and also sharing parts of the lore that I'm not aware of. I really appreciate the amount of work involved. For my part, Wakako It's very much defined buy a quiet but overwhelmingly intense desire for control and a poisonous hatred for anyone that would try to control her. Having met the love of her life early on, and successfully juggling everything from corporate entrance, to career, to motherhood, and to have all of that ripped away by things completely outside of her control, seems to have left a very understandable desire to never let that happen again. To orient her entire life to making sure that couldn't happen again. Always having an ace in the whole, a little more knowledge than the other person, a tool to use against someone, layers of insurance and fallbacks. She may have found herself in the position of a fixer somewhat unintentionally at the start, simply by the process of building connections, creating favors owed, structing a web of obligations to her and protections for her and her own. The other side, and I think very much to the fatal detriment of her husband's, is just how calculatingly murderous she can be to anybody that tries to control her. I think every single one of her husbands had an opportunity to be a partner: and when they managed to screw that up by diluting themselves to some level of "My little woman will do as she's told" found themselves squarely in the crosshairs of being the next collection of raw materials for Wakakos personal power. I mean it's not like people haven't had the opportunity to figure it out. She's had enough husbands from the same gang and yet these idiots continue to make one of two repetitive mistakes. Either they marry her in the first place knowing how many people have died beforehand, or they do the thing once they are married that gets the others killed. I think if you are part of her network and show loyalty, either as one of her children or her employees or consistent contractors, she gives you every opportunity to remain inside the fold. The family she was prevented from having, recreated in a very dark sense within her network now. And it explains why she hates Arasaka so much. Brought up until V and Takemura fall into her lap, she has absolutely no ability to strike back at the corporation that took a beloved grandchild from her. No matter how many layers of protection and influence, and how skilled the operatives she commands, Arasaka was always going to be outside of her ability to get revenge on. That had to create a sense of the same helpless fury she experienced when her first and only real husband was taken from her. She could never get revenge On the system that made them a target, she could never truly get revenge on the gang that created a gilded cage for her, And she could never get revenge upon the world's most powerful corporation. Until she could. And then she takes enormous risk to help V out, because she senses the chaos and weakness and vulnerability of the corporation in that moment and sees an instrument that can be used to wound it deeply. On some level this point of view even explains without justifying the way she treats Evelyn and anyone else. There are people inside of her circle, there are targets of her fury, and everything else is just a tool. Not even subhuman so much has not human. Just numbers on a screen and board pieces that get moved around. Evelyn was the human, she was simply a line item to be shifted around to put more resources in Wakakos pocket.
Wakako is my favorite fixer. Takamura compares her to a jorogumo. Which is apt since she's a black widow. Her husbands die young it would seem .Her final quest is titled professional widow.. That's the quest to acquire Byakko. The sword that ends inconvenient marriages. I wonder if this is her idea of a joke.
From the first time I saw/heard her, Wakako was the fixer that stuck most with me. She's the auntie who commands men feet higher than her, who can assert filial obedience even if she isn't related to you. Like Padre, she is an old wolf in a business that tends to feed the old to its young, but he seems a man apart, an avenging judge and angel laying down commandments...you can see Wakako's tendrils throughout Japantown.
She’s involved with the tyger claws there are several police missions where they are heavily involved with human trafficking in fact the first police mission I did was the one where they’re all locked in a shipping container
Lady creates power vacuums and then manipulates them so she comes out on top. That takes an intelligence, fierceness and ruthlessness that is truly terrifying. Fantastic video.
@ for a woman trapped in a neverending system of power and oppression, where any man who she marries essentially becomes her owner, the brief period of solitude during the “mourning” period is probably a welcome respite.
I think Wakako's indifference to the death of Tiger Claw members is because at her core, she hates the Tiger Claws. They killed the man she loved, and gave her a half-life of dependence for thirty years where she could never escape them. Unlike Yorninobu, she had no ability to escape the claws of the Claws and even what independence she had in the beginning was at the Claw's indulgence. So like Yorninobu she started to make inroads into the organization that she was imprisoned within. Unlike Yorninobu and his goals of destroying the power structure she was embedded in, she had no higher moral purpose to offset the corruptive infulence of the power she achieved. She became worse in many ways than the people who destroyed her life. Every action she took to increase her own power was for her benefit. Everyone else just a tool to get it. Her hatred of the Claws means anyone associated with the Claws is disposable in her eyes. Her husbands were disposed of once no longer useful and likely her children will be too if necessary. This why she cultivates and protects independent assets like V and the others we meet in her gigs. Not only are they not Claws and she doesn't hate them, they're useful tools against the Claws for revenge by proxy. As an aside, I have experience with a sort of Wakako. My cousin married a minor member of the East Coast Mafia back at the end of it's heyday. In retrospect I don't think it was her decision. Her stepfather was deep into the construction business and at the time the Mafia was was an aggressive silent partner in construction industry. The wedding had many old school lower level Mafioso associates that were interesting characters, to put it politely. They did follow the whole old school "no talking business at weddings and funerals" code Padre will respect at Jackie's ofrenda but to say it was awkward is understatement. Fast forward twelve years. The East Coast Mafia is on its last legs as it is losing to foreign cartels, mostly the Russians and Central Americans. My cousin's husband dies and his reputation by then was so garbage that no one other than my cousin's family show up for the funeral. A funeral where the pastor had nothing nice to say and no one even talked about the dead guy. The last I saw of my cousin, she was sitting poolside at her relatively nice house with her three kids, completely still and unresponsive. I have no doubt she did well with the inherited blood money and her kids went to fine schools. I have no doubt that the wealth her parents accrued from their Mafia connections through the marriage was quite good. They retired in style. I am also pretty sure the cousin I once knew had been dead inside for a while by then. She moved and withdrew into complete isolation, no doubt wanting to restart anew with no connections to her past life. At least I hope she found a new start.
I have been playing a lot of Cyberpunk recently, drove out to a nice lake for a walk and wanted to watch some Cyberpunk lore videos on the way home. This video was uploaded while on the walk. Amazing.
Love all of your Cyberpunk content. Another great video. Wako is definitely one of my fav fixers in the game. Her ruthlessness is not to be underestimated.
He went from 'a delightful and mature woman' to 'a venomous spider in the guise of a nice old lady' pretty quick. He definitely shot his shot and failed 😂
Of all the characters in the game, Wakako reminds me most of a mafia boss. Her conversation with V and Takemura is like that line from The Godfather: “Someday, and that day may never come, I will call upon you to do a service for me. But until that day, accept this [information] as a gift…” She even has a mildly respectable face for business, her modest office residing in the back of a pachinko parlor. The lack of heavily armed security is another sign of her assured safety and comfort, especially compared to the ensconced Rogue and Mr. Hands….wait, have you not made a video on Rogue yet? I could have sworn you did, I remember her Priestess tarot being discussed.
Thank you for bring Wakako to the forefront! She is both a mystery to me, given how she was able to manoeuvre in the underground of Night City mostly defined by blood thirsty males, and her quiet like "neutral" demeanor.
She’s one of the scariest people in all of Nightcity. People like Rogue and Smasher and Takemura, you can tell how dangerous they are just by meeting them. But Wakako has the persona of the wise grandmother…while also being the primary fixer for one of the worst gangs in NC, the Tyger Claws. That contrast is a threat in itself.
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I just love your videos. Once I stumbled on them a couple weeks ago I binged your channel, you're exactly the kind of video essayist I've been trying to become and it's such good quality. Your editing, your thoughts, all of it is top notch.
Been looking forward to this one for a while. Wakako is easily one of my favorite characters in the entire cyberpunk canon. Glad to see another great analysis video from you as well. Looking forward to more.
In my play through (which is how I found your channel) Wakako was one of the first fixers whose jobs I finished, and it got me kinda locked in to complete all the Fixer missions. Wakako's first "Gun for Hire" mission was kinda a turning point in my play through where I "dealt in fully" as you put it, and it changed my opinion of the Fixers versus the Corps from small potato thugs, to independent businesses just doing what they can to survive.
Also, while Wakako is connected to the Tyger Claws, she's not aligned with them. She has no issues with us taking them out at random, or gigs that go against their interests. While she has certainly helped out her old clan, she's in the game for herself and hers alone.
Dum-Dum video when? He shows up in the "No Coincidence" novel as well, not just the base game. Also, my cat Dibley would like to thank you! I ordered your book a few weeks ago and when it arrived it was delicately wrapped in about 4' of brown paper; paper which Dibley has been trying to tear to shreds every day since!
You have interesting takes on the character's, I find it intersting that you now look at the original TTRPG materials in producing your views. Certainly it is the case that CDPR heavily consulted with the RTG and Mike Pondsmith in their game, and it shows in the quality of the storytelling we have got to play through in the video game. However I take away one thing from going through Jig-Jig street area, is its the most soul destroying setting of all the locations on the game map. Look carefully, its one of the few locations where you find next to no NCPD presence on foot and in part that must have something to do with Wakako having her office at its centre. Its her cooking and her fingers are all over it, so yes one of the most dangerous fixers in NC because crossing her makes you a marked person- even if you are mayor Finally, although you can't prove it in game, I could see connections between her activities, the Red Queens Race- a BD club almost "anything" goes because i think you can connect, to the illegal BD studio of the moth and editing by Fredric and Godfried and the Evelyn Parker storyline. Now neither the Red Queens Race nor the gig to break the Moth BD gang comes via Wakako - one is major quest line and the other is a major side quest- but the MO for wakako to me has a distinct possibility of a fit.
I've been watching your content for a while. I always click them because it was obvious that you had something special that would bloom. I'm gald to see you finding and refining your voice and identity.
I discovered your channel a few weeks ago, and i must say, I've really fallen in love with your videos. There's something about the way you tell these stories and how footage is edited in, to aid in the immersion and enjoyment that just makes your videos so fun and somewhat comforting to watch despite some of the themes in the stories you tell. Wakako has always been one of my favourite fixers, so I'm glad you made a video for her! Are you planning on covering the stories of all of the fixers? Because that would be awesome.
I kept expecting her to be more dangerous to V, double-cross us, leading to a boss battle, etc. I'm killing Tiger Claws left right and center and it doesn't ruffle her feathers. I'm glad you went into that here. I didn't really pick it up from her dialog.
In my first run I fell for the helpful nice old lady routine. I liked her and knew she wasn't all nice and that but I didn't realise just how sinister she is until I looked deeper and payed more attention on my current run. Oh boy
Yakuza Moon is one of my favorite book alongside Tokyo Vice, as it pertains to autobiographies. I still have my original copies of both. I actually just recommended Yakuza Moon to a coworker who wanted to understand the yakuza better. I am so happy seeing that someone else has read it and it also recommending it to people.
Knowing Evelyn "style" if she ever walked to Wakako, I can totally see Wakako throwing her in to the pit with dogs. Evelyn brought to munch sassiness with herself to back it up with deeds, the opposite of Wakako. Still, she helps you if she can and is always available to anyone - this is what her location allows, she is embodiment of Dao in this cursed city, also Eastern teaching worth of researching. ;)
Wakako is genuinely one of my favorite fixers, she has this sweet grandma energy but you also know she would shoot you in the head with one wrong move, I love her so much!
Nice! Pretty sure Wakako is my faveourite fixer. Reminded me a bit about another character from a cyberpunk game. Kindly Cheng from Shadowrun Hong Kong. She was... quite a character, to be sure. They both remind me of my great-aunt, to be honest.
I got along fine with Wakako. I'd say 2nd to Phantom Liberty's Mr. Hands, Wakako has much you can learn from. BTW, the tie in with the Yakuza Moon book,,,,,,,,, nice touch👍
Wakako has a special place in my gamer heart. I have no illlusion, though, that I deal with an absolute ruthless killer when I happen to deal with her. She also has an affinity for V - or maybe that's an illusion, because V brings in the dough for the gigs she gives him/her. I bet, if V would be the fifth wheel in the game played with Wakako, that wouldn't be the case for long. And I get it: It's nothing "personal", it's "just" business. Still, another ruthless rampager, Goro Takemura, sees right through her. He is the polite gentleman, japanese style, as you'd expect him to be, but after the visit to Wakako (Takemura: "Jigjig street... what kind of name is that?" V: "Just a night city name for a night city place", Takemura understood where he was going and what type of person he would meet there), Takemura tells V outright: He doesn't trust Wakako. At all. On asking why he's so suspicious, Takemura goes full on Arasaka investigator and says that if their "interests" wouldn't be somehow "aligned", he would have no doubts Wakako would have betrayed them on the spot. And he might very well be right about that. Wakako runs a Pachinko parlor - which is about a japanese gambling machine that notoriously favors the house, but does she care about the financial lives she ruins? No. It's all about the money, and nothing else. When you meet her with Takemura, a big body hustle from the Tyger Claws guards the entrance... she knows when it's time to call in the soliders to protect her. So she is in control every time she thinks she needs to be - even when it's on her own turf and in regard to V, whom she so motherly seems to trust. But still: She basically decides who to get rid of and who may prevail. And if you don't abide? Well, we never find out, but I have high confidence that V would fall way down her priority list to keep him/her alive if Wakako's orders are not followed to the T (most of the time anyway; she accepts deviation if it does not hurt the bottom line). That reminds me of Regina Jones. She also sends out V to do her dirty work. When a certain someone, Taki Kenmochi, hijacks some Pachinko machines in Kabuki - where Regina has a private residence - she demands V to kill Taki. I never do that, mostly because I don't think Taki deserves to die for half a dozen Pachinko machines she took over from the previous owner (he mysteriously fell "out of a window"). And also because: I don't kill anyobody just because Regina calls me up and tells me "kill!". That she expects me to do that so casually, just because Taki is inconvenient to her, actually makes Regina a villainous character in my book. It's a moral decision of mine not to kill Taki for that small town gangster grift she has going in Kabuki. If Regina likes it or not, but my decision is this: Alright... I do the gig - but I keep Taki and her crew alive. Back to Wakako: She had like what? Five husbands? All dead. Since the 2020's in that world, full cyborgization was principally possible. Life extending technology was available for decades, but still: All her husbands are dead now. We could make an argument that her husbands were probably in cahoots with the Tyger Claws - simply because Wakako is in cahoots with them - and the life expectancy of a Tyger Claw member is rather measured in days than in years, specifically when a merc like V roams the streets of Japantown. Still: They were probably higher up in the hirarchy... what happened to them? I could take a wild guess... you would probably agree: Wakako knows exactly when, how and most importantly "why" her husbands were joining the void. The only real care Wakako seems to show, is for her old friend and netrunner, Chang Hoon Nam, who mysteriously vanished and was missing for days before Wakako finally took notice and sends V out to find him at his last known location. Chang tells V that Wakako "always" tries to "persuade" him to join her for a bowl of rahmen. It is possible she regards Chang as a potential future sixth husband for actually paying V a good amount of money to find him. Even though Wakako is objectively powerful in Japantown, I wouldn't be so keen in Chang's position to vie for the next entry to be one of Wakako's husbands... because they have the tendency to end up dead. In the end: There is not much to make a final decision about the categories "good" or "bad" when it comes to Wakako. She seems nice and straight forward enough towards V, and given all the deaths in her wake, that's actually good enough for me.
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People don't grow old in night city, even less so if you're also trying to hold on to something worthwhile. A dog on a leash being paid to kill anyone who walks up to it holding bolt cutters, being let off the leash to kill anyone who even thinks of buying bolt cutters. I feel no sympathy for the fixers of Night City, even less so for Wakako. You'd think age would bring wisdom, or at least a fatigue of the fighting.
I think that on one of Wakako's legs we can see Hannya - a mask of a traditional Japanese theater archetype, resembling a bitter and vengeful female demon. It's actually the same as with Majima in Yakuza game series. But while Hannya on Majima reflects how unhinged and at the same time feminine and even a bit tragic he is, I think that with Wakako it should remind us of how ruthless and resentful she is. Also I think that if that face is actually Hannya, it also cements Wakako's image as a black widow: Hannya is a perfect embodiment of female jealousy. There's also one more element related to Hannya. When you turn an original mask to a certain angle, it looks like the mask is crying. Hannya is not just a one dimensional archetype, this female demon is meant to be also hurt and tragic at times. I don't think that we see that much of that side of Wakako but she cares about some of her mercs, right? And also obviously her sons and her friends and the story of her first husband isn't exactly a comedy either. We probably don't even need to see Wakako's bare back. Maybe it's even meant to be known to anybody, it's meant to be the most private part of her self-image. She's a pretty private person, after all. But if my suggestion is correct and there's indeed a Hannya mask on her leg, we can make some conclusions out of it too.
Wakako reminds me of my "Ol'miss aunty Pat" Her name was Patrice, and I genuinely grew up in one of the rougher hoods in Florida (727). Ol'miss aunty Pat kicked het hisband out of the house but kept the marriage because he was a drunk. Wasn't homeless, wasn't alone, but all he had to do was come home sober if he wanted to sleep inside. She never left him. Always took care of him but very vocally and sometimes physically showed her disapproval of him being a 50y+ mess of a man. What he had to come home to was punishment for his sins, worse than any sin that he could've done. But his punisher had very valid reason, loved him, fed him, and didn't take his bs that's why he slept on my porch 😂 They probably gone now sad as it is... But Miss Pat taught me allot as a man, an old stern woman of all people :)
Here is the blurb for Caesaria incase anybody is curious to what it's about😊 Seven centuries have passed since our world ended. Dominating the island remains of Ontario is a resolute tribe known as the Georgians. Lucy, a young shieldmaiden among their ranks, yearns for a quiet life, denied her by the ambitions of her family. When a foreign ship wrecks upon Georgian shores, their peaceful idyll is at last broken. At the behest of her father, Lucy reluctantly sets out to eliminate any survivors, only to cross paths with an enigmatic, golden-haired stranger. Wily beyond measure and frighteningly capable, disaster quickly strikes in his wake. In vengeful madness, Lucy resolves to hunt this stranger to the ends of the earth. As Lucy's shame and regret send her plummeting towards her own destruction, her prey is all too familiar with the fire in her eyes. Only he can save her from her own demise.
Sure! Tell us more about your book. I have seen an interview with Tendo-san. I am just happy that she is doing better now, despite the horrors she had to endure. She mentioned that because of the rules of Japanese society, she needs to cover her tattoos when she accompanies her daughter to a swimming pool.
No, its empty until you do "sweet dreams". Sadly.... But I always do that mission, you get all the craft unique weapons you have picked up one more time.
Ahhh omg thank you for asking! Amazon isn’t super precise even on my end of things (unfortunately) because they restock in bunches for smaller authors, but in the past, it’s usually been within a week!
... Isn't her 9 sons all high ranking commanders / bosses in Tyger Claws? And keep in mind T.C. has 12-15 such "Bosses" & 50ish "Commanders" in total...
Wakako is an old lady in a business that doesn't usually allow old age at all, much less to be at the top. I never took her as less deadly than she is nor trusted her an inch farther than I could throw a car. Such a person in real life....pass.
In-game phone rings. Pick it up. “V, honey!” Wakako. Game did not let me respond with “Oh eff no!” before she could really get started. Buuuuut, here’s a like for video following River swaggering along wit dat ass! The rest of your vid was good, too.
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Wakako is one of the oldest dog in the hood, her fangs aren't as sharp as it used to be, but now she have her pups to do the hunting
Fear the old where they die young.
I’m pretty sure it’s going to be one of those pups that kill her in the end. Hell v got pretty close to asking for her dues and if she didn’t have the info v needed I’m pretty sure Tamara would have come knocking
Wacaco walks a vary fine line with her loyalty’s and disloyalty. One day she will slip it’s just as if right now she’s the best tight rope walker around
I like Wakako she's one of the coolest characters
A detail I really love about Wakako is that she's a good decade younger than Hanako and Rogue. She's clearly rich and powerful enough to afford to chrome her body to look younger like them, but I really think she chooses to look elderly. She knows that if she looks young and pretty, the Claws won't take her seriously. She's weaponized her age to give herself advantage (I wouldn't be surprised if she added a few decades to her appearance when she was younger, so she wouldn't be brushed off by the misogynistic Claws)
Not just misogynistic. I think her apperance is heavily related to that part of eastern culture where old people should be treated with great respect no matter who they are and what they've done with their life. Looking like an old lady she shows everybody in the Tiger Claws that she belongs to a very high place in the hierarchy.
I always thought this about Wakako. I knew she chose these things because they gave her an advantage, an advantage that within such a deeply rooted and historically rich culture, she could benefit greatly. No matter how terrifying she is though, imo, Wakako is still a woman who longs for real connection, not grafted together out of sheer respect and necessity. To me, her life feels like it is stuck, constantly revolving around her past, even as she, personally, has moved on and forward in her life. I think she also keeps her old age visible to remind HERSELF that she is a person that matters. Another act of defiance against the crippling and unyielding pressures of Yakuza/Tyger Claw forced destiny.
Wakako is very much the embodiment of "beware the old (wo)man in a profession where people die young".
She’s not the only one. Padre, Rogue, Dakota, and Mr.Hands also fit that description.
She also keeps such little apparent security. Compare that to Hands and Rogue, for example; there’s both an invitation and a threat there, the former for the foolish and the latter for the more circumspect.
beware the old wolf where pups die young
I liked reading her gig briefings, the woman is ominously hilarious.
Characters like Wakako is why i love the Cosmopolitan mods, that have characters speak in their native languages, her Japan localized voice actor, Kaoru Katakai, really gives her that sinister tone of voice that reminds you youre basically dealing with the godfather.
Shes cool with V killing Tiger Claws she doesn't directly command through her sons. Consolidates her power, eliminates competition. Brutal.
I see shaped by stories, I click. simple, really.
Aww thank yeeee lolol
Aye, simple as.
Yep.
I still can't get over the fact that she told fingers to sell Evelyn to the scavs.
I remember learning that it shows that even more decent fixers got some serious dirt on them. If she never said thst msybe Evelyn would've had a better less tragic fate.
The only Fixers who actually want good are Regina and El Capitan, both actually really care about their area and the people in it. I hesitate putting Mr Hands here bc he is a nice guy and helps V out but for him it’s also mainly about business
@@fatford4209 Even if it's just business he does seem to care about the people of Dog Town and Pacifica. Sure maybe not on the level as Regina or El Capital, but he still does care
@@fatford4209 Regina hints at a darker side the whole time and we never find out more about the corp that she gave the Cyberpsychos to.
She's the nicest to be sure, especially because she apparently doesn't murder people who cross her, but she's definitely made compromises. As the Russian/Chinese gigs show. And the fact that some of the fixers see you as a bleeding heart and send those gigs your way while you can find logs of more cutthroat varieties of gigs they send to others.
@@fatford4209 hes at least got better intentions for Dtown than hansen or corps for sure
All Fixers are bastards. Yes, even Rogue, Regina and El Capitan.
It's as simple as that. Everyone else are pawns on their chessboard.
The main thing that differentiates the Fixers is
1. Competence
2. Personal code
3. How they treat their pawns
In that sense, some Fixers are worse/better than others. But they are still bastards.
Wakako's ruthlessness and cunning are pretty fitting for her association with the Tyger Claws. Tigers are infamously vindictive and relentless predators, and they're prone to ambushing their prey. I would always do my best to treat her with respectful deference, because so long as you stay in her good graces she's reliable. She's lived to a ripe old age in a city where that is a rare thing indeed.
Wakako, Padre, Rogue, Dakota, and Mr. Hands all represent one saying.
Fear those who’ve grown old in a profession where most die young.
Loved the inclusion of Danger Gal Dossier. Wakako is a fascinating character. And probably broken a lot of times. Maybe that's why she lost her humanity...
This is such a big part of why I love your analysis videos; You hit the mark of keeping a human touch while providing critical analysis and also sharing parts of the lore that I'm not aware of. I really appreciate the amount of work involved.
For my part, Wakako It's very much defined buy a quiet but overwhelmingly intense desire for control and a poisonous hatred for anyone that would try to control her. Having met the love of her life early on, and successfully juggling everything from corporate entrance, to career, to motherhood, and to have all of that ripped away by things completely outside of her control, seems to have left a very understandable desire to never let that happen again. To orient her entire life to making sure that couldn't happen again. Always having an ace in the whole, a little more knowledge than the other person, a tool to use against someone, layers of insurance and fallbacks. She may have found herself in the position of a fixer somewhat unintentionally at the start, simply by the process of building connections, creating favors owed, structing a web of obligations to her and protections for her and her own.
The other side, and I think very much to the fatal detriment of her husband's, is just how calculatingly murderous she can be to anybody that tries to control her. I think every single one of her husbands had an opportunity to be a partner: and when they managed to screw that up by diluting themselves to some level of "My little woman will do as she's told" found themselves squarely in the crosshairs of being the next collection of raw materials for Wakakos personal power. I mean it's not like people haven't had the opportunity to figure it out. She's had enough husbands from the same gang and yet these idiots continue to make one of two repetitive mistakes. Either they marry her in the first place knowing how many people have died beforehand, or they do the thing once they are married that gets the others killed.
I think if you are part of her network and show loyalty, either as one of her children or her employees or consistent contractors, she gives you every opportunity to remain inside the fold. The family she was prevented from having, recreated in a very dark sense within her network now.
And it explains why she hates Arasaka so much. Brought up until V and Takemura fall into her lap, she has absolutely no ability to strike back at the corporation that took a beloved grandchild from her. No matter how many layers of protection and influence, and how skilled the operatives she commands, Arasaka was always going to be outside of her ability to get revenge on. That had to create a sense of the same helpless fury she experienced when her first and only real husband was taken from her. She could never get revenge On the system that made them a target, she could never truly get revenge on the gang that created a gilded cage for her, And she could never get revenge upon the world's most powerful corporation.
Until she could.
And then she takes enormous risk to help V out, because she senses the chaos and weakness and vulnerability of the corporation in that moment and sees an instrument that can be used to wound it deeply.
On some level this point of view even explains without justifying the way she treats Evelyn and anyone else. There are people inside of her circle, there are targets of her fury, and everything else is just a tool. Not even subhuman so much has not human. Just numbers on a screen and board pieces that get moved around. Evelyn was the human, she was simply a line item to be shifted around to put more resources in Wakakos pocket.
Wakako is my favorite fixer. Takamura compares her to a jorogumo. Which is apt since she's a black widow. Her husbands die young it would seem .Her final quest is titled professional widow.. That's the quest to acquire Byakko. The sword that ends inconvenient marriages. I wonder if this is her idea of a joke.
From the first time I saw/heard her, Wakako was the fixer that stuck most with me. She's the auntie who commands men feet higher than her, who can assert filial obedience even if she isn't related to you. Like Padre, she is an old wolf in a business that tends to feed the old to its young, but he seems a man apart, an avenging judge and angel laying down commandments...you can see Wakako's tendrils throughout Japantown.
You've been doing a great job with these! Im a newer viewer and im enjoying the cyberpunk 2077 playlist
Ahhh thank you for saying this! Means a lot to know you’re enjoying ❤️
After I learned Wakkako did that to Evelyn it blew me away.. thats when she became most hated for me.
I was really annoyed that the game wouldn't let me complete the "kill everyone involved" set just because she's a plotline NPC.
She’s involved with the tyger claws there are several police missions where they are heavily involved with human trafficking in fact the first police mission I did was the one where they’re all locked in a shipping container
Lady creates power vacuums and then manipulates them so she comes out on top. That takes an intelligence, fierceness and ruthlessness that is truly terrifying.
Fantastic video.
Another banger Lydi. Keep up the great work. Wakako is deff a black widow.
ahhh thank you so much coolerest! :D Always appreciate your kind words!
I don’t think Wakako is a Black Widow, I think she simply sees the patterns of shifts of power, and chose ones who were marked.
love this idea
@ for a woman trapped in a neverending system of power and oppression, where any man who she marries essentially becomes her owner, the brief period of solitude during the “mourning” period is probably a welcome respite.
I think Wakako's indifference to the death of Tiger Claw members is because at her core, she hates the Tiger Claws. They killed the man she loved, and gave her a half-life of dependence for thirty years where she could never escape them. Unlike Yorninobu, she had no ability to escape the claws of the Claws and even what independence she had in the beginning was at the Claw's indulgence. So like Yorninobu she started to make inroads into the organization that she was imprisoned within. Unlike Yorninobu and his goals of destroying the power structure she was embedded in, she had no higher moral purpose to offset the corruptive infulence of the power she achieved. She became worse in many ways than the people who destroyed her life. Every action she took to increase her own power was for her benefit. Everyone else just a tool to get it. Her hatred of the Claws means anyone associated with the Claws is disposable in her eyes. Her husbands were disposed of once no longer useful and likely her children will be too if necessary. This why she cultivates and protects independent assets like V and the others we meet in her gigs. Not only are they not Claws and she doesn't hate them, they're useful tools against the Claws for revenge by proxy.
As an aside, I have experience with a sort of Wakako. My cousin married a minor member of the East Coast Mafia back at the end of it's heyday. In retrospect I don't think it was her decision. Her stepfather was deep into the construction business and at the time the Mafia was was an aggressive silent partner in construction industry. The wedding had many old school lower level Mafioso associates that were interesting characters, to put it politely. They did follow the whole old school "no talking business at weddings and funerals" code Padre will respect at Jackie's ofrenda but to say it was awkward is understatement.
Fast forward twelve years. The East Coast Mafia is on its last legs as it is losing to foreign cartels, mostly the Russians and Central Americans. My cousin's husband dies and his reputation by then was so garbage that no one other than my cousin's family show up for the funeral. A funeral where the pastor had nothing nice to say and no one even talked about the dead guy. The last I saw of my cousin, she was sitting poolside at her relatively nice house with her three kids, completely still and unresponsive. I have no doubt she did well with the inherited blood money and her kids went to fine schools. I have no doubt that the wealth her parents accrued from their Mafia connections through the marriage was quite good. They retired in style. I am also pretty sure the cousin I once knew had been dead inside for a while by then. She moved and withdrew into complete isolation, no doubt wanting to restart anew with no connections to her past life. At least I hope she found a new start.
I have been playing a lot of Cyberpunk recently, drove out to a nice lake for a walk and wanted to watch some Cyberpunk lore videos on the way home. This video was uploaded while on the walk. Amazing.
I love how often Wakako sends me after Tiger Claws. I'm like, "Lady, aren't these guys your doods?" I guess it's complicated.
My dude this video is your best yet. ❤ Thank you!!
AWW THANK YOU AUDIO AND THUMBNAIL LADY
Love all of your Cyberpunk content. Another great video. Wako is definitely one of my fav fixers in the game. Her ruthlessness is not to be underestimated.
After the Kurt episode I had thought maybe we were running out of characters to hyperfocus on.
But Cyberpunk always delivers
About Wakako herself, she always struck me as the most professional fixer. Even more than Rouge. Wakako lives and breaths the job of Fixer.
I still think her and Takemura at the very least had a fling, He was quite smitten with her in the beginning.
He went from 'a delightful and mature woman' to 'a venomous spider in the guise of a nice old lady' pretty quick.
He definitely shot his shot and failed 😂
@ one night stand gone wrong maybe?
@@chrisc448funny thing, that's a bullet dodged. One hell of a bullet dodged. 100% Black widow kind of person
Of all the characters in the game, Wakako reminds me most of a mafia boss. Her conversation with V and Takemura is like that line from The Godfather: “Someday, and that day may never come, I will call upon you to do a service for me. But until that day, accept this [information] as a gift…”
She even has a mildly respectable face for business, her modest office residing in the back of a pachinko parlor. The lack of heavily armed security is another sign of her assured safety and comfort, especially compared to the ensconced Rogue and Mr. Hands….wait, have you not made a video on Rogue yet? I could have sworn you did, I remember her Priestess tarot being discussed.
We might be getting our own Nightcity earlier than expected.
Its always so strange when you interact with someone your sure is a demon on the inside 😂
Thank you for bring Wakako to the forefront!
She is both a mystery to me, given how she was able to manoeuvre in the underground of Night City mostly defined by blood thirsty males, and her quiet like "neutral" demeanor.
"There's something about that pachinko parlor that just feels slimer than the rest of Night City..." N-nah, that's just pachinko parlors.
OH BOY
She’s one of the scariest people in all of Nightcity. People like Rogue and Smasher and Takemura, you can tell how dangerous they are just by meeting them. But Wakako has the persona of the wise grandmother…while also being the primary fixer for one of the worst gangs in NC, the Tyger Claws. That contrast is a threat in itself.
i love your content. Can't lie; I'd be into to some mass effect content from you at some point.
This would be amazing, my other favourite franchise!
AWW THANK YEEE SO MUCH! ahhh yes Mass Effect was the first rpg series i ever played! Lately, been thinking of going back to it :D gotta cover it someday anyway
I just love your videos. Once I stumbled on them a couple weeks ago I binged your channel, you're exactly the kind of video essayist I've been trying to become and it's such good quality. Your editing, your thoughts, all of it is top notch.
Been looking forward to this one for a while. Wakako is easily one of my favorite characters in the entire cyberpunk canon. Glad to see another great analysis video from you as well. Looking forward to more.
AWWW THANK YOU SO MUCH! I’m glad you enjoyed it! 😊 yeah she’s super cool, was pleasantly surprised to see more lore on her in the tabletop!
In my play through (which is how I found your channel) Wakako was one of the first fixers whose jobs I finished, and it got me kinda locked in to complete all the Fixer missions. Wakako's first "Gun for Hire" mission was kinda a turning point in my play through where I "dealt in fully" as you put it, and it changed my opinion of the Fixers versus the Corps from small potato thugs, to independent businesses just doing what they can to survive.
Also, while Wakako is connected to the Tyger Claws, she's not aligned with them. She has no issues with us taking them out at random, or gigs that go against their interests. While she has certainly helped out her old clan, she's in the game for herself and hers alone.
Dum-Dum video when? He shows up in the "No Coincidence" novel as well, not just the base game.
Also, my cat Dibley would like to thank you! I ordered your book a few weeks ago and when it arrived it was delicately wrapped in about 4' of brown paper; paper which Dibley has been trying to tear to shreds every day since!
You have interesting takes on the character's, I find it intersting that you now look at the original TTRPG materials in producing your views.
Certainly it is the case that CDPR heavily consulted with the RTG and Mike Pondsmith in their game, and it shows in the quality of the storytelling we have got to play through in the video game.
However I take away one thing from going through Jig-Jig street area, is its the most soul destroying setting of all the locations on the game map.
Look carefully, its one of the few locations where you find next to no NCPD presence on foot and in part that must have something to do with Wakako having her office at its centre. Its her cooking and her fingers are all over it, so yes one of the most dangerous fixers in NC because crossing her makes you a marked person- even if you are mayor
Finally, although you can't prove it in game, I could see connections between her activities, the Red Queens Race- a BD club almost "anything" goes because i think you can connect, to the illegal BD studio of the moth and editing by Fredric and Godfried and the Evelyn Parker storyline.
Now neither the Red Queens Race nor the gig to break the Moth BD gang comes via Wakako - one is major quest line and the other is a major side quest- but the MO for wakako to me has a distinct possibility of a fit.
Yakuza Moon!!! I remember reading it in high school! It made me so happy to have someone mention it! Great video! I will be watching more! 😁
Great video as always . Please make presidente mayers next if possible
I love your cyberpunk lore videos. They make me love even more Cyberpunk 2077.
Love listening to your videos while I'm eating or cleaning doing work etc, keep up the good work!
I've been watching your content for a while. I always click them because it was obvious that you had something special that would bloom. I'm gald to see you finding and refining your voice and identity.
aww thank you so much omg
I discovered your channel a few weeks ago, and i must say, I've really fallen in love with your videos. There's something about the way you tell these stories and how footage is edited in, to aid in the immersion and enjoyment that just makes your videos so fun and somewhat comforting to watch despite some of the themes in the stories you tell.
Wakako has always been one of my favourite fixers, so I'm glad you made a video for her! Are you planning on covering the stories of all of the fixers? Because that would be awesome.
Very cool! Always glad to see another cyberpunk video from you
I loved your ending statement, to basically just be a good person. Cheers choom! I need to check out the book.
I feel guilty for enjoying Wakako as a character because of what she did to Evelyn.
Thank you for all of the Takemura eye candy throughout the video 😍
HAPPY TO BE OF SERVICE LOL love that man
Chica why you only have like 5 subs?
You deserve more choom.
I kept expecting her to be more dangerous to V, double-cross us, leading to a boss battle, etc. I'm killing Tiger Claws left right and center and it doesn't ruffle her feathers. I'm glad you went into that here. I didn't really pick it up from her dialog.
Still waiting on the Solomon Reed video 😊
In my first run I fell for the helpful nice old lady routine. I liked her and knew she wasn't all nice and that but I didn't realise just how sinister she is until I looked deeper and payed more attention on my current run. Oh boy
Yakuza Moon is one of my favorite book alongside Tokyo Vice, as it pertains to autobiographies. I still have my original copies of both. I actually just recommended Yakuza Moon to a coworker who wanted to understand the yakuza better. I am so happy seeing that someone else has read it and it also recommending it to people.
Knowing Evelyn "style" if she ever walked to Wakako, I can totally see Wakako throwing her in to the pit with dogs. Evelyn brought to munch sassiness with herself to back it up with deeds, the opposite of Wakako.
Still, she helps you if she can and is always available to anyone - this is what her location allows, she is embodiment of Dao in this cursed city, also Eastern teaching worth of researching. ;)
you're super adorable when you talk about your book, the way your voice changes is too cute. 🥰🥰🥰🥰
Wakako is genuinely one of my favorite fixers, she has this sweet grandma energy but you also know she would shoot you in the head with one wrong move, I love her so much!
"Beware the old (wo)man in a profession where men die young"
THIS
Awesome video, as always :)
Nice! Pretty sure Wakako is my faveourite fixer.
Reminded me a bit about another character from a cyberpunk game. Kindly Cheng from Shadowrun Hong Kong. She was... quite a character, to be sure.
They both remind me of my great-aunt, to be honest.
Great b-roll! Also, if you want to please the algorithm, you could add chapters to the vids :)
I got along fine with Wakako. I'd say 2nd to Phantom Liberty's Mr. Hands, Wakako has much you can learn from.
BTW, the tie in with the Yakuza Moon book,,,,,,,,, nice touch👍
I understand why Jig Jig street would be scary to you. A lady like you could end up with a job they don't want there.
Being your own sponsor is a power move, ngl
You didn't even mention that she has the dankest of the dank katanas
Because it isn’t. Odas sword is far superior.
Very informative, good video!
Wakako has a special place in my gamer heart. I have no illlusion, though, that I deal with an absolute ruthless killer when I happen to deal with her. She also has an affinity for V - or maybe that's an illusion, because V brings in the dough for the gigs she gives him/her. I bet, if V would be the fifth wheel in the game played with Wakako, that wouldn't be the case for long. And I get it: It's nothing "personal", it's "just" business. Still, another ruthless rampager, Goro Takemura, sees right through her. He is the polite gentleman, japanese style, as you'd expect him to be, but after the visit to Wakako (Takemura: "Jigjig street... what kind of name is that?" V: "Just a night city name for a night city place", Takemura understood where he was going and what type of person he would meet there), Takemura tells V outright: He doesn't trust Wakako. At all. On asking why he's so suspicious, Takemura goes full on Arasaka investigator and says that if their "interests" wouldn't be somehow "aligned", he would have no doubts Wakako would have betrayed them on the spot.
And he might very well be right about that. Wakako runs a Pachinko parlor - which is about a japanese gambling machine that notoriously favors the house, but does she care about the financial lives she ruins? No. It's all about the money, and nothing else. When you meet her with Takemura, a big body hustle from the Tyger Claws guards the entrance... she knows when it's time to call in the soliders to protect her. So she is in control every time she thinks she needs to be - even when it's on her own turf and in regard to V, whom she so motherly seems to trust. But still: She basically decides who to get rid of and who may prevail. And if you don't abide? Well, we never find out, but I have high confidence that V would fall way down her priority list to keep him/her alive if Wakako's orders are not followed to the T (most of the time anyway; she accepts deviation if it does not hurt the bottom line). That reminds me of Regina Jones. She also sends out V to do her dirty work. When a certain someone, Taki Kenmochi, hijacks some Pachinko machines in Kabuki - where Regina has a private residence - she demands V to kill Taki. I never do that, mostly because I don't think Taki deserves to die for half a dozen Pachinko machines she took over from the previous owner (he mysteriously fell "out of a window"). And also because: I don't kill anyobody just because Regina calls me up and tells me "kill!". That she expects me to do that so casually, just because Taki is inconvenient to her, actually makes Regina a villainous character in my book. It's a moral decision of mine not to kill Taki for that small town gangster grift she has going in Kabuki. If Regina likes it or not, but my decision is this: Alright... I do the gig - but I keep Taki and her crew alive.
Back to Wakako: She had like what? Five husbands? All dead. Since the 2020's in that world, full cyborgization was principally possible. Life extending technology was available for decades, but still: All her husbands are dead now. We could make an argument that her husbands were probably in cahoots with the Tyger Claws - simply because Wakako is in cahoots with them - and the life expectancy of a Tyger Claw member is rather measured in days than in years, specifically when a merc like V roams the streets of Japantown. Still: They were probably higher up in the hirarchy... what happened to them?
I could take a wild guess... you would probably agree: Wakako knows exactly when, how and most importantly "why" her husbands were joining the void.
The only real care Wakako seems to show, is for her old friend and netrunner, Chang Hoon Nam, who mysteriously vanished and was missing for days before Wakako finally took notice and sends V out to find him at his last known location. Chang tells V that Wakako "always" tries to "persuade" him to join her for a bowl of rahmen. It is possible she regards Chang as a potential future sixth husband for actually paying V a good amount of money to find him. Even though Wakako is objectively powerful in Japantown, I wouldn't be so keen in Chang's position to vie for the next entry to be one of Wakako's husbands... because they have the tendency to end up dead.
In the end: There is not much to make a final decision about the categories "good" or "bad" when it comes to Wakako. She seems nice and straight forward enough towards V, and given all the deaths in her wake, that's actually good enough for me.
I enjoy Wakos gigs. Though I was surprised given her connections that she would ever need us for any of her Tyger Claw missions.
Plausible deniability, she needs someone not overtly affiliated with her to do internal jobs
Dude. Having your cyberpunk videos pop up are an absolute treat, one of the only girls i honestly know that even fucks with cyberpunk especially as a youtuber! Glad i subbed its clear you truly care about this series.
23:09 Wakako has Raiden on her leg. I've never seen Raiden tatooed on anyone before. It's usually Dragons, Hanya or Koi.
People don't grow old in night city, even less so if you're also trying to hold on to something worthwhile. A dog on a leash being paid to kill anyone who walks up to it holding bolt cutters, being let off the leash to kill anyone who even thinks of buying bolt cutters. I feel no sympathy for the fixers of Night City, even less so for Wakako. You'd think age would bring wisdom, or at least a fatigue of the fighting.
I think that on one of Wakako's legs we can see Hannya - a mask of a traditional Japanese theater archetype, resembling a bitter and vengeful female demon. It's actually the same as with Majima in Yakuza game series. But while Hannya on Majima reflects how unhinged and at the same time feminine and even a bit tragic he is, I think that with Wakako it should remind us of how ruthless and resentful she is. Also I think that if that face is actually Hannya, it also cements Wakako's image as a black widow: Hannya is a perfect embodiment of female jealousy.
There's also one more element related to Hannya. When you turn an original mask to a certain angle, it looks like the mask is crying. Hannya is not just a one dimensional archetype, this female demon is meant to be also hurt and tragic at times. I don't think that we see that much of that side of Wakako but she cares about some of her mercs, right? And also obviously her sons and her friends and the story of her first husband isn't exactly a comedy either.
We probably don't even need to see Wakako's bare back. Maybe it's even meant to be known to anybody, it's meant to be the most private part of her self-image. She's a pretty private person, after all. But if my suggestion is correct and there's indeed a Hannya mask on her leg, we can make some conclusions out of it too.
Wakako reminds me of my "Ol'miss aunty Pat"
Her name was Patrice, and I genuinely grew up in one of the rougher hoods in Florida (727). Ol'miss aunty Pat kicked het hisband out of the house but kept the marriage because he was a drunk. Wasn't homeless, wasn't alone, but all he had to do was come home sober if he wanted to sleep inside.
She never left him. Always took care of him but very vocally and sometimes physically showed her disapproval of him being a 50y+ mess of a man. What he had to come home to was punishment for his sins, worse than any sin that he could've done. But his punisher had very valid reason, loved him, fed him, and didn't take his bs that's why he slept on my porch 😂
They probably gone now sad as it is... But Miss Pat taught me allot as a man, an old stern woman of all people :)
I was so scared when I first started we would end up against her. There's something about her that you don't want to piss her off
Here is the blurb for Caesaria incase anybody is curious to what it's about😊
Seven centuries have passed since our world ended.
Dominating the island remains of Ontario is a resolute tribe known as the Georgians. Lucy, a young shieldmaiden among their ranks, yearns for a quiet life, denied her by the ambitions of her family. When a foreign ship wrecks upon Georgian shores, their peaceful idyll is at last broken.
At the behest of her father, Lucy reluctantly sets out to eliminate any survivors, only to cross paths with an enigmatic, golden-haired stranger. Wily beyond measure and frighteningly capable, disaster quickly strikes in his wake.
In vengeful madness, Lucy resolves to hunt this stranger to the ends of the earth. As Lucy's shame and regret send her plummeting towards her own destruction, her prey is all too familiar with the fire in her eyes. Only he can save her from her own demise.
Sure! Tell us more about your book. I have seen an interview with Tendo-san. I am just happy that she is doing better now, despite the horrors she had to endure. She mentioned that because of the rules of Japanese society, she needs to cover her tattoos when she accompanies her daughter to a swimming pool.
If you visit Wakako during the quest, she won't help you on your hunt
I absolutely love Wakako, she is my favorite fixer
Babe wake up, a new shaped by stories video dropped.
Came for Cyberpunk lore - left with book recommendations! 😆
Wakako, is definitely a Black Widow. I've Thought that since the First time I met her in Game.
Day 3 of asking about that feisty French red headed Aurore... it's for a friend
yo i fw your channel heavy frfr
I kinda wanna be Wakako when i grow up unbotherd has her. Own successful business her kids and people are kinda scared of her... ❤
I HAD NO CLUE WAKAKO WAS A MEDTECH
The scavs re use the sandra Dorset mission room , i wounder if you can pre clear then get kidnapped by the guy
No, its empty until you do "sweet dreams". Sadly.... But I always do that mission, you get all the craft unique weapons you have picked up one more time.
Still holding out for a Claire video! ❤
When will your book be back in stock?
Ahhh omg thank you for asking! Amazon isn’t super precise even on my end of things (unfortunately) because they restock in bunches for smaller authors, but in the past, it’s usually been within a week!
@@lydiscottI will keep an eye out for it, should have gotten it sooner but procrastination got the better of me.
Omg thank you so much, and no worries!!! I totally get it, honestly just thankful you were even considering it! ☺️
Wakako looks at takemura like he's about to be husband number 6 😂
I mean I don’t blame her lol
... Isn't her 9 sons all high ranking commanders / bosses in Tyger Claws?
And keep in mind T.C. has 12-15 such "Bosses" & 50ish "Commanders" in total...
Can you do a video on what remains of Edith finch
Wakako is an old lady in a business that doesn't usually allow old age at all, much less to be at the top. I never took her as less deadly than she is nor trusted her an inch farther than I could throw a car. Such a person in real life....pass.
Im glad im not the only one with a distaste for wakako
In-game phone rings. Pick it up. “V, honey!” Wakako.
Game did not let me respond with “Oh eff no!” before she could really get started.
Buuuuut, here’s a like for video following River swaggering along wit dat ass!
The rest of your vid was good, too.
I miss your old intro😅❤
Banger
Are these reposts?
I want that book
Grandma Kako
How come some choose to age in Cyberpunk?
Wakako! LFG!!! 🤘🏾
So Wakako is a zoomer like me.....