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Amazon’s Like a Dragon works better as a mob drama than a Yakuza adaptation

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55% Informative

Amazon Prime Video’s Like a Dragon: Yakuza is an adaptation of the video game series.

It stars Ryoma Takeuchi as Kazuma Kiryu , an orphaned youth who joins the Tojo yakuza clan with dreams of earning the title of Dragon of Dojima .

The show's unique approach to storytelling blends two different timelines together.

A lot of video game adaptations fail because they operate from the premise that being just like the game is entertainment enough.

But Like a Dragon is made better because it puts being good TV first over being a faithful adaptation.

It probably won't do for Yakuza what Fallout did for well, Fallout.

VR Score

47

Informative language

40

Neutral language

49

Article tone

informal

Language

English

Language complexity

48

Offensive language

possibly offensive

Hate speech

not hateful

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Known propaganda techniques

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Time-value

medium-lived

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