Prime Video to Adapt a Much More Bizarre Video Game After Fallout's Success
If you thought Fallout was bizarre and out-of-this-world, you’re in for a major shock.
There’s no other way of putting it: video game adaptations are getting big, and they’re getting real. Forget the terrible attempts from the 2000s — the studios are finally getting a hang of translating the interactive worlds to big and small screens alike. What we’ve been seeing in the past few years with TV shows like HBO’s The Last of Us and Prime Video ’s Fallout is only the beginning of a much larger trend.
The latter series became a major sensation for the general audience — and just when folks got familiar with Fallout’s quirks, they now have a tougher blow to parry.
Yakuza: Like a Dragon to Get a TV Show
According to Variety, Prime Video has almost finished work on another unexpected video game adaptation, this time tackling the Yakuza franchise. Like a Dragon: Yakuza is a live-action TV show based off SEGA’s popular game series, and it’s far beyond the planning stages: the six-episode mini-series will premiere in two batches on October 25 and November 1, 2024, respectively.
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100 Yen Love’s Take Masaharu and Kamen Teacher’s Takimoto Kengo act as the upcoming show’s directors. The lead character Kiryu Kazuma, the protagonist or side character of most Yakuza games, will be portrayed by Kamen Rider’s Takeuchi Ryoma. Other cast members are yet to be revealed as well as the series’ writers.
Yakuza Is More Bizarre Than Fallout
While gamers are well-familiar with the ultimate weirdness and quirkiness of the Yakuza franchise, the general audience is in for quite a surprise. As a friendly heads-up, the Yakuza games are a wild mix of gritty and dark stories, epic anime-like fights, and absolutely random and bizarre stuff that taps into the most obscure and questionable elements of modern Japanese culture.
If there will be a room filled with adult men wearing diapers pretending to be toddlers; if the main character suddenly decides to open a prospering shawarma business halfway through the story and raises the money through tiny RC car races; if a massive fight suddenly turns into a karaoke stand-off between the parties…
Just don’t be surprised. You have been warned.
From how well FX’s Shogun was recently received, we can safely assume that the Western audience loved the old Japanese culture. Now, we’re more than intrigued to see just how those folks handle the bizarre quirks of the modern Japanese culture.
Source: Variety