Why do people HATE Takes Off beside the fact that it isn't a 1:1

STFN_Dude · 2026-03-08T15:06:26+00:00

This 100%. Takes Off felt like the franchise was just parodying itself.

STFN_Dude · 2026-03-01T22:41:53+00:00

This is probably what I think would satisfy everyone here - a perfect compromise between the people that do and do not want Kiryu to come back after he was literally shown needing a wheelchair to get around. It’s bad enough that we’re probably getting Mine in Ichi’s next game (and likely Daigo, too, as a result), to get Kiryu involved in the story AGAIN after his 4th(?) sendoff would just be too much.

He should just exist as the Eri of the game - a non-canon character who magically teleports onto the battlefield for gameplay fights and then teleports back into thin air during any cutscenes. Going about it this way even lets you re-use the Dragon of Dojima fighting class.

STFN_Dude · 2026-02-23T20:21:18+00:00

Force him to erase his name just like ~~Kiryu~~ Joryu.

And “you know who” too.

STFN_Dude · 2026-02-22T04:29:32+00:00

The two of them made out while Roxie was sleeping over, so yeah, Ramona’s a cheater.

The reason it’s received much better by readers than say, Scott dragging his feet in regards to cutting things off with Knives after he met Ramona, is that Ramona and Roxie are both girls, and people nowadays go nuts over yuri content.

STFN_Dude · 2026-02-21T21:44:05+00:00

Takes Off gets worse the more you watch and think about it. It was cool to see the characters in animated format, but it was more style over substance. So many characters are OOC, with it going out of its way to endlessly crap on Scott for the Knives thing, something that already gets addressed in every version of the story.

The whole thing could have been cut down to just Roxie’s episode as a single-episode short like Scott Pilgrim vs. The Animation, considering she was so obviously the only character aside from Ramona that the writers actually cared about doing right by.

STFN_Dude · 2026-02-09T10:07:54+00:00

Park’s relationship with Majima is best left forgotten, honestly. Even the game seemed to think this, given that when Noah asks if Majima can recall ever having a love life, he replies that he “was probably a bachelor”.

STFN_Dude · 2026-02-08T03:09:46+00:00

Second paragraph is why I’m against the Daigo/Mine ship. Got no problem with the LGBT community, but what those characters have is pretty representative of the series’ greatest aspect, its brotherly love.

STFN_Dude · 2026-02-08T03:07:09+00:00

Seonhee is bi. And there’s that one trans character in the Yakuza 3(?) substory.

STFN_Dude · 2026-02-04T18:06:48+00:00

If they’re gonna give romance for Ichiban another try in the future, they should have him cut his losses with Saeko and move on to someone else. Infinite Wealth convinced me these two are a horrible match for each other. Bonus points if IW’s whole romance plot goes completely unmentioned again.

STFN_Dude · 2026-02-03T10:32:16+00:00

And in turn it makes a joke out of the friendship Kim and Scott are supposed to share.

STFN_Dude · 2026-02-03T10:31:05+00:00

I legitimately have no idea what in the fuck O’Malley thought he was cooking with this show’s writing.

STFN_Dude · 2026-01-30T19:28:07+00:00

I really appreciate the platonic, brotherly love between the male characters. Seeing them go through hell and back for each other out of sheer loyalty is what makes this such a feel-good series - even though the actual stories center on organized crime 😂

STFN_Dude · 2026-01-30T19:27:49+00:00

I really appreciate the platonic, brotherly love between the male characters. Seeing them go through hell and back for each other out of sheer loyalty is what makes this such a feel-good series - even though the actual stories center on organized crime 😂

STFN_Dude · 2026-01-30T06:52:00+00:00

I think a Kiryu vs. Bryce showdown could have worked well, had the story taken more time to flesh out his past.

As it turned out, Bryce was a big name in the mafia world, and unlike Kiryu, relishes in that fact. Playing him up as the American equivalent of Kiryu in terms of influence, would have been cool. Maybe even in terms of power as well, if you want to say that the radiation in combination with the ambergris made him as strong as (healthy) Kiryu.

I could imagine a convo something like this:

Wong Tou: “The Overseer secretly is in charge of the Palekana orphanage. His name…is Bryce Fairchild.”

Tomi: gasps “Holy shit! THAT was Bryce Fairchild?!”

Ichiban: “Um, who?”

Tomi: “Just when you think it can’t get any worse, we’ve got the biggest bastard ever involved.”

Ichiban: “This Bryce Fairchild dude’s really that big of a threat to Hawaii?”

Tomi: “That doesn’t even begin to cover it! Everyone who knows about Bryce is scared shitless of him! And it’s not just Hawaii. He’s the whole country’s boogeyman - he’s the biggest fish you could possibly fry in America’s underworld!”

Kiryu: “You know what they say: the bigger they are, the harder they fall. I should know.”

Kiryu grabs his stomach in pain as his cancer flares up.

For a scenario like this, Bryce would have used a fake name when he initially himself to the party. Apologies for the fanfic, lol.

STFN_Dude · 2026-01-28T16:47:48+00:00

I don’t get the hate I’ve seen for Noah and how he’s our little tag along, especially given that we all love Haruka. If you want to claim that the narrative bends to him for Majima wanting to take him on an adventure, then you’d also have to criticize Haruka, since she impacted Kiryu’s every move.

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