Hiro Mashima, the mangaka behind Rave, Fairy Tail, and Edens Zero, also enjoys games, like most human beings on the planet. In particular, he likes the Yakuza series, and he especially liked Yakuza: Like a Dragon.
『龍が如く7』クリアーした！めちゃくちゃ熱い話だった。凄いなー。今までで一番ストーリー好きかもしれない。キャラもみんな良かった。傑作！
— 真島ヒロ (@hiro_mashima) January 30, 2020
Hiro Mashima wrote on Twitter: “I cleared Ryu Ga Gotoku 7! The story is really intense, and it’s probably my favorite story in the series so far. And I loved every single character. It’s a masterpiece!”
By now, some of our readers might be wondering why this article exists. I mean, this isn’t the first time a mangaka mentioned they liked something on Twitter. This happens all the time. I could run a whole site about what popular mangaka said on social media. I could intentionally exaggerate their words in my translations and purposefully misquote them too, creating some buzz and making way more dollars than on DualShockers. This is what Pinky and The Brain should have done to conquer the world.
Jokes aside, this is pretty interesting for a bunch of reasons. Hiro Mashima is really into the Yakuza series, so the words of an old-time fan like himself claiming Yakuza: Like a Dragon is awesome has a lot of weight for players waiting for the localization.
Next, there’s how he particularly praised the story and the characters. Yakuza: Like a Dragon‘s staff mentioned multiple times in the past that making the switch from action to RPG allowed them to flesh out the story and characters even more than usual. Seems like that’s a job well done for Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio.
While both games are completely different, it’ll also be interesting to see how the upcoming Fairy Tail RPG by Gust and Koei Tecmo will compare to Yakuza: Like a Dragon. It’ll be fun to see what Hiro Mashima will say about it after release as well. Then again, mangaka and the like never say anything bad about an adaptation, even if it turns out disappointing. Moreover, Hiro Mashima is actively giving out feedback during the game’s development, so this scenario is quite unlikely. In any case, we’ll see what happens when Fairy Tail launches in March.
Sega’s Toshihiro Nagoshi recently spoke about how Yakuza: Like a Dragon is doing sales-wise in Japan since it’s launch on January 17. The game will launch sometime in 2020 in the west, on PlayStation 4.
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