April Roundup: The Long Journey
…to his adopted family. Reid McCarter explores the history and self-perception of Japan’s Yakuza, and how that enduring myth has served as the engine that fueled the Yakuza series, and the long journey that has propelled Kiryu into and out of the underworld time and again in service of his stalwart moral character coming to shirtless, brass-knuckled blows with the criminals who don’t fit the romantic ideal of a noble criminal.
And that’s it for this month. Our journey, at least this particular version of it, finishes here. There’s more journey to be found over the next horizon though,…