Yakuza 6 - Karaoke: Today is a Diamond (Kiryu) 

PLOT TWIST: at the same time, he also unconsciously knows what it means, but for the sake of denying the fact that he knows what it all means, he tries to put on a happy face and pretend he doesn't know.

this is so much more wholesome to think about that it made my day thank you so much

@Ltrly_Htlr errrrr, what?

@Ltrly_Htlr xD

@Ltrly_Htlr its about haruka not waking up anymore

Yoasobi vibes

me too

Lmaoooo.

Muffin song : We're all gona Die! Die! Dieee \(｡･ω･｡)/ ♪ヽ(･^ ∀ ^･ゞ)

more like: Nihilistic people: Today is meaningless. Kiryu: 💎✨Today is a Diamond✨💎

And hearts because this song is genuinely sad

A grandpa in a suit who breaks people’s faces

To grandpa in a suit that grates faces

@@_____2219 Bruh he was always breaking hearts

ex-yakuza to father

Yeah.

lovely

HUMAN ITS YOU ITS ME ILOVEKOKICHI AAAA

In yakuza 0 he smiles when meeting majima

@@assassingamer5983 its more of a smirk

@@weebyweeny1742 1:08 is just a smile

ThNks toro kun

Thanks for the laugh needed it

@@Starbound-qj6pz np

da kara please get up my baby

You're going bowling, cousin?

He smiling too tho

Oh my lord.... Is that really the context of this song? I haven't played Yakuza 6...

@@tuxedoedone3891 EARLY GAME SPOILERS FOR Y6: Haruka falls into a coma after being hit by a car. The player can feel that Kiryu, despite him always being subtle in his emotions, fucking loses it internally for the early parts of this story. Like, he allows himself to think of what might happen if she died. To me this song represents Kiryu already entering the bargaining stage of grief. The lyrics fit too well with the plot.

Society in a nutshell

You’re right And you should say it

That's the real strength of the Dragon of Dojima

No Kidding!

😂😂😂

Essence of Ukulele

Like he just saw a guy playing guitar and went "That's Rad!" and picked up a ukulele to replicate it, completely ignoring how chords work

@@SoraR123 what

I think he smiled at the end of yakuza kiwami.... I think

@@wateroflife33 since then i played yakuza zéro and he smile at the very end

@@papytromblon he also smiles when he's talking to the phone girls

@@SoraR123 he also smiles when Rikiya gets his tatoo finished.

Then you look at the translated lyrics and realize that this song is like, the most depressing one of all of them. Bakamitai may SOUND depressing, but while it's basically just about a breakup, this song's about (spoiler character goes here) being in a coma, and the last line of the song is just straight up contemplating suicide over it.

I mean i karaoke alone too.

The lyrics are even more depressing

He look like a 30 year old white dad

Damn, that's cold

yakuza fandom: but we love it

when we realize its actually a very sad a depressing song hidden behind the upbeat tone showing kiryu is actually very sad, feels bad man

Yakuza fandom loves and appreciates Kiryu's smile.

Yakuza fandom: this beautiful man deserves to be happy.

@@wingsofhermes98 :O

*n i c e*

S W E E T

*Majima has entered in the chat*

Thats Rad

Thanks for the spoilers bud lol

Mmm yes lyrics about a dying person. But really, it reminds me of Hey Ya and how the lyrics are completely different than the tone of the music.

@@Documentoo Nah Hey Ya doesn't really work because it's carefree as the lyrics convey. They're saying relationships don't work, so why not just be carefree and have fun. Pumped Up Kicks is a better example of a song darker than the melody suggests.

@@Documentoo The lyrics are about someone trying to wake up their loved one so they can spend the day with them. I don't know where you are all getting this interpretation. Because the end of the song is asking someone to wake up?

@@NicDoesDumbThings I'm getting the interpretation from how the tone of the song is way different than the lyrics.

@@NicDoesDumbThings the wording is more the singer *begging* the other person to wake up at the end, and the resignation of "you're never going to wake up, maybe i'll go to sleep too" that's giving people the idea that this song is darker than it seems on the surface. i don't know if it was the intended interpretation, but the lyrics do seem to clash with the upbeat tone of the song

Wuh

I’m scared rn I thought it was happy!

GBblocks179 the song is about contemplating suicide.

@@deviljho4260 You are literally making things up, fuck off.

@@NicDoesDumbThings Hes right though

It’s because it’s a weekend so his baby wants to sleep in There I made it happier

The lyrics slowly go from wholesome to sad

Pietro Da Silva Tulio they weren’t wholesome to begin with

why die

I can relate to "REM sleep so deep it's like death" strongly...

Never forget what Majima did for Kiryu in Yakuza 5

@@dragonofyorha you can't really compare Haruka to Majima lmao. I love Majima, he's great but Haruka has always been at Kiryu side the whole time even when Kiryu try to distance himself from her. To say Kiryu lost his purpose in life is not an exaggeration as depicted in this song's lyrics

considering kiryu already lost so many people

@@GamerConnoisseurRei I think they are referring to the fact that Majima was willing to fight Saejima to the death to protect Haruka at the end of Yakuza 5. Majima even states that he knows Kiryu loves Haruka more than his (Kiryu) life itself. The fact that Majima was willing to die or potentially kill his brother for Haruka and Kiryu speaks volumes about him.

Haruka Is literally the only reason Kiryu didn't let police arrest him again and left the Tojo clan at the end of First Yakuza

Majima: PREASE GRETT URPPPP MRY BABEEEEEH

He just has a toupee and a tshirt on top of his snakeskin jacket XD

another random majima-san encouter

@@jaysonvancouofficial6100 *Funk goes on blares*

crazy thing is, you don't know if one of the civilians happen to be Majima.

Yes, it is very sad

It's like a bittersweet credits song.

Yeah the overly positive tone starts to make you question what's really going on, and then you read the lyrics...

1:27 especially

That part from 1:17 to 1:28 especially

Kiryu's face when singing a happy song: 🗿

The actual lyrics make this joke even better (If you don't know them already, you don't want to)

Heh, joint pain. Kiryu had em more than 10 years by that point.

Thou he almost never smiles in the karaoke movies XD

@@IosonoOtakuman damn you right, he takes these gigs real seriously loll

@@IosonoOtakuman And most non-Yakuza fans know Kiryu as Mr. Dame Da Ne, so it adds up.

@@IosonoOtakuman he does smile at the end of Kamurocho Lullaby in Y3

he smiles at the hiroshima aniki guy in yakuza 6 when he calls him aniki (based rikiya reference)

I mean he is a dad so it fits.

@@XplodMonky a DILF to be even more exact. ❤️

@@galaxy_kitten95 Your sentence make me both love and hate your comment

@@longhuynh9360 i mean he canonically gets called a dilf in kiwami 1 apparently sooo

Its all the people who made him feel like he had a home again outside of the orphanage when everywhere else was unwelcoming

Omori side quests. When sunny receives a gift from the characters you helped in the game, is truly a touching moment

@@taskeen777 real

When your crush is single and in a coma. Don't read the English translation, it's depressing. I apologize for making it dark.

Well mine wasn't... found out after a few weeks into me just thinking crap. Oof.

@@firecrackerjack68 in a coma.. and also underaged (*_*)

@@jake40341 yikes..

Did you read the English translations

Where are you from?

this IS the song of life

@@averageboss2176 why?

@@aaaaaaa9200 I forget it was 4 months ago response faster the next time

Yes

They are saying get up from your coma. This song is about being in a coma and thinking about commiting suicide.

Incognito Noir no its about a husband wanting to go boating with her wife (or other way round) >:(((((

WHY DOES KNOWING THE LYRICS RUIN EVERYTHING. WHYYYYYYY

@@kranker5815 boating with their child*

@@matsurivirus1814 jesus christ why tf does everybody gotta kill the vibe in the replies

Honestly, that'd how I interpret it too. People take this song to directly be related to the characters and the story, but what's important to remember is that the characters don't write these songs. There are some direct relations, but for example Majima wouldn't want to turn the world into a harem-paradise for himself anyway, so there are discrepancies when you look at the songs too close to the characters. Parallels can be made and sometimes it's good, but this song to me at least is about a dad who tries to take his child or significant other on a trip in the beautiful summer, but the child or SO wants to nap/rest instead and while initially, the dad keeps asking them to come with him, he eventually decides "ah, f@ck it. I'll take a nap too." That way, it's much more about being close to those you love instead of running around in the beauty of sunshine, choosing to nap with your loved ones instead of going out alone and that's actually pretty heartwarming. I know that the other interpretation is pretty solid too. (The one about Haruka and her [SPOILER].) But to me, this isn't a song about Kiryu and his desperate situation. This is a happy song about summer and Kiryu sings it that way because he runs with the mood, not necessarily connecting it to his own misery.

Hmm....i didnt tought about it that way until you made that point and you know, that would help me listen to this song and feel less depressing..or trying to the song woudl still get me in the feels.

uh oh

Yall are just high on copium

@@manvslife271 Or maybe you're just high on depressium

Pumped up kicks is a bit edgy. This sounds genuinely weirdly euphoric.

Or the yakuza equivilent to Goodbye Nostalgia

Or "Hey Ya" by Outkast

@@ShwingFlamKAKYOIN!

I disagree. I feel like if I put my hand in that water it wouldnt let me out

@@connorambrosino1741 thanks thats terrifying

@@connorambrosino1741 lmao that reminds me of that one part in Creepshow 2

yoooo, it's the guy from miiverse

the substory aswell and i hear the Pocket racer theme gets be hyped up

Not just Pocket Circuit Fighter. Many people that Kiryu befriends in Onomichi are there

Based

@oki what

@@oki790 based on what

@@formuoli Yeah it's based, based on Yakuzas and diamonds

People who says lockdown is boring Also them: 1:05

Well you're not wrong

Cant blame him mans sad

Kiryu wear happy mask

gotta be there for the homies bruh 😔

You broke my heart even harder…😭

Only for better

Best way to describe it! I felt the same pain in both songs

Not necessarily. Shiawase Nara is sad when you directly relate it to Majima's story, but it's generally a song about loving someone so much that their happiness matters more to you than the ability to be with them. It applies to his situation to Makoto, but it's important to remember that Majima didn't write the song, he just takes it as being related to his own life and sings it as such. But basically, the song itself is about a man who loves a woman so much, he's put everything into making her happy, even above his own happiness and that's actually pretty heartwarming. Same thing with Kiryu. If you take the sleeping person to be Haruka and the singer to be literally Kiryu, it makes sense that this song is sad, but two things are very important: 1) Kiryu didn't write this song, nor was it written for him, so the immediate connection to his misery is shaky and 2) Kiryu can sing this from the start of this game, even before he learns about what happened to Haruka. If you remember, Hands only becomes available AFTER he gets a hold of Haruto. To me this means the song isn't necessarily about the desperate situation they are in and while it can be interpreted that way to fit, it's not the only valid way. Sleep isn't always death is what I'm saying. My alternate interpretation is that the singer is a dad or husband who is trying to invite his son/daughter/significant other to have a fun day in the beautiful summer with him. The other person wants to sleep all day and rest instead, so the singer laments this, ultimately deciding to stay in and nap together with his beloved. That way, this song is about spending time with those important to you even if it means not going out and doing things, just napping together. I like mine better, pardon my french. :D

@@darklord884 the lyrics "If you're Not gonna Wake Up then i'll guess i sleep too" doesn't sound happy no matter how you interpreted it because who the hell sleep with their son/daughter/wife/husband when they failed to wake Them up

@@EagleEye-rw5pn Ever heard of taking naps once you see someone's napping and you can't wake them up? It's a comedy cliche actually.

@@darklord884 i thought you were talking about a real life scenario for a second

thanks I really needed this

**eggman voice** Get a load at this !

actual lyrics: he is a guy

r/iamverybadass? Idk if this belongs..no hard feelings?

@@bottleofketchups8949 no, i just have emotional problems.

@@FeetLavers69 fair enough I apologize

@@bottleofketchups8949 it's alright

@@FeetLavers69 Considering the lyrics, it's ok to cry.

i was thinking that this song maybe wasn't as deep as people made it out to be but then i saw this comment and now im basically heartbroken

@@depleur2943 well, this series karaoke has pretty much described what the characters are going though so idk how someone thinks that honestly

have you not played any yakuza game yet? kiryu is one of the most wholesome, passionate and caring main characters of a game ever

@@dragon___ I've completed 0

even his hair and jotaro is kinda similiar- in a way. the only difference is kiryu actually cares and here for his "daughter" lol

@@Bobamiruku I feel like this thread is going to be flooded with jojo fans but... Jolyne would've experienced much more dangers throughout her childhood if Jotaro stayed with the family

@@Bobamiruku The difference between Jotaro and Jolyne's relationship and Kiryu and Haruka's relationship is that with Jotaro and Jolyne, Jotaro's absence only benefitted the both of them. Yes, Jolyne acted out and developed issues that lasted until young adulthood, but if she were with Jotaro, her life would have been in real danger. Jotaro's lack of presence gave Jolyne opportunities to grow. She became strong without him. On the other hand, Kiryu and Haruka cannot be separated unless you want to bring both of them to their lowest points. Kiryu basically entered a depression and became nearly dysfunctional when he left Haruka in Y5, and Haruka became directionless - a downgrade compared to what they are when they're with each other. To add to that, Kiryu is more than capable of protecting Haruka under any circumstance within the Yakuza universe, unlike Jotaro who has to deal with the possibility of facing someone whose Stand is stronger than his.

@@holly9096 That's so sad oml.

And both have crippling depression

Yakuza 5

Mood

YES🥲

yet he's smiling for all the wrong reasons😭😭😭

Yakuza 6: the song of life

*Onomichi

Baka mitai would like a word with you.

Sorry, but 24 hour cinderella.

Iji Sakura 2000

24 hour cinderella also why is the song in the video so sad

24 hour Cinderella

What happens in July 1?

@arka arquena bakamitai is the meme sad song, this one and tonight are the real heavy hitters

Oh yeah weather hackers

Fock off mate lmao