I had an idea floating around in my head a while back about what a Someya final boss would have looked like. The game ends as normal, but Someya tracks down Kiryu, takes off his shirt and reveals the outlines of a tattoo, saying that killing him will be how he becomes a true Yakuza. Then the fight happens.
Someya's a very interesting character. He doesn't have any tattoos, which is supposed to mark him as a new age businessman styled yakuza, but in the end, fighting and willing to die for his ideals and to protect those that he loves, he truly becomes an old school yakuza; the kind Kiryu grew up with and grew around and respected. That gives this fight another level of thrilling imo.
At first, I thought Someya was going to be some douchey side character, but he actually ended up as one of my favourites. Despite his lifestyle, he seemed to love his daughter and ex-wife more than anything. Not to mention, his final boss battle was badass and emotional at the same time.
Someya seems to be a popular villain among western players. I liked him too, specially when he seemed to be on "Kiryu's side" by telling him to not get involved and take care of Haruka instead.
@@Darksaviour Yes. But no one can say it was in Vein in the end. He may have thought it was, but if there is an afterlife, he would find out the truth.
@@dylanmarecek2342 I'm actually quite suprise Kanji is the one who let Kiyomi go and escort her back home. first i thought Kanji is just an asshole side villain but. he actually have change a heart at the end. make him slighty less hateable and i actually think he deserve to be the Final Boss
@@jorgebersabe293 Someya is basically what the Yakuza are in modern times, doesn't make him less traditional, just more calculated like kazama and dojima
To me, Someya is like the 2nd coming of Kuze. Villain who you would totally hate at first look, but it keep changing over time, and finally you develop a lot of respect for them.
He is like Kuze. Kuze is the embodiment of old yakuza, and he fights anyone including Kiryu who dares to change it. Though Someya is the exact opposite, he represents the new age of yakuza and swears to change it from its loyalty-bound past.
Someya’s sacrifice to save Kyomi and reveals he did his best as a father really hit me. Throughout my first walk through, I never trusted him until the end. I regret my decision to not trusting him.
Someya was kinda a strange character to me like mysterious as majima,You can never know his true intentions,Does things His own way never relying on his family (The Someya Family I mean) Turns out he's one of the best bad ass mother fuckers i ever saw in video games If 6 wasn't rushed maybe we'll get a long battle vs the someya family but it's great that way
@@yudi-weiss3827 you really think Kiryu is not coming back? Ichiban’s is such a douche lmao mark my words there will be another Yakuza game with Kiryu announced in 2022
@@yudi-weiss3827 lmao sorry no I didn’t, purely because of the fact that it has turn based combat.. How is he as a character? He doesn’t look as awesome as Kiryu tbh..
Just like Kiryu is doing for Haruka and her child, his adoptive daughter and grandson respectively. Someya is another polar opposite of Kiryu, in this case, he embodies what he could have been if he rejected the loving life he already had, which Kiryu worked to earn, for the sake of ambition.
@@jorgebersabe293 I get that but I feel they're bit more human than yakuza both characters. And that Kiryu knows Someya isnt a terrible person but misguided.
@@OhTotallyFTW Yep: Someya is basically Kiryu if he never held on to his morality and rejected the loving life he already had in the name of ambition. Nevertheless poor Someya and Kiryu, because they had to suffer because Iwami wanted to be hardcore and daddy didn't let him.
Looking back after 7 and Gaiden, this really feels like the moment the Tojo died. Apart from maybe Daigo, Someya was really the only character who could have brought the ideals Kiryu lived for into the future of the clan in a way that might have survived the anti-yakuza laws.
It certainly helped that Someya was meant to be Kiryu's foil in every way except one thing - he was willing to throw away his compassion. Little did he know, being the fettered is what powers the strongest people in the Yakuza series. :P
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He always does the fights “properly”. He does them stylishly and skillfully. If you compare a boss fight video from him to one from, say, bossfight database, he’s a god. Plus all the other miscellaneous Yakuza content. Devilleon is the Yakuza guy of youtube.
Definitely one of the more emotional fights in this game, Someya was someone you'd respect and hate at the same time but when it really came down to it. He just wanted to protect those he loved and cared for, sad to see him gone.
This fight made me bawl at the end. It didn't deserve to end this way. Someya could have become something even greater then he already was. This fight was cranked to 10 especially with the song in the back ground.
the more i watch the midfight qte the more i respect someya. he: -completely ignores kiryu kicking him at 4:46 -knocks kiryu into the bar hard enough to get a grunt of pain -THROWS HIM OVER THE BAR WITH ONE ARM WHEN HE TRIES TO GRAB THE SWORD -basically has kiryu on the defensive until he disarms someya
Someya was my favorite antagonist because he may be vying for power, and is violent. He still shows the basic desire to protect the people and ideals he stands by and I think that’s really admirable. I think he should have been the final boss
Ladies and Gentleman, probably the only time in the whole Yakuza series where the best boss in the game isn’t the final boss. Took quite a while to get there, but god bless Someya for my favourite OST in the entire series
Michael Tran It's kinda like the opppsite of Yakuza 1, 2 and 3. In those games, the sympathetic puppet of the mastermind (Nishiki, Ryūji, Mine) are the final bosses where you fight the masterminds just before.
What makes it even worse, is we NEVER get the chance to smack that smile off of his face ourselves. Thankfully, Y6 is on PC...so you know what that means!
@@apurpledragonAt least you get to see him shit his pants in fear with how utterly PISSED Kiryu was at him. He really thought a few love taps on the head with a pipe will bring him down.
NO SOMEYA! stop killing my favourites! Nagumo protect Kiyomi with your life! but in all seriousness, this is my favourite fight of the game, the tension and the music is just SO good
Someya is literally a monster in the making, he was able to hold Kiryu back hell even push him back, and a reminder he was PISSED OFF at this point, you know how terrfying Kiryu is when he's mad, yet Someya managed to hold his ground against Kiryu.
Kuze in the afterlife: Well I'll be fuckin damned....Someya, you really were a true Yakuza. Even if you didn't have an Irezumi on yer back, it fuckin shone through your actions.
The part that's heartbreaking is that someya died thinking kiyomi was dead when koshimizu kept her alive. His last moments weren't spent saving the love of his life, to him, he spent the last moments doing nothing since she died anyway
Someya :- Kiryu san I will defeat you and become yakuza 6 its my DESTINY Kiryu:- No someya you cant become real yakuza 6 unless you have heard song of life
Many awards goes to this battle: Favorite Actor: Shun Oguri Favorite Character: Takumi Someya Favorite OST: Destiny Everything fits perfectly on this fight. Kudos to SEGA, Ryu ga Gotoku Studio, Nagoshi-san and his team, and also our man Devilleon7-san for providing awesome fight between Kazuma Kiryu vs Takumi Someya. ALL THE BEST!
Someya wasn't perfect; he was very flawed, but he knew what he loved. What he loved so greatly to lay down his own life and die for. His daughter and her mother. While I despise any and all who make a living of crime, I cannot help but respect a man with such a strong moral code.
This was the first Yakuza game I played and it absolutely hooked me. From the firat act to everything in between. And I love this fight in particular. The cutscenes are superb the the action and emotion going on
@@Faceu7745 what, people aren't allowed to play games non-chronologically? I get where you're coming from in terms of the story and world weaved through the games, but playing even just the mainline games is a serious timesink!
@@we-must-live Yeah but you lost 90% the charm and feeling of the franchise by doing so. Yakuza is a series that is designed and writted to be played chronologically. Yakuza 6 specifically its the last of the kiryu saga and it means a lot and hits like a truck if you played all the games from 0 to 5. I mean of course you can but i seriously dont see any value playing the franchise that way....
@@Faceu7745 is it really designed to be played chronologically, though? i understand that the characters exist and develop over the sequels, but every story is contained within itself, excluding some leakage into the next game. Kiryu teams up with Nishiki to beat down the dojo with Majima, next game Nishiki is the bad guy and Majima the deuterantagonist, next game the Nishikiyama family is a threat and Majima's still there. if it were truly designed and written to be played chronologically it'd have more development between sequels than repeated locations and characters. don't get me wrong, i love these games, but don't shame someone for jumping into the newest game without having to play through every game beforehand. and hell, i'd be with you if they really made kiryu do something drastic after finally getting to the big bad final boss - if he had killed him there after all we had seen from y0 onwards, it would have had a much bigger impact and tied the entire story of the dragon together... but now he's just the "man without a name" yet plenty of people still recognize him and his name.
@@we-must-live did you played from 0 to 6? because i dont understand your point. Yeah of course a story starts in one game and it ends in the same game, but i see it more like the arcs in a shonen manga. A shonen manga isnt written to be enjoyed by watching arcs separately, its like one big journey with the same or new characters, in one cohesive world. Just like Yakuza. You see Kiryu's development, daigo becoming a chairman, Saejima's development, Kamurocho changing a bit every game, years passing, haruka growing up... I mean... Haruka is good example of this, the best example.
One thing I like about Kiryu is how chad he was. He never had moment like “NOOO,I DON’T WAMMA FIGHT YOU CAUSE YOU ARE MY FRIEND!” when had to fight his friend or frenemies(Majima don’t count,That dude is pure batshit crazy,I’m talking about normal one).He always do what he has to do,He always fight like he does. This prove how worthy Dragon of Dojima name are. Like in this video,Someya become frenemies and help him sometimes,But when he was forced to fight,He always did what he always do,Fight like dragon.
Someya did everything he could in the situation given to him. He didn’t do it the Kiryu way, but he did it his way, blazing his own trail. All in all, he could have been a lot worse
I was just thinking about this boss fight. You know what pisses me off even more about this fight? That piece of shit smugly smiling on the tv screen lmaoooo
When i reached this part of the game, I was shocked to see what was happening and to see Someya die like this....I just really cannot stand such sadistic, ruthless and scumbag people do this to everyone..... 14:17 When poor Someya died....i too lose it just like Kiryu....>:( that f@$!#€£& Iwami will PAY!!!
this is what tiers apart japanese story line character from occidental ones , this is not a clash between power and muscle . This is a battle between ideals and spirits , a battle between willings . Even if the yakuza series gameplay combat it is very simple and sometimes i could say lazy programmed , the character arc constructions give them another level of weight to these fights . Man the music it is so epic too with those fight cutcenes .
What Kiyomi said about him made me hate him. But honestly. Seeing what he did himself. It doesn't even look like he did what she said he did. I'm repeating words but I hope you get me.
