Like a Dragon: Yakuza
tv·TV-14·Oct 24, 2024
Like a Dragon: Yakuza stays laser-focused on classic yakuza loyalty, betrayal, and redemption with zero identity politics or social justice messaging. This faithful adaptation earns a clean 0/10 woke score as pure, neutral entertainment.
The show "Like a Dragon: Yakuza" is a direct adaptation of the first Yakuza game, presented as a traditional Japanese crime drama set in 1990s-2000s Tokyo.
It centers on yakuza underworld elements including loyalty, duty, justice, redemption, personal betrayals, criminal conspiracies, and chosen family bonds, with casting that faithfully matches the source material's Japanese cultural context and characters. Across the reviewed season, the narrative avoids any modern activist framing, identity politics, critiques of traditional norms, or social justice messaging, with no emphasis from creators on inclusion or activism. Audience focus remains on adaptation fidelity and entertainment value. This complete absence of progressive elements results in the show's official overall woke score of 0/10.
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We've run a full content analysis on Like a Dragon: Yakuza and scored it 0/10 on the woke scale. Read our detailed breakdown above to see exactly what we found.
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We evaluate media across multiple ideological categories on a 0–10 scale. Scores of 0–3 mean story-first, 4–6 have moderate elements, and 7–10 flag heavily agenda-driven content. Learn more about our methodology →
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