How to be like Kiryu?

[Noxtilus]

The more I drive into Yakuza Series, the more I impressed by Kiryu, not only in his Physical Fitness but also his idea and spirit as well, and he also inspired me to become better person and physical fitness in real life as well. Are there anyone here who have knowledge in physical training or exercise? I would like to ask them about exercise and stuff, are there any tip of recommendation on what I should focus in order to turn my nerd body into perfect being like Kiryu? Thank you

[medion_no]

Originally posted by Neskess:

Originally posted by N.O.T.N.I.T.I:

The more I drive into Yakuza Series, the more I impressed by Kiryu, not only in his Physical Fitness but also his idea and spirit as well, and he also inspired me to become better person and physical fitness in real life as well. Are there anyone here who have knowledge in physical training or exercise? I would like to ask them about exercise and stuff, are there any tip of recommendation on what I should focus in order to turn my nerd body into perfect being like Kiryu? Thank you

You must be 40 years old virgin, just like Kiryu

He is no virgin if we believe Y0 sidequest.

[Jericho]

Originally posted by N.O.T.N.I.T.I:

Originally posted by Jigramunt:

Go on the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ streets and beat knife/pistol wielding thugs into a bloody pulp.

As long as my last name isn't Kazuma, it is quite suicidal to do that, I am trying to improve myself, not speedruning my life into the oblivion.

Nah man, the 21 foot rule says that as long as you're within 21 feet of someone, if they have a gun you can kill them with a knife if you run at them at top speed.

[Felicia Fulana]

Read any major Neo-Confucian who was popular in Japan, especially those that influenced the Samurai ethos, so Wang Yangming. I'll even post the only two books of his translated to English.

https://archive.org/details/instructionsforp00wang
https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/bitstream/1885/114929/2/b1323559x.pdf

More importantly is Zhu Xi's commentaries on the four books, but only part of that was ever translated to English, and it's very expensive. Read Kaibara Ekken at the very least.

probably read books by samurai like the Book of Five Rings. I don't know much about Buddhism, so I can't tel you who is probably the best Buddhist philosopher for the development of Samurai ethos. Shinto/Kokugaku classics like the creation epics are very important to understanding Kiryu's ethics too. Here's the Nihon Shoki:

https://archive.org/details/nihongichronicl00astogoog/page/n410/mode/2up

Finally, Kiryu just wouldn't exist without the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Water Margin, Tale of Genji, and other East Asian classic novels. Noble characters devoted to their friends like Liu Bei, and loyalty to the state/in-group while rebelling against corrupt elements within is an important theme in many of these books, and they are in these games. Kiryu's house betrays him more time than Ethan Hunt gets betrayed by the Mission Impossible Agency, and he sticks around after so many decades.

I'm just (kinda) an expert on Chinese philosophy, I don't know as much about Japanese philosophy as I'd like, but I have read more books about it than your average weeab would pretend he has. So take my recommendations as an educated guess rather than an expert's guidance.

[Granny]

Originally posted by Tenku:

Originally posted by Neskess:

You must be 40 years old virgin, just like Kiryu

*60 year old virgin

120 years old virgin

[walter white estrogen cook]

Originally posted by N.O.T.N.I.T.I:

Originally posted by Jigramunt:

Go on the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ streets and beat knife/pistol wielding thugs into a bloody pulp.

As long as my last name isn't Kazuma, it is quite suicidal to do that, I am trying to improve myself, not speedruning my life into the oblivion.

Kiryu is his last name
Kiryu Kazuma, the family name (last name) comes first in Japan
SEGA switches the family name and first name around to make it more confusing and assume the everyone is too dumb to understand the most basic concepts of the Japanese language.

[Kazakhstan]

Just run away from that crazy cyclop with the knife or bat lol

[Lusus Symphonia]

Never aspire to be a male power fantasy male in any Japanese media, Japanese culture makes ripped the standard fitness of all JRPG characters which should be your first red flag.

-Kiryu isn't big enough to do half the moves he does in the game physically.
-apparently brain damage isn't a thing in the Yakuza series, considering the brain is as soft as a lump of tofu, the punches to the face that characters get in the cutscenes should be enough to send them to the hospital with mental health issues.
-apparently throughout the 88s to the 2000s, guns were rare and hardly used by the Yakuza which is laughable, try any Kiryu stuff in public OP and you'll find yourself with a knife in your belly.
And if course the last point; all Asians know martial arts, a trope from western cimema since the 1950s.