This week, we're Ensnared! Kiryu returns to Kamurocho in the midst of the Dojima Goons' biggest goon-fest yet. A freak case of arson sees our former yakuza-cum-real estate agent without a property to call his own. Reina takes mercy on Kiryu and hides him in Bar Serena, but it's not long before the gang comes calling. We square off with Kuze for one more throwdown before being rescued by a very bad getaway driver.

Substories: #15 Help Wanted!; #19 Heir to the Family

Shop of the Week: Kinryu Ramen

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This week in Yakuza 0 Chapter 8 - Tug of War, Majima finds himself swept up into the chaotic whirlwind of Homare Nishitani, Kijin Family patriarch, murderer, and all-around pervert, who forced his way into Lee's murder plot uninvited. Sagawa makes himself known as things come to an explosive climax.

Also this week: blood chubs, ham cucumbers, things happen on Festy's Tomodachi Island, and Bobby mixes up The Crucible with the English Patient.

Character Profile: Homare Nishitani (the late Keiji Fujiwara)

Substory: #56 A Taxing Issue

Side Activities: Gandhara

Shop of the Week: Kani Douraku

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We're back in Sōtenbori and we're full of Takoyaki. In Chapter 7 of Yakuza 0, Majima decides not to kill Makoto Makimura, instead opting to stash her in a dusty warehouse while he plays Cabaret Club Czar. After tangling with the Sotenbori Five, a group of unscrupulous rival club proprietors, we learn Makoto's tragic backstory and the source of her blindness. But it's not long before Majima finds himself drawn into a second murder plot.

Also this week: Special Training with Yuki, what's inside Kyoko's Fantasy Zone, Festy makes assumptions about Dexter Morgan's ethics, and Bobby spectacularly messes up a pot of jambalaya.

Please excuse the regular mic arm vibration noises, Borscht the Cat was really causing a ruckus this week.

Substories: #78 The Doll Girl; #82 Kyoko at Sega Hi-Tech Land

Shop of the Week: Daikoku Drug Store

Dream Machines: Cleaving Pole, Firecrackers, Slime Spray

Acute Loss of Vision in a Young Woman (Ethiopian Journal of Health Science, S Mulugeta, K Tesfay, R Frank, C Gruber-Frank) https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4337078