Of course, real-life Japanese yakuza are renowned for sporting extensive ink, leading to a nationwide taboo around tattoos that still lingers quite prominently to this day. The writers behind Like ...

Some games, like the Yakuza series, even hire real-life tattoo artists to draw their in-game ink. ... I've seen tattoos like this in real life - they're wild.

The tattoos are real. Yakuza bodysuit tattoos can also be traced to the Edo period, when prisoners were branded with tattoos. Yakuza tattoos cover both arms, parts of the chest, legs, and the ...

Yakuza looked darn good for a PS2 game but Kiwami on PS4 is clearly a big step up. Characters, for example, sport a more significant amount of detail, including skin pores when faces are viewed up ...

Cyberpunk 2077's tattoos help immerse you in the fictional Night City, Assassin's Creed Valhalla's ink lets players customize their own historically accurate Viking, and Yakuza's ink provides ...

Zoo has teamed up with Sega Australia and is offering one reader the chance to get a real-life replica back tattoo that Yakuza 3's protagonist Kazuma Kiryu has. This is what could appear on your back.

Yakuza member with a tattoo of Teitoku Son, a hero from traditional stories. Andreas Johansson, Author provided. There are examples of these criminal organisations helping society, like during the ...

The yakuza have long played a powerful, if often unseen, role in society. Romanticized in literature and film as noble outcasts replete with punch-perms, extensive tattoos and severed pinkies, the ...