Current Events > This sidequest in Yakuza 5 is kinda gross (minor spoilers for Yakuza 4 and 5)

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One of the jobs I can take during Haruka's chapter is to do an interview for a racy gentleman's mag - not as raunchy as Playboy or Hustler, but aimed at middle aged men. The topic is how older men can be popular with younger women. It's already a skeeve-fest that they're asking a girl who's no older than 16 about whether she's interested in older men, but it feels particularly gross that this was a job that Haruka's idol agency lined up for her.

The idol industry itself is scummy as fuck, and the depiction of it in the game is kinda shitty, but it doesn't completely shy away from how gross the industry can be. I've been getting by, just by enjoying the rhythm game approach and taking the story one mission at a time.

I just got to the final question. The interviewer's asking if Haruka - you know, this character who's been raised from a young child to a teenager over the course of five games - if she would ever have sex with an older man.

What the fuck. It's not as bad as that scene in Yakuza 4 when Kiryu essentially says to Saejima "I know you're a good guy because you didn't rape my daughter after spending 25 years in prison", but this is still gross.
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