History Trivia / Judgment

* ScrewedByTheLawyers: The game and its sequel took a long time to make it to PC because Takuya Kimura's agency would not allow it.
** It's also likely why the games do not have karaoke minigames, as it would have been way too expensive to get the rights to Kimura's singing voice.
** It's also the reason why no characters appear on the Soundtrack CD also.

* ScrewedByTheLawyers: The game and its sequel took a long time to make it to PC because Takuya Kimura's agency would not allow it. It's also likely why the games do not have karaoke minigames, as it would have been way too expensive to get the rights to Kimura's singing voice.

* ScrewedByTheLawyers: The game and its sequel took a long time to make it to PC because Takuya Kimura's agency would not allow it. It's also likely why the games do not karaoke minigames, as it would have been way too expensive to get the rights to Kimura's singing voice.

* ScrewedByTheLawyers: The game and its sequel took a long time to make it to PC was because Takuya Kimura's agency would not allow it. It's also likely why the game do not karaoke minigames, as it would have been way too expensive to get the rights to Kimura's singing voice.

* ScrewedByTheLawyers: The reason why ''Judgement'' and its sequel do not have karaoke minigames is because Takuya Kimura's singing voice is very protected by his agency and it would have been way too expensive for Sega.

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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Kaito's first name was [[https://www.siliconera.com/2018/10/07/project-judge-introduces-the-main-characters-former-and-current-colleagues/ supposed to be Shouji]], not Masaharu.
** Likewise, Shintani's first name was supposed to be Seidou, not Masamichi.

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* DoingItForTheArt:
** Takuya Kimura has spent more than 100 hours in total to help in mocap and voice acting sessions for Yagami, more than likely due to ''Judgment'' being his first video game role.
** The fact that the English localization team was able to convince the higher-ups at Creator/{{Sega}} to let them localize the game's story ''[[https://blog.us.playstation.com/2019/03/07/judgment-launches-june-25-how-the-yakuza-spinoff-reinvents-localization/ twice]]'': once for the Japanese voice acting, then again for the English voice acting. The Japanese dub is accompanied by a subtitle track that is much more faithful to the original material, while the English dub had been rewritten to maximize the performances of the dub cast by making easier to deliver dialogue. This turned out to be so successful that all future RGG games have followed suit for their own localization efforts.
** Greg Chun actually dressed up as Yagami with his leather jacket, jeans, white shirt and sneakers in interviews and promotional events.[[note]]He shaved his goatee for this.[[/note]]

* RelationshipVoiceActor:
** On the English dub, some of the cast have been cast in the works of Creator/YokoTaro over the years, though primarily ''VideoGame/NierAutomata''.
*** Takayuki Yagami (Greg Chun) is Adam.
*** Mafuyu Fujii (Cherami Leigh) is A2.
*** Keigo Izumida (Ray Chase) is Eve and adult Brother Nier.
*** Kunihiko Morita (Jamieson Price) is Father Nier.
*** Mitsuru Kuroiwa (Matthew Mercer) is the Council of Humanity.
*** Ishimatsu (Todd Haberkorn) is Octa.
*** Shinpei Okubo (Yuri Lowenthal) is Dito, Jakob and Gideon.
** Still on the English dub, some of the cast are part of the ''Franchise/{{Persona}}'' franchise, especially ''VideoGame/Persona5''.
*** Mafuyu Fujii (Cherami Leigh) is Makoto Niijima/Queen.
*** Kunihiko Morita (Jamieson Price) is Sojiro Sakura.
*** Kengo (Robbie Daymond) is Goro Akechi/Crow/Black Mask.
*** Mitsuru Kuroiwa (Matthew Mercer) is Yusuke Kitagawa/Fox.
*** Seiya the club host (Max Mittelman) is Ryuji Sakamoto/Skull.
*** Kuroiwa's second in command Sakuraba (Kaiji Tang) is Munehisa Iwai.
*** Mitsugu Matsugane (JB Blanc) is Ryotaro Dojima.
*** Satoshi Shioya (Keith Silverstein) is Masayoshi Shido.
*** Shinpei Okubo (Yuri Lowenthal) is the Male Protagonist, Pharos and Ryoji from ''VideoGame/Persona3'', as well as Yosuke Hanamura from ''VideoGame/Persona4''.
*** Hashimoto (Cassandra Lee Morris) is Morgana.
*** Kaoru Ichinose (Kirk Thornton) is the SIU Director [[spoiler: and the real Igor]] from ''VideoGame/Persona5''.
*** Amane (Carrie Keranen) is Caroline, Justine and Lavenza.
** Some of the voice actors that worked on this game in the English dub would also go on to dub RGG Studio's next game, ''VideoGame/YakuzaLikeADragon''. Particularly...
*** The main Protagonist, Yagami (Chun) is Yu Nanba.
*** Mitsuru Kuriowa (Mercer) is Goro Majima.
*** Sakuraba (Tang) is Ichiban Kasuga, ''Like a Dragon's'' protagonist.
*** Ryusuke Kido (Andrew Morgado) is Koichi Adachi.
*** Mafuyu Fujii (Leigh) is Ririka and Nanoha Mukoda.
*** Keigo Izumida (Chase) is Nick Ogata.
*** Hashimoto (Morris) is Iroha Yanagi.
*** Mitsugu Matsugane (Blanc) is Ryuhei Hoshino.
** You've even got some ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyZombies'' veterans in the dub, too:
*** Higashi (Steve Blum) is "Tank" Demspey.
*** Hamura (Fred Tatasciore) is Nikolai Belinski.
*** Tsukino (Julie Nathanson) is Samantha Maxis.
** There's also a surprising amount of ''VideoGame/SaintsRow'' cast members to be found.
*** Higashi (Blum) is both [[VideoGame/SaintsRow2 Kazuo Akuji]] and [[VideoGame/SaintsRowTheThird the Zombie voice]].
*** Kasai (Arif S. Kinchen) is Pierce Washington.
*** Okubo (Lowenthal) is Shogo Akuji and Matt Miller.
*** Ozaki (Mark Allan Stewart) is Oleg Kirrlov.
*** Matsugane (JB Blanc) is Zinyak and Phillipe Loren.

* CelebrityVoiceActor: Creator/JamesHong plays Kim Won Soon in the English language version.

** Takuya Kirimoto, voice of Masamichi Shintani had previously voiced Seiji Kosaka from ''Yakuza 5''

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Kaito's first name was [[https://www.siliconera.com/2018/10/07/project-judge-introduces-the-main-characters-former-and-current-colleagues/ suppose to be Shouji]], not Masaharu.

* ExecutiveMeddling: See NoPortForYou.
* NoDubForYou: Subverted for the third time for Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio, first being ''[[VideoGame/Yakuza1 Yakuza]]'' on [=PS2=] and the second being ''VideoGame/FistOfTheNorthStarLostParadise'', and the second time one of their games has dual audio. This actually doesn't fully apply all the way, though; unlike ''[=FotNS=]: Lost Paradise'', minor characters and [=NPCs=] in ''Judgment'' still speak in undubbed Japanese.
* NoPortForYou: Takuya Kimura's agency, Johnny & Associates, refuses to let Sega produce PC versions of the games because they are ''extremely'' protective of their clients' images and likenesses and are a strong believer in NewMediaAreEvil[[note]]At one point, they point-blank refused to allow images of their stars to appear on the internet, and all pictures featuring them had to have them replaced by a silhouette[[/note]]. Therefore, they do not want the games to be on an open platform like PC, where the game's files are readily accessible, copy-able and modifiable. They did ultimately allow a Stadia port, which does allow one to play the game on a PC through the closed means of CloudGaming, but unfortunately Stadia is NoExportForYou in many countries.
** However this was ultimately Averted as on September 14, 2022 a PC port was finally released on Steam.

** However this was ultimately Averted as on September 14, 2022 as PC port was finally released on Steam.

** Takaya Kimura has spent more than 100 hours in total to help in mocap and voice acting sessions for Yagami, more than likely due to ''Judgment'' being his first video game role.

** Kimura has spent more than 100 hours in total to help in mocap and voice acting sessions for Yagami.
** The fact that the English localization team was able to convince the higher-ups at Creator/{{Sega}} to let them localize the game's story ''[[https://blog.us.playstation.com/2019/03/07/judgment-launches-june-25-how-the-yakuza-spinoff-reinvents-localization/ twice]]'': once for the Japanese voice acting, then again for the English voice acting. The Japanese dub is accompanied by a subtitle track that is much more faithful to the original material, while the English dub had been rewritten to maximize the performances of the dub cast by making easier to deliver dialogue.
** Greg actually dressed up as Yagami with his leather jacket, jeans, white shirt and sneakers in interviews and promotional events.[[note]]He shaved his goatee for this.[[/note]]

** The protagonist Takayuki Yagami is portrayed by Japanese entertainment icon Takuya Kimura, nicknamed [[FanNickname Kimutaku]]. He was a member of SMAP, Japan's best-selling boyband, for 28 years until they broke up in 2016. Since his first lead acting gig in 1996, he has received high audience ratings for multiple TV series--earning him the title of "The King of Ratings"--as well as a ton of accolades. ''Judgment'' is his first time working on a video game, though not his first time voice acting in general; he was Howl in Creator/StudioGhibli's ''Anime/HowlsMovingCastle''.

* FanNickname: ''Kimutaku ga Gotoku'' [[labelnote:Translation]]''Like Kimutaku''[[/labelnote]] by Japanese gamers as a play on the title ''[[VideoGame/{{Yakuza}} Ryu ga Gotoku]]''.
* ImageSource: StalkingMission.

** Yakuza lieutenant Kyohei Hamura was originally portrayed by Pierre Taki, the frontman of the electronic music duo Denki Groove who wrote the hit songs "Shangri-La", "N.O.", "Niji" and the ''Anime/DevilmanCrybaby'' opening theme "MAN HUMAN". He later became a distinguished multitalent working as a radio-TV personality and an actor starring in various dramatic or comedic roles. His most famous role is as the Japanese dub voice of Olaf in the blockbusting Disney film ''WesternAnimation/Frozen2013''.

** On the English dub, some of the cast have been cast in the works of Creator/TaroYoko over the years, though primarily ''VideoGame/NierAutomata''.

* CharacterSpecificPages: [[Characters/JudgmentTakayukiYagami Takayuki Yagami]].