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12	* AbsurdlyShortProductionTime: ''Gaiden'' only had about six months of development time. Though given their penchant for working on multiple projects simultaneously, it shouldn't come as a surprise that familiar assets and isms pop up (e.g., the Mortal Reversal being lifted directly from ''VideoGame/LostJudgment'').
13	* TheCastShowOff:
14	** Kim Jae-wook speaks fluent Japanese when he voices Homare Nishitani III.[[note]]He learned Japanese while living in Japan since his father was working in the country before they moved back to South Korea.[[/note]]
15	** Akame's actress and face model First Summer Uika is a singer, which plays into Akame's backstory as well as her very impressive karaoke performance of Like A Butterfly.
16	* CelebrityVoiceActor: Kim Jae-wook, a South Korean actor/singer, as Homare Nishitani III. He mentioned in various Sega video interviews that the game's his first job for voice acting in Japan.
17	* DarkhorseCasting: At the time of his casting, Tyler Yamabe, the English Dub voice of Homare Nishitani III, has a portfolio largely made up of Narration for various [[UsefulNotes/ProfessionalGaming eSports Organizations]] as opposed to the more extensive resumes held by some of the video game and television veterans that make up the rest of the cast.
18	* TheOtherDarrin: In the English dub:
19	** Creator/YongYea replaces Darryl Kurylo as Kazuma Kiryu.
20	** Tim Friedlander replaces Creator/RogerCraigSmith as Daigo Dojima.
21	* PreviewPiggybacking: Although treated as a full, mainline entry, it features a demo of ''Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth'' to give players an early taste of that game.
22	* PromotedFanboy:
23	** Creator/YongYea admitted on his Youtube channel that he's a longtime fan of the ''Like a Dragon'' series and idolizes Kazuma Kiryu in particular, considering it a huge honor to be given the opportunity to voice the man himself.
24	** Having won a [[ContestWinnerCameo promotional audition contest]], WebVideo/KsonOnAir, a streamer and VirtualYoutuber signed on with WebVideo/VShojo, is featured in the game as one of the hostesses Kiryu can chat up. Kson has been a megafan of the ''Like a Dragon'' series for years, and has an unabashed crush on Kiryu, herself.
25	** First Summer Uika, a singer, actress, and TV/radio personality, first became a fan with ''VideoGame/YakuzaLikeADragon'', and without telling her agency, auditioned to be a hostess in the same audition contest Kson attended. Unknown to Uika, she was already being considered for the role of Akame in ''Gaiden'', which she gladly accepted.
26	* PropRecycling: The ''Sega Racing Classic 2'' cabinet uses the same model of the ''VideoGame/OutRun'' cabinet, but is re-colored yellow.
27	* ScrewedByTheLawyers: ''Daytona USA 2'' has been retitled “Sega Racing Classic 2”, likely to avoid legal issues surrounding the Daytona license. All trances of the word “Daytona” has also been removed, including the Takenobu Mitsuyoshi version of the soundtrack.
28	* WordOfGod: During a promotional event for ''VideoGame/LikeADragonInfiniteWealth'', the game's writer and the Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio head Masayoshi Yokoyama has confirmed the popular fan theory that [[spoiler:Hanawa is actually Yu Morinaga, who has actually survived his [[KilledOffscreen off-screen death]] in ''VideoGame/Yakuza5'']].
29	* YouSoundFamiliar:
30	** Japanese:
31	*** Prior to playing Kihei Hanawa, Creator/HirokiTochi previously voiced Yu Morinaga in ''VideoGame/Yakuza5'', and by extension, Matsubara Chuji in ''VideoGame/LikeADragonIshin''. [[spoiler:WordOfGod reveals that's because Hanawa ''is'' Morinaga.]]
32	*** Before playing Boss, Ikkyu Juku previously voiced the owner of Bar Siren in ''VideoGame/LostJudgment''.
33	** English:
34	*** Before taking up the mantle of Kazuma Kiryu, Creator/YongYea previously voiced Yasutaka Shirakaba in ''[[VideoGame/LostJudgment The Kaito Files]]''.
35	*** Boss is voiced by Creator/SungWonCho, who previously voiced Tashiro in ''VideoGame/{{Judgment}}'', Mitsuo Yasumura in ''VideoGame/YakuzaLikeADragon'', and Tesso in ''VideoGame/LostJudgment'', along with a slew of other one-off characters.
36	*** Creator/KirkThornton previously voiced Kaoru Ichinose in ''Judgment'', Toki in ''VideoGame/FistOfTheNorthStarLostParadise'', and the Pocket Circuit Fighter in ''Yakuza: Like a Dragon'' before playing the Head Priest here.
37	*** Haruka's new English voice actress is Creator/XantheHuynh, who previously voiced [[CastingGag Lin]][[note]]Rie Kugimiya, Haruka's Japanese voice actress, voiced Lin as well[[/note]] in ''Lost Paradise'', as well as Kyoko Amasawa in ''Lost Judgment''.

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