How did you find out about Yakuza?

I'm making a series of threads in the New Members section, since it's empty other than the introduction thread.
Making question threads that are easy to interact with and have something to add to.

How did you find out about Yakuza/Ryū ga Gotoku?

I found out about the series via Dunkey's video, I forgot about it for a while and didn't become interested enough to play until seeing Vinesauce Joel's streams of Yakuza Kiwami more recently. After watching the stream vods that were available I wanted to see more, so I watched one of those "full movie" videos of Yakuza Kiwami to catch up. After that I decided to play Yakuza 2, and so on so forth it became my favorite game series as I played all of the games.

How did you find out about Yakuza? Word of mouth? Advertisment? A video about it? I'm curious to know.

I found out about the series thanks to Dunkey's video on Yakuza Zero and Angry Joes Angry Review to the game on You Tube. Not long after I saw top 10 Videos from ZoomInGames and devilleon7 that supported my opinion on buying Yakuza Zero. I bought it on 03.03.2017. I also played Zelda Breath of the Wild at the time but I had more fun with Yakuza Zero then with this said masterpiece. After it I couldn't wait for Kiwamis release to play more Yakuza and since then I played every entry except 6 who I will play finally this year. My favourite Game Series came out of nowhere and I couldn't live without it now.

@Zeraslight wrote: I couldn't wait to play more Yakuza .

I can relate heavily, my payday seems like it's taking forever to come, I just want to buy Kiwami 2 haha.

I found out about the series when the original yakuza was realesed cause im a sucker for organzied crime stuff, But yakuza 0 was my first exprience playing the game simply because i didnt had a ps2 or ps3 at that time to play older games, it quickly became the best game of all time to me

It was really odd how I found out about the series. Back in 2015 I had received a press release for Yakuza 5, but had never heard of the series. I chose to review it after a friend shared with me a video about the series, and I have grown to love it ever since.

I found out about Yakuza by searching a shenmue like game and what a surprise when i discovered than in my opinion it is way better than shenmue.
I am afraid that shenmue 3 won't be as great as a Yakuza game.
I never understand why Yakuza is so much underrated in the West btw.

The series always interested me every now and then, but when Zero came out I saw a couple reviews and a friend that's a Yakuza crazy fanatic convinced me to get it. Fell in love after playing Zero, have played now Kiwami, 3, 4, & 5 up to this date.

@STRANGEgenius wrote:friend that's a Yakuza crazy fanatic.

is @CREEPnCRAWL being called out

Michael wrote:

@STRANGEgenius wrote:friend that's a Yakuza crazy fanatic.

is @CREEPnCRAWL being called out
   

Nope hahahahah

I would always notice @STRANGEgenius playing through the series when I jumped on the PS4.