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“WAKAKO OKADA — K*LLED HER HUSBANDS, KNOCKED ‘EM DEAD”. Or at least that’s what I think. This lady is arguably Night City’s most vicious fixer. Don’t let her old age fool you — she’s not a soft granny who’s got no ulterior motives. Let’s take a look at the one fixer I’m personally scared of the most, and explore her early life as seen in Cyberpunk RED and 2077.
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I love your cyberpunk lore videos. They make me love even more Cyberpunk 2077.
Can you do a video on what remains of Edith finch
So Wakako is a zoomer like me…..
Wakako reminds me of my "Ol'miss aunty Pat"
Her name was Patrice, and I genuinely grew up in one of the rougher hoods in Florida (727). Ol'miss aunty Pat kicked het hisband out of the house but kept the marriage because he was a drunk. Wasn't homeless, wasn't alone, but all he had to do was come home sober if he wanted to sleep inside.
She never left him. Always took care of him but very vocally and sometimes physically showed her disapproval of him being a 50y+ mess of a man. What he had to come home to was punishment for his sins, worse than any sin that he could've done. But his punisher had very valid reason, loved him, fed him, and didn't take his bs that's why he slept on my porch 😂
They probably gone now sad as it is… But Miss Pat taught me allot as a man, an old stern woman of all people 🙂
Im glad im not the only one with a distaste for wakako
Day 3 of asking about that feisty French red headed Aurore… it's for a friend
I loved your ending statement, to basically just be a good person. Cheers choom! I need to check out the book.
Babe wake up, a new shaped by stories video dropped.
Wakako is like the grandma that has your back as long as you don't screw her over
Wakako is an old lady in a business that doesn't usually allow old age at all, much less to be at the top. I never took her as less deadly than she is nor trusted her an inch farther than I could throw a car. Such a person in real life….pass.
Wakako has a special place in my gamer heart. I have no illlusion, though, that I deal with an absolute ruthless killer when I happen to deal with her. She also has an affinity for V – or maybe that's an illusion, because V brings in the dough for the gigs she gives him/her. I bet, if V would be the fifth wheel in the game played with Wakako, that wouldn't be the case for long. And I get it: It's nothing "personal", it's "just" business. Still, another ruthless rampager, Goro Takemura, sees right through her. He is the polite gentleman, japanese style, as you'd expect him to be, but after the visit to Wakako (Takemura: "Jigjig street… what kind of name is that?" V: "Just a night city name for a night city place", Takemura understood where he was going and what type of person he would meet there), Takemura tells V outright: He doesn't trust Wakako. At all. On asking why he's so suspicious, Takemura goes full on Arasaka investigator and says that if their "interests" wouldn't be somehow "aligned", he would have no doubts Wakako would have betrayed them on the spot.
And he might very well be right about that. Wakako runs a Pachinko parlor – which is about a japanese gambling machine that notoriously favors the house, but does she care about the financial lives she ruins? No. It's all about the money, and nothing else. When you meet her with Takemura, a big body hustle from the Tyger Claws guards the entrance… she knows when it's time to call in the soliders to protect her. So she is in control every time she thinks she needs to be – even when it's on her own turf and in regard to V, whom she so motherly seems to trust. But still: She basically decides who to get rid of and who may prevail. And if you don't abide? Well, we never find out, but I have high confidence that V would fall way down her priority list to keep him/her alive if Wakako's orders are not followed to the T (most of the time anyway; she accepts deviation if it does not hurt the bottom line). That reminds me of Regina Jones. She also sends out V to do her dirty work. When a certain someone, Taki Kenmochi, hijacks some Pachinko machines in Kabuki – where Regina has a private residence – she demands V to kill Taki. I never do that, mostly because I don't think Taki deserves to die for half a dozen Pachinko machines she took over from the previous owner (he mysteriously fell "out of a window"). And also because: I don't kill anyobody just because Regina calls me up and tells me "kill!". That she expects me to do that so casually, just because Taki is inconvenient to her, actually makes Regina a villainous character in my book. It's a moral decision of mine not to kill Taki for that small town gangster grift she has going in Kabuki. If Regina likes it or not, but my decision is this: Alright… I do the gig – but I keep Taki and her crew alive.
Back to Wakako: She had like what? Five husbands? All dead. Since the 2020's in that world, full cyborgization was principally possible. Life extending technology was available for decades, but still: All her husbands are dead now. We could make an argument that her husbands were probably in cahoots with the Tyger Claws – simply because Wakako is in cahoots with them – and the life expectancy of a Tyger Claw member is rather measured in days than in years, specifically when a merc like V roams the streets of Japantown. Still: They were probably higher up in the hirarchy… what happened to them?
I could take a wild guess… you would probably agree: Wakako knows exactly when, how and most importantly "why" her husbands were joining the void.
The only real care Wakako seems to show, is for her old friend and netrunner, Chang Hoon Nam, who mysteriously vanished and was missing for days before Wakako finally took notice and sends V out to find him at his last known location. Chang tells V that Wakako "always" tries to "persuade" him to join her for a bowl of rahmen. It is possible she regards Chang as a potential future sixth husband for actually paying V a good amount of money to find him. Even though Wakako is objectively powerful in Japantown, I wouldn't be so keen in Chang's position to vie for the next entry to be one of Wakako's husbands… because they have the tendency to end up dead.
In the end: There is not much to make a final decision about the categories "good" or "bad" when it comes to Wakako. She seems nice and straight forward enough towards V, and given all the deaths in her wake, that's actually good enough for me.
Yakuza Moon!!! I remember reading it in high school! It made me so happy to have someone mention it! Great video! I will be watching more! 😁
Are these reposts?
In my first run I fell for the helpful nice old lady routine. I liked her and knew she wasn't all nice and that but I didn't realise just how sinister she is until I looked deeper and payed more attention on my current run. Oh boy
Still waiting on the Solomon Reed video 😊
dangerous granny, but very sweet nonetheless. reminding me of my late grandma who passed away last year. Very strict but caring to the family. trully Asian grandma
I absolutely love Wakako, she is my favorite fixer
I think that on one of Wakako's legs we can see Hannya — a mask of a traditional Japanese theater archetype, resembling a bitter and vengeful female demon. It's actually the same as with Majima in Yakuza game series. But while Hannya on Majima reflects how unhinged and at the same time feminine and even a bit tragic he is, I think that with Wakako it should remind us of how ruthless and resentful she is. Also I think that if that face is actually Hannya, it also cements Wakako's image as a black widow: Hannya is a perfect embodiment of female jealousy.
There's also one more element related to Hannya. When you turn an original mask to a certain angle, it looks like the mask is crying. Hannya is not just a one dimensional archetype, this female demon is meant to be also hurt and tragic at times. I don't think that we see that much of that side of Wakako but she cares about some of her mercs, right? And also obviously her sons and her friends and the story of her first husband isn't exactly a comedy either.
We probably don't even need to see Wakako's bare back. Maybe it's even meant to be known to anybody, it's meant to be the most private part of her self-image. She's a pretty private person, after all. But if my suggestion is correct and there's indeed a Hannya mask on her leg, we can make some conclusions out of it too.
My dude this video is your best yet. ❤ Thank you!!
Here is the blurb for Caesaria incase anybody is curious to what it's about😊
Seven centuries have passed since our world ended.
Dominating the island remains of Ontario is a resolute tribe known as the Georgians. Lucy, a young shieldmaiden among their ranks, yearns for a quiet life, denied her by the ambitions of her family. When a foreign ship wrecks upon Georgian shores, their peaceful idyll is at last broken.
At the behest of her father, Lucy reluctantly sets out to eliminate any survivors, only to cross paths with an enigmatic, golden-haired stranger. Wily beyond measure and frighteningly capable, disaster quickly strikes in his wake.
In vengeful madness, Lucy resolves to hunt this stranger to the ends of the earth. As Lucy's shame and regret send her plummeting towards her own destruction, her prey is all too familiar with the fire in her eyes. Only he can save her from her own demise.
I understand why Jig Jig street would be scary to you. A lady like you could end up with a job they don't want there.
23:09 Wakako has Raiden on her leg. I've never seen Raiden tatooed on anyone before. It's usually Dragons, Hanya or Koi.
In one of Wakako’s gigs where V has to go get the corp-cracker from the club. Theres a message on the computer where the tyger claw that stole it brags about how she stole it and killed the woman selling it. In the response her boss tells her shes made a big mistake because “you dont fuck with Wakako’s people”. Then tells her to turn the club into a fortress as Wakako won’t let it slide. Just shows that the senior claws know very well to fear her and what happens when you cross her.
Great b-roll! Also, if you want to please the algorithm, you could add chapters to the vids 🙂
I always intentionally allow myself to be kidnapped by the Scavs in each playthrough JUST so I can decimate that specific district's operation and prevent them from ever again pulling that on an unsuspecting Night Citian 😉💪
At least in THAT district,anyway, as I'm sure they do this all over Night City.
In-game phone rings. Pick it up. “V, honey!” Wakako.
Game did not let me respond with “Oh eff no!” before she could really get started.
Buuuuut, here’s a like for video following River swaggering along wit dat ass!
The rest of your vid was good, too.
Still holding out for a Claire video! ❤
Knowing Evelyn "style" if she ever walked to Wakako, I can totally see Wakako throwing her in to the pit with dogs. Evelyn brought to munch sassiness with herself to back it up with deeds, the opposite of Wakako.
Still, she helps you if she can and is always available to anyone – this is what her location allows, she is embodiment of Dao in this cursed city, also Eastern teaching worth of researching. 😉
Yakuza Moon is one of my favorite book alongside Tokyo Vice, as it pertains to autobiographies. I still have my original copies of both. I actually just recommended Yakuza Moon to a coworker who wanted to understand the yakuza better. I am so happy seeing that someone else has read it and it also recommending it to people.