Project Judge stars Takuya Kimura as a tough lawyer named Takayuki Yagami. In the game, he beats up baddies with punches, kicks and a variety of weapons including a vibrator.
Kimura is a pop star, actor and celebrity. He’s been called the Brad Pitt of Japan. Yet, even that comparison doesn’t seem fitting, because he’s been on hugely successful albums, starred in smash hit movies and iconic TV dramas, done long-running TV shows, lent his voice to Howl’s Moving Castle and has sold Levis jeans in Japan.
He has launched numerous fashion trends, and like James Dean, caused a generation of young men to copy the way he talked and carried himself.
Here’s Takuya Kimura.. The actor who plays Detective Takayuki Yagami in Judge Eyes. It looks just like him as well ????????.. #JudgeEyes pic.twitter.com/ABTd5yKu0A
— Rayyan – ラヤン – kiwami 2 (@SUPERSONIC4k) September 11, 2018
Sega’s Yakuza team is developing Project Judge and bringing grittiness and silliness players have come to expect.
ハンバーガー屋で大暴れするキムタク pic.twitter.com/nSIaZieLIv
— 吉田輝和 (@yoshidaterukazu) September 10, 2018
People are having a good time watching Kimura, whose simply known as “Kimutaku” in Japan, go bananas in-game. For fans, that’s part of the game’s appeal.
こんなキムタクずるいよ・・・絶対面白いよ・・・ pic.twitter.com/5EgEkm26Ex
— Bon (@bon_nonta) September 10, 2018
Kimura’s character can also dress up in an array of goofy outfits. Even though Kimura’s image is that of a “cool guy,” he’s worn silly costumes on Japanese TV, so this won’t seem out of character.
ゲーマーとか龍が如くファンの人達がゲームの予告見て変装機能の部分でキムタクwwwってなってるけど木村拓哉は20年以上のプロですご安心ください pic.twitter.com/bworlxNBUV
— 都市子 (@mikan_1045) September 10, 2018
The vibrator seems new, however. I don’t recall ever see him with that.
Kimura belongs to a strict talent agency, which has traditionally frowned upon its members publicly dating or even getting married. (Kimura has already broken these rules when he married singer Shizuka Kudo and had two daughters.)
So the idea that a member of this talent agency would be wielding a vibrator is inconceivable!
In the game, one of the weapons Kimura can use looks like a Magic Wand. The Japanese slang for the device is denma (電マ), short for dendou massaajiki (電動マッサージ器) or “electric massage device.” However, in Project Judge, it’s simply referred to as a massaajiki (マッサージ器) or “massage device.”
10年前の自分に「将来キムタクが電マで敵をぶん殴るゲームが出るよ」って言っても信じないと思う #judge pic.twitter.com/D6jS5IYCQS
— てきと (@tekitou3) September 11, 2018
電マで殴打するキムタク #PS4share pic.twitter.com/IMYbSyiMkU
— kP (@wryyyyyy03) September 11, 2018
One Twitter user wrote, “If I had been told me ten years ago that game would come out with Takuya Kimura hitting enemies with a denma, I don’t think I would have believed it.”
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Well that’s new game that won’t get released over here. It’s the D&D rule to get a game banned – Drugs & Dildos!!