”The Yakuza's Bias, Vol 1” by Teki Yatsuda

I was howling and guffawing my way through ”The Yakuza's Bias, Vol 1” by Teki Yatsuda.

What a clever and brilliant way of showing the true (and scary!) powers only true fans possesses!

In masses, fans are scary! And like this gag manga, it doesn't feel like the underworld and the honor codex of the Yakuza is far of from any fanbase, really!

Ken Kanashiro is a hardboiled yakuza guy who has earned the right to call himself second-in-command in the Washio Clan. He has been through many battles and has the scars to prove it. When the daughter of the president drags him along to a K-pop concert, his heart is moved in ways he never imagined could happen, and a new world has opened for him. Now, he's Jun's biggest fan! A role he doesn't take lightly.

Smitten like a new recruit on his first job, Ken plunges into fandom with the solemnity and passion only a true man who walks the way of the yakuza could muster.

Honestly, watching the daughter of the president dragging him further into her K-pop world was like watching someone sign a contract with the devil. *BWAHAHA.

Everyone has been a fan of something, and being a fan of something can both be intense and ugly, but also freeing and uniting people of all social standings, across the world and genders.

This was funny and silly, but it was so easy to see myself in all of the different characters.

Who knew I had so much in common with the Yakuza?!

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