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March 24, 2011
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The kanji to the left look very wrong.
Posted by: Acase | March 24, 2011 at 02:49 PM
That's because it's not kanji. It's Korean Hangul for "hapkido."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hapkido
Posted by: Max Pinton | March 24, 2011 at 03:31 PM
The comments on the original post say the guy let the artist change that part as part of his "signature".
Posted by: WackoMcGoose | March 24, 2011 at 03:34 PM
He didn't pay for the tattoo, he won it in a contest run by Sega.
Posted by: L33tminion | March 24, 2011 at 08:26 PM
I wonder why they didn't use Horitomo, from State of Grace as the tattoo artist, considering that he was the artist who designed all the tattoo work for the Yakuza games.
Here's an old interview from 1Up... (it's my understanding that 'tomo did the work for Yakuza 4 also) http://www.1up.com/features/tattoo-you?pager.offset=0
Posted by: Danjb | March 25, 2011 at 03:07 PM
He definitely need to hit the gym.
Posted by: Necopost | April 17, 2011 at 10:19 AM