Lazy Bum YAKUZA (ニート極道, Nīto Gokudou, lit. "NEET Yakuza") is an original YouTube channel created by Urasekai-labo where manga is written and read aloud by various actors. It's a series about a lazy bum living with his parents and finding himself becoming a Yakuza member, although it has anthology stories about people who join the Yakuza with explanations of how the gangs work.
The English channel can be found here
. Urasekai-labo's original Japanese channel can be found here.
Lazy Bum YAKUZA provides examples of the following tropes:
- Broken Pedestal: Tsuyoshi beats his father Iwaki up to near death after finding out he wasn't a Yakuza boss in the Youkan clan, but a common thug. However, he becomes a Yakuza boss anyway since he couldn't perceive any other way to live.
- Criminal Found Family: Twenty years after ending up in prison for beating his father Iwaki to death, Tsuyoshi leads his own gang and considers the Yakuza his true family out of feeling he didn't really have a chance to live legit due to being born to a shoplifter and a Yakuza thug, and himself helping with both parties' crimes and being a delinquent in his teenage years. Since the day he met Iwaki, he couldn't envision any other way to live.
- Dirty Coward: Iwaki tried to join the Ooban clan after his own gang excommunicated him for selling drugs to teens, but they all whooped his ass. The Ooban boss also warns Tsuyoshi that Iwaki will rat him out to the cops when things get out of hand.
- Evil Parents Want Good Kids: Iwaki wants his son Tsuyoshi to live legit unlike him. However, he fails at trying since he bragged about his time at the gangs and even had Tsuyoshi assist him in his shady work.
- Japanese Delinquents: Tsuyoshi Noguchi became a delinquent after the hardships he endured at the orphanage after his shoplifting mother ran off when the authorities caught him. It becomes even worse when he meets his father Masaru Iwaki.
- Yubitsume: In this story, the Ooban clan boss tells Tsuyoshi that they don't do that anymore, and that the offender must have done something really stupid for that.
