Don: Gokudou Suikoden
ドン 極道水滸伝
Date Bukishi is a young man whose family is the old Date-Gumi yakuza group, however, he is not an active part of the Yakuza lifestyle and focuses more on fighting and doing as he pleases. His life turns around when he ends up in prison where he meets his eventually to be most loyal friend, Hyoroken, and together they gather more loyal men to their side, eventually following in the footsteps of the Yakuza world. Conflicts erupt with the Bando-Gumi leader Muroto who is hell-bent on uniting all of the japanese Yakuza under one banner, his banner, and in his way stands the future boss of the Date-Gumi, Bukishi.
Synopsis
Date Bukishi is a young man whose family is the old Date-Gumi yakuza group, however, he is not an active part of the Yakuza lifestyle and focuses more on fighting and doing as he pleases. His life turns around when he ends up in prison where he meets his eventually to be most loyal friend, Hyoroken, and together they gather more loyal men to their side, eventually following in the footsteps of the Yakuza world. Conflicts erupt with the Bando-Gumi leader Muroto who is hell-bent on uniting all of the japanese Yakuza under one banner, his banner, and in his way stands the future boss of the Date-Gumi, Bukishi.
Reviews(1)
TigerOfKoya
August 11, 2025
A great Yakuza anime, compared to many! Its quite forward, little bickering around and not much dead-time with long dialogues of depth so to speak, its very fast forward, alot of action, violence, so straight up Gangster/Yakuza in all aspects! I give it a really good score because it checks every box intended when it comes to a gangster story anime. The dialect spoken throughout the anime is almost exclusively Yakuza slang speak, when you listen closely to it you will hear mostly how it does not sound like the average animes in comparison, they definetly nailed that one to stay more true to Yakuza language, enoughto be compared to Yakuza movies like Outrage (Takeshi Kitano movie, absolute masterpiece) and movies of the same genre. Id imagine it would be hard for an average speaker to subtitle this to english, but both OVAs are currently in production of an accurate english subtitle, so for whoever wants to see this awesome anime with english subs, please check the discussion/topics on this anime's page, OVA 1 with subs should be up and running on youtube any day now.