Inspired by the Yakuza games, this martial arts-trained animator has spent 11 years exploding out of his own clothes because he thought "it looks fun"

Yakuza 7.

The Yakuza games, now the Like a Dragon games, are about a lot of things. Drama, family, accountability, crime. Innovations in bicycle physical therapy. Manly men with manly men, entrepreneurship, and guns that simply do not work. One constant in the famously eclectic games is an aggressive enthusiasm for disrobing. It's a Yakuza staple: the explosive strip, the violent costume change, the dynamite undressing, the 'look at my cool-ass tattoo' unveiling.

Yakuza characters dramatically rip off their clothes with such bravado and regularity that, over 10 years ago, the series inspired animator Aung Zaw Oo (or Azo, online) to master the art of what he calls "clothing tricks" for himself, and I'll be damned if he isn't really, really good at it.