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Krazy Kyo

Krazy Kyo (born 1962) was a Japanese punk rock musician who served as the vocalist of the Yokomichi Silvers during the 1980s, and, from 1988, as a real estate advisor for Kazuma Kiryu's real estate business in Kabukicho, Tokyo.

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"Krazy Kyo" was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1962, and he befriended fellow musicians Tarashi and Aku and started a band, the Yokomichi Silvers, during the 1980s. They once performed while dressed in the yanki style as a one-time joke, but they soon acquired a following of rebellious youths, forcing them to conform to the yanki image and adopt violent alter egos such as "Krazy Kyo", "Sleazy Tarashi", and "Bad Boy Aku". On 12 December 1988, they were scheduled to hold a concert and a meet-and-greet in Kabukicho's Theater Square, and Kyo panicked about the event until he came across the former yakuza Kazuma Kiryu, whom Kyo asked to help train him and his bandmates how to become true "hooligans". Kiryu taught them to use mechanical slang because of the yankis' idolization of America's leather-clad, motorcycle-riding greasers of the 1950s and 1960s, and also to change their backstories to involve fighting and rebellion. Ultimately, the band was able to perform onstage and receive a rave audience response from their rehearsed responses to the crowd's questions, and Kyo thanked Kiryu for his help and promised that the band would reach new heights of fame now that they had survived their first interview. Kiryu would later recruit Krazy Kyo as an advisor for his real estate firm after Kyo, seeking to learn more about hooliganism, begged Kiryu to let him work at his office and help with his business.

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