Miracle Johnson

Miracle Johnson
ミラクル・ジョンソン (Mirakuru Jonson)
Also Known As
Nicknames	Popstar Prince
Biographical
Nationality	American
Physical
Hair Color	Black
Associations
Relationships	Stephen Spining (manager) Papillon Kato (acquaintance) Kazuma Kiryu (acquaintance, employer)
Occupation	Pop star Real Estate Advisor
Affiliation	Real Estate Royale
Other
Appears In	Yakuza 0
Actors
Japanese	Fumiyoshi Shioya

Miracle Johnson (ミラクル・ジョンソン, Mirakuru Jonson) is a character featured in Yakuza 0. He is a pop star based on real-life celebrity pop star Michael Jackson^WP.

Involvement

Yakuza 0: 1988

Miracle shoots a music video in Kamurocho with the help of Spining and Kiryu. Spining is the director of the music video, and, per Papillon Kato's suggestion, Kiryu serves as his bodyguard. In said video, Miracle performs his "Miracle Walk" (a reference to the Moonwalk^WP), while under attack by actors dressed as zombies. Against the wishes of director Spining, Miracle insisted that the zombie actors attack him for real, as the "thrill" wouldn't be authentic otherwise. Kiryu is brought on board to ensure they don't go too far. After the video shooting is done, Miracle gives Kiryu a reward: a choice between a black or white box.

Having bought out Maharaja to dance alone, Miracle is pleased to see Kiryu again, and challenges him to a dance battle. Miracle wins easily but is impressed by Kiryu's spirit and once more offers him a choice between a black or white box, and also offers his services as an advisor for Kiryu's real estate business.

Related Substories

• Miracle on Tenkaichi Street
• Miracle in Maharaja

Trivia

• The English localization of Yakuza 0 also added further references to Jackson's songs into Johnson's dialogue, particularly including lyrics from many of Jackson's most famous songs.
• Being a reference to the late popstar, one of the songs credited to him, I'm Gonna Make Her Mine, is a direct pastiche of Michael Jackson's Bad^WP from the album of the same name.
• In Miracle in Maharaja, no matter the difficulty of the song, Miracle Johnson always keeps a combo that is 2 greater than what is physically possible to achieve and each note always gives him the maximum possible score value that is added from steps regardless of how many actual steps he takes, making it impossible to beat him normally even with the perfect inputs. He always gets 9,270 score on Easy, 10,490 on Normal and 15,210 on Hard. If the game is hacked to somehow exceed his score, there is still no outcome where he can lose, as one was never scripted in.
  • When the Disco minigame ends, Miracle Johnson also uniquely achieves the Popstar Prince rank, which cannot be obtained in regular gameplay or by other AI opponents.

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