Yakuza Characters That Disappeared 

They should've killed or retired him

He would've just went: oh you wanna know who the father is? Look at this camera I placed in harukas left toe

He shoulda at least made a appearance in lad 8

Part of the bucket list

feel like he could easily be shoveled into the daidoji one way or anither especially if none of his previous bases are still standing

Purgatory gets a memoir at Kamarocho Hills and the Florist is mentioned in it, but that's all we get

Nor did Kuze or Shibusawa, which I found completely baffling

Kuze and shibusawa I get why Kiryu wouldn't want to think about them. But the florist was a close ally and Kiryu even helped his family. You would think he would at least get a goodbye even if he wasn't an informant anymore.

@@MrWineTaster1997 Zero has a questionable amount of relevance to the overall franchise unfortunately.

​@@giantcrayfish2866well thats what happens when a prequel is made when the series is already five mainline games deep with two remakes for the first two games that expands a bit on some stuff 0 established, with the "finale" for Kiryu supposedly being in 6

ion remember. what was the "mention"?

@@redbaronmars4176 at the start of the game when Ebina and Ichiban are talking by the docks, he talks about the 2nd great dissolution and mentions that they're also trying to involve the Ryudo family, Kitakata family (or whatever the guys who wore red were in Y5) and the Hiroshima Yakuza (either the Yomei alliance or the Hirose family)

​@@DatisDHShorts The guys in red tracksuits were the Yamagasa Family, from Kiryu's part of the game. The Kitakata would be the ones from Hokkaido.

It was crazy how a 1/3 of the ryudo family was killed over the course of yakuza 3

A grampa. 4 years he could've even Gonna back to The police or a private detective

I like to imagine it , or at least have heard it from the games after 5 , they completely vanished him into the shadow realm

He might got killed after accidentally stumbled upon the secret of onomichi

Except Kazama/Joji's VA passed away in 2020. Eleven years after Y3, five years after Y0. His Ishin counterpart was voiced by someone else who also passed away. So no, that is not the reason why Joji never came back.

@@oscarprudencio1799 Sorry I misspoke. I know he died in 2020. I’m saying that I wouldn’t be surprised that his illness (which was probably made worse to due to his age) is what caused said cast change and short 0 screen time before his passing. Didn’t mean to pass it as fact, although the reason we’re not seeing him from here on out is cuz of his death.

But they did! you can actually play as him in infinite wealth, but people are stupid and think it's Kiryu (minor character from dead souls) i hope that one day we will be able to play as joryu again

​@@OneAndOnlyDave117Play Gaiden, Joryu is actually Taichi Suzuki, that's why they're so similar!

@@maxisdead2153 they’re not, at the end of gaiden, Joryu changes his name to Taichi Suzuki to commit identity theft

You mean taichi suzuki from The Second part of y4

Probaly got put in The car ticket departament after he helped a civilian journalist date drop some paper with The police helicopter.

@@samfire3067As sad as it is, that would canonically fit perfectly. Seeing as Horinouchi would almost definitely be Commissioner of Tokyo by the time of 5 following Munakata (then Deputy Commissioner) being exposed as a criminal mastermind, he had no reason not to do to Sudo what was done to Adachi. Hopefully Date mentions him or Ichiban gets to meet him. I’d still like to see Date pop in now and then somewhere like New Serena if we get to make a stop in Kamurocho just bartending and having a chat. He’s basically the only adult character from 1 who isn’t Kiryu’d or dead.

Infinite Wealth spoilers . . . . . . . . Man, what a wasted opportunity to not have Sudo reappear in 8, even if its as part of Date's Poundmate attack.

@@Ulqui_210 continuing the spoilers a little . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . I'm kinda annoyed he wasn't there at the return to japan scene instead of a nameless policeman with date, it was the perfect place to have him return, but it didn't happen

one of the coolest tattoos in the series too

Yesss! I really wanted to see him alongside Majima. Majima could have a spinoff game where he and Nishida appear as his offices. I would've loved more focus on the Yakuza families anyway. Like, not only Majimas but also Saejimas which we know nothing about.

I can explain to you why they never came back with a simple phrase: They are modeled after their actors.

@@DarkkirbyKRPG i mean, there are other characters who were based on their actors and still able to come back in later entries. Not all, but still

​@@drandescancelled2825Only the important ones like Yagami or Nanba.

Kido get the Yuta treatment, one time contract only

@@diegordi1394 I mean, Arai is literally a second villain after Munakata

Feels more like filler than anything. Yeah we establish the Orphanage and Kashiwagi dying, but other than that the plot is so self contained (and terrible) that you could essentially remove the main plot from canon and it wouldn't matter.

@@literaryloser4470 not only that, RGG also takes the things they establish there in the canon and just retcon it by having 3 people that got killed in that game actually survive and come back in Yakuza 7 and 8, at this point I wouldn't be surprised if Mine will come back for Yakuza 9 teaming up with Ryuji or something lol

What hilarious is his script notes being included as dialogue. "Why are you here" "I'm not actually sure" 💀

@@deathcrunch9020 the 4th wall is in crumbles with this one

Him being there and not even being sure why feels like a meta joke

He's modeled after his actor. That should be explanation enough for him, alongside every other character with this feature.

For I sec I thought you meant the chef who gives you the food boosts

​@@thebeastwithin6978 that's tatsuya

Maybe in Yakuza 12 Ichi will be 62 Years old. 😂 but on the serious note. They could make him slightly younger. Like his brith year could have been 1980

That's a point I hadn't considered, and a very interesting one. RGGS making the games take place when the game released made sense as a practice because it both kept the setting current and also because RGGS used to have a "at least one game every year" policy, so you never really had that much of a timeskip per games. Now that games take much longer to make, perhaps they should stop trying to set each game in the year they release in, specially with Ichiban's age being a factor. Granted Kiryu was a playable protagonist at age 55, and Ichiban is never leaving the RPG style, so maybe it could work well into his 50s. However I do agree it'd be best not to keep doing the timeskips.

@@DarkkirbyKRPG do you think a Ichiban prequel could work perhaps add Yamai do the mix i’m not sure it could work I mean ask an RGG fan pre 0 of a prequel maybe they say, like how could that work? I don’t know 😆

he died of fentanyl overdose

Yakuza 3's problem was never the story

Don’t forget the whole Saejima Family as well as Kido and the rest of his boys from jail

They don’t really need to be in the plot, aside from fanservice. They’re cool but they’re not always 100% needed

And every time the 'jimas come back, their only role is to be jobbers. First they job to Ichiban and his party, then to Shishido. They deserve better.

​@@ChamChamRealSmoothTf? Did you play the game bro? Majima and Saejima don't lose to Ichi and crew, they just stop fighting after Arakawa and Dojima arrive. As for Shishido, Kiryu wanted to deal with him alone so they let him do that.

Most of the fandom loves him, you just met a twitter user

This video mostly focuses on characters that didn't get a sendoff or mention in Infinite Wealth. Tanimura, surprisingly, gets a reminiscence moment from Kiryu, regretting letting him drop off his life but also not wanting to put his career at risk by contacting him. Same reason why Shinada is not mentioned by the video either. He gets a moment too.

@@DarkkirbyKRPG Ah, I haven't gotten to that point in Infinite Wealth yet.

A lot of people hate him for being a cop in a yakuza game, which is a dumb reason since he’s pretty cool

He does he's in the english dub 😂😅

To be honest, I feel Kuze served his purpose in Kiryu's story, I think the final words he exchanged with kiryu was a good sendoff before he was arrested in 0.

I'm convinced that the Nick Ogata role was originally meant for Akiyama. He knows about all the 3jimas and is friends with them. Why wouldn't he hide them. Since he didn't appear, they had to explain why in 8 saying that he was out of country.

Kido on the bottom of the river:

Hana isn't forgotten though. She shows up in 4, talks with Akiyama in 5, and is mentioned in 6 that he sent her home for her safety. In 7 Akiyama himself doesn’t appear and only appears in 8 in two of Kiryu's life links, so there's no reason for Hana to be there.

He erased his name and became Hanawa

He died in Infinite Wealth

Yeah... About that

Its a shame Tanimura and Shinada never show up outside of the games they were introduced in (Y4 & Y5 respectively), well in mainline ones at least.

Their occupations meant that they had very little leeway in maintaining connections to career criminals. Tanimura really only passed in 4 because he helped arrest a national criminal, and Shinada was just a normal guy who happened to train like an anime character because he loves baseball.

His arc was finished in 0, he's an actor based character, and most games were made before 0.

According to RGG Online "After spending 10 years in prison, Kuze is released and is offered a chance to return to the Tojo Clan by Third Chairman Masaru Sera and his predecessor, Takashi Nihara, if he completes a special mission for them. Tojo headquarters had learned that the Jingweon Mafia were currently trying to recruit Ryuji Goda for a partnership, which could lead to the Jingweon and the Omi Alliance joining forces against the Tojo. Kuze's and Ichiban Kasuga's mission would be to assassinate Ryuji and the Jingweon agent trying to recruit him, Han Jon Gi"

@AzysAnimzimr Spending 10 years WHERE ???

shinada

He's dead

​@DarkkirbyKRPG so were Kashiwagi, Lau, and Richardson