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| “ | A real man... oughta be a little stupid. Schemin' fuck like you... could never stand on top. | „ |
| ~ Ryuji to Ryo Takashima before killing him. |
Ryuji Goda is a major character of Sega's Like a Dragon (Ryū ga Gotoku, formerly known as Yakuza in the west) franchise.
He is one of the two main antagonists (alongside Yukio Terada) and final boss of the 2006 video game Yakuza 2 (as well as its 2017 remake Yakuza Kiwami 2). He later returns as the anti-heroic main antagonist of the substory "Rise of the Dragon" in the 2015 video game Yakuza 0. He is also one of the main protagonists of the non-canon games, Yakuza: Dead Souls and Ryu Ga Gotoku Online.
Ryuji is the 2nd patriarch of the Go-Ryu Clan, a subsidiary of the Omi Alliance and the adoptive son of the Omi Alliance's chairman, Jin Goda. Due to his influence, he has received the title of "The Dragon of Kansai". He dreams of taking over the Omi Alliance, destroying the Tojo Clan, and defeat his arch-rival, Kazuma Kiryu, so he could become the one and only "supreme dragon".
Biography[]
Yakuza 0[]
Ryuji Goda chronologically first appears in Yakuza 0 in two different sub stories. Even though he’s only 12, Ryuji retains his massive build.
Rise Of The Dragon[]
In this substory, Goro Majima first meets a young student who lacks pants (or Bontan), and after beating them up, they explain that a "Bontan Hunter" nabbed his bontan after getting beaten up. Later on, Majima then meets a massive blond-haired boy who threatens to take his pants. Majima refuses, to which the Bontan Hunter decides to use force and claims that "Peelin' is better than Stealin'". After a battle with the Bontan Hunter, two young boys explain to Majima about how Ryuji is still in Elementary, and even talk about how his father was a big shot Yakuza (his father is actually Jin Goda, chairman of the Omi Alliance), and how he was shunned at school for it.
The Visionary Fortune-Teller[]
In this substory, Kazuma Kiryu meets a fortune teller after hearing gossip from two other women. After meeting said fortune teller, who told him various foreshadowing about the future events from having to take the blame for a serious crime and going to prison for a friend of his, to eventually meeting up with a tall, blond-haired man after the whole fortune telling. Coincidentally, Ryuji Goda bumps into Kiryu, before noting the city of Kamurocho before him.
Yakuza 2/Kiwami[]
Kiryu is told by Daigo Dojima that Ryuji once invited him to come to the Kansai region to fight with him. When Daigo had arrived Ryuji had cops in the area they were supposed to meet, thus resulting in Daigo going to jail for five years.
Ryuji is first introduced when Kiryu is sitting in the cabaret club The Grand in Sotenbori. One of his minions praises him and states that he is "the Dragon of Kansai". This angers Ryuji, who disciplines his subordinate violently. Kiryu attempts to intervene and ends up fighting and defeating Ryuji's cohorts. Ryuji is impressed and allows Kiryu to drink with him. He reveals that he disapproves of being called the "Dragon of Kansai", as it implies that there is more than one person worthy of being given the title of a dragon, and he believes that there can be only one. He then goes on to mention that in Kamurocho, a man named Kazuma Kiryu (the character he is speaking to, the protagonist) has gained the title "Dragon of Dojima" due to his success in the yakuza Tojo Clan's fraction, the Dojima Family. He states that he is planning to attack Kamurocho later that day and in the process kill Kiryu and become the one and only dragon.
Kiryu and Daigo meet with the authorities of the Omi Alliance to make a peace treaty between it and the Tojo Clan.
As Kiryu and Daigo are meeting with Jin Goda, Ryuji's adoptive father and the chairman of the Omi Alliance and its executives, Ryuji leads the Go Ryu Clan in an invasion of the building, an attempt to overthrow the current ruling body of the yakuza and replace it. It is revealed that Ryuji does not want there to be a peace treaty and instead wants a gang war between the two yakuza. Some of Ryuji's minions take the chairman so Daigo stays behind to fight Ryuji whilst Kiryu goes to save him. When Kiryu makes it out of the building Ryuji comes after him and the two fight. Kiryu beats Ryuji.
Ryuji has the Millennium Tower blown up with people in it, several of which die.
Ryuji attends chairman Terada of the Tojo Clan's funeral due to their close past. When Kiryu rescues Haruka from an executive of the Omi Alliance that kidnapped her, Ryuji kills the executive, disgusted by the idea of abducting a child. Due to the fact Kiryu had just been weakened by having a fight Ryuji does not wish to fight him as if he defeats him whilst he is in a weakened state he will not truly become the one and only dragon.
Kiryu and Date later discover that Ryuji is the brother of Sayama and that their mother was killed in the Dojima Family's invasion on the Jingweon Mafia's base.
Ryuji invites Kiryu to meet him at the top of the Kamurocho Hills building site to have their final showdown, at which point Kiryu and Sayama arrive and reveal to Ryuji that he and Sayama are siblings.
Kiryu and Ryuji get into a cage and battle things out, Kiryu defeats Ryuji once again.
Takashima attempts to shoot Sayama dead but before he can Ryuji shoots him several times and kills him. Takashima manages to get some shots into Ryuji and as a result he is dying.
Despite the presence of the bomb atop the building site, as well as Ryuji's mortal injuries, he requests to fight Kiryu once again. To honor the request of a dying man, Kiryu agrees. Kiryu and Ryuji enter the area where the bomb was placed, and send Sayama to safety by activating the elevator she is standing on. A bloody showdown ensues, and Kiryu defeats Ryuji for the final time. Sayama makes her way up to see him and reaches them as soon as Ryuji's body begins to give up. She holds Ryuji in her arms and he comments that the first time he saw her he thought she looked a lot like his mother. He asks her to smile for him, and Ryuji dies in her arms not long after she does.
Yakuza Dead Souls (Non Canon)[]
In this story, Ryuji survived his encounters with Kiryu. He lost his arm and was expelled from the Omi Alliance. He was given a prosthetic arm that can transform into a gattling gun and is now working at a Takoyaki Shop.
During the zombie outbreaks, he first appears at the Battling Center and helps Majima and Akiyama to get rid of the zombies in the area.
He then search for Testuo Nikaido. On the way, he will be brought to a Tojo Clan quarter where he and the Tojo's men will be attacked by Hayashi. Hayashi kills all the Tojo's men and escapes. The Tojo men then wake up as zombies and Ryuji kills them. He then receives a call from Nikaido who wants to meet him in Asia.
Upon arriving in Asia, he sees Haruka's hands tied to a pole. Nikaido then appears and proposes to Ryuji to help him to rebuild the Omi Alliance. But Ryuji refuses claiming that Nikaido had gone too far and that a lot of people died because of him. Nikaido then shows the Takoyaki Shop's owner who has been infected. Nikaido leaves with Haruka, as Ryuji is left with the owner and fights him. After the fight upon seeing him on the ground, he kills him to put an end to his suffering and claim he will run the shop for him at his place.
He later meets Kiryu at the Gunsmith and the two decide to save Haruka and put an end to Nikaido and DD's operation. When Nikaido, Haruka and DD are localized in the Millenium Tower, Ryuji and Kiryu then go there.
Upon arriving at the Millenium Tower, they first meet Hayashi and fight him. After Hayashi's death, they continue their route to the last floor of the Millenium Tower. They then meet Nikaido and DD on the last floor. After saving Haruka and getting rid of two Arahabaki. Ryuji faces Nikaido who tells him he did all of that for him. However before Goda can intervene, DD injects Thanatos into Nikaido and kills him. When Nikaido wakes up, Ryuji and Kiryu fight him. When Nikaido change into Oikazuchi Omega. He saves Haruka from being crushed by stone and lets Kiryu deal with Nikaido.
After Nikaido's defeat and DD's death. He was last seen working in the takoyaki shop, serving takoyaki to Kiryu and Haruka.
Personality[]
Ryuji is a goal-driven and ambitious man. This is especially evident when he aims to defeat Kiryu to take the title of the "one true dragon" and in his ambition to wage a war between the Tojo Clan and the Omi Alliance. Ryuji can be ruthless, but unlike many other yakuza, he adheres to a strict, personal moral code. Ryuji believes that strength is the ultimate virtue and that only those who demonstrate strength deserve to wield power. He has very open contempt for underhanded and manipulative tactics and those who use them to seize power, like Toranosuke Sengoku and Ryo Takashima.
His style of fighting also reflects his personality. He prefers a head-on approach, has a sense of honor, and sees Kiryu as a worthy opponent. Not only does he considers him a great opponent, but Ryuji also doesn't enjoy an unfair victory. When he had the opportunity to kill Kiryu, who was exhausted and vulnerable, he stayed his blade in order to fight him one-on-one on equal ground. He dislikes being called the "Dragon of Kansai" as he believes there is only room for one dragon, and warns his subordinates to never use that alias. Although the term "Dragon" is acceptable.
Ryuji is also selfless, however. He doesn't hesitate to take bullets to protect his half-sister and Kiryu. He is self-aware of his flaws, notably his tendency to be impulsive. He states that a real man sometimes must act before they think, acknowledging that he always believed he'd die young.
Ryuji is a proud man, evidenced by him challenging Kiryu to a fight after being shot. In a rare instance, Kiryu showed immense respect to an opponent by calling Ryuji "the man I thought you were" and stating that he would go all-out in response to Ryuji challenging him to a fight. In the end, he expressed regret that he and his sister didn't get to spend more time with each other. That and the fact that he deeply cherishes the memory of his mother proves that family bonds are sacred to him.
Skills[]
In contrast to other fighting styles such as Kiryu's, Goda uses a relatively unrefined, yet extremely powerful street fighting style. He uses an array of haymakers, wild punches and back kicks to attack. His grapples consist of mostly knees to the gut. Later in the game, he uses his signature katana. He swings it in a wild manner, without any real technique or skills, using one hand to do so. In the final battle against him, he will use his regular fighting style, with the addition of a few more punches.
Despite his lack of fighting skills, Ryuji Goda is insanely strong; the Essence of Crushing: Elbow doesn't even seem to work on him like it would with other assailants (it seems that Ryuji is the only person to actually shake off the Essence of Crushing: Elbow).
In Dead Souls he no longer fights barehanded but instead uses a Gatling gun that folds out of his bionic arm. He can still use kicks and tackles to keep the zombies at bay, and can also pick up weapons such as bats, pipes and more. His Gatling gun is the fastest weapon in the game.
External links[]
- Ryuji Goda on the Yakuza/Like a Dragon Wiki.
- Ryuji Goda on Wikipedia.
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Tojo Clan Chairmen: Masaru Sera | Yukio Terada | Daigo Dojima Dojima Family: Sohei Dojima |
Daisaku Kuze |
Hiroki Awano |
Keiji Shibusawa |
Lao Gui |
Yoneda Others Omi Alliance Go-ryu Clan (Ryuji Goda | Hiroshi Hayashi) | Tsubasa Kurosawa | Hiroshi Kugihara | Shigeki Baba | Homare Nishitani | Homare Nishitani III | Kamon Kanai | Tsukasa Sagawa | Toranosuke Sengoku | Ryo Takashima | Jo Sawashiro | Kosei Shishido | Reiji Ishioda | Yosuke Tendo Daidoji Faction Other Criminal Organizations Jingweon Mafia: Daejin Kim |
Yeongmin Ji |
Joon-gi Han Police Bleach Japan Mr. Shakedowns Mutoh Realty Order of Munan Chohept Onast Amon Clan Other Spin-offs See Also | ||