Kan Ogita

Kan Ogita (, Ogita Kan) is a character featured in Yakuza 0 and Yakuza 5. Formerly a professional dancer, he now works as a dancing coach.
== Profile ==
=== Appearance ===
Ogita is a short man. His eyebrows in Yakuza 5 appear to be sculpted.
In both appearances, he keeps his hair in a low ponytail.
==== Attire ====
In Yakuza 0, Ogita wears a purple vest over a black long-sleeved T-shirt, a pair of red pants, a pair of yellow-rimmed vanity sunglasses, a pair of black leather shoes, and a gold chain necklace.
In Yakuza 5, he wears a black vest over white long-sleeved T-shirt, black dress pants, black leather shoes, and a silver chain necklace.
===Personality ===
Ogita is an arrogant man who loathes receiving orders, as demonstrated by his disdain for his boss, which eventually manifests itself as physical violence. He avoids taking responsibility for his actions, as seen with his attempt to cover up for murdering his superior by arranging the crime scene such that it appeared to be a suicide. When cornered, however, Ogita is revealed to be a coward who always seems to need 'just one more chance'.
==Background==
In the 1980s, Ogita had built a reputation as a skilled dancer, known to many.
In the 2010s, Ogita had become a dance instructor to pay off his debts. He is hired by Mirei Park to train Haruka Sawamura within a year, though the deadline is repeatedly pushed back.
== Involvement ==
=== Yakuza 0: 1988 ===
After beating Maiko in a dance battle, Kazuma Kiryu makes himself known as a formidable dancer at Kamurocho's Maharaja and learns of an extremely skilled Osakan dancer who is revealed to be Ogita. After his defeat, Ogita returns to Osaka in the hopes of becoming a dance coach.
=== Yakuza 5: 2012 ===
Ogita first appears when he helps train Haruka Sawamura in dance. After a subpar lesson, he turns off the music and tells her that she is not moving with the rhythm. He encourages her to quit; Haruka refuses and stubbornly redoes her routine. Ogita then stops and gives her a five-minute break. He continues to train Haruka up until the first round of Princess League finals. Ogita expresses his concerns of how quickly he needs to train Haruka to compete with the other idols, especially in the shortening timeline he was given, but he is brushed off by his employer Mirei Park. After Haruka passes the first round, Park fires Ogita because he complained too much and stood up to her. Ogita becomes infuriated when he realizes that he was tricked into signing a contract that allowed Park to deny him payment, and angrily leaves the premises.
Later, he is confronted by a man named Kamon Kanai, the right-hand man of Naoki Katsuya of Osaka Talent. Due to Ogita's mounting debt, he is coerced into stealing the letter that Goro Majima had sent to Park in exchange of being freed from his debt. While looking for the letter, he is caught in Park's office, and in a fit of rage for how she treated him, repeatedly bangs her head on the floor, leading to him accidentally killing her. He and Kanai cover up the murder to look like a suicide, with Kanai forging a false letter in Park's handwriting.
Ogita once again attempts to find the letter, this time interrogating Hiroshi Horie and throwing him off the roof, though he survives. Haruka and Shun Akiyama catch him trying to flee, and then later fights and defeats him with some assistance from the former. Kanai comes to Ogita's rescue and the two of them escape empty-handed.
Due to his failure, Kanai amputates Ogita's right arm and leaves him to die at a warehouse. Akiyama finds Ogita who begs him to help him escape, promising that he will confess to the murder. Akiyama allows him to escape, but Ogita gets captured again and killed by Kanai.
==Fighting Style==
His fighting style is heavily based on Capoeira, combined with his proficiency in knife-wielding.
In game, Ogita is always waiting for you to start an attack. If you attempt to attack Ogita, he sidesteps and always follows up with a command grab with his legs. Ogita sometimes goes for tripping you. He is rarely seen doing combos with his knife, but there is one combo where he uses it. He does a dance known as the flare used as a knockback. He has super armor in his attacks and in his command grab as well.
His only weakness is usually with well-timed quicksteps. He does a quickstep before his command grab; this is the active character's chance to quickstep from his grab and counter (if possible). The character can try to use a counterattack, but this is much more risky.
==Gallery==
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