Kunimitsu Samejima

Kunimitsu Samejima (, Samejima Kunimitsu) is an antagonist featured in Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name.
== Profile ==
=== Appearance ===
Samejima is a man of average height with jet black hair and a chin-only goatee beard. He wears all-black dress pants, dress shoes, dress shirt, vest, tie and leather gloves. He keeps a pair of large handguns in holsters under his arms at all times. He's also always seen wearing gold-rimmed aviator sunglasses, even in-doors and at night.
=== Personality ===
Samejima is incredibly proud of his fighting skills and derisive of those he perceives as weaker than him. This extends even to other formidable fighters like Dan Brody, whom he treats with contempt because he's below him in the Coliseum's hierarchy.
He also shows a dislike for "casual language", preferring to speak in a polite, formal manner which fails to hide the condescension he feels towards the people he speaks with.
== Background ==
Samejima is the 3rd ranked fighter in The Castle's coliseum and thus a member of the Four Kings of the Coliseum. He is the member of that group who reveals the least about his past. He is incredibly proficient with firearms, so it's quite possible that he was a professional hitman at some point, like Dan Brody. He is also infamous for his speed during combat, earning him the nickname of "The Speed Demon" (In Japanese , Supīdosutā, "The Speed Star").
== Involvement ==
=== Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name: 2019 ===
In 2019, the Four Kings learn that the Kyokuso Family, an Omi Alliance subsidiary, has stolen high-tech combat gadgets from Akira Mizorogi, a weapon's inventor in Sotenbori. Ugajin, Samejima and Brody make a deal with Patriarch Kanji Aotsuki and purchase some of the stolen gadgets so they can use them in the Coliseum, hoping the advantage they provide will allow them to maintain their spot at the Castle's hierarchy. Samejima in particular acquires a pair of rocket shoes codenamed "Serpent" to further enhance his speed in battle.
After Kazuma Kiryu and the Watase Family take control of the Castle from the Kijin Clan, the fourth King of the Coliseum, Dan Brody, challenges Kiryu to a fight on the Castle's main street and loses. Samejima witnesses this battle alongside Kiyoshi Ugajin and JUSTICE1975 and they belittle Brody for his loss. Kiryu and Ugajin have a confrontation during which Kiryu learns about the Four Kings' acquisition of Mizorogi's stolen tech, leading Kiryu to extend a challenge to the Four Kings: If he defeats them all in the arena, they must return Mizorogi's tech.
Kiryu fights and defeats Brody in the Coliseum, after which Samejima introduces himself to Kiryu while he's speaking with a beaten Brody. Brody tells Samejima that it's his turn to take on Kiryu, after which Samejima mocks him for his use of slang and for talking to him like they're both on the same level. An annoyed Kiryu reminds Samejima that if he beats him in the Coliseum, then he and Brody will actually be on the same level, but Samejima dismisses this possibility. Ultimately, Kiryu beats Samejima in their one-on-one battle. While talking to him after their fight, an impressed Samejima accepts defeat and says Kiryu has shown him that he and the other Kings have been "resting on their laurels", so he needs to improve his skills once again.
When Kiryu fights the 2nd ranked King, JUSTICE, Samejima and Brody join his team during the fight, hoping to finally beat Kiryu, but even when taking him all together, they are still unable to defeat him.
Later on, when Kiryu, Mizorogi and Akame track down the Kyokuso Family's base, Samejima and the other Kings accompany them to intimidate Patriarch Aotsuki into returning the stolen gadgets he still has, dissolving the Family and joining Akame's informant network.
== Fighting Style ==
Samejima uses Kazuto Arase's moveset. He also uses Matsuhisa Koga's reload taunt and Deadly Attack but throws two flashbang grenades instead of a frag grenade. His Heat aura is purple. In Heat mode he will begin to use Andre Richardson's/Arase's multi-directional bullet volley.
Samejima has access to two gadgets:
* Serpent - Samejima can use Serpent to dodge away or tackle the player.
* Firefly - occasionally throws a Firefly bomb.
Category: Coliseum Fighters
Category: Four Kings of the Coliseum
Category: Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name Characters
Category: Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name Antagonists