Kanji Aotsuki

Kanji Aotsuki (, Aotsuki Kanji) is an antagonist featured in Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name. He is the Patriarch of the Kyokuso Family.
== Profile ==
=== Appearance ===
Aotsuki is a paunchy middle-aged man. His most distinctive features are his sunken eyes and the two grey-ish marks on his left cheek. His hairline is beginning to thin.
He normally wears grey sweatpants, a bright purple shirt with green floral patterns and a black leather jacket with dark purple racing stripes along the arms and shoulders. The jacket has the words "BLUE MOON STRONG" emblazoned across the back.
=== Personality ===
Aotsuki is a prototypical yakuza: He's gruff, rough-spoken and fairly ruthless; willing to prey on society's most vulnerable to earn money for his low-rank organization.
== Involvement ==
=== Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name - 2019 ===
In December of 2019, his Family's welfare theft racket is broken up by Sotenbori info broker Akame and her new partner, Kazuma Kiryu. Desperate for a new source of income and seeking revenge against the two who'd sabotaged his business, Aotsuki has his men raid the workshop of Akira Mizorogi, an inventor friend of Akame and Kiryu. The thugs steal several high-tech combat gadgets Mizorogi had developed and Patriarch Aotsuki begins selling them in the black market, including to the Four Kings of the Coliseum.
Not satisfied with this theft, Aotsuki decides to take his revenge further by trying to kill Kiryu. The Patriarch lures him into a trap by pretending to be an injured homeless man in Ashitaba Park. When Kiryu tries to help him, Aotsuki reveals his ruse and mocks him for his gullibility. Afterwards, a mob of Aotsuki's thugs encircle Kiryu and Aotsuki himself summons several of Mizorogi's combat drones. Aotsuki reveals his identity and then attacks the former yakuza but, in spite of their gadgets and numerical superiority, Aotsuki and his men are beaten and forced to flee.
In the ensuing days, Aotsuki remains cloistered at his Family's base in a hostess club while his goons harass Kiryu on the streets of Sotenbori. After Kiryu defeats the Four Kings at The Castle's coliseum, their leader Kiyoshi Ugajin reveals the location of the Kyokuso's base to him. Kiryu, Akame, Mizorogi and the Four Kings travel to the Kyokuso's club, where Kiryu has another fight with Aotsuki and his men, which once again ends in their defeat.
Kiryu tells the beaten Aotsuki that he'll have to return all of Mizorogi's remaining stolen gadgets, pay for the medical costs he incurred after the Kyokuso broke his arm and some extra for the trouble he caused. Aotsuki laughs at the suggestion, saying he doesn't have that kind of money and has no way of earning more after what Kiryu did to his business. At this, Akame tells him that he and his men can earn the money to pay back Mizorogi by joining her informant network, something Aotsuki rejects disdainfully until Kiryu and the Four Kings threaten to beat him up again if he doesn't comply. Left with no other choice, Aotsuki kowtows to Akame, begrudgingly thanks her for the opportunity and agrees to have his Family become part of her network.
== Fighting Style ==
Aotsuki has two boss fights in Gaiden: he is first encountered at Ashitaba Park, and again in the hostess club, backed up his goons both times. He is a sluggish boxer who uses Yahata's moveset, and he can summon swarms of Hornet drones to attack Kiryu.
Aotsuki uses Yahata's charged right cross, preceded by two forward-dodge weaves, as his Ultimate Attack. Sometimes, however, his aura will not appear to telegraph the attack, making it easy to miss.
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