Kamuro Phoenix

The Kamuro Phoenix (, Kamuro Fenikkusu) are a street gang featured in Yakuza 4.
== Background ==
The Kamuro Phoenix are a biker gang who adopt a retro-aesthetic, dressing up like biker gangs from the 1990's. Their leader, Feather, formed the gang alongside Daigo Dojima's own street gang in the early 2000's and the two groups frequently worked together on petty crime schemes. However, Daigo eventually took up the leadership of the Tojo Clan and his gang were incorporated into that yakuza organization. Daigo invited his former friend and his gang to also join the Tojo but, disdainful of the strict hierarchies and codes of conduct of the yakuza, they refused.
== Yakuza 4 ==
In 2010, Kazuma Kiryu beats the leader of the Aqua Devils gang after his group have started causing trouble for the Kamurocho Guard. This attracts the attention of the Kamuro Phoenix, who see defeating Kiryu as both a chance to prove themselves as gangsters and also an opportunity to humiliate the yakuza as a whole.
The Phoenix's members start picking fights with Kiryu on the streets, until he beats enough of them that Feather decides to take him on himself. Feather sends Kiryu a challenge, asking to meet him at West Park for a fight. Kiryu meets with the gang leader and his cronies, whereupon Feather espouses his refusal to conform to the norms of society or organized crime, which he sees as an extension of Japanese society's strict culture. Kiryu tries to talk him down from leading a reckless gang life, but Feather is undeterred. A fight ensues, which Kiryu wins with ease.
Once beaten, Kiryu tries once again to reason with a now humbled Feather. Kiryu insists that if Feather had beaten him, all he would've achieved would be putting a target on his own back for other gang members to come after him. He also insists that seeking to gain strength and power for its own sake makes his goals no different than those of the yakuza he disdains so much. He encourages Feather to use his charisma and leadership for a nobler purpose other than the pursuit of power and to explore life outside of Kamurocho's violent streets. Feather is moved and decides to try to turn his gang into something beneficial for Kamurocho, refusing to abandon his home neighborhood, much to Kiryu's approval.
== Trivia ==
* The second part of the gang's Japanese name (, normally read as fuenikusu) utilizes to phonetically represent the English word "Phoenix". This was a common naming trope for bosozoku gangs during their peak.
Category:Gangs