Lil' Ryuji Goda

Lil' Ryuji Goda (, Gōda Koryūji) is a minor character in Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name. He is a fighter in The Castle and an ex-impersonator of Ryuji Goda.
==Profile==
===Appearance===
Lil' Ryuji's overall appearance looks almost identical to the real Ryuji, even having the same golden dragon tattoo as he did. His face heavily resembles the real Ryuji's face model in Yakuza: Dead Souls, albeit looking much younger and lacking the scar on his lips.
==Background==
Lil' Ryuji was one of Ryuji Goda's biggest fans. Although popular within Ryuji's very niche fan group, he couldn't make a living off of it, so he turned to the Kijin Clan and became a fighter in The Castle. 
==Involvement==
===Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name: 2019===
Lil' Ryuji is Joryu's last opponent in the Castle's Coliseum, in a match that is supposed to resemble Ryuji Goda's final battle against Kazuma Kiryu. Unbeknownst to Lil' Ryuji, Joryu is Kazuma Kiryu himself. During the fight, Lil' Ryuji calls in two tigers to fight on his behalf, and after Joryu defeats them, Lil' Ryuji takes matters back into his own hands and ends up defeated. Although Kiryu acknowledges his similarities to Ryuji, he knows it's not the same person because the real Ryuji wouldn't let tigers finish the job. 
He can join the Joryu Clan afterwards.
==Fighting Style==
Lil' Ryuji is featured as both a boss enemy and a playable coliseum fighter in Gaiden. His fight is split into three separate phases: one where he wields a katana, a second phase where he lets a pair of tigers fight Kiryu, and a third one where he fights with his fists.
=== Katana ===
Lil' Ryuji arms himself with a katana in the first phase of his boss fight. He uses the real Ryuji's calm-state katana moveset from Yakuza Kiwami 2, which is itself a variation of Taiga Saejima's sword moveset from Yakuza 4 and 5.
He also wields the katana when being controlled as a coliseum fighter, possessing a modified variant of the aforementioned moveset.
=== Unarmed ===
Lil' Ryuji fights unarmed exclusively in the last phase of his boss fight. He uses a reworked version of the real Ryuji's unarmed Kiwami 2 moveset. The changes made include the following:
* his unbroken 5-hit and 6-hit combos are excluded,
* his hopping side kick functions as a running attack,
* his unused downed attack is included, and
* his running command grab functions as an Ultimate Attack.
Lil' Ryuji enters Heat Mode as soon as his unarmed phase commences, in which he emits a bright red aura.
==Trivia==
*Lil' Ryuji's English profile mistakenly calls the real Ryuji the second chairman of the Kijin Clan rather than the Go-Ryu Clan.
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