Pops

Pops (, Oyassan) is a character in Yakuza: Dead Souls, and is the mentor of Ryuji Goda during his time as a Takoyaki chef. 
==Personality==
Pops is a master takoyaki chef. His "tough-as-nails" attitude caused many former apprentices to leave and dooming his stand to close in only one generation.
==Background==
After Ryuji is expelled from the Omi Alliance, Pops takes Ryuji in as his apprentice.
==Involvement==
===Yakuza: Dead Souls: 2011===
Unable to accept Ryuji as a takoyaki chef, Tetsuo Nikaido has Pops kidnapped and injected with Thanatos. After luring Ryuji into Asia, Nikaido reveals what had been done to Pops. As Nikaido leaves, Ryuji watches in horror as Pops slowly transforms into the Yatsukahagi Prototype (, Jikken-tai Yatsukahagi, lit. Experimental Body Yatsukahagi). Unwilling for Pops to suffer for his mistakes, Ryuji is forced to fight his new father figure.
==Fighting Style==
The Yatsukahagi Prototype has eight octopus arms, with the ends of squid tentacles, that he thrusts all at once. These arms serve as the weak points for Ryuji to obliterate. The first phase has him stay still in front of the exit. After obliterating four arms, the Yatsukahagi Prototype regenarates them before jumping to underneath the floor.
Category:Prototypes
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Category:Yakuza: Dead Souls Characters
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