Toranosuke Sengoku

Toranosuke Sengoku (, Sengoku Toranosuke) is a major antagonist in Yakuza 2/Yakuza Kiwami 2. Flashy and brash, he is the patriarch of the wealthy Sengoku Family and one of the Omi's "Four Kings".
==Profile==
=== Appearance ===
Sengoku is a short, paunchy man with a slicked-back black hair, a thin mustache and sideburns. He wears a yellow (light green in Kiwami 2) suit and gold-rimmed glasses. He always carries a small fan with his family's kamon embroidered on it, which he routinely uses to fan himself.
=== Personality ===
Sengoku is rude, smug, brash, and boastful of his wealth. His near-constant bragging about his financial status causes him to be not particularly liked among his fellow officers in the Omi Alliance. Sengoku is particularly fond of spending massive amounts of money on lavish and unnecessary things, just as displays of his wealth. These expenditures range from fancy but reasonable things, like haute-couture suits for himself and his family's officers to ludicrous things, like his gold-plated castle hidden inside another castle, guarded by men dressed like samurai and ninjas.
Sengoku is completely remorseless in his pursuit to expand his already extraordinary fortune, as evidenced by his kidnapping of Haruka Sawamura in order to lure Kazuma Kiryu into a trap.
==Involvement==
=== Yakuza 2/Yakuza Kiwami 2: 2006 ===
After the apparent assassination of Tojo Clan 5th Chairman and former Omi Alliance patriarch Yukio Terada at the hands of Go-Ryu Clan hitmen, a peace conference is to be held at the Omi Alliance Headquarters between Omi 5th Chairman Jin Goda and retired Tojo 4th Chairman Kazuma Kiryu. During said conference, Sengoku is in attendance, as he is one of the Omi Alliance's most powerful patriarchs, and he takes exception when Daigo Dojima, whom he perceives as a young punk without status, speaks out of turn about Terada's murder. After saying that Daigo ought to "let the big boys do the talking", Sengoku is reprimanded by the current Omi Chief of Headquarters, Ryo Takashima. Despite the reprimand, Sengoku speaks up again to complain when Chairman Goda apologizes for Terada's murder, saying that the Tojo aren't owed an apology, since Terada was an Omi defector and a traitor. After being reproached once more, Sengoku gets up and leaves the meeting, mocking the Tojo delegation on the way out by offering to pitch in some money so they'll be able to afford incense for Terada's funeral.
Later on, after Ryuji Goda splinters the Omi Alliance by trying to overthrow his father, Sengoku begins to hatch schemes for going to war against the Tojo and conquering Tokyo. He first puts out a bounty on Kiryu's head for 100 million yen, hoping that somebody in Osaka's underworld will kill Kiryu for him. After Kiryu survives an attack by thugs looking to claim the bounty at Riichi Tower Mahjong and then leaves town, Sengoku instructs his right-hand man, Kunieda, to travel to Tokyo and speak to business owners and thugs over there, offering a 1 billion yen bounty for Kiryu's head this time. Despite the higher price, the few Tokyo citizens who dare pursue Kiryu for the bounty are unable to kill him.
Sengoku conspires with Patriarch Koji Shindo of the Nishikiyama Family to take over Tokyo: Sengoku will mobilize his men to take over businesses across the city and assassinate whatever Tojo officers he can, while Shindo and his men will take over the Tojo Clan Headquarters during Terada's funeral and eliminate any officers who refuse to swear loyalty to the Sengoku Family. If the plan worked, Shindo would be installed as the 6th Chairman of the Tojo Clan and he would turn the organization into a subsidiary of the Sengoku Family. However, the plot doesn't go according to plan: Goro Majima and his thugs from Majima Construction repel the Sengoku Family's assault on Kamurocho and Kiryu defeats Shindo in a duel at the Tojo Clan's headquarters, with Shindo ultimately being killed by Daigo Dojima.
After his plot with the Nishikiyama is foiled, Sengoku decides to hatch another plot to eliminate Kiryu. During a meeting with Ryuji and Takashima in his office he reveals that he's kidnapped Kiryu's stepdaughter, Haruka Sawamura, and intends to use her as bait to lure Kiryu into a trap. Ryuji is disgusted by Sengoku's unscrupulous scheme and insists that he'll beat Kiryu and the Tojo in "his own way" by fighting them head on, like a true yakuza. Sengoku dismisses Ryuji's insult by calling out to him as he leaves: "Let the great race for the Omi throne begin".
Sengoku sends a hitman to stab Kiryu on the street and leave a note in his pocket in case he survives. Kiryu does indeed survive and the note tells him that Sengoku has Haruka prisoner and that he must go to Osaka Castle to rescue her. Kiryu travels to the castle in question, which bizarrely opens up to reveal a secret, golden castle inside, which serves as Sengoku's headquarters. Kiryu enters the golden castle and is faced down by Captain Kunieda, who leads a battalion of ninja and samurai into battle against the intruder. After defeating Kunieda and his eccentrically dressed lackeys multiple times while making his way through the castle, Kiryu makes it to a recreation of a feudal Japanese throne room, where Sengoku is waiting with a tied-up Haruka. After mocking Kiryu for his efforts, Sengoku unleashes his final trick: A pair of hungry tigers he keeps as pets. The two beasts attack Kiryu but, against all odds, the Tojo man manages to subdue them both. 
After witnessing Kiryu beat two tiger unconscious, a terrified Sengoku takes Haruka and flees to barricade himself in his office. Much to Sengoku's surprise, when he gets to his office, he finds Ryuji lying in wait for him. Ryuji approaches Sengoku and strikes him across the chest with his katana. Ryuji admonishes Sengoku, questioning his honor and his manhood for resorting to kidnapping a little girl to stand a chance against Kiryu. A wounded and angered Sengoku snaps back at Ryuji, telling him that he'd "be nothing if it weren't for [his] daddy". This insult sets off Ryuji, who stabs Sengoku with his sword and then throws him out of his office window to his death.
== Gallery ==
=== Yakuza 2 ===
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=== Yakuza Kiwami 2 ===
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=== Ryu Ga Gotoku Online ===
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==Notes==
==References==
Category:Sengoku Family
Category:Omi Alliance
Category:Yakuza 2 Characters
Category:Yakuza 2 Antagonists
Category:Yakuza Kiwami 2 Characters
Category:Yakuza Kiwami 2 Antagonists
Category:Ryu Ga Gotoku Online Characters