Yama-oroshi

Yama-oroshi () is a colossal man-eating bear appearing in Yakuza 5. First serving as a main story boss, he also serves as the main antagonist of the Hunter and Killer storyline.
== Profile ==
=== Appearance ===
Yama-oroshi is an unusually huge bear with brown fur and golden brown eyes.
=== Personality ===
Nothing is known about Yama-oroshi's personality except for his extreme bloodlust and hatred of humans.
== Background ==
Yama-oroshi is a giant bear, lurking around the Hunting Village for several years. 10 years before Yakuza 5, Kiyoshi Sato and Okudera were hunting and got ambushed by the beast. The bear left Okudera fatally wounded, with Sato taking the name Okudera from that moment at the request of his dying friend.
9 years prior to Yakuza 5, several hunters would come to the mountain to amass money from poaching before the Bill for Hunting Law was approved, as it would prohibit excessive hunting. This massive amount of hunting changed the ecosystem forcing Yama-oroshi to descend from the mountain to attack humans for food. The vicious bear would assault the village, and while the villagers manage to survive, the beast destroyed their houses and ravaged their food stocks, which almost caused the village to starve. The incident caused the villagers to shun Okudera and caused them to become distrustful and less co-operative, although in truth they shunned him in order to protect him, as the village knew he was a escaped convict, therefore so long as they knew little about him they would be unable to report him to the police. The incident sparked Okudera to hunt the beast for several years without success. Unknown to Okudera, the villagers would watch him from afar, making sure that he was safe. The bear nonetheless gained a fearsome infamy that spread across several parts of Japan.
== Involvement ==
=== Yakuza 5: 2012 ===
Yama-oroshi encounters Taiga Saejima after he is knocked off of his snowmobile when he got distracted after Shigeki Baba's sudden collapse. Saejima is surprised as the bear is even larger than Himura described him as being. Without any chance at escaping, Saejima decides to fight him. Saejima is able to injure the bear enough to make him run away, but this leaves Saejima exhausted, and he is later found by Okudera.
Saejima encounters the bear once more after he follows Okudera up the mountain, after he went to look for Baba on his behalf. Baba is found injured, suggesting that Yama-oroshi may have managed to get to him but was unable to kill him. While Saejima carries Baba back to the village, Okudera distracts the bear. Okudera reveals that contrary to all his other preys, he is not chasing Yama-oroshi for hunting purposes, but rather to murder him.
During one of their many hunting training sessions, Saejima and Okudera encounter the bear once more, who chases after them and manages to injure Okudera. Okudera's injuries are grave enough to force Saejima to look for Bear Bile to heal him, and he is left recovering for a long period of time.
Eventually a hunter called Narumi comes from the outside, having heard rumors of the bear and attempts it to hunt it for glory and money. The arrogant hunter believes he can defeat Yama-oroshi by himself and looks down on the villagers for being afraid of the bear. He spreads Bear Bait all around the mountain, which prompts several bears to wake up from their hibernation, putting the village at risk of another attack. Saejima offers to gather all the bait, and he witnesses Narumi being viciously assaulted by Yama-oroshi. Saejima is forced to retreat to the village but, after recovering, decides to search for the injured Narumi. Saejima finds Narumi, whose injuries require medical attention. After finding out his injuries will prevent him from being able to hunt again, Narumi leaves Saejima with special tracking bullets for him to be used to find Yama-oroshi.
Saejima journeys up the mountain to place the tracker, having to shoot Yama-oroshi in his underbelly, as the rest of his skin is too thick. Saejima and Okudera trace the bear back to the top of the mountain beyond a broken bridge. Okudera requests that they return to the village, but tricks Saejima by going to hunt for the bear alone. Saejima heads up the mountain on a snowmobile to rescue Okudera, and finds him severely injured by the bear.
Yama-oroshi was later sighted near the village, causing Saejima to head up to face the menace. Sakurai and Nishina learn of Saejima's background and decide to stay in the village so that they don't find out too much about him, same as they did with Okudera. Saejima manages to land a few shots on the bear, but is tossed aside by him, losing his rifle. Without his rifle, Saejima is forced to brawl with the giant bear again, barely succeeding at defeating him. Sakurai and Nishina turn up to help Saejima and warn him that the police are coming but that they were planning to mislead the authorities like they had done with Okudera.
Okudera overhears the conversation and reveals his past. He was a yakuza-affiliated assassin sent to kill the real Okudera but had decided against it, as he had come to see him as a friend. Okudera reveals that the real Okudera had been killed by Yama-oroshi, and that he had been hunting him for revenge. Nishina encourages Okudera to kill the bear, and in turn finish his struggle with his longtime enemy, but Okudera sticks to his principles as a hunter and decides against killing the bear, as it would be slaughter and would turn him back into a murderer. The group respects his wishes and returns to the village. Injured, Yama-oroshi retreats from the village outskirts and is never seen again, and his reign of terror ends for good.
== Fighting Style ==
Yama-oroshi uses his claws and teeth as methods of attack. His attacks are mostly slashes and slash combos, though he can also grab and bite Saejima's head.
== Gallery ==
=== Ryu Ga Gotoku Online ===
RGGO - Card - SSR Yama-oroshi.png|SSR Yama-oroshi
RGGO - Card - KSR Yama-oroshi.png|KSR Yama-oroshi
Category:Characters
Category:Yakuza 5 Characters
Category:Yakuza 5 Antagonists
Category:Yakuza 5 Bosses
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== Trivia ==
*He is the only non-human antagonist of a storyline in the main series.