Kihei Hanawa

Kihei Hanawa (, Hanawa Kihei) is a character featured in Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name and Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth. He is a manager of the Daidoji Faction.
== Background ==
In 2012, though the specifics are unclear, Hanawa became acquainted with Taichi Suzuki. By 2018, Hanawa was hired as a Daidoji Faction agent by the Head Priest, and abandoned his old identity.
== Involvement == 
=== Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name: 2019-2020 ===
Hanawa assigns jobs to Kiryu under the latter's codename Joryu. He chooses tasks that would not conflict with Kiryu's philosophies. These range from simple bodyguard missions, such as watching over Daidoji officer Yutaka Ogikubo's granddaughter for a night, to help guarding a gold shipment through Yokohama to fund a revolutionary's resistance group.
A year after the dissolution of the Omi Alliance and the Tojo Clan, Hanawa gives Kiryu a recording of his fake grave in Okinawa. A hidden camera near it was discovered by Ayako and Taichi, who assumed the camera could be involved with Kiryu, and decided to tell him how their life has been since his "death". Trying to get any sort of response from him, the orphans leave a drawing made by Haruto Sawamura in a tube in the grave. While the camera was removed shortly after, the agent who removed it took a picture of the drawing. Seeing it all, Kiryu is quickly driven to tears, and thanks Hanawa very much for it.
Before Kiryu departs for his vacation, Hanawa gives him a newly-forged identification, having chosen to give him the alias "Taichi Suzuki", revealing to Kiryu that he had crossed paths with him back when he used that alias.
=== Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth: 2023 ===
Hanawa manages Kiryu when the faction dispatches him to Hawaii to secure Akane Kishida. He works alongside a team of three subordinate agents. When the location of Kiryu's hotel is compromised, he allows Kiryu and Ichiban Kasuga's team to use the Daidoji safehouse he is in.
After filing a daily report to the Daidoji Faction affirming the trustworthiness of Kasuga and his allies, Hanawa witnesses Chitose Fujinomiya expose Eiji Mitamura as a mole for Dwight Méndez. At that moment, Dwight's henchmen storm the safehouse. Hanawa is shot in the abdomen when trying to fend them off, killing him. Hanawa's last report convinces the Daidoji Faction to ally with Kasuga's party later in Japan.
== Fighting Style ==
Hanawa uses Kisuke Watanabe's moveset, with purple attack trails and an unique Mortal Attack, and the added ability to throw flashbang grenades during his boss fight.
== Gallery ==
=== Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name ===
LADG - Character Render - Kihei Hanawa.png|Full-body render of Hanawa in Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name
LADG - Title Card - Kihei Hanawa.png|Introductory title card
LADG - Character Gallery - Kihei Hanawa 01.png|Hanawa playing Darts against "Joryu."
=== Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth ===
LADIW - Character Render - Kihei Hanawa.png|Full-body Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth render of Kihei Hanawa
LADIW - Title Card - Kihei Hanawa.png|Introductory title card.
== Notes ==
== References ==
Category:Daidoji Faction
Category:Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name Characters
Category:Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name AI Partners
Category:Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name Bosses
Category:Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth Characters