Takayuki Yagami

Takayuki Yagami  (八神 隆之, Yagami Takayuki) is the main protagonist of Sega's 2018 Yakuza spin-off video game, Judgment and it's 2021 sequel, Lost Judgment. Yagami was once a lawyer until his self-imposed resignation after his requitted client murdered his girlfriend. He now works as a detective, with his good friend and ex-yakuza Masaharu Kaito as his partner. 
== Background ==
Once a promising defense attorney, Yagami was damned by his fellow attorneys and the public after one of his old clients, acquitted of a previous criminal charge, was caught by police for murdering his girlfriend. As such, he drops out of the public eye and starts up the Yagami Detective Agency, working as a PI alongside Kaito.
== Biography ==
When an everyday case leads to a link between his past and the serial killer, Yagami is thrust into the murky world of the Yakuza in order to find out the truth of who set him up. To get to the bottom of this deadly mystery, he needs to use every tool and skill as a PI at his disposal; tailing suspects and chasing them down if the need arises, taking incriminating photos with his phone and remote-controlled drones, cornering persons of interest with damning evidence, and fighting his way to the truth — through brute force, if necessary.
==Abilities ==
*Master Hand-to-Hand Combatant: Yagami is an exceptionally accomplished martial artist, having mastered numerous martial arts, particularly five schools of Kung Fu but also Bajiquan, developing from them his own fighting styles, highly adaptable and fluid. His combat prowess marks him as the best among his team, who are all remarkable fighters in their own right, and among the strongest warriors in the Yakuza universe. Although not quite on par with Kiryu, Yagami's proficiency in combat is still enough to single-handedly take down smaller but still numerous groups of enemies without much effort, be it unskilled civilians, gang members, or militarily-trained soldiers, and he was able to contend with and defeat some of the most dangerous criminals: He was able to maintain an upper hand over Kuroiwa, who had easily defeated Kaito, and slowly but surely best him to submission, forcing him to use a gun to try to regain the upper hand, outfight Kazuki Soma, the most dangerous member of the RK, twice, with Soma only defeating him in their first fight due to Yagami's wild emotions and only after having been pummeled, and while holding back, proved to be equally matched with Jin Kuwana, a remarkably dangerous fighter who openly showed respect for Yagami's abilities, before revealing his true abilities and handily winning in their final fight, even while battered. 
==External Links==
*Takayuki Yagami on the Yakuza/Like a Dragon Wiki
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