Takumi Someya

Takumi Someya (, Someya Takumi) is a major character in Yakuza 6. He is the patriarch of the Someya Family and the right-hand man of the Acting Chairman of the Tojo Clan, Katsumi Sugai.
== Profile ==
=== Appearance ===
Someya has black, slicked-back hair and an extremely muscular build. His face is clean shaven.
==== Attire ====
Someya wears a white three-piece pinstriped suit over light blue silk dress shirt, purple patterned tie, matching white suit pants and a pair of black dress shoes. He doesn't have a tattoo on his back. Someya claims that tattoos aren't that important for modern-day yakuza.
=== Personality ===
At first glance, Someya presents himself as a ruthless "modern" yakuza, who has little regard for the traditions and the codes of conduct that many older yakuza enforced in order to be "respectable". Instead, Someya is primarily concerned with finding the best ways to make the yakuza profitable and then act accordingly, without regard for respectability or loyalty. Visually, this disdain for the traditions of the yakuza is represented in Someya's refusal to get a back tattoo, since it would hinder his ability to do business with non-yakuza groups.
Someya can also often be emotionally manipulative and cruel. This is mostly shown in his relationship with his ex-wife, Kiyomi Kasahara, who left him because she could no longer deal with his violent lifestyle. After she divorced him and returned to her hometown of Hiroshima, Someya kept custody of their young daughter, Hiromi, and refused to let Kiyomi see her if she didn't come visit her and Someya in Tokyo; hoping to use her as leverage to get Kiyomi to take him back.
In spite of the ruthlessness he puts on as a front, Someya does have an actual sense of loyalty and honor. Even though he kept Kiyomi away from Hiromi, he was a loving and attentive father to her and he often told her that, even though her mother could not be with them, that she loved Hiromi just as much as he did. Finally, when Katsumi Sugai and Tsuneo Iwami kidnap Kiyomi and threaten to kill her if Someya doesn't kill Kazuma Kiryu for them, Someya risks his life to carry out their request. After he fails to kill Kiryu, Someya commits seppuku in a final, desperate effort to appease Tsuneo and save Kiyomi's life, demonstrating that underneath his stated pragmatism and disdain for yakuza honor, he was still willing to die to save a loved one like an old-fashioned yakuza would.
== Background ==
At an unknown point, Someya joined the Tojo Clan. He frequented a hostess club in Ginza, where his favorite girl was Kiyomi Kasahara. One day, Kiyomi told him that she'd become indebted to another customer, a conman who'd posed as a real estate investor to trick her into making bad investments. Someya would track down this conman and would beat him and his thugs to get them to leave Tokyo and forgive Kiyomi's debt. After the conman fled, a battered Someya travelled to Kiyomi's club to tell her she no longer had to worry about the debt. When she asked why he helped her, Someya kissed her in response. Kiyomi initially hesitated but then kissed him back. They then started a relationship, eventually getting married and having a daughter, Hiromi.
However, the marriage would be turbulent, as Someya's life as a yakuza had him frequently show up home late, covered in bruises or with blood on his suit. Someya would also frequently lose his temper with Kiyomi and would yell at her whenever she asked about his day, mistaking it as her judging him for his criminal lifestyle. Eventually, Kiyomi could no longer take living with him and tried to escape in the middle of the night with their daughter, but she was caught by one of Someya's subordinates, who took her back to him, whereupon Someya beat her for trying to take their daughter. Soon after, Kiyomi would make another, this time successful escape attempt, but she had to leave her daughter behind, as Someya had started to keep her under watch to ensure Kiyomi couldn't take her.
Despite his abusive nature as a husband, Someya was a doting, loving father to his daughter. As Hiromi aged and asked about her mother, Someya would tell her stories about her and show her pictures, insisting that, despite the fact that her mother could not be with her, that she loved her deeply nonetheless.
In 2015, Someya's boss, Katsumi Sugai, agreed to serve as Tsuneo Iwami's puppet ruler if Iwami could get him appointed as the Tojo Clan's Acting Chairman. As the first step in Tsuneo's scheme to achieve this, Sugai had Someya start a devastating fire in Little Asia, which would burn down most of the neighbourhood. Through a complex criminal conspiracy kicked off by this fire, Tsuneo managed to have Daigo Dojima and his main supporters, Goro Majima and Taiga Saejima, arrested by the Tokyo Police, after which Sugai was made Acting Chairman. As a reward for his help, Sugai promoted Someya to Clan Lieutenant and allowed him to start his own subsidiary, the Someya Family.
The next step in Tsuneo's scheme involved the murder of Big Lo, the leader of the Saio Triad, and his heir, Jimmy Lo, but the attempted hit failed because only Jimmy was killed. This resulted in Lo leading the Saio into a brutal war against the Tojo Clan, due to which Sugai and Someya would struggle to hold back the Saio's encroachment on Tojo Clan turf.
==Involvement==
=== Yakuza 6: 2016 ===
After his stepdaughter Haruka Sawamura is left in a coma following a hit and run, Kazuma Kiryu goes to investigate the scene of the accident in Kamurocho. Some of Someya's men see him and report Kiryu's return to Tokyo to their boss, who orders one of them to spy on Kiryu. Kiryu eventually notices the surveillance and forces the spy to tell him who he's working for. Kiryu then travels to the Tojo Clan Headquarters, where he's received at the door by Someya. The young yakuza welcomes Kiryu, thanking him for his recent three year-long stint in prison for the Clan's benefit and commenting that a young yakuza has much to learn from him, but Kiryu is unswayed by his flattery and demands answers as to why he was being followed. 
Someya takes Kiryu to meet with Sugai, who assures Kiryu that he and Someya only had him followed to ensure no harm befell him while he was in town, on account of the ongoing war with the Saio. Kiryu insists that he doesn't need their protection, which prompts Someya to agree with a snide backhanded comment: The reason Kiryu doesn't need their protection isn't because he can defend himself, but rather because the Saio have no reason to target him, since he's no longer the feared legend he once was. Someya boasts that the Tojo needs a new generation of people like him, who can fight the war against the Saio, not "fossils" like Kiryu who've gotten too old or businessmen like Daigo who relied on their acumen with money for power. Kiryu disregards the insult, saying he didn't come to "talk about the value of a yakuza", and instead he plainly asks the two if either had anything to do with Haruka's hit and run. After both men deny any involvement, Kiryu says he believes them for the time being and then departs.
A week later, Someya has a chance encounter with Kiryu and Kiyomi in the overlook of Mount Senkoji in Onomichi. When Kiryu asks what he's doing in Hiroshima, Someya informs him that Sugai has negotiated for him to swear an oath of brotherhood with Kanji Koshimizu, the appointed successor to the Yomei Alliance chairmanship. During this brief conversation, Someya also tells Kiryu and about his and Kiyomi's former marriage. Later that night, Chairman Iwami informs Someya that he wishes for Kiryu to be a witness to the oath between him and Koshimizu, but that he suspects Kiryu will not agree to such an invitation because it would be going over the imprisoned Daigo Dojima's head. To ensure Kiryu will be present at the dinner, Someya has some of his men publicly kidnap Kiyomi, in the hopes that Kiryu will learn of this and mount a rescue.
This scheme is successful, as Kiryu and his friends from the Hirose Family carry out a raid on the Senkoji Overlook Hotel, where Someya was staying while in town. Kiryu eventually corners Someya in his suite, where he catches him partly clothed after a bath, and demands to know where he's keeping Kiyomi. During this confrontation, Kiryu sees that Someya doesn't have a back tattoo. When he comments on this, Someya remarks that yakuza back tattoos are a hinderance, since they're too threatening to civilians and get in the way of doing legitimate business to cover for criminal enterprises. Kiryu insists that a yakuza's tattoo isn't a threat, but a statement of ideals and a representation of who the yakuza is as a person. Someya scoffs at Kiryu's idealized view and changes the subject, telling Kiryu that Kiyomi is just beyond a nearby door, but that he'll have to face him before he can get to her. The two men square up and fight each other, with Kiryu ultimately defeating Someya.
After the fight is over, Koshimizu enters from the adjoining room and invites Kiryu into the dinner, revealing Someya's ruse. Chairman Iwami moves the meeting to his personal yacht so that he, Kiryu, Koshimizu, Someya and Tsuneo can speak privately. During this private meeting, Iwami asks Kiryu to give his blessing to the oath between Someya and Koshimizu, as well as an alliance between the Tojo and the Yomei, since his approval would deter the Omi Alliance from taking action against it. However, just as Iwami anticipated, Kiryu refuses because it would mean sidelining Daigo.
Some days later, one of Someya's spies within the Saio informs him that Kiryu has secured a meeting with Big Lo, which is to take place that night. Determined to find Lo, Someya goes to Serena to meet with Kiryu and request that he be allowed to accompany him to the meeting, ostensibly so that he can try to negotiate a truce with the Saio leader. Tsuyoshi Nagumo urges Kiryu not to trust Someya, prompting Someya to mock Nagumo, as he knows about his unrequited infatuation with Kiyomi. The two men almost clash, until Kiryu stops them and then begrudgingly agrees and takes Someya with him. Both men go to the ruins of Shangri-La, where they fight their way past the gang occupying the building to get to the room where Lo is waiting for them. 
Lo is displeased to see Someya, as he'd instructed Kiryu to come alone. When Kiryu notices both men have clearly met before, he inquires and Lo reveals the Saio's initial pact with Someya and Sugai to displace Daigo, something Kiryu had already come to suspect. Someya pulls a gun on Lo and then makes an offer to Kiryu: He knows Lo has information concerning Haruka's hit and run which Kiryu wants, so if they both take Lo prisoner, Someya will allow Kiryu to question him and get whatever information he wants. However, Kiryu refuses to work with him because of what he did to Daigo and because he'd promised Lo a peaceful meeting. Someya compliments Kiryu on his integrity and says that he sees how it led to him rising to the top of the yakuza world, but then says that he too seeks to rise to that height through his own, far less principled methods and he won't allow Kiryu to stop him. Both men get into a second fight, which Someya loses once again, after which Kiryu forces him to leave.
The following week, Someya travels to Hiroshima to warn Kiryu that, as the final step in their plan for control over Tokyo and Hiroshima, Tsuneo and Sugai intend to murder him and his friends from the Hirose Family. Kiryu questions why Someya would warn him, so Someya says that he would rather not see the legendary Dragon of Dojima killed by men like Sugai and Tsuneo, whom he considers unworthy of the power they wield. Someya also makes it clear that he intends to usurp Sugai and become the 7th Chairman of the Tojo Clan, after which he wishes to challenge Kiryu in order to prove he is worthy of leading the Clan.
Unfortunately, Sugai learns of Someya's ambitions to supplant him, so he and Tsuneo have Kiyomi kidnapped. Using her as a hostage, they coerce Someya into trying to assassinate Kiryu for them. Sugai's spies inform him that Kiryu and the Hirose Family intend to assault his family's office in the Millennium Tower, so he has Someya wait there for Kiryu's arrival. During the raid, Kiryu is separated from the Hirose and is the only one to make it to Sugai's office, where he finds Someya waiting for him, armed with a katana, and Tsuneo, Sugai and Koshimizu watching through a live video stream. On Sugai's orders, Someya attacks Kiryu but, once again, he is incapable of defeating him.
After Someya can no longer keep fighting, Sugai reveals to Kiryu that they'd been holding Kiyomi hostage. Someya begs for them to spare her, so Tsuneo decides to make Kiryu an offer: If he kills Someya before he counts to three, he'll let Kiyomi live. Someya draws a knife and offers it to Kiryu, but Kiryu hesitates for too long, so Someya draws the knife and disembowels himself to appease Tsuneo. Fatally wounded, Someya assures Kiyomi that, despite how he mistreated her, he always loved their daughter and treated her "like a princess". Despite this "touching display of familial love", Tsuneo still orders Koshimizu to kill Kiyomi and then departs. Someya begs Koshimizu to stop, but the Yomei patriarch says that Tsuneo gave the order and then shuts off the video feed. A horrified Someya breaks down in tears and then begs Kiryu and a recently arrived Nagumo to take care of his daughter. After Nagumo promises to care for her, Someya gives in and succumbs to his wounds.
As Kiryu and Nagumo would later learn, Koshimizu hadn't actually killed Kiyomi. Impressed by Someya's sacrifice and also tired of being Tsuneo's lapdog, Koshimizu faked killing her and then hid her from his boss. Once Kiryu and the Hirose Family defeated Tsuneo and Sugai, Koshimizu felt Kiyomi would be safe, so he allowed her to return to Onomichi, where she met with the Hirose and then reunited with her daughter after several years apart.
== Fighting Style ==
Someya is fought three times throughout Yakuza 6. He also joins Kiryu as an AI partner during the Shangri-La long battle. He is a brutish mixed martial artist, and also a decent swordsman, wielding a katana in his third boss fight. His aura is red, like every other boss in Yakuza 6.
=== Unarmed ===
Someya uses a variety of wild punches and kicks with occasional grapples, and assumes an orthodox fighting stance. In his first encounter, he will start by taunting by drinking from a wine bottle before dropping it on the ground. His moveset is listed below:
* his Rush Combo, consisting of a left body hook, a right cross, and a left roundhouse kick;
* another combo made up of a left hook, an overhand right, and a flying right back kick;
* a third combo consisting of a left backfist, a right cross, a left uppercut, and a right haymaker (2nd fight onward);
* a high left Thai roundhouse kick,
* a left front snap kick,
* a right calf-kick,
* a left superman punch as a damage reversal, which can stun Kiryu;
* a command grab where he grabs Kiryu by the head and hits him with a right knee kick to the face,
* a taunt where he raises his left arm to beckon Kiryu, and
* another taunt where he rubs his hands along the sides of his head, brushing his hair back.
When Someya enters Heat Mode, he switches to a low, wide, open-handed stance with his left hand held out and his right hand near his hips. He also starts using a number of extra attacks, including:
* his third combo with an additional left uppercut (all fights) and a right high roundhouse kick (2nd fight onward),
* a crouching right cross, followed by a crouching left hook (unused),
* a crouching left hook, followed by a right uppercut (unused); and
* a sliding command grab where he executes a double-leg takedown and pummels Kiryu with three right hammerfist strikes.
He also uses his damage reversal far more frequently.
=== Katana ===
Someya wields his katana one-handed, and attacks mostly with clean, precise slashes. Initially, he simply keeps his sword hanging by his leg. His moveset includes: 
* a Rush Combo made up of an upward diagonal right slash, a downward diagonal left slash, and a flying upward diagonal left slash;
* a second combo made up of an underarm sword-thrust, an overarm thrust, a crouching horizontal rightward slash, and a spinning downward diagonal right slash;
* a low leftward horizontal slash,
* a rightward horizontal slash,
* an overhead vertical downward slash,
* a two-handed vertical downward slash,
* an upward diagonal right slash-downward diagonal thrust, and
* a taunt where he stands upright and points his blade at Kiryu.
Someya enters Heat Mode when he has lost a third of his health, in which he assumes a low stance with the tip of the sword in his left palm, and begins using more attacks:
* an additional combo consisting of an underarm sword-thrust, a leftward horizontal slash, a rightward horizontal slash, a downward diagonal left slash, and an upward slash;
* a downward diagonal right slash, and
* a downward sword-thrust as a downed attack.
After being disarmed during his QTE, he switches to his regular, unarmed moveset.
Someya's katana moveset is reused by Masashi Suzaki in Judgment.
== Gallery ==
=== Yakuza 6 ===
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=== Ryu Ga Gotoku Online ===
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==Notes==
==References==
Category:Someya Family
Category:Tojo Clan
Category:AI Partners
Category:Yakuza 6 Characters
Category:Yakuza 6 Antagonists
Category:Yakuza 6 Bosses
Category:Ryu Ga Gotoku Online Characters