Like a Dragon

For detailed information about the series, see the Yakuza/Like A Dragon Wiki
==Summary==
Like a DragonJapanese: 龍が如く, Hepburn: Ryū ga Gotoku, formerly known in English Language Regions as Yakuza, is an open-world action-adventure beat 'em up video game franchise created, owned, and published by Sega. The series originated from Toshihiro Nagoshi's desire to create a game that would tell the way of life of the yakuza. Nagoshi initially struggled to find a platform for the project until Sony showed interest in the prospect.
The series storyline is a crime drama with plot lines inspired by yakuza films. Originally, it focused primarily on the protagonist yakuza Kazuma Kiryu from the Tojo clan, a reformed gangster with roots in the Kanto-based Tojo Clan, having been its fourth chairman for a brief period. While Kazuma often assists the Tojo clan in thwarting conspiracies against them, the series' primary theme has also featured him trying to abandon the yakuza for good and start over, raising orphans, and attempting to assimilate himself into normal civilian life. The gameplay of Yakuza has the player controlling Kazuma (or another character depending on the title) in an open world where he can fight several random groups of gangsters, punks, and enemies; craft weapons; take on side missions and activities to earn experience and money and to help the general populace; learn new moves from NPCs and martial arts masters; eat and drink at various restaurants based on their real-life counterparts; visit hostess and cabaret clubs; and engage in a variety of mini-games such as golfing, bowling, hitting baseballs; video arcades; karaoke; and illegal gambling at games including poker, blackjack, Cee-lo, and Koi-Koi.
The franchise has become a commercial and critical success. As of 2020, Sega has reported that the video game series has sold 14 million physical and digital sales units since its debut in 2005. Strong sales of the games in its original Japanese market have led to the franchise's expansion to other media, including film adaptations. First available on Sony's Playstation consoles, the series expanded to PC in 2018 with "Yakuza 0," followed by "Yakuza Kiwami" and "Yakuza Kiwami 2" in 2019, and finally an Xbox port in 2020. Sega eventually released a Remastered Collection of Yakuza 3, 4 and 5 on the PS4 in March 2020, with the PC and Xbox One/Series X to debut in January 2021, while Yakuza 6 is set to debut on the platforms in March 2021.
Yakuza: Like a Dragon shifts away from the real-time beat 'em up combat system in favor of a turn-based RPG combat system similar to the Persona series (Another SEGA franchise) with a four-member battle team for choosing.
The verse also has a spin-off game called Judgment, where the main protagonist is a former-lawyer-turned-private-detective Takayuki Yagami, who investigates a series of murders in Kamurocho which are a result of illegal experimentation. Another spin-off game in the series exists based on Fist of the North Star, where players assume the role of Kenshiro as the protagonist.
The verse has two other historical-based spin-offs called Kenzan and Ishin where players assume control of legendary samurai Miyamoto Musashi and Sakamoto Ryoma, respectively. The verse is more or less the same in terms of power levels and speed but features a heavier emphasis on swordplay (both swordplay and gunplay in Ishin).
==Power of the Verse==
Surprisingly most people would believe that the verse would be full of Street level characters but the cast from Yakuza hold some impressive feats, from even fodder characters being comfortably Wall level, able to destroy bikes and furnitures with their bare hands and even being able to survive full-powered blows from sledgehammers without getting their heads crushed, to the top tier characters hitting Building level at their strongest and Hypersonic combat speed and reactions, being capable of dodging bullets (Yakuza Ishin takes this up a notch, where characters canonically slice through bullets without even looking), fighting bears, tigers and sharks with their bare hands and winning outright, with some even managing to wield casual Small Building level feats by being able to one-shot boulders while malnutritioned and badly tortured and severely weakened, with other characters being able to wield Building level feats buy punching gigantic holes through building floors while suffering from direct bullet wounds, and most characters later on even damage construction equipment with their bare hands as seen in Yakuza Kiwami 2's Majima Construction storyline, with characters from Yakuza: Like a Dragon canonizing it by having its characters fight against excavators and wrecking balls during main story missions. Yakuza: Like a Dragon takes this a step further with intercontinental satellites capable of dealing tremendous damage to large areas of entire buildings and splitting clouds. Most characters can copy complete movesets, and skills as well as boost their speed and strength with Revelations. The characters can also wrestle tigers and a bear the size of a small shack, stop accelerating cars and hold them in place, lift motorbikes and electric boxes and use them as melee weapons, and yank out 6-meter-long great white sharks with one arm.
The game series features a real-time beat 'em up combat system with the encouragement of using the environment, with weapons like knives, nun chucks, swords, tonfas, and many other close-range weapons like firearms also being usable, with destructibles like bikes, electrical boxes also being included for the characters to casually swing around and smash into enemies. Judgment features the same combat but with additions of free-running mechanics not unlike Sleeping Dogs. Yakuza: Like a Dragon shifts from the beat 'em up system in favor of a turn-based RPG system with brand new abilities ranging from basic healing to powerful summons of legendary yakuza members of yore, with a massive variety of summons, elemental attacks, and environmental combat.
==Accepted Calculations==
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|-|Attack Potency, Striking Strength and Durability=
*Yakuza Kiwami: Majima Smash (0.3395669 tons of TNT, Building level) (Scales to Majima and Kiryu and the rest of the protagonists who have fought against them)
*Yakuza Kiwami: Kiryu survives a 'splosion (0.1013 tons of TNT, Small Building level) (Scales to Kiryu)
*Yakuza 4: Taiga Breaks Some Rocks (0.085 tons of TNT Small Building level) (Scales to a heavily-weakened Saejima)
|-|Speed=
*Yakuza 0: Majima Bullet-times again (Mach 9.78912, Hypersonic) (Scales to Majima, Kiryu and the rest of the protagonists in the series, as they can all perform this exact same feat)
*Yakuza 0- Majima bullet-times (Mach 9.419, Hypersonic) (Scales to Majima)
*Yakuza Kiwami: Kiryu-chan bullet-times (Full Pack) (First calc is Mach 9.9492390671, Hypersonic. Second calc is Mach 9.9746, Hypersonic) (Scales to Kiryu, Majima and the rest of the protagonists in the series, as they can all perform this exact same feat)
*Yakuza Kiwami 2: Mad Doge of Shimano's Bullet Tendency (Mach 9.5304510505247819, Hypersonic) (Scales to all the protagonists in the series since they can replicate this exact same feat)
*Yakuza 3- GO TO HELL (Mach 9.48662, Hypersonic) (Scales to Kiryu, Majima, Andre Richardson and anyone else who can keep up with them)
</tabber>
==Supporters/Opponents/Neutral==
===Supporters===
*CrimsonStarFallen
*Dragonmasterxyz
*KLOL506
*Tonygameman
*CCMac27
*JustSomeWeirdo
*Kirbonic_Pikmin
*Baken384
===Opponents===
===Neutral===
==Characters==
===Tojo Clan===
Kazuma_Kiryu_in_Yakuza_6.jpg|Kazuma Kiryu|link=Kazuma Kiryu
Majima2.jpg|Goro Majima|link=Goro Majima
Saejima5.jpg|Taiga Saejima|link=Taiga Saejima
Screenshot_2018-09-20_20.16.30.png|Ichiban Kasuga|link=Ichiban Kasuga
YakuzaKiwami2_2019-05-20_00-18-52-93.jpg|Osamu Kashiwagi|link=Osamu Kashiwagi
Nishiki_(YK1).jpg|Akira Nishikiyama|link=Akira Nishikiyama
Daigo_Dojima_Yakuza_6.jpg|Daigo Dojima|link=Daigo Dojima
Yoshitaka_Mine_Profile.png|Yoshitaka Mine|link=Yoshitaka Mine
Cutegirlsmug.jpg|Futoshi Shimano|link=Futoshi Shimano
Daisaku_Kuze.png|Daisaku Kuze|link=Daisaku Kuze
Yakuza0_2019-04-21_00-15-06-20.png|Hiroki Awano|link=Hiroki Awano
Keiji_Shibusawa.png|Keiji Shibusawa|link=Keiji Shibusawa
Aizawa.jpg|Masato Aizawa|link=Masato Aizawa
YakuzaKiwami2 2019-05-30 23-35-42-70.jpg|Koji Shindo|link=Koji Shindo
===Omi Alliance===
29460672667_582d1cc1dc_o.jpg|Ryuji Goda|link=Ryuji Goda
Homare_Nishitani.png|Homare Nishitani|link=Homare Nishitani
Masaru Watase YLAD Profile.jpg|Masaru Watase|link=Masaru Watase
Hayashi's_Back.png|Hiroshi Hayashi|link=Hiroshi Hayashi
===Yomei Alliance===
Toruhiroseface.jpeg|Toru Hirose|link=Toru Hirose
nagumoface.jpeg|Tsuyoshi Nagumo|link=Tsuyoshi Nagumo
===Jingweon Mafia===
Han_Jungi.jpg|Joon-gi Han|link=Han Joon-gi
===Saio Triad===
edyakuzaface.jpeg|Ed|link=Ed (Like a Dragon)
===Iwami Shipbuilding===
Tsuneo_Iwami_.jpg|Tsuneo Iwami|link=Tsuneo Iwami
===Enemies===
Yakuza0_2019-05-09_20-41-46-38.jpg|Lao Gui|link=Lao Gui
===Allies===
Ss01_(1).jpg|Shun Akiyama|link=Shun Akiyama
Tatsuo_Shinada.jpg|Tatsuo Shinada|link=Tatsuo Shinada
Lee_Wen_Hai.png|Wen Hai Lee|link=Wen Hai Lee
===Yagami Detective Agency===
ProjectJudge-feature.jpg|Takayuki Yagami|link=Takayuki Yagami
===Amon Clan===
So_amon_y0.jpg|So Amon|link=So Amon
Joamon.jpg|Jo Amon|link=Jo Amon
Shin_Amon_Profile.png|Shin Amon|link=Shin Amon
===CIA===
Joji_Kazama.jpg|Joji Kazama|link=Joji Kazama
Y3richardsondaigoroom.jpg|Andre Richardson|link=Andre Richardson
===Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department===
Masayoshi_Tanimura_Yakuza_4.jpg|Masayoshi Tanimura|link=Masayoshi Tanimura
Junji.jpeg|Junji Sugiuchi|link=Junji Sugiuchi
Project-Judge-5_(1).webp|Mitsuru Kuroiwa|link=Mitsuru Kuroiwa
===Others===
Shinichi-shinohara-yakuza-kiwami-56.3.jpg|Shinichi Shinohara|link=Shinichi Shinohara (Yakuza)
Yama-Oroshi.png|Yama-Oroshi|link=Yama-Oroshi
Y5_baba.png|Shigeki Baba|link=Shigeki Baba
LJ_-_Character_Profile_-_Jin_Kuwana.webp|Jin Kuwana|link=Jin Kuwana
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