For the longest time, Kiryu was the face of the Yakuza series. While he's 🐻since stepped down from the protagonist role following the end of Yakuza 6 and handed reigns to Ichiban, his presence is still felt throughout the series. Kiryu's evolved over the years, going through many trials over the course of his journey.
Kiryu's fighting🔯 style is kn🤡own as the Dragon Of Dojima style, and he's used it since the first Yakuza game. While it wasn't the first fighting style he learned, it's the first that he taught himself. Outside of the fighting itself, Kiryu follows a code that complements its style.
10 Awoken Through Real Estate ☂
In Yakuza 0, Kiryu uses the Brawler, Rush, and Beast styles throughout most of the game. However, none of these is Kiryu's signature Dragon Of Dojima style. Early on in Yakuza 0, Kiryu will be given a Real Estate firm to run. He then takes on the duty of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:taking down the Five Bil🍬lionaires of Kamurocho.
At the end of the Real Estate Royal, Kiryu will come face to fa꧙ce with the Fiance King, the man in charge of it all. After delivering the final blow, Kiryu will have a revelation, and awaken his true, permanent style, The Dragon of Dojima style.
9 𒅌 It's How He Judges Character
Kiryu is one of the most charismatic characters in the💃 entire Yakuza series. Even people who started as his enemies often time find themselves as Kiryu's allies, sometimes becoming some of his strongest ones.
Despite this charisma, Kiryu isn't much of a talker. In fact, he's fairly 🎀reserved and often keeps to himself. When meeting new people, Kiryu much rather prefers to judge their character based on how they fight. In his own words, he much rather talks through fists than with words. With how much fighting Kiryu does, it's no surprise it's his preferred🍌 method.
8 🦄🦂 Utilizes The Komaki Arts
While Komaki trained Majima in Yakuza 0, he spent the rest oꦇf the series helping to improve Kiryu's own style. Komaki doesn't play a role in the main story of the series but has appeared in every entry up to Yakuza 6.
Komaki 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:helped♛ train every protagonist in the series, helping them realize their true potentiꦺal. Kiryu's hidden potential is brought out by Komaki, and he uses many Komaki techniques in his fighting style. Most notably, the Tiger Drop is one of Komaki's most powerful moves and is also Kiryu's most powerful attack.
7 ♉ Dragon Style Is Kiryu's Only Unique Style
Kiryu's main fighting style, the Dragon Of Dojima style is used in every game. It wasn't Kiry's first style he fought with, but it's the first style he crafted entirely on his own. While it borrows some aspects of Brawler i🍬n the Dragon Engine games, it's still Kiryu's own.
The other styles he knows, he learned from different characters. Brawler, Rush, and Beast were all fighting styles realized when watching someone else use them. Kiryu on the other hand had the revelation for his own signature style that noꦺ one has ev🌃en attempted to copy.
6 ꧋ Doesn't Use It On Women
Despite fans wanting to see Kiryu in a fighting game, the creator has made it clear he doesn't want to see that 🎐come to light since he doesn't want to see Kiryu fighting a woman. The games hold this true as he's never seen fighting anyone of the opposite sex.
In Yakuza: Like A Dragon, Kiryu returns for a boss fight 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:for Ichiban and his party members. You can have female characters in your party, and Ki𓆉ryu is programmed to not attack them, further amplifying this aspect of his fighting style.
5 ♐ Still Capable With Old Styles
While 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Kiryu spends most of the series using his signature Dragon Of Do🎃jima style, he's still perfectly ca🙈pable of using the styles he first used in Yakuza 0. Brawler, Rush, and Beast are all still powerful during the events of Yakuza Kiwami.
In Yakuza: Like A Dragon, Kiryu makes use of all four fighting styles he knows. He cycles through them, eventually staying in the Dragon Of Dojima style at the end of the fight. Despite how many years as passes since he first used them, Kiryu is still perfectly capable of us📖ing all of them.
4 ❀ Taught By Masters
Kiryu has never shied away from training and learning new moves from other characters in the series. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Over the course of Yakuza 0, he meets with three different masters of three different figh🍷ting styles who all train him.
In Yakuza Kiwami and beyond, Komaki fills in the role of a mentor in fighting, teaching him new techniques. Bacchus, Kamoji, and Miss Tatsu all helped Kiryu perfect his fighting as well. Training under all of these masters helped Kiryu to perfect his wa🧸y of fighting and made him the fighter he is today.
3 Won't Fight T🏅hose Who Can't Fight Back ꦅ
Kiryu iꦜs a man who knows his values and never falters away from those. He is a fighter much more than he is a talker, despite his natural charisma. With how many times he's fought, he has many codes about it that he follows.
One of these codes is that he r꧋efuses to fight those who can't fight back. Even against the biggest villains of the series, after he defeats them he won't continue to attack once they caඣn't stand back up. This is further confirmed in Yakuza: Like A Dragon, when he scolds Ichiban for failing to follow this rule.
2 Learns F🔯rom His Surroundings ꦺ
Kiryu learns a lot from watching others🐷. It's how he had the revelation of his first three fighting styles after all. However, he learns from civilians just as much as he learns from the masters of fighting styles.
168澳洲幸运5开奖网:From Yakuza 3 onward, Kiryu will have revelations that teach him new techniques from watching events of the world happen i💯n f🔴ront of him. Thanks to the help of Mack, he learns how to take in the world, and that skill is used by Kiryu to perfect his Dragon Of Dojima style.
1 ♎ Fighting Majima Perfected It ꧑
After being released 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:from prison in Yakuza Kiwami, Kiryu's power became dormant. After encountering Majima, he 𝕴swears that he'll keep fighting Kiryu until he is at his peak once again.
Not only does Majima succeed in bringing Ki♐ryu back to his usual power, but he ampli๊fies it to new heights. Fighting Majima helped Kiryu learn all sorts of new moves, and become as powerful as he's ever been. While Kiryu was annoyed by the constant fighting, he comes to appreciate the help that Majima provided in perfecting his Dragon Of Dojima style.