History Characters / Yakuza5

* SharpDressedMan: Which lead many people to believe he's involved with the yakuza.

CharacterSpecificPages: [[Characters/LikeADragonKazumaKiryu Kazuma Kiryu]] | [[Characters/LikeADragonGoroMajima Goro Majima]] | [[Characters/LikeADragonAkiraNishikiyama Akira Nishikiyama]] | [[Characters/LikeADragonIchibanKasuga Ichiban Kasuga]]\\

* NervesOfSteel: Walks in on a tense conversation between Daigo and Shindada and doesn't bat an eye when Daigo pulls a gun on him, merely snarking as he raises his hands. Later on, Manabe angrily pulls a knife on him when he asks him a question on a rather sensitive topic and he continues to snark about how suspicious such behavior is.

* NervesOfSteel: [[spoiler:''Like a Dragon Gaiden'' retroactively reveals that he was shockingly composed during his appearance in ''Like a Dragon'' considering that he had just suffered a knife wound not long before he arrived at the Omi HQ, showing no signs of injury until after Ichiban's team left]].

* TheAtoner: [[spoiler: Akiyama believes that Katsuya rescued Haruka from Kanai and worked to keep her well-being safe to make up for not being there to protect his OldFriend Park from Kanai and Ogita.]]

* TheMole: [[spoiler:Revealed to be working directly for Kurosawa rather than Katsuya.]]

* ActorAllusion: Much like Shinada, Toshiyuki Morikawa was actually a star athlete in baseball before injuries led him to take up acting and still an enthusiatic fan of his local team.

* ChildhoodFriend: [[spoiler:Subverted with regards to Daigo Dojima. Daigo looked up to Tatsuo as an unlikely yet inspiring baseball player in high school, and even got himself expelled [[OneManArmy singlehandedly defending]] the team from a gang of violent punks from a rival school. Tatsuo just regarded Daigo as a classmate and didn't even know he was the one behind that stunt. That said, he's still able to recognize Daigo's face after so many years had passed. By the time they agree to leave for Tokyo together, Shinada's happy to call Daigo an old friend from highschool when speaking to Sawada.]]

** His special affinity for weaponry also gives him some powerful options. Notably, his unique series of Heat Actions "Essence of Weapon Draw" are a quick and easy way to take out enemies with ease as long as you make sure to to keep weapons on hand.
* GoodCannotComprehendEvil: [[spoiler:Upon TheReveal that most of his friends and acquaintences in Kiniecho are willing members of the Nagoya Family, he's in complete denial believing that they're ForcedIntoEvil instead of NecessarilyEvil.]]

* JadedWashout: He's been undergoing rigorous training "at the farm" for his baseball batting and fielding chops for four years, had a decent showing in the Nationwide Koshien Tournament for highschoolers, and would later pull of an incredible homerun on his very first professional at bat the moment he had a chance, with even the commentators noting how this could be the start of a living baseball legend. Cut to 15 years later and he now lives in a dingy little rooftop hut of an apartment room, owes money to multiple "friends" and a loanshark, and is barely making ends meet as a "Nightlife Journalist". A big part of his character arc is coming to terms with what's happened in his life and finding the strength to confront it and move forward in life instead of [[RefusalOfTheCall ignoring it at every possible opportunity, even trying to skip town at a couple points.]]

** My Essence of Whirlwind: With a longer weapon, Shinada can spin it around like a tornado to launch enemies and slam them down.

* NaiveNewcomer: Since Kineicho is supposedly free of the yakuza, he's not familiar with them or how they operate, and is clearly in over his head when he accepts the job to find the truth behind the scandal years before.

* ChivalrousPervert: He definitely likes the ladies, but he's plenty respectful of them and doesn't take kindly to anyone trying to take advantage of them.
** {{Justified}}. He's a "Nightlife Entertainment Journalist" so it's literally his job to be good at describing in vivid detail how attractive and appealing sex workers are. It's to the point where local barkers will thank him for his magazine reviews getting their co-workers more customers. Still, he only gets perverted about women when speaking to close friends, co-workers, and associates well aware of his occupation like [[DirtyOldMan Uno-san]] or the owner of the Futo Momo brothel. Otherwise he's pretty down-to-earth and sensible even when speaking to a woman that he's into.

* ChivalrousPervert: He likes the ladies, but also respects women and doesn't take kindly to anyone trying to take advantage of them.

* TheGrappler: The closest playable character the series has to one, functionally speaking. His unarmed combat abilities probably rely more on grappling and clinch-fighting enemies than any other Yakuza protagonist. He can grapple after every combo finisher with the "My Explosive Finish", he can uniquely grab fallen enemies by head and force them into a standing grapple with "My Forcible Ascension" (Kiryu's and Saejima's variant simply stands enemies up), he can uniquely cancel combos via grapples with "My Speed-of-Light Catch", and his only CounterAttack "My Flowing Counter" uniquely puts him into a grapple instead of dealing any damage on its own. Two of his heat actions also uniquely end with putting an enemy into a grapple: "Essence of Knee Slam", which is used when grappling a foe from behind, and "Essence of the Shachihoko", which is used on an ememy while they're lying on the floor. By training with Ayanokoji he can uniquely throw an enemy with a grapple and immediately grapple them again through "My Snapping Turtle" and he can also grab enemies mid quickdash after learning "My Afterimage". Even his signature move "My Meteor Tackle" involves [[FoeTossingCharge grabbing an enemy in a rushing charge, damaging anyone else that gets in the way]].

* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: To Masayoshi Tanimura as the designated GlassCannon [[TheGrappler Grappler.]] He's also well versed in chaining attacks after combo-finishers though he follows them up with grapple attacks which are weaker than Tanimura's Heat Move follow-ups but can instead build up more heat while still dealing decent damage. His overall abilities also place more emphasis on weapons as while Tanimura focuses more on unarmed parries.

* WrestlerInAllOfUs: Some of his Heat moves involve a snap DDT and a Boston crab.