History Characters / LikeADragonGaidenTheManWhoErasedHisName

* ImplacableMan: He can take on yakuza legends like Majima and Saejima without flinching and gives Kiryu one of his longest duel by just refusing to stay down.

* DumbMuscle: Downplayed. While he isn’t a complete idiot, as he admits he isn’t smart enough to bring any grand schemes into fruition, his [[spoiler: years long plan to betray Watase fails because people smarter than him countered his plan to bum rush Watase and his supporters.]]

* UnderestimatingBadassery: On paper, his plan to swarm Kiryu, Watase and Tsuruno with himself, Nishitani III, the Kijin Clan and the Watase Family traitors was a sound strategy. Too bad he did not expect the former three to defeat every single one of them.

* FatalFlaw: Impulsiveness. Shishido just doesn’t have the talent to create plans or bring them to fruition. In contrast to previous antagonists that were able to have their plans realized, Shishido at the end of the day can only use his might to get the results he wants. While he says he plans to get others to become the pillar of the omi alliance, it’s his plan to swarm Kiryu and the gang that fails BOTH times because he didn’t have a backup plan. His only recourse was to beat the problem to death.

* FatalFlaw: Impulsiveness. Shishido just doesn’t have the talent to create plans or bring them to fruition. In contrast to previous antagonists that were able to have their plans realized, Shishido at the end of the day can only use his might to get the results he wants. While he says he plans to get others to become the pillar of the omi alliance, it’s his plan to swarm Kiryu and the gang that fails BOTH times because he didn’t have a back to or had any other plan than to beat the problem to death.

* UnderestimatingBadassery: On paper, his plan to swarm Kiryu, Watase and Tsurano with himself, nishitani and the yakuza is a sound strategy. Too bad he didn’t expect the above mentioned three to have defeated every single one of them.

* FatalFlaw: Impulsiveness. Shishido just doesn’t have the talent to create plans or bring them to fruition. In contrast to previous antagonists that were able to have their plans realized, Shishido at the end of the day can only use his might to get the results he wants. While he says he plans to get others to become the pillar of the omi alliance, it’s his plan to swarm Kiryu and the gang that fails both times because he didn’t have a back to or had any other plan than to beat the problem to death. This leads to him failing BOTH times.

* UnderestimatingBadassery: On paper, [[spoiler: His plan to swarm Kiryu, Watase and Tsurano with himself, nishitani and the yakuza is a sound strategy. Too bad he didn’t expect the above mentioned three to have defeated every single one of them.]]

* DemotedToDragon: [[spoiler:After spending most of the game as the primary antagonist, Nishitani's life is saved by Shishido who then entirely reveals his scheme to disrupt Watase's Omi Alliance dissolution plot so that he can take over the Watase Family and then the Omi Alliance. This would make Nishitani Shishido's subordinate should he ultimately succeed. Nishitani is seemingly perfectly fine with this arrangement as long as he can get payback on Watase though it may just be a pragmatic form of EnemyMine and [[NoHonorAmongThieves it's not like he couldn't just turn against Shishido later down the line.]]]]

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Boy does it take a while to show. He’s a rough yakuza that would go as far as murder to achieve his goals. Eventually, it’s shown that he’s on decent terms with Akane and shows he cares for his fellow men. [[spoiler: He and Kiryu eventually find even ground as well to become allies and dissolve to yakuza with Kiryu’s help.]]

* OnlySaneMan: Outside of Watase, [[spoiler: Tsurano is the only member of the Omi Alliance that understood that the Yakuza remaining under the then alive Aoki’s rule would yield negative results.]]

* TheLongGame: It turns out that he'd been planning to betray Watase the moment he made his plans to disband the Omi Alliance, which was two years before the game's events began. But rather than enact his betrayal right there and then, Shishido instead waited for the moment Watase would announce the Omi's dissolution. Once the rest of Watase's subordinates take the news of the dissolution [[SarcasmMode well]], Shishido would swoop in and galvanize them to form a new Omi Alliance. Not only that, but he also waited until Tsuruno made an attempt on Nishitani's life and exploited this betrayal to sway the Kijin Clan patriarch and the rest of his family to Shishido's side.

* WouldHurtAChild: Just before the final battle with him, he mentions paying a visit to the Morning Glory orphans. Kiryu dismisses this as mind games, but given how scheming and vengeful he's proven to be, there's every chance he wasn't bluffing.

OnlySaneMan: Outside of Watase, [[spoiler: Tsurano is the only member of the Omi Alliance that understood that the Yakuza remaining under the then alive Aoki would yield negative results.]]

* ClarkKenting: All it took for Morinaga to adopt the identity of Hanawa was to let his hair grow out a litle bit and go gray from age, comb it in a more formal and non-slicked back style, shave his moustache, and put on glasses, with minimal plastic surgery to make his jawline smoother.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Downplayed, but its clear that he puts a lot of trust in the Head Priest, enough that [[spoiler:instead of having both Hanawa and Kiryu executed for their lapse of judgment, he instead tests their loyalty to each other after the Head Priest begs for the both of them to be spared. He even admits that Tsuruno's absolutely massive bribe of 50 billion yen in Watase family assets was just the cherry on top.]]

* EvenEvilHasStandards: He plans to [[spoiler:have Nishitani III killed under the guise of eliminating him so he can't interfere with the dissolution of the Omi Alliance. His reasoning being that its not even just that the [=yakuza=] need to disappear to get out from under the thumb of the government, but that [[AxCrazy monsters like Nishitani III don't even deserve to live.]]]]

* {{Determinator}}: Befitting someone who's lived a life as rough as his, it takes a metric ton of abuse to get him to stop once he gets going. His entire final battle with Kiryu is just him getting one second wind after another to push Kiryu out of Omi HQ despite how much of a beating Kiryu is giving him, literally slamming/punching him through the walls and ceilings of the building from fighting stage to fighting stage.

* FinalBoss: Shishido becomes the final barrier standing in the way of the yakuza's final dissolution as he rallies the survivors of the Omi meeting and ultimately duels Kiryu himself in the halls of Omi HQ.

* GoodScarsEvilScars: His face is positively littered with cuts that show off the rough life he's lived. It makes him look particularly frightening whenever he starts emoting particularly strongly.

* MarathonBoss: He has a whopping four phases to his (final) boss fight with ''12'' health bars in total.

''For tropes on his original identity, see [[Characters/Yakuza5 here]].''

''For tropes on his original identity, see [[Character/Yakuza5 here]].''

* CanonCharacterAllAlong: Although not mentioned outright, in the ending, before Joryu sets off on his vacation, Hanawa explains to Joryu that he is also a man who found a new life. This, coupled with the fact that he [[ActorAllusion has the same voice actor]], and that he knew of Kiryu's Taichi Suzuki alias, implies that Hanawa is actually [[spoiler:Yuu Morinaga, once thought to have been killed by Masato Aizawa back in [[VideoGame/Yakuza5 2012]]. A fact that was [[WordOfGod eventually confirmed by Yokoyama himself]].

[[folder:Kihei Hanawa]]

* CanonCharacterAllAlong: Although not mentioned outright, in the ending, before Joryu sets off on his vacation, Hanawa explains to Joryu that he is also a man who found a new life. This, coupled with the fact that he [[ActorAllusion has the same voice actor]], [[spoiler:and that he knew of Kiryu's Taichi Suzuki alias]], implies that Hanawa is actually [[spoiler:Yuu Morinaga, once thought to have been killed by Masato Aizawa back in [[VideoGame/Yakuza5 2012.]]]]
* CarFu: [[spoiler:Comes crashing in with a limousine to run over Nishitani III before he could kill Watase.]]
* ClarkKenting: [[spoiler: If he actually ''is'' Yuu Morinaga, then all it took for him to adopt the identity of Hanawa was to let his hair grow out a litle bit and go gray from age, comb it in a more formal and non-slicked back style, shave his moustache, and put on glasses, with minimal plastic surgery to make his jawline smoother.]]
* DualBoss: [[spoiler:He's fought alongside Yoshimura and several other Daidoji agents in Chapter 2. Unlike Yoshimura, he actually has the sense to stand his ground and take Joryu head-on.]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler:When ordered to shoot Kiryu, he hesitated on the grounds that Kiryu had saved him on two occasions. Kiryu gives him a puzzled look. Assuming the events of the game up to that point count as one incident, it'd mean there's something else he has in mind, which the ending seems to imply is his brief alliance with Kiryu back in ''VideoGame/Yakuza5'' as Morinaga.]]
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:It's heavily implied that he's Yuu Moringa, who was one of the leading figures VideoGame/Yakuza5's conspiracy and one of Kiryu's enemies. Despite still engaging in some sketchy activity as acting leader of the Daidoji, he ultimately chooses to do right by Kiryu even if it means putting his own life on the line.]]
* IOweYouMyLife: [[spoiler:When being made to execute Kiryu for rebelling against the order to eliminate the Watase Family, Hanawa can't bring himself to do it, saying that as Kiryu went out of his way to save him he can't betray that debt, and accepts death from Yoshimura...[[SecretTestOfCharacter only to hear the click of a empty gun.]]]]
* INeverToldYouMyName: [[spoiler:When Kiryu goes on vacation, Hanawa gives him a fake ID bearing the name "Taichi Suzuki", which was Kiryu's alias when he was a cab driver in Nagasugai. Since Kiryu never told anyone in the Daidoji faction this, it implies that Hanawa is in fact Yuu Morinaga.]]

* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Very similar to Yuu Morinaga from ''5'' with his cool-headed, eloquent, intelligent demeanor and overall professionalism. He even shares the same voice actor. [[spoiler: [[CanonCharacterAllAlong Of course, this is likely intentional.]]]]
* TheUnReveal: [[spoiler: Despite every possible hint pointing to him being Yuu Morinaga being given to the audience, Hanawa never explicitly says that's who he used to be to Kiryu. Justified, since the Daidoji are a clandestine group and those who are a part of it are forbidden from making ''any'' overt references to their former identities, or the fact they were even alive to begin with, lest they be eliminated. As far as the rest of the world is concerned, their members are dead men, nothing more than ghosts and shadows.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: It's impossible to say much about Hanawa without bringing up his role in the story and possible true identity. [[spoiler: Namely, that he could possibly be a NotQuiteDead Yuu Morinaga from ''VideoGame/Yakuza5'' who somehow survived being betrayed by Aizawa thanks to the Daidoji Faction.]]

* DepravedBisexual: Much like his predecessor, he enjoys the company of women and men. He gets aroused at the prospect of fighting Kiryu and noticeably has a male attendant grooming his nails. It's also implied through dialogue that he sexually assaulted Shishido while the latter was still his slave.

* RussianRoulette: It's revealed that he frequently does this frequently with Shishido while the latter was still his slave.

* MovesetClone: Uses the exact same LawmanBaton-centric fighting style as Kisuke Watanabe from ''[[VideoGame/LostJudgment]]'' with the addition of tossing out [[BlindedByTheLight flashbang grenades]].