History Characters / LostJudgment

* BadassBoast: As he says to Yagami when he kidnaps him after his visit to Sawa's apartment:
--> '''Soma:''' First comes the pain, then the fear. You have to start with the pain. Fear won't work if you haven't given them a reason.

* LeeroyJenkins: When it comes to [[TraumaButton bullying]], she tends to opt towards the most direct course of action when dealing with it, even if there's possible ramifications, such as the fact that the evidence they have proving the bullying occurring in her class was secretly recorded, which would get the school in trouble if it was used to condemn the students in question. It's rather telling that when the bullying footage from her class is shown to her and she, the chairman and the 99 discuss what to do, ''[[DumbMuscle Kaito's]]'' the only one to really back up her idea of simply exposing it and expelling the students involved despite the dubiousness of their evidence, and Kaito may also be agreeing because he has a thing for her.

* EvenEvilCanBeLoved: {{Downplayed}}. While Mikiko absolutely despised him after learning the truth and Jun didn't respect him all that much due to his neglectful parenting, it's {{Implied}} that Jun did in fact care for him deep down, and is upset by his true nature and subsequent death. He even recounts a time where Kyoya took him out on a drive in a new car he just bought and said they could go anywhere he wanted, though he speculates that it may have just been an excuse to go on a drive. Kaito, having his own experience with an abusive father, is quick to comfort Jun over this. Basically explaining how even people like their fathers [[FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse can't be held accountable for]] ''[[FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse everything]]'' [[FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse that goes wrong]].

-->'''Mikiko''': [[spoiler:Lies... All of it... You lied about everything! From the very start! Even after that, I lived on, blissfully unaware the man I was with murdered Maho and my family How do you feel now!? How could you be so cold!? You fucking monster![[labelnote: English Dub]]Everything... was a lie. Everything you've ever said to me was bullshit! Our marriage was bullshit! I guess you got what you wanted. To think I lived under the same roof with the monster who killed my family... My only sister! How does it feel right now!? You calculate this too!? Goddamn coward![[/labelnote]]]]

-->'''Mikiko''': [[spoiler:Lies... All of it... You lied about everything! From the very start! Even after that, I lived on, blissfully unaware the man I was with murdered Maho and my family How do you feel now!? How could you be so cold!? You fucking monster![labelnote: English Dub]]Everything... was a lie. Everything you've ever said to me was bullshit! Our marriage was bullshit! I guess you got what you wanted. To think I lived under the same roof with the monster who killed my family... My only sister! How does it feel right now!? You calculate this too!? Goddamn coward![[/labelnote]]]]

* FamilyOfChoice: Even though Kaito isn't his biological father, that doesn't stop Jun from seeing him as a far better father figure, especially by the end of the campaign. Kaito in turn also warms up to Jun by the end, having spent much of the DLC looking out for him.

-->'''Mikiko''': [[spoiler:Everything... was a lie. Everything you've ever said to me was bullshit! Our marriage was bullshit! I guess you got what you wanted. To think I lived under the same roof with the monster who killed my family... My only sister! How does it feel right now!? You calculate this too!? Goddamn coward!]]

-->'''Jun''': [[spoiler:Why, Mom!? What happens now? You gonna get locked up? You leaving me again? What was it you said? Everything was a lie? ''Was I a lie too?!'']]

!!!The Bullies (UNMARKED SPOILERS)
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!!!The Bullies

* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:Just as Yagami Detective Agency are about to be taken away by police officers deployed by Public Security, and after Watanabe's efforts to talk them down proved futile, they come in to record the police officers as a distraction so YDA can make their getaway.]]

* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: By the end of the game they're on the good side now, protecting a bullied girl from another ignorant group of bullies alongside Koda.]]

* InstantHumiliationJustAddYouTube: Attempted. Had it not been for Yagami stepping in by chance, it's likely the poor shop owner he harasses in Ijincho would've been humiliated online. [[spoiler:They successfully use this trick at the end to distract cops trying to arrest Yagami]].

* ReformedBully: [[spoiler:By the end of the game, not only do they drop the bullying but are actively standing up for victims by averting BystanderSyndrome]].
* RefugeInAudacity: [[spoiler:The very fact that they managed to harass ''police officers'' (deployed by Public Security, no less) by trying to record them as mentioned above in BigDamnHeroes is basically this. And if their final scene with Koda is any indication, they got off with flying colors.]]

* TheWorfEffect: She proved herself capable against typical rank-and-file yakuza grunts in flashbacks. [[spoiler:However, she gets overpowered and taken hostage twice during her RoaringRampageOfRevenge, first by Kenmochi, demonstrating his monstrous strength, and then by Kyoya, demonstrating his psychopathy and consequent lack of restraint.]]

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: It was not mentioned what became of him and Senda after they decide to holdoff the members of Crimson Lotus for Kaito to go on ahead to save Mikiko in the last chapter.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: It was not mentioned what became of him and Igarashi after they decide to holdoff the members of Crimson Lotus for Kaito to go on ahead to save Mikiko in the last chapter.

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** Lastly, when compared to [[FinalBoss Final Bosses]] from the ''VideoGame/{{Yakuza}}'' franchise as a whole, Kuwana leans ''very'' heavily into AntiVillain territory; previous antagonists would generally be at worst pure evil and at best sympathetic [[TragicVillain Tragic Villains]] who only became villainous due to enduring harsh circumstances but have nevertheless went on to commit indefensibly amoral acts. Kuwana stands out in that he does not see himself as evil at all and in fact considers himself morally superior to the protagonist, who in turn can empathize with Kuwana's motives to an extent and would much rather have him peacefully admit his wrongdoings and turn himself in rather than beat him up and throw him in a cell like he does with other antagonists.

* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: To Ichinose from the first game, being his direct successor in the Ministry of Health. Whereas Ichinose was a smug, sleazy, CorruptPolitician whose conspiracy was willing to claim innocent lives in the form of Okubo and Terasawa, Kusumoto is instead part of a conspiracy that seeks to punish those that the system couldn't such as Shinya Kawai and all of the other bullies involved in Mitsuru's suicide attempt and is otherwise an honest politician. She's also ''much'' more sympathetic than Ichinose, seeing as her only son had attempted to commit suicide, only to be put in a coma for 13 years. Tellingly, whereas Ichinose had zero remorse for his actions and went down screaming, Kusumoto peacefully turns herself in when her son wakes up from his coma upon realizing just how far she had gone with her actions.

* BreakTheCutie: From witnessing her classmate getting bullied into jumping off the school roof and ending up in a coma for thirteen years, to seeing her own student getting bullied into suicide and then being ''forced'' to keep her mouth shut by the bully's teacher, poor Sawa has gone through a lot in her life.

* ActionGirl and ActionMom: Flashbacks show that she was capable of putting yakuza in armlocks and able to intimidate members of the Matsugane clan through her sheer determined nature. She was also the person who taught Jun how to fight. [[spoiler:Evidently, even with the physical trauma she endured before the events of the story, she still hasn't slowed down all that much. Sadamoto orchestrating the deaths of the Crimson Lotus was actually a RaceAgainstTheClock because there was a very real possibility that ''Mikiko would take them out first'' during her RoaringRampageOfRevenge and potentially reveal something that could incriminate him.]]

* DudeMagnet and MsFanservice: She is VERY attractive and easy on the eyes, especially when considering her age (38) and because of that, many men (understandably) show attraction to her, including Kaito, Shirakaba, and Senda. Kaito even asks Igarashi if he too has fallen for her, to which he gives a bit of a non-committal answer but admits he respects her drive and backbone. [[spoiler: [[{{Irony}} Ironically]] enough, one of the only men who shows no hints of love or being truly attracted to her is [[BitchInSheepsClothing her own husband.]]]]

* TheOneThatGotAway: She was in a relationship with Kaito in the past before his loyalty to the Matsugane Clan led to a bitter break-up. [[spoiler:They seem to rekindle their romance at the end of the story.]]

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