History TearJerker / Yakuza6

** You may think that "Today is a Diamond" is a pretty upbeat and happy-sounding song, especially for Kiryu... until you [[LyricalDissonance read the actual lyrics]] and it hits you: Kiryu is singing about wanting to do things together with Haruka but can't because of her being in a coma and [[PleaseWakeUp yearning for her to finally wake up]]. The final line makes it worse as it's just Kiryu stating that maybe ''"[[DrivenToSuicide he should go to sleep too]]"''.

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** "Hands", which you unlock by beating the game, is a cross between this and heartwarming. It's Kiryu's GrandFinale in terms of karaoke songs, and it shows. Unlike all the others, this song is ''not'' edited to shorten its length - you have to play all 3 minutes and 35 seconds of it. Not only is the song symbolic for closing out his character arc, it's also symbolic for closing out his tenure as the series's long-time protagonist. Kiryu has come a long way since he first became a member of the yakuza, and has now become a father figure in his own right. Fittingly, the song's cinematic consists of clips between him and Haruto throughout the game.

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** While it's pretty missable, if while Kiryu is acting as Michio, he is asked by a girl about his love life, Kiryu can reflect on Yumi as well. He was acting pretty flawlessly until then but you can chose to have him solemnly muse about how he could have had a life with Yumi had he chosen better. Not only that, Yumi's dying moments is still clearly in his mind as displayed by his flashbacks. Kiryu also states when remembering Yumi that Yumi was his only love, displaying that Kaoru may well have only been a crush and Yumi was the only person he truly loved. Although Kiryu is mainly a CelibateHero at this point, this game although subtle makes it clear it's because TheFirstCutIsTheDeepest.
* In a "blink-and-you'll-miss-it" moment, after rescuing Nagumo who subsequently begs Kiryu to be his aniki, Kiryu spends the majority of the cutscene with an uncomfortable, sad look on his face, no doubt stemming from the tragic deaths of the last two people who looked up to him and called him as such.

* A mix of FridgeLogic and a sad moment, when Kiryu and co. go to save Kiyomi, Hirose gave them ski masks, arguing that he used them back in the day to beat some higher ups, but when the team is about to uncover the secret of Onomichi, Hirose wears a ski mask. Later on, after beign defeated and the secret uncovered, he reveals he killed his own anikis, and then in the flashback we're shown that he actually used the ski masks not to beat them, but to kill them.
** Worst part is, the mask he used for those murders was the same model used by Kiryu, not one, but twice.
* Hirose's death. After Kiryu and the Hirose Family find out about the secret of Onomichi, Heizo demands that Hirose kill everyone present. Hirose, having long since grown attached to everyone in his family, hesitates, and then begins to ask Heizo if he can at least spare some of them. However, the second Hirose turns around, Heizo shoots him as punishment for insubordination. Lying in the arms of Nagumo, the captain of his family, Hirose admits that he killed Nagumo and Matsunaga's fathers to protect the secret of Onomichi, and then dies peacefully just as Nagumo and Matsunaga finish telling him they don't blame him for what he did. To add insult to injury, right before Hirose dies, Heizo admits that Daidoji never told him to kill anyone who knew the secret of Onomichi. His orders were to destroy the Yamato Mark II. However, he lied to Hirose to get him to kill everyone so that he could keep his leverage over Daidoji. Hirose died knowing that all the blood on his hands was for nothing.
** You can tell that Kiryu is trying to keep it together. The situation hits all too close to the death of his own father, Kazama.

*** However, it's thanks to such a sacrifice that Koshimizu changed his mind and not killed Kiyomi, effectively rendering his sacrifice the last act of true love towards Kiyomi, and ultimately saving her life a second and last time.

* Hirose killing his former anikis, specially Nagumo and Matsunaga's parents. As told by Hirose himself, he may have been actually friends with some of them, but killing those he respected and considered his older brother, had to effectively kill them without hesitation. The hardest one's may have been Nagumo and Matsunaga's parents, since they look almost exactly like them, and Matsunaga died on his way home having a ship model to his son, and Hirose watching it along the blood of his former aniki.
** This man then adopted them and had to see them growing up and having the same faces as their fathers, so in a way, he had to see the ghosts of his anikis for more than 30 years, without ever letting them know, until the above moment happend.

** Majima and Saejima's reactions can also be pretty sad. Kiryu is pretty much among the few apart from each other they can really consider a friend, and their TranquilFury is clearly evident, being eager to avenge the death of their friend. However, once they read the letter, their expression changes into solemn sadness. It's clear that they feel bad for their friend, as while Majima and Saejima have managed to find peace with their DarkAndTroubledPast, Kiryu never manages to find their happy ending and must settle for a BittersweetEnding instead. The fact that they may well be feeling they failed as a friend by never managing to snap Kiryu out of the darker and sadder aspects of his life and the letter serving as seeming a last reminder that they failed must be pretty gutting, although at least they manage to find peace with that in Like A Dragon.

* A minor one but Kiryu's return to Kamurocho is heartbreaking as his love for the city has been replaced by bitterness due to losing friends and family alike while in said location. What was once his home for decades has now become a place he despises

** Worse is that the moment Kiryu passes out from his wounds, the game fades to black and the credits roll with mournful music in the background. Granted, this isn't [[VideoGame/Yakuza2 the first time]] that the series has pulled this kind of fake-out, but the game really sets up the impression that Kiryu is [[KilledOffForReal officially gone]]. Which, in a [[GrandFinale meta sense]], despite him still being alive, [[EndOfAnAge he is]].

* If one pays enough attention, Someya has many similarities with Nishiki, from an outfit perspective (Hair back. a white suit) and a personality perspective (Both wanted to climb to the top of the Tojo Clan, had great ambition and would do what they deemed as necessary to further their plans) and then comes his death (Both sacrificed themselves for their loved ones, i.e. Kiryu and Yumi on Nishiki's side and Kiyomi on Someya's). Through the game, Kiryu may have seen some sort of resemblence between them two, then he sort of comes to terms with Nagumo by asking him to take care of his daughter, and then Kiryu loses it once he dies breaking the Tv with a scream, the whole situation hitting too close to home...
** And if that wasn't enough, Nagumo and Someya's rivalry is pretty much that of Kiryu and Nishiki's from the first game (A strongheaded yakuza and a more subtle and cunning yakuza trying to hit the top ranks, both fighting for the love of a woman they love), no wonder Kiryu is so affected, the story repeated itself with a tragic outcome, again.

* Kiryu reflecting how many parents he came across. Some bound by tradition, some that never really loved their kid to begin with, and he realizes how all these parents and children never spending time together as a family led to so much heartbreak and destruction. Kiryu then decides to write a letter to the person he thinks he failed as a father: Daigo Dojima, the boy he dragged into the Tojo Clan against his wishes, only to then distance himself from Daigo and let him handle the problems that came with being Chairman alone.

* Hirose killing his former anikis, specially Nagumo and Matsunaga's parents. As told bt Hirose himself, he may have been actually friends with some of them, but killing those he respected and considered his older brother, had to effectively kill them without hesitation. The hardest one's may have been Nagumo and Matsunaga's parents, since they look almost exactly like them, and Matsunaga died on his way home having a ship model to his son, and Hirose watching it along the blood of his former aniki.

* A mix of FridgeLogic and a sad moment, when Kiryu and co. go to save Kiyomi, Hirose gave them ski masks, arguing that he used them back in the day to beat some higher ups, but when the team is about to uncover the secret of Onomichi, hirose wears a ski mask. Later on, after beign defeated and the secret uncovered, he reveals he killed his own anikis, and then in the flashback we're shown that he actually used the ski masks not to beat them, but to kill them.

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