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* The spin-off featuring characters from the main series, ''Ryu Ga Gotoku: Of The End''/''Yakuza: Dead Souls'', takes place during an... [[Zombie Apocalypse|umm... outbreak of the living dead]].
* ''Hokuto ga Gotoku/[[Fist of the North Star]]: Lost Paradise'', which is technically a FotNS game but made by the ''Yakuza'' developers, using the same gameplay and mechanics, having ''Yakuza'' alumni in the cast including Kenshiro's Japanese voice being Kiryu's voice actor Takaya Kuroda and with a few familiar faces showing up, and is therefore considered part of the family.
* ''Judge Eyes/Judgment'': Another spinoff series, currently at two games, starring lawyer-turned-private detective Takayuki Yagami (voiced by in Japanese and modelled after superstar Takuya Kimura]], that add investigation elements into the gameplay.
* A live-action prequel to the first game, a live-action adaptation of the first game directed by [[Takashi Miike]], and radio dramas.
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** Koji Shindo was just a lieutenant of the Nishiki Family notable for leading the back-alley ambush on Kazuma at Serena in the first game. In the second, he became the Patriarch of the Nishiki Family.
** Hiroshi Hayashi was one of Ryuji Goda's right-hand men in ''2''. In ''Dead Souls'', he's a {{spoiler|''freaking'' zombie. And not just any zombie. He's the insanely durable zombie (mutant may be a more suitable term for him) who kicks off the zombie outbreak. Granted, he didn't turn into one by will, and wanted to stop Nikaido and DD from whatever their plans were before he was mutated.}}
** Akiyama {{spoiler|is probably the bum who was first shown catching money after the 10 billion yen incident. The facial features are a bit different, though that is likely due to the series' [[Art Evolution]], and their clothes are different (they wear a different cap), but they are in the exact same location and do the exact same thing (catch a bill, then gather as much as they can), so it can probably be forgiven by [[Broad Strokes]].}}
* [[Authority Equals Asskicking]] {{spoiler|Kazuma}} taking the title of Chairman of the Tojo Clan. Later {{spoiler|Daigo Dojima}} in future games.
* [[Ax Crazy]]: Goro Majima. Holy crap.
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* [[Bloodless Carnage]]: In the fourth game, Saejima's murderous rampage at the start of his story has a surprising lack of gunshot wounds on his victims. {{spoiler|[[Fridge Brilliance|Which makes perfect sense]] when you later discover he was set up as [[The Scapegoat]] by Katsuragi.}}
* [[Bonus Boss]]: Jo Amon, an assassin who makes an appearance in almost every game, shows up when certain requirements are fulfilled. In the fourth game, he makes an appearance with his three brothers to take on Kazuma, Akiyama, Saejima and Tanimura. By ''Dead Souls'', he's been {{spoiler|zombiefied, but can still be fought in Kamurucho's underground (you know, [[Bonus Dungeon|the one full of zombies and mutants waiting to kick your ass]]).}} Players are usually rewarded for defeating him with a [[Game Breaker]], since he's just [[That One Boss|that hard to kill.]]
* [[Born in the Wrong Century]]:
** Kiryu is pretty much the stereotypical heroic ronin, and the feudal-era games don't dispel that impression in the slightest.
** Shishido from ''The Man Who Erased His Name'' is portrayed as pretty much the perfect Yakuza brute. A large part of his subplot concerns the fact that he would have thrived in an earlier era, but not when {{spoiler|the Omi and Tojo are disbanding and going civilian.}}
* [[Bragging Rights Reward]]: In ''0'', beating a Mr. Shakedown gives a boatload of cash. However, by the time Kiryu or Majima is strong enough to treat them as farmable [[Giant Mook]]s rather than [[Skippable Boss]]es to [[Run or Die]] from, they'll also be strong enough that not much else is a challenge that needs the upgrades that windfall will purchase to overcome.
* [[Breakable Weapons]]
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** Pretty well averted in 4 and Dead Souls, whose multi-character gameplay (with Kiryu being the last character) allows him to be presented as more of a larger-than-life character from the perspectives of other characters. Additionally, many of his random encounters in 4 are people attacking him knowing that if they should take down the Dragon of Dojima, their own reputations will skyrocket. Still [[Suicidal Overconfidence]], but it's [[Suicidal Overconfidence]] out of ''respect''.
* [[Dulcinea Effect]]: Men are falling over themselves to protect Lily in 4, though everyone does have their own reasons. Doesn't change the fact that only one of the main characters has known her for more than a week.
* [[End of an Age]]: Part of the plots of ''7'', ''Lost Judgment'', and ''The Man Who Erased His Name'' concern {{spoiler|the dying of the Yakuza as an institution with the disbanding of the Omi and Tojo.}}
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: {{spoiler|At the end of Chapter 12 in the second game, Kazuma chases Sengoku up the Golden Palace past an army of [[Samurai]]-clad [[Mooks]]- and even a pair of tigers- to his office after he kidnapped Haruka as a ploy to lure Kazuma into an ambush. Sengoku is quite surprised to see Ryuji Goda waiting there for them all with a [[Katanas Are Just Better|katana]] over his shoulder. After commiserating with Kazuma's plight, Goda responds to Sengoku's mouthing off by cutting a deep gash in his chest. At that point, Ryuji makes it clear abducting Haruka was in poor taste. That might have been it if Sengoku actually had common sense and kept quiet. Instead, he [[Too Dumb to Live|spits out]] that Ryuji only got far because of his [[Nepotism|father]]. Ryuji [[You Wouldn't Like Me When I'm Angry|had enough of Sengoku at that point]], stabbing him with the katana and pushing him to the balcony before kicking him off the top of the Golden Palace. He then lets Kazuma leave with Haruka, but makes it clear that there would be a huge brawl between the Omi and the Tojo in one day.}}
* [[Evil Counterpart]]:
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** Most of the playable characters have some reason for how they can kick so much ass, and then there's Akiyama. He's ostensibly a former investment banker who was made homeless after failing to fight off false charges, only to receive a windfall from the sky that he leveraged into becoming a successful entrepreneur. None of this adequately explains how he became strong enough as to become a commendable opponent for Kiryu, first as a [[Dual Boss]] with Tanimura in ''4'' and then by himself in ''6''.
** While the series can get wacky at times, most of it remains within the conventions of [[Heroic Bloodshed]] and modern criminal action. Then there's the [[Bonus Boss]] Amon Clan, who have [[Kill Sat]]s, [[Laser Blade]]s and all other sorts of genre-defying weirdness, and no explanation whatsoever offered for all of it.
* [[Ink Suit Actor]]: In later games, many characters are modelled after their voice actors.
* [[Kingpin in His Gym]]: in the third game Mine appears kickboxing with a sandbag in a cutscene because the game wants you to know that he's no pushover. {{spoiler|Which you end up learning by yourself since he is the [[Final Boss]]}}.
* [[Knife Nut]]: Goro Majima.
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