Affectionate Nickname: Both Masumi and Masato Arakawa call him "Ichi".1-Up: The Hero skill Peerless Resolve allows Ichiban to immediately revive after receiving fatal damage, and is the only "resurrect" type ability that will work on him, given that him hitting zero hitpoints will automatically result in defeat otherwise.His personal skills revolve around using his charisma to get his way in battle, like buffing his allies or convincing enemies to fork over items. He later trades out this job for the much more powerful "Hero" job, which focuses on him using a baseball bat for wide-hitting swings and devastating blows. His default job is "Freelancer", which is a powerful scrapper class designed to overwhelm enemies with single-target attacks. Determined to rise to the top again, he and an unlikely band of misfits must now take over Yokohama and get the happy ending he hoped for. The next morning, he wakes up in Yokohama's Isezaki Ijincho red light district in a dumpster, surprisingly alive but now exiled from his home. Meeting his father-figure for the first time, he was met with a gun aimed at him and was shot. The next day, January 1, 2001, his 24th birthday, Ichiban Kasuga turned himself into the local police.Įighteen years later, Ichiban's sentence was up and he was released from prison, expecting a grateful reunion only to be met with silence and his Patriarch taking control of Kamurocho as the clan captain of the Omi Alliance and Masato had passed away. In order to keep the family alive, and seeing the event as an opportunity to finally pay back Masumi Arakawa for saving his life, Ichiban agreed to take the blame for the murder. If this case went the way it was going, the Arakawa Family would have to be disbanded. Not only that, the murderer was Arakawa's own son, Masato, who was a civilian with no ties to the Arakawa Family but Jo decided to take the fall hoping Ichiban would make the sacrifice to protect Arakawa's son. However, on December 31, 2000, the Arakawa Family became implicated in a murder of a member of the Tojo Clan. Despite that, Ichiban failed to be a successful Yakuza due to his goodhearted nature, only spared from the worst due to his claim as a member of the Arakawa, and Masumi's constant leniency towards him. Moved by Arakawa's sacrifice and strength, he insisted on pledging himself to the Arakawa Family, and approached Arakawa for a hundred days until the old man finally accepted him into the family. Humbled by this display of fearlessness, the Yakuza immediately released Ichiban with no further questions asked. Instead of calling Ichiban out on his bluff, the seasoned gangster instead decided to help the young man out of his deadly predicament, and played along with the charade, even taking responsibility for Ichiban's actions by cutting off a part of his little finger without any hesitation. but then none other than the head of the Arakawa Family, Masumi Arakawa himself, showed up for the exchange. Ichiban was sure that this was the end of him. This worked all too well, and now believing they had a valuable hostage in their hands, the Yakuza contacted the Arakawa Family in an attempt to extort money from them. At the hands of their torture, he attempted to threaten them with a bluff by using the name of the Arakawa Family. He eventually ended up biting more than he could chew after beating up the thug of a Yakuza, who then came for revenge. As a teenager, Ichiban ignored school and any semblance of a career, and instead opted to pick fights with punks and lift money off of them to help the locals. Jiro raised the young boy with various prostitutes and gave him a loving home in the red light districts of Kamurocho, up until his death. Born and abandoned within the soapland by a prostitute, he was adopted by the Shangri-la soapland manager Jiro Kasuga, who named him "Ichiban". Ichiban was born on New Year's Day, 1977. The protagonist of Yakuza: Like a Dragon, taking place after the end of Kazuma Kiryu's saga. "I've been waiting for a shot like this!"
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