It turns out, the dead guy is the one Kiryu roughed up last night! Killing is a thing yakuza do, but not without a reason. So Kiryu and Nishiki get their food and drink on when the morning news announces that a guy died in an empty lot. You got all that? No? Good, cause it took me hours to get it. There are three lieutenants under the captain - Kuze, Awano and Shibusawa, all patriarchs of their own respective families. The two serve under this family specifically. Kazama is a literal father figure for Kiryu and Nishiki, as they grew up in the orphanage which operates under Kazama. AND in the Dojima family itself, the patriarch is, you guessed it - a Dojima, and under him is the family captain Kazama, patriarch of the Kazama family, who is serving jail time. In the clan there are many other subsidiaries, the Dojima family being the one our protagonist is in. Things will get more confusing later, with lots of family names coming up so here we go: Kiryu and Nishiki are in the Tojo Clan, who controls Kamurocho, a fictional district in Tokyo (the main setting). After the gig he hangs out with his oath brother Nishiki, who is also in the same clan as him. The game starts out with Kiryu beating a man senseless in an empty lot, taking away his money and giving it to a loan shark. It tells the origins of two characters - Kazuma Kiryu, the main protagonist of the series and Goro Majima, a recurring ally and fan favourite. 0 is the prequel to the original Yakuza for the PS2. The original name in Japanese is Ryu ga Gotoku, which means 'like a dragon'. If you haven't realized already, the Yakuza series is incredibly Japanese.

Yakuza 0 fight music