Takayuki Yagami

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Takayuki Yagami
Developer Toshihiro Nagoshi
Publisher Sega
Platforms See below
Released 2018-present
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Takayuki Yagami (八神隆之, Yagami Takayuki) is a character that is part of an American multimedia series consisting of comics, television shows, films, music, and video games.

Yagami is the main playable character in the Judgment series, which was spun-off from the Like a Dragon series.

Fictional character biography

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As a teenager, Takayuki Yagami's father was an attorney who proved that an accused murderer was innocent. The victim took revenge by murdering Yagami's parents.

Orphaned, Yagami is taken in and raised by the yakuza patriarch Mitsugu Matsugane. A lawyer, Ryuzo Genda, a friend of Matsugane, pays for Yagami's law school tuition and hires him to work for his law firm.

Yagami takes on the case of a janitor named Shinpei Okubo. He proves that his client is innocent, however after Okubo is arrested for killing his girlfriend and setting his apartment on fire, Yagami leaves the Genda Law firm and stops practicing as a lawyer.

Yagami becomes a private investigator and opens up the Yagami Detective Agency in Kamurocho. He hires Masaharu Kaito, a former yakuza, as his partner in the agency.

Video games with Takayuki Yagami as a playable character

Title System Release Notes
Judgment PS4 2018
Lost Judgment PS4 2021