Takayuki Yagami

Takayuki Yagami
Developer	Toshihiro Nagoshi
Publisher	Sega
Platforms	See below
Released	2018-present
Added to Museum	See below

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.

He is a character that is part of a multimedia series consisting of video games and music.

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

Fictional character biography

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 wherein Takayuki Yagami is a playable character

Title	System	Release	Added to museum	Notes
Judgment	PS4	2018	May 4, 2019
Lost Judgment	PS4	2021	October 20, 2021