Taiga Saejima

Taiga Saejima
Developer	Toshihiro Nagoshi
Publisher	Sega
Platforms	As noted below
Released	2010-present
Added to Museum	As noted below

Taiga Saejima is a character that is part of a multimedia series consisting of video games, magazines, and music.

Taiga Saejima is a playable character in most of his appearances in the Like a Dragon series.

Fictional character biography

Taiga Saejima joined the yakuza and became sworn brothers with Goro Majima.

He was supposed to do a hit in 1985 on a rival gang with Saejima.

Majima didn't show, so he carried out the hit alone, shooting eighteen Ueno Seiwa clan members himself.

He was sentenced to death in 2010, but he escaped and discovered that he was framed. He was given guns with rubber bullets and didn't actually kill anyone.

After his vindication, he was given his own family in the Tojo Clan.

Video games wherein Taiga Saejima is a playable character

Title	Developer	System	Release	Added to museum	Notes
Yakuza 4	Sega CS1 Ryū ga Gotoku Studio	PS3	2010	PS3: October 26, 2018	Kazuma Kiryu, Masayoshi Tanimura, Shun Akiyama, and Taiga Saejima discover a plot around Akiyama's vast fortune.
Binary Domain	Sega CS1 Ryū ga Gotoku Studio	PS3 Xbox 360 Windows	2012	Windows: December 23, 2018	Kazuma Kiryu, Shun Akiyama, Goro Majima, Taiga Saejima, and Ryuji Goda were available as DLC in the Japanese version of this third-person shooter set in 2080 in a Tokyo that has been ravaged by global warming.
Yakuza 5	Sega CS1 Ryū ga Gotoku Studio	PS3	2012	PS3: October 26, 2018	While Kazuma Kiryu, Shun Akiyama, Taiga Saejima and Tatsuo Shinada investigate a plot surrounding the Tokyo police department and the Tojo Clan, Haruka Sawamura strives to become a singer and an idol.
Like a Dragon Online	Ryū ga Gotoku Studio	Android iOS Win	2018	Android: January 20, 2019	Taiga Saejima has a playable storyline and is also playable on Ichiban Kasuga's team.
Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name	Ryū ga Gotoku Studio	PS4	2023	Not yet	Goro Majima, Daigo Dojima, and Taiga Saejima are playable in the arena in DLC.

Video games wherein Taiga Saejima is not playable

Title	Production company	Distributor	Release	Added to museum	Notes
Yakuza 6: The Song of Life	Sega CS1 Ryū ga Gotoku Studio	PS4	2016	July 17, 2018	Taiga Saejima serves out the rest of his sentence and is freed four years later along with Daigo Dojima and Goro Majima.
Yakuza: Like a Dragon	Sega CS1 Ryū ga Gotoku Studio	PS4 PS5 Windows Xbox One Series X/S	2020	Not yet.	Taiga Saejima can be summoned by Ichiban Kasuga to perform a powerful technique.

Soundtrack albums featuring Taiga Saejima owned by WEC Museum

Title	Studio	Release	Added to museum	Notes
Dragon Song: Like a Dragon 5 - The Best Songs Selection	Sega	2012	August 15, 2022	Preorder bonus for Like a Dragon 5.

Magazines featuring Taiga Saejima

Title	Publisher	Release	Added to museum	Notes
Kamutai Magazine (March 2010)	Sega	2010	Preorder bonus for Like a Dragon 4.