The two titans of the underworld are brothers once more, and in Yakuza 5, Majima's death is falsely reported after a failed assassination attempt. With Yakuza 4 set in 2010, Majima finally reunites with Saejima, who had broken out of prison and escaped his execution. Having shown strength and exposing the corrupt nature of the Tojo Clan brass, Majima is accepted back into the fold as the Mad Dog of Shimano. As the bond between the unlikely pair develops and borders the romantic, Majima snaps into a frenzy when she is captured and shot, fighting his way through legions of yakuza to the heads of the famous Dojima family. Caught at a moral crossroads, Majima opts to save the young woman, harboring and protecting her from increasingly intense adversaries. Majima is ultimately promised re-entry if he murders a target named Makoto Makimura, who turns out to be a blind young woman with a slither of land integral to the Tojo Clan's booming real estate business. Known in Sotenbori as the Lord of the Night due to his mysterious background, Majima is essentially a slave, using his skills to make extortionate amounts of money for the yakuza-owned cabaret club in a never-ending bid to reinstate himself in the family. Thus, a 24-year-old Majima in the events of Yakuza 0 becomes the legendary and enigmatic manager of the esteemed Grand Cabaret nightclub in Sotenbori, an entertainment district closely modeled off real-life Dotonbori in Osaka, Japan. Majima is tortured over the course of an entire year in a yakuza detention facility dubbed "the hole," with his ultimate strength and resilience to such sustained abuse leading him to be seen as a valuable asset. It is during this torture that Majima lost his eye, leading to him wearing an iconic eye-patch for a vast majority of his appearances. Saejima was able to carry this out regardless in what turned out to be a massacre that led to Saejima receiving 18 life-sentences.įurious at abandoning his sworn brother, Majima still attempts to join him, leading to torture at the hands of the Tojo Clan and his boss Futoshi Shimano. On the day of the hit, Majima is prevented from attending the killing by Tojo higher-ups, who cite a conflict of interest with the killing. However, in 1985, Majima and his sworn brother Taiga Saejima planned to murder a rival family's patriarch as he was being released from prison - willing to spend the rest of their lives in prison on behalf of their family. Chronologically, players are first introduced to Goro Majima as a secondary protagonist in the critically acclaimed Yakuza 0, primarily set in 1988.
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