Jin Goda (郷田 仁, Gōda Jin) is a character featured in Yakuza 2/Yakuza Kiwami 2. He is the fifth chairman of the Omi Alliance and the adoptive father of Ryuji Goda.
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Appearance[]
Goda has long hair and an equally long beard.
Attire[]
Goda wears a gray kimono, socks and sandals. He is confined to a wheelchair as of the events of Yakuza 2.
Personality[]
Goda is a reasonable person, shown when he agreed with Kiryu's truce offer, despite the Omi Alliance's eagerness to wage a war against the Tojo Clan. However, he has difficulty controlling the organization since it has become too big for him to handle. In contrast to all of the other major characters in the alliance featured in Yakuza 2, Jin is shown to both peaceable and honest, not willing to go to war with the Tojo (unlike Ryuji, Sengoku and Ibuchi), and not willing to use deception to his own ends (like Takashima).
Despite his disheveled and frail appearance, he is much stronger than he appears, as he was able to stand up from his wheelchair and defeat Ryuji in a battle, despite Ryuji being armed with a katana when Jin was 57 and Ryuji was 22 years old in Ryu Ga Gotoku Online, 8 years prior to the events of Yakuza 2. In Yakuza 0, Ryuji describes Majima as being as strong as his "old man", referring to Jin.
Background[]
Around 1980, Goda met a Korean woman named Suyeon Jung, whom he chose to let live with him as he was already living a wealthy life. As Suyeon was leaving Goda's life, as she had fallen in love with another man, Goda begged her to leave her young son to him. in 1981, he adopted Suyeon's son as Ryuji Goda. After Yukio Terada swore his oath to the Omi Alliance, Shintaro Kazama (who spared Terada during the massacre) begged Goda to look after him. Goda agreed and allowed Terada to join the alliance.
By 1988, Jin had become the fifth chairman of the Omi Alliance (is it unknown if he had secured this position by 1980). For some time, Goda served as the first chairman of the Omi's Go-Ryu Clan. Eventually, after Ryuji Goda joined the alliance, he became the clan's second patriarch.
Involvement[]
Yakuza/Yakuza Kiwami: 2005[]
He was indirectly mentioned (through his position as the 5th Chairman of Omi Alliance) by Kyohei Jingu in the first game, citing that Jingu had spoken to Omi Alliance's 5th Chairman for a year about a potential partnership between him and the Omi Alliance and that Jingu thought Terada is nothing but Omi Alliance's puppet. In the end, Jingu is defeated, and Terada resigns from being the Chief of HQ of the Omi Alliance in order to act as the Fifth Chairman of the Tojo Clan, while still on amicable terms with the Omi.
Yakuza 2/Yakuza Kiwami 2: 2006[]
Goro Majima approaches Jin in February after his subordinate kills a prominent Omi Alliance officer, telling him he will disband the Majima Family to make amends.
In the aftermath of Terada's supposed death in December, Daigo Dojima and Kazuma Kiryu travel to Sotenbori to meet Goda at the Omi headquarters. Along with Terada's sworn brother and replacement Ryo Takashima, Jin supports peace, though they are disagreed with by the more militant young blood in the alliance such as Toranosuke Sengoku and Ryuji. Ryuji stages a coup d'etat against the alliance during the meeting, kidnapping both Daigo and Jin.
Jin remains kidnapped by the Go-Ryu clan, which has splintered from the alliance, for most of the game. This leaves him unable to prevent their conflicts with the Tojo Clan and Kiryu during most of the game's events, during which Sengoku is killed by Ryuji.
Atop Kamurocho Hills, he reveals the truth about Ryuji's original family. Jin then witnesses Kiryu duel Ryuji, only to lose. Afterwards, Terada appears, revealing that his death was faked, and that he is a member of the Jingweon Mafia that was trying to have the Omi Alliance destroy the Tojo Clan in the Jingweon's plot to take revenge on the Tojo Clan in retaliation for the Jingweon Massacre of 1980. After Kiryu subdues Terada, Takashima appears, revealing that he had been cooperating with Terada for a long time and had been aware of his Jingweon association. It as this point that Takashima kills both Terada and Jin, as he plots to take control of both yakuza groups and the Jingweon to his own ends. After Jin's death, Takashima was killed by Ryuji, who then died from Takashima's bullets after losing a final time to the Dragon of Dojima.
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Yakuza 2[]
Yakuza Kiwami 2[]
Ryu Ga Gotoku Online[]
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Trivia[]
- In the first game, Kyohei Jingu states that he had been collaborating with the 5th Chairman of the Omi Alliance (which would have been Jin), but in the second game Takashima clarifies that it was Ryuji and the Go-Ryu Clan who had gone behind the rest of the alliance's back to collaborate with him. This implies Ryuji had been deceiving Jingu into believing that he was the 5th Chairman, or that Jin eventually backed down from the talks and Ryuji continued them behind Jin's back.
Notes[]
- ↑ The given birth year of 1941 is an estimate based on Goda's age and is not intended as a substitute for an official date.
- ↑ The given height of 185 cm (6′ 1″) is based on the character model's scaling factor within Yakuza Kiwami 2's data.[2] For Dragon Engine games, this method is believed to be very accurate (±2 cm). However, this is intended as an estimate, not a substitute for an official statistic.
References[]
- ↑ “Yakuza: Kiwami 2 | Jin Goda,” Yakuza, Sega of America, Inc., accessed October 17, 2022, https://yakuza.sega.com/kiwami2/jin.html. (Archive)— Yakuza: Kiwami 2 | Jin Goda
At the age of 65, this aging yakuza who has seen his fair share of struggle has begun walking the road to peace.
- ↑ Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio, “character_model_model_data” (.BIN file), Yakuza Kiwami 2 (2017; Tokyo: SEGAWP, 2018), PlayStation 4/Windows/Xbox One/Amazon Luna.