Tsuyoshi Kanda (神田 強, Kanda Tsuyoshi) is a secondary antagonist in Yakuza 3. He is the third patriarch of the Nishikiyama Family.
Profile[]
Appearance[]
Kanda is a large, bald man with a prominent potbelly. He has a thin goatee.
Tattoo[]
Kanda's tattoo.
Kanda's tattoo is the image of a Tennyo on the back and ecstatic faces, each tied with a rope, on the arms; three on the left, and four on the right. The rope colors are limited to green, violet, and turquoise. The faces are depicted as "Okame," the goddess of mirth that is said to bring good fortune to any man that she marries. The entire background is surrounded by mountain-ash leaves. In Kanda's case, this represents Kanda's lustful nature.
Attire[]
Kanda wears a beige suit jacket with no shirt, with matching suit pants. He also wears black loafers and a black belt with a gold buckle.
Personality[]
Kanda is an extremely short-tempered, hot-headed and impulsive individual. Out of the Tojo Clan lieutenants, he is the most reckless and direct, never hiding his questionable motives or wrongdoings. Kanda aims to rise to the position of Chairman and sees Kazuma Kiryu as an obstacle and an enemy to the clan. His rash and uncontrollable behavior often irritates his oath brother, Yoshitaka Mine, whom Kanda relies on to finance the Nishikiyama Family's activity.
As described by his underling, Nishino, Kanda has a fixation (or possibly a fetish) for giving rough massages to women, particularly chubby women. In order to find recipients for his massages, Kanda frequently sends Nishikiyama Family soldiers to prowl the streets of Kamurocho and coerce or bribe women into coming to the family offices so Kanda can massage them. However, it is likely for this to be taken to the extreme, as when introduced, Kanda is heavily implied to be having sex offscreen, behind the Nishikiyama Family office.
Background[]
Kanda rose to the position of Nishikiyama Family patriarch in 2007, following the death of Koji Shindo. According to Makoto Date, his ascent was mostly due to the fact that he was the only Nishikiyama Family officer who was not involved with either Akira Nishikiyama or Shindo's attempted coups; since he'd been in prison serving time for sexual assault charges during both of them. He was the one who brought Yoshitaka Mine into the Tojo Clan after Mine offered to provide him with low interest, multi-million yen loans to finance his family's expansion. Mine would eventually split off to form his own family, the Hakuho Clan, and would become Kanda's oath brother.
By 2009, Kanda became a Tojo Clan lieutenant, along with Mine, Goh Hamazaki, and Goro Majima. In contrast to his co-lieutenants who were more methodical and strategical, Kanda was known for ruling his family through brute force and intimidation.
Involvement[]
Yakuza 3: 2009[]
After Daigo Dojima is shot, Kanda aims to succeed him as the chairman of the Tojo Clan. To that end, he plans to go to war against his rivals, the Kazama Family, to take all their territory in Kamurocho and thus give himself the money he needs to procure the chairmanship.
When Osamu Kashiwagi calls a meeting of the Clan's executives to discuss what to do while Daigo is in recovery, Kanda is in attendance. He angrily opposes Kashiwagi's proposal that Kazuma Kiryu be brought back to serve as interim chairman, supposedly because of Kiryu's role in the fall of the previous two Nishikiyama patriarchs, but in truth because he sees Kiryu as a threat to his shot at the chairmanship. In order to facilitate his war against the Kazama Family, Kanda orders his captain, Hasebe, to buy Club Stardust, through force if necessary, since its location would make it a perfect base of operations for the Nishikiyama Family's plans.
Kanda sends his subordinates to bring back a woman to his hotel. Later receiving a knock on the hotel room door, Kanda opens it, and is shocked to be greeted by Kiryu and Rikiya. Kanda sets his men on the pair and flees through the love hotel, but he is eventually cornered at the luxury suite in the hotel's top floor. Kiryu and Kanda battle in the suite and Kanda is ultimately defeated. Under pressure with shoe on head, Kanda denies being involved in Daigo's attempted assassination and instead indicates that fellow Tojo officer Goh Hamazaki may be responsible, since he'd been conspiring with the Snake Flower Triad.
After his humiliating defeat, Kanda meets with Mine at his penthouse to request more money to hire assassins to take out Kiryu. When Mine refuses, Kanda tries to threaten him by angrily destroying several pieces of priceless artwork which decorate his apartment. Mine, displeased with Kanda's behavior, scolds him for not understanding the value of the things he just destroyed. Kanda responds by attempting to attack him, only for Mine to reveal his superior strength by besting Kanda with a few punches. Mine proceeds to summon a few of his men and, with their assistance, he murders Kanda. Mine would later deliver Kanda's severed head to Kiryu as an apology for lending Kanda the money he used to cause trouble, much to Kiryu's horror.
Fighting Style[]
Kanda relies on brute strength to attack his opponents. He can easily lift heavy objects and pull decorations installed into walls to use as weapons.
His Rush Combo is a right hook and a left haymaker. He also has a 3-hit combo of a left elbow, a right low punch and a left push kick, a headbutt (which can stun Kiryu), a right upwards kick, a right overhead elbow attack and a reverse body slam. He can pick up and use ambient objects as weapons.
While wielding the wall decoration, he swings it around to deal damage.
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Yakuza 3[]
Ryu Ga Gotoku Online[]
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Notes[]
- ↑ The given birth year of 1960 is an estimate based on Kanda's age and is not intended as a substitute for an official date.