Granny White (白婆, Bái Pó/シロ婆, Shiro-bā) is a character featured in Yakuza 2/Yakuza Kiwami 2. She is a master of the White Lotus school of spear-fighting, as well as being proficient in the Shaolin kung-fu for unarmed combat.
Background[]
As a martial arts master of the White Lotus style, Granny White taught Lau Ka Long of the Snake Flower Triad. After she refused to accept him as her successor however, she incurred the wrath of the triad.
Involvement[]
Yakuza 2/Yakuza Kiwami 2: 2006[]
Granny White is assisted by Kazuma Kiryu in fights against the Snake Flower Triad. Kiryu also helps show the Osaka native around Kamurocho. Granny White also gives Kiryu scrolls of Lotus techniques, allowing him to learn techniques such as Lotus School Spearmanship, Essence of the Lotus Spear, Lotus Golden Wall, Lotus Impenetrable Body, and Lotus Fists of Fury.
After Granny White and Kiryu return to Sotenbori, Kiryu will do 3 errands for her.
Yakuza 3: 2009[]
After Kiryu beats Shoji Yonashiro in fights with Nunchaku, Tonfa, and Kali Sticks, Yonashiro says that he is going to seek Granny White in Osaka for training in long weapons. Kiryu is able to learn the Lotus Flare Fist through leveling up, which is a Lotus Style attack that also returns in Yakuza 4.
Fighting Style[]
Yakuza 2[]
Granny white reuses Lau Ka Long's unarmed moveset from Yakuza.
Yakuza Kiwami 2[]
Granny White again reuses Lau Ka Long's unarmed moveset from Yakuza 3.