Hiroshi Hayashi (林 弘, Hayashi Hiroshi) is a recurring character in the Yakuza series. He is featured as a minor antagonist in Yakuza/Yakuza Kiwami and Yakuza 2/Yakuza Kiwami 2. He is also featured as a supporting antagonist in Yakuza: Dead Souls. A former lieutenant of the Omi Alliance, he stepped down to join the Go-Ryu Clan.
Profile[]
Appearance[]
Hayashi is extremely tall and thin, with a similarly shaped head. He is significantly taller than even Kiryu. He has punch perm hair.
In Dead Souls, his mutated body is covered in a mass of green, blue and red plates, his tongue has become incredibly long and his eyes have been turned red.
Attire[]
He wears a dark gray suit (black in Yakuza Kiwami 2 and Yakuza: Dead Souls) over a white dress shirt, a pair of matching black dress pants, a matching black tie and a pair of black leather shoes.
Personality[]
Hayashi is a guttural man, who is extremely polite to people he respects (such as Kiryu) and similarly extremely rude to people he dislikes (such as DD and Nikaido). Despite being an overall bad person, he has some form of honor.
Background[]
By December 2005, he had become the lieutenant advisor for the Omi Alliance Headquarters. He had apparently been conspiring with Akira Nishikiyama.
Involvement[]
Yakuza/Yakuza Kiwami: 2005[]
Hayashi and a team of minions meet Kazuma Kiryu at Millennium Tower bar Ares. Hayashi shows himself to be polite in this exchange, patiently allowing Kiryu to take a phone call while speaking with him. He demands Kiryu hand over Haruka Sawamura; when Kiryu refuses, he battles Hayashi and his men. Although Hayashi is shown to be more powerful than his subordinates (as he is a boss rather than a simple enemy), he proves to be no match for Kiryu and is defeated and knocked unconscious.
Yakuza 2/Yakuza Kiwami 2: 2006[]
Sometime after the events of the first game, Hayashi's name was struck from the Omi roster. Afterwards, Hayashi was recruited by Ryuji Goda into the Go-Ryu Clan; in his own words, all that mattered to Hayashi was seeing Ryuji rise to the top.
He is the leader of an eight-man unit that is sent to attack the transformer room in the Millenium Tower, which is now being used as The Florist of Sai's new headquarters. After Kiryu and Kaoru Sayama defeat his men, Hayashi unmasks himself and reveals he has left the original Omi Alliance to work under Ryuji. Kiryu and Hayashi have a one-on-one rematch. Although Hayashi appears to have gotten stronger since the previous game, now fighting alone and able to use steaming hot pipes as weapons (as well as having a significant amount of health bars), he is once again defeated by Kiryu. Impressed, he comments that Kiryu is still a beast, before falling unconscious.
In Other Media[]
Yakuza: Dead Souls: 2011[]
— Hayashi upon reanimationSweet death...
A lone, mysterious figure in drab clothing crosses the paths of Shun Akiyama and Hana of Sky Finance, using a low-hanging baseball cap to conceal his identity. On a mission, the mystery man descends down the stairs towards the entrance of a building inhabited by members of a family under the Tojo Clan. As he calls for the underground elevator, he is soon approached from behind by an unnamed Yakuza who enquires about his intentions for being there. Silent, the figure turns and suddenly bites the Yakuza's neck, killing him. The family members residing on the top floor witness the attack through a security camera feed and draw their weapons while the elevator approaches from below. The elevator opens, prompting the Yakuza to empty their guns into the lanky and sickly looking figure. Despite multiple gunshot wounds all over his body (including a bullet to the head), the man remains standing, looking towards them to reveal his red glowing eyes. The family are slaughtered and thusly reanimated as zombies, before taking to the streets of Kamurocho to wreak havok and begin to spread their newfound infection.
It is later revealed in Part 3 that the attacker is none other than Hiroshi Hayashi of the Omi Alliance.
Hayashi appears in the elevator again as Ryuji warns the last yakuza family. Once the lift opens, Hayashi disappears and they are shocked, but Hayashi jumps to the top of the elevator where they cannot catch him. After this, Hayashi comes down the elevator as they notice him and Hayashi is on the table, ready to bite a yakuza. The yakuza shoot him, but Hayashi avoids the bullets and bites each yakuza in quick succession. Finally, he bites the yakuza officer and Ryuji counterattacks him. Hayashi jumps back, but his cap has been knocked off his head. Then Hayashi shows his face to Ryuji and says "Sweet...Death...." Hayashi subsequently tries to run away but Ryuji shoots him and then Hayashi jumps, breaking the wall.
Hayashi appears again in the Millennium Tower while Kiryu and Ryuji are raiding it. After he is defeated, he recognizes Kiryu and Ryuji has a flashback where he had a talk with Tetsuo Nikaido and his co-conspirator, the arms dealer DD. As retaliation for Hayashi's refusal to take part in Nikaido's plan, Nikaido shot him and DD injected the zombie virus Thanatos into his neck. This made Hayashi the very first of the zombies. His last words were "Sweet...Death...", and then he died.
Fighting Style[]
Hayashi has proven to be a highly capable and resilient fighter on several occasions, displaying aptitude in various styles of combat.
Yakuza[]
Hayashi is accompanied by several Omi goons during his boss fight. His fighting style revolves around brawling, and he assumes an orthodox fighting stance. His moveset consists mostly of hard-hitting wind-up attacks, which include:
- a right haymaker,
- a lunging right uppercut,
- a flying right side kick,
- a double left clothesline, and
- generic enemy grab attacks.
Hayashi's grab attacks are unescapable, and he can perform the Essence of Mounting Heat Action if Kiryu is downed.
Yakuza 2[]
Hayashi's boss fight in Yakuza 2 differs significantly to that of its predecessor. He is a far more challenging opponent this time, and boasts an impressive six health bars — more than any other boss in the entire game. The fight consists of three phases: an unarmed phase, a dual-pipe phase, and a second unarmed phase.
Unarmed[]
Hayashi's hand-to-hand fighting style has changed drastically from Yakuza. He now leaves his hands down by his sides, and his attacks are faster. His moveset consists of:
- a Rush Combo made up of a right hook, a left hook, a right hook, and a kneeling left hook;
- a double hammerfist,
- generic enemy grab attacks, and
- a taunt where he leans over before standing upright with his arms raised.
Hayashi's grab attacks are now escapable, unlike in the first Yakuza. Hayashi's first grab of the fight initiates a QTE where he and Kiryu tussle in a single collar clinch, fighting to slam one another's head into the nearby wall.
His attack trails are han purple.
Dual Pipes[]
When his first two health bars have been depleted, Hayashi rips a pair of pipes out of the wall and wields them like kali sticks. His moveset includes the following:
- a combo consisting of a double-pipe triple-flourish, a double outward swing, and a spinning double outward swing;
- a second combo made up of a left-pipe downward diagonal right swing, a right-pipe downward diagonal left swing, and a right-pipe downward diagonal left swing; and
- rapidly flourishes his pipes six times before holding them up in a diagonal cross position.
His pipes break after four of his health bars have been depleted, forcing him to resort to fighting unarmed again.
His right pipe has blue attack trails, and his left pipe has red trails.
Hayashi's dual-pipe moveset is used by Jo Amon in the same game.
Yakuza: Dead Souls[]
Hayashi fights in 4 phases.
- In the first phase, he is extremely agile and acrobatic. He runs, handsprings, flips and cartwheels around the arena, jumping at either Kiryu or Ryuji, and if he manages to grab them, he will pummel them repeatedly.
- Once his second phase begins, he will rip a grenade belt from a wall and throw the grenades.
- Once his third phase begins, he will tear off Ryuji's gatling gun arm and use it against Kiryu.
- Once his fourth phase begins, he will discard Ryuji's arm and revert to his first phase style, with the addition of being able to jump off walls.
Yakuza Kiwami[]
Hayashi uses Shigeki Baba's moveset — with the sole exception of his taunt — which focuses on agility and swift punches and kicks, in stark contrast to his original fighting style. He also possesses some additional attacks, which includes:
- Tenkensai Nijo's spinning dashing left three-finger strike, and
- grab attacks, including:
- Baba's victory roll as front grab attack, and
- Kiryu's rear grab attack from his Brawler style.
His high front snap kick will always be followed by his three-finger strike.
Hayashi can also pick up objects from around the arena to wield as weapons, for which he uses Keiji Shibusawa's chair attacks from his Beast phase. His rejuvenation state correlates to Kiryu's Beast style.
In Heat Mode, Hayashi can perform the Essence of Wreckage Heat Action when Kiryu is downed, like in the original Yakuza. His aura is blue.
Yakuza Kiwami 2[]
Hayashi's fight has seen minor changes from the original Yakuza 2. After he tears the pipes off the wall, he will use them for the remainder of the fight. He also has seven health bars now instead of six. His aura in Heat Mode is red, like every other boss in Yakuza Kiwami 2.
Unarmed[]
Once again, Hayashi uses Baba's moveset with Nijo's exclusive attack, although it has been slightly reworked from the previous game. These changes are listed below:
- his spinning backfist-low Thai roundhouse kick finishers function as a separate combo,
- his low roundhouse kick-high side kick finishers function as a separate combo,
- he does not use his spinning back kick,
- his forward quickstep attack functions as a basic attack,
- his back quickstep attack no longer stuns Kiryu, and
- he does not use his command grab.
Dual Pipes[]
Hayashi uses Lau Ka Long's dual-daoWP sword moveset from Yakuza Kiwami, without Taiga Saejima's Knock Back guard reversal. He also possesses some newly-added unbroken combos, including:
- one consisting of a right-pipe leftward swing, a low right-pipe rightward swing, a spinning right leg sweep kick, a double-pipe upward diagonal left swing, and a right-pipe rightward swing, and a left-pipe downward diagonal right double swing;
- a second one consisting of right-pipe leftward swing, a left-pipe leftward swing, a right-pipe downward diagonal right swing, left-pipe rightward swing, a left-pipe leftward swing, and a right-pipe downward diagonal left swing; and
- a third one consisting of right-pipe leftward swing, a left-pipe leftward swing, a right-pipe downward diagonal right swing, and left-pipe rightward swing, before dashing backward and executing a lunging right-pipe thrust, and a left-pipe downward diagonal right swing.
Much like the original, Hayashi's dual-pipe moveset is used by Jo Amon for his second phase in the same game, as well as Masashi Suzaki in Judgment.
Gallery[]
Yakuza[]
Yakuza Kiwami 2[]
Yakuza: Dead Souls[]
Ryu Ga Gotoku Online[]
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Notes[]
- ↑ The given height of 195 cm (6′ 5″) is based on the character model's scaling factor within Yakuza Kiwami 2's data.[1] 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.