Kengo (ケンゴ) is an antagonist featured in Judgment. He is a member of the Matsugane Family.
Profile[]
Appearance[]
Kengo has his hair dyed brown and slicked back. He has multiple piercings in his left ear, including a high helix piercing with a hoop earring, two slightly lower high helix piercings directly underneath it with barbell earrings, a snug piercing with a hoop earring, a mid helix piercing with a hoop earring, an earlobe piercing with a hoop earring, and another earlobe piercing with a ball stud earring. All of his ear jewelry is silver.
Attire[]
He wears a salmon button up dress shirt with yellow and black stripes embroidered with a pattern of black and white circular dragon designs, a gold chain necklace, light gray slacks, and white smooth-toe oxfords with broguing.
Personality[]
Kengo is a rude, brash young man, who holds little regard to what people think of him. He is also somewhat loyal to Matsugane despite being on Hamura's side, as shown in his second fight where he wants Yagami to tell him who the mole is and tries to kill the detective for refusing to tell him, believing that he can't handle it. Despite his hardened exterior, he has trouble with killing people. Hamura gets him to pull a gun on Yagami after their first fight and tells him to man up and pull the trigger, with Kengo visibly struggling and closing his eyes before even attempting to fire.
Background[]
Kengo is a relatively new member to the Clan. Soon after joining, he started looking up to Toru Higashi as his aniki?.
Involvement[]
Judgment: 2018-2019[]
Kyohei Hamura introduces Kengo to Takayuki Yagami after lower ranking members assault him outside a Poppo. Later, Hamura asks Kengo to kill Yagami behind Cafe Alps, but Jester stops him before he can shoot.
At a cho-han parlor in the Champion District, Kengo and other Matsugane family members arrive on the scene to save Hamura and Ozaki from Yagami and Kaito. He utilizes an aerosol flamethrower on Kaito and also sets fire to the cho-han parlor. They successfully rescue Hamura and Kengo sets off a grenade in the building with Yagami and Kaito narrowly escaping.
Kojiro Ozaki leads a raid on Honmaruen when Hamura is taken there, which Kengo is a part of. He assists the others in setting fire to the place. Before they can safely escort Hamura out, the Mole kills multiple members before escaping, one victim being Mitsugu Matsugane. Following Matsugane's death and Hamura going into hiding, Kengo becomes the de facto leader of the Matsugane Family, and asks Toru Higashi to get Yagami to tell them who the Mole is. The two fight Kengo and convince him to help them take down the Mole rather than recklessly risk their lives.
Fighting Style[]
Kengo is fought twice in Judgment: first unarmed and alone, and again wielding a katana, backed up by Ozaki and several Matsugane members.
Unarmed[]
In his first encounter, Kengo uses a watered-down version of Naoki Katsuya's moveset, which is based on Muay Thai and Taekwondo. His attacks include the following:
- Katsuya's low kick-left hook-right hook combo,
- Katsuya's low kick-left roundhouse kick combo,
- Katsuya's jab-roundhouse kick-Brazilian kick combo,
- Katsuya's hopping knee strike,
- a jumping right axe kick,
- Katsuya's flying dropkick,
- Katsuya's command grab, and
- Andre Richardson's unarmed downed attack.
His attack trails are bright orange in the original, and tan yellow aura in Judgment Remastered.
Katana[]
Kengo uses Okada Izo's moveset in his second fight, with some unique moves of his own. These include:
- a taunt where he rests his sword on his shoulder and gives Yagami a thumbs-down, and
- a Deadly Attack where he executes a jumping right rising kick-vertical downward slash.
Kengo enters Heat Mode immediately when the battle begins. His aura is tan yellow.
