Yakuza: How Goro Majima Became The Mad Dog Of Shimano

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Yakuza 0 is the prequel to the Yakuza series, taking place before any of the events of the other games. As such, we see characters as vastly different versions of themselves in this entry to the series compared to other ones.

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Most notably of this lot is Goro Majima, who is the coprotagonist of Yakuza 0 with Kazuma Kiryu. However, Majima's appearance is much different in Yakuza 0 than in the rest of the Yakuza games. In this entry, Majima is the Lord Of The Night, but by the time the events of the first Yakuza start, he's known by a much different name: The Mad Dog Of Shimano.

The following contains major spoilers for Yakuza 0

After not following direct orders forbidding him to carry out an assassination, Majima is punished and tossed into a prison (known as The Hole) where he would be tortured. This is where he also loses an eye for his disobedience. Ultimately, Majima would be released, but banished from the Shimano Family, and put under the watch of Tsukasa Sagawa. It was then Sagawa who gave Majima the task of managing the Cabaret Grand, telling him that if he earned 100 million yen, he would be brought back into the family.

Things get muddier when Sagawa shows up and increases the needed profit to 500 million yen. However, he is given another option to clear the debt, assassinating a person named Makoto Makimura. This leads to the main events of Yakuza 0 and also starts Majima's journey to his breaking point. Majima was lied to about Makoto's background because he is told that Makoto was a man that was guilty of heinous things. However, it turns out Makoto is a blind woman, and Majima decides to help her rather than kill her. Things look good until their plan is