#iirc the watase family and the kijin are the only two families to make proper reappearances?

[luminiera-merge]

(gaiden spoilers)

sometimes it feels funny that the watase family are somehow the first people to go look for kiryu but the more i think about it the more it makes sense despite the fact that the main people on the hunt are people kiryu's never met?

like, 6's ending and gaiden (ESPECIALLY the ending) make it pretty clear that very few people believe he's really dead. that being said, who has the resources to go look for him? the main roadblocks would be:

-being sure you can deal with whoever will inevitably come for you if you look for him (yakuza are always never far behind wherever he is)

-having the money and manpower to look for him (not only do you have to be able to look all over, but be able to deal with anything, not to mention if you DO find him he'll start mowing all of you down)

and the omi alliance are basically the only people who have what's needed. the tojo are in hiding (incl. majima, saejima and daigo) and even shortly after his death, were hit with the saio triad war and THEN the 3k plan. the morning glory orphanage kids don't have the know-how and would be in too deep if they looked. akiyama can't do it alone. date's sworn to secrecy. the hirose family...actually, what's their deal? did the daidoji approach them about the secret of onomichi? bc surely they'd have to keep those guys quiet too

so of the omi alliance, that naturally falls to either the best of them, or the few that actually know him. the watase family checks both boxes by virtue of watase's meeting him 7 years before! even if watase's gone, he can just go send his guys to look. easy.

#like a dragon gaiden spoilers #gaiden spoilers #the omi alliance has an unbelievable turnover #iirc the watase family and the kijin are the only two families to make proper reappearances? #(not counting the go-ryu clan bc idk if they were even proper yakuza in gaiden)