When Does Makoto Show Up Again

Makoto Tateyama (館山 マコト, Tateyama Makoto), formerly known equally Makoto Makimura (マキムラ マコト, Makimura Makoto) and born as Xiao Qiao (小乔, Xiǎo Qiáo/シャオチャオ, Shaochao), is a major supporting character in Yakuza 0 who serves equally the deuteragonist of Goro Majima's story. She also appears in the Majima Saga of Yakuza Kiwami ii. She is a former masseuse at Hogushi Kaikan.

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Appearance [ ]

Makoto wears her short brown pilus in a bob that almost reaches her shoulders, with bangs that part to the right.

Attire [ ]

Makoto is usually seen wearing a trench coat over her Hogushi Kaikan piece of work uniform with a pair of cuffed blue jeans, black socks and white velcro shoes. She carries a pikestaff with a hidden bract congenital into the handle.

During her fourth dimension with Kazuma Kiryu, she wears a charcoal greyness trench coat over a white push-upwardly shirt and black pants. In the epilogue of Yakuza 0, Makoto is seen wearing a buttoned blue jacket over a white apparel with a floral lace pattern, blackness leggings, and wearing apparel shoes. She wears a frail golden chain necklace, besides every bit her newly repaired wristwatch.

Personality [ ]

Makoto is shown to exist a frail but resourceful woman who is deeply traumatized by her past. Over the course of Yakuza 0, she gradually becomes braver and more self-reliant, refusing assist from Goro Majima in an attempt to regain her own agency. However, she acts rather rash and airheaded when making decisions for herself, forcing Majima to relieve her many times. Despite her blindness, she is able to physically role relatively well on her own with the use of a cane.

Background [ ]

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Built-in to a Japanese mother in Mainland china as Xiao Qiao (筱喬) afterwards the 2d Sino-Japanese war, Makoto and her mother went to Sotenbori two years before the events of Yakuza 0 to search for her brother. Her brother secretly joined a Chinese gang to escape the bigotry he experienced in Red china and Nihon for his mixed beginnings. Meanwhile, her mother committed suicide in Japan. Makoto so worked as a live-in hostess, where she was spotted by Jun Oda on the streets. To make quick money, Oda sold her to the Seongyeon Mafia, where she was caged and subjected to concrete and sexual abuse, inducing postal service-traumatic psychogenic blindness. She was eventually rescued by Wen Hai Lee during a turf war over the mafia's slave trade. Since and then, she worked as an employee at Hogushi Kaikan, which Lee endemic.

In 1988, she became a target of both the Tojo Association and the Omi Alliance because she unknowingly inherited the contested Empty Lot in Kamurocho from her grandfather.

Involvement [ ]

Yakuza 0: 1988-1989 [ ]

Makoto outset appears in the quaternary chapter of Yakuza 0 when Goro Majima barges into Hogushi Kaikan to carry out the striking assigned to him past Tsukasa Sagawa. Makoto returns to the massage parlor to find Majima - who at the time is under the impression that his target is instead the man later revealed to exist Wen Hai Lee. To quiet her downward and avoid bravado his cover, Majima lies about being a client, and Makoto gives the reluctant Majima a massage.

Lee returns to the parlor and sees what Makoto could not due to her incomprehension; Majima'south hannya tattoo, signifying his interest with the yakuza. Correctly identifying his ill-intent, Lee sends Makoto off to run an errand while he and Majima fight. However, they are interrupted past a group of yakuza who are also looking for Makoto. The leader shoots Lee and incapacitates him.

Makoto returns and is kidnapped by the yakuza members, and Lee begs Majima to save her in his stead. He gives hunt and rescues Makoto, losing their pursuers in an alley where she breaks down and cries, holding onto Majima's leg while he, unbeknownst to her, contemplates killing her.

By the beginning of the seventh chapter, Majima has managed to secure Makoto a safe-firm in the form of a storage shed endemic by Yamagata, the director of Club Odyssey. Majima confesses that he was sent to impale Makoto, though he still isn't entirely sure why that may be.

Makoto stays behind at the storage shed while Majima tracks down Lee. When Majima returns, the two swap stories almost their pasts, and Majima admits that he likewise, is blind in one eye and can sympathize with her situation somewhat. Majima questions why she still wears a broken picket that she tin can't come across due to her blindness, and Makoto tells him that it's a memento of when her life was normal. She takes off the lookout, albeit that her sentimentality prevents her from facing reality. Majima pockets the watch.

Lee recovers enough to visit Makoto at the shed, where he and Majima plan to discuss their next course of activity. In guild to foreclose Makoto from hearing what he plans to practise, Lee puts drugs into her drink, causing her to fall unconscious. While Makoto is comatose, Lee reveals to Majima that he's been planning to kill a lookalike of Makoto, who was known to have a negative reputation with men, to throw the yakuza off her trail, though Majima angrily refuses, not wanting to take an innocent life regardless of how "bad" of a person she may be. Lee says that he can't permit Majima leave now that he knows the program, and the two fight once over again. Majima leaves Makoto in Lee's care as he says he'll figure out a way to get them out of the situation without killing a adult female unrelated to the incident.

Later on discovering that Homare Nishitani has carried out their plan in their stead, Majima returns to the storage shed, concerned about the danger that Makoto may be in. As it turns out, Majima had been followed and they are betrayed by Lee's supposed allies, and Majima fights off both them and Sagawa's goons before escaping with Makoto. The two meet upwards with Lee outside of Hogushi Kaikan, but he is killed when their getaway van explodes, the resulting nail knocking both Majima and Makoto to the basis.

Sagawa approaches Majima and the unconscious Makoto, ready to kill them both, but Masaru Sera shoots and incapacitates him, knocking Majima out with the barrel of his gun as he leaves with Makoto.

Makoto is taken outside of Sotenbori to rubber, where Sera informs her that she owns the deed to the highly sought after Empty Lot, left to her when her grandfather passed abroad. The arrangement is made for her to be taken to Kamurocho by Jun Oda, accompanied by Kazuma Kiryu, with the intent of keeping her safe until she is able to run into with Tetsu Tachibana to discuss the acquisition of her land. As soon as she hears Oda's vox, Makoto is visibly on edge.

The trip goes awry when their driver is killed and they are intercepted by Keiji Shibusawa and his men, who chase them to a structure site. Oda, finally getting the chance to remove his guilty censor, decides to kill Makoto and Kiryu. Kiryu stops him and demands him to tell his story. After Oda explains everything, Makoto becomes delirious, even letting Oda to proceed saving her. Makoto and Kiryu later on escape Shibusawa'due south men, due to the cede of a remorseful Oda.

Kiryu takes Makoto to a love hotel, deeming it "discreet" enough to non attract any attention. Makoto finally shapes up and tells Kiryu everything nearly her past, starting from her childhood. Kiryu tells Makoto that everyone walks in the path of darkness and that since nobody knows what the destination is, they still accept the freedom to either succumb to it or continue fighting. Encouraged, Makoto decides to go to Kamurocho to meet Tachibana, no matter what.

Kiryu leaves her back at the hotel equally he goes to meet with Tachibana, who advises him to hide Makoto somewhere else. He and Makoto relocate to Due west Park, where they stay with a homeless man that Kiryu had befriended before he'd left for Sotenbori.

Makoto waits in the park until Akira Nishikiyama comes to get her and brings her to see her blood brother, Tachibana. By the time she arrives, he's already dead, having been hit in the head past a sledgehammer before Kiryu was able to save him. She breaks downwardly crying, and tells her brother's lifeless corpse that she's finally home.

Miraculously, after the expiry of Tachibana, Makoto's vision begins to render, allowing her to encounter but plenty to move effectually on her own. She manages to slip away from Kiryu and Nishiki, determined to regain some freedom to set her own plan in motility.

Makoto reunites with Majima back at the Empty Lot, and brashly bribes him with a million yen and so that he could kill all three of Sohei Dojima'southward lieutenants, Daisaku Kuze, Hiroki Awano and Keiji Shibusawa, in gild to avenge her brother'southward expiry at their easily. He refuses, begging Makoto not to act on vengeance, telling her that his boss no longer wants to kill her and will instead pay for the state adequately, just she is still determined to make the ones responsible for her misfortune pay and walks off. She trips, and Majima helps her up, offering to talk more over takoyaki, and she relents.

Later on the two order takoyaki, she manages to shake Majima off her trail yet over again by sending him to buy more takoyaki. She leaves him a message maxim to meet her at the Empty Lot the next day; though she instead plans to keep with her own scheme instead, not wanting Majima to interfere.

Makoto meets with Sohei Dojima himself and asks for the lives of his lieutenants in commutation for the Empty Lot, but he refuses, saying that every bit long equally she'south silenced, their redevelopment can move frontward as planned. She is shot by the hired hitman Lao Gui just as Majima bursts through the doors. He fights off Dojima's men and rushes to her side, and Makoto cries in frustration, upset that she wasn't able to exercise annihilation herself despite her best efforts. Majima brushes off her apology for the trouble she's caused him and she falls unconscious.

Sera reappears with his men, and Majima accompanies him equally they escort Makoto to the hospital. Having suspected that these events would come to pass, Sera made sure that the Empty Lot was in his own name, preventing Dojima from gaining more power.

Makoto - comatose, but live - is taken hostage by Shibusawa, who had discovered where she was being kept. While aboard Sera's send, she is in the intendance of one of the surgeons that had operated on her.

Makoto does not appear again until the epilogue, where she and her surgeon, who she appears to accept befriended, are being pressured to perform in a pornographic video without their consent by a couple of low-ranking yakuza. Makoto slaps them whilst her friends run off to get help. Majima walks up to them, and the 2 yakuza greet him as their boss, offer him "to take turns". Before either of them tin can speak his name, he knocks them to the ground. Makoto doesn't recognize Majima's face, and he refuses to speak aloud in example she is able to recognize his vocalism. Majima did this and then that Makoto wouldn't come looking for him, thus placing herself in danger.

Her friend returns with Tateyama, Makoto'due south medico who has been helping her to regain her vision. Majima takes him aside, and in a whisper he tells him to accept care of Makoto for his sake as much as hers. Tateyama states that he loves her and will confess once Makoto has her bearings, and Majima walks off. Makoto watches him leave, thinking most the sadness that she saw within his heart.

Makoto travels back to Kamurocho to visit the Empty Lot where Tachibana died, and leaves flowers for him, only every bit she goes to exit, a music box chinkle starts to play. She digs at the earth and finds her watch cached there, fixed so that it will play music again. She cries happily and clutches the watch to her chest.

Yakuza Kiwami 2: 2006 [ ]

In pursuit of his subordinate Ryota Kawamura, Majima visits the massage parlor Hogushi Kaikan afterwards hearing that Kawamura frequented it. He is suckered into getting a massage in exchange for information, and to his utter shock, Makoto walks in, introducing herself every bit Makoto Tateyama.

Majima tries to hide his confront in case she recognizes him from eighteen years prior, though she doesn't seem suspicious of him. He notices that she even so wears the wristwatch that he had given dorsum to her, though the ring is now blue in colour. Makoto sees him looking at it and explains that she had to supplant the band after it wore out, though she nonetheless prefers the old brown leather instead. Notwithstanding unaware of who he is, she recollects the story of how Majima saved her, so catches him up on current events: she is now married to the doctor, and the 2 take a kid together. She laments that she began working at Hogushi Kaikan once again in the faint hope that Majima may come up back and that she would be able to properly give thanks him for everything he'd washed for her.

Before Majima leaves the parlor, Makoto asks if they've ever met before, to which Majima shakes his head no. She and so quickly asks how he feels after the massage. Majima stops and, after a moment, replies that she "worked out some knots [he's] had for 18 years".

Makoto quits her job a week later and is next seen with her family on a plane headed for America. She finds a gift that the receptionist at Hogushi Kaikan had given her before she'd left. She opens the box to find replacement watch bands in the same manner equally her one-time ones, and realizes that the client must have been Majima as the onetime design was created in 1988. She smiles happily as she tells her husband that she no longer has any more regrets, having finally been able to thank Majima for looking out for her.

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Gallery [ ]

Yakuza 0 [ ]

Body return

Makoto encounters Majima without finding out she is Makoto Makimura.

Majima realizes Makoto is blind and not allow to be spotted.

Majima persuades Makoto to massage him.

Majima grabs Makoto from falling.

Makoto feels scared carrying Majima's right leg.

Kiryu and Makoto.

Makoto reunites with her brother for the terminal time.

Makoto sees the half shadow of Majima in her calorie-free blurred visions.

Makoto walks away after Majima refused her vengeance request.

Majima asks her to go with him for takoyaki.

Makoto answers that Majima is his keeper.

Makoto faint bleeding front of grieving Majima.

Yakuza Kiwami 2 [ ]

Body return.

Makoto looks at Majima

Makoto gives massage to Majima

Makoto on a airplane to her new life abroad.

Ryu ga Gotoku Online [ ]

Notes [ ]

1. ↑ The given height of 165 cm (5′ 5″) is based on the character model'southward scaling factor within Yakuza Kiwami 2's information.^[1] For Dragon Engine games, this method is believed to exist very accurate (±2 cm). However, this is intended as an judge, not a substitute for an official statistic.

References [ ]

1. ↑ Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio. .BIN File — "character_model_model_data.bin". Yakuza Kiwami 2. SEGA. PS4/XB1/PC. 2017.

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