When Does Makoto Show Up Again

If there's someone that's really precious to yous... so you take to do any it takes to protect them. There's no running from that. Otherwise, all you'll cease up doing is leaving behind regrets. For yourself and your loved ones.

— Makoto Date, Yakuza 3

Makoto Date (伊達 真, Engagement Makoto),^[a] is a police detective with the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Section. He has appeared in every i of the Yakuza games set up in the 21st century, and has been one of Kazuma Kiryu's longest-running supporters.

Contents

• 1 Contour
  • 1.1 Advent
  • 1.ii Personality
• ii Background
• iii Involvement
  • iii.1 Yakuza/Yakuza Kiwami: 1995-2005
  • iii.2 Yakuza 2/Yakuza Kiwami ii: 2006
  • iii.3 Yakuza iii: 2007-2009
  • 3.4 Yakuza four: 2010
  • 3.5 Yakuza 5: 2012
  • 3.half dozen Yakuza 6: 2012-2017
  • 3.seven Yakuza: Like a Dragon: 2019
• 4 Other Media
  • iv.one Yakuza: Dead Souls
• v Trivia
• 6 Notes
• vii References

Contour [ ]

Appearance [ ]

Date has a tall face with sunken cheekbones and thick eyebrows. He has a messily slicked dorsum hairstyle and his hair is black. He wears a khaki colored trench coat over a white apparel shirt, gray slacks, a black leather chugalug with a argent buckle, and black leather oxfords. In Kiwami, he as well wears a striped pale dark and light blue necktie. While interrogating Kiryu when they first run across, he wears a medium grey arrange with a white dress shirt, a black leather belt with a silver buckle, and black oxfords. While bartending at New Serena, his outfit is the aforementioned, though he wears a dark-brown apron instead of his trench glaze.

Personality [ ]

He is an extremely busy and intelligent police detective, who is quickly capable of detecting lies and contradictions in testimonies. He besides gives a helping hand to any victim of criminal conspiracies, regardless of their background, and is a family unit man, despite admitting to neglecting his wife and daughter. Despite his proper and clean image, Date is willing to rebel confronting the police establishment if he believes that they are interfering with the achievement of justice.

Groundwork [ ]

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Date joined the law strength in 1991 and originally worked with Jiro Kawara, who he lost respect for after watching him single-handedly murder a number of illegal immigrants. Kawara did this and then that his daughter wouldn't know most her groundwork. He investigated a fellow detective for exchanging data for bribes, leading to his expulsion from the force. This detective then became a private information dealer known equally The Florist of Sai.

He has a wife and a daughter. His wife left him due to Date being wholly invested in his task.

Involvement [ ]

Yakuza/Yakuza Kiwami: 1995-2005 [ ]

Engagement interrogating Kiryu.

After Dojima'southward murder in 1995, 31-year-erstwhile Detective Date is the only one not fully convinced of Kiryu's guilt. He does not believe Kiryu's claim that he killed Dojima due to an statement over money - his suspicions were correct, as Dojima had actually been killed by Akira Nishikiyama, and Kiryu volunteered to take the arraign to protect Akira Nishikiyama.

Date continues to investigate the case fifty-fifty later on Kiryu'south incarceration, which earns him an unwanted transfer to the Organized Crime Unit. After Kiryu is released from prison, the two team up to investigate the Tojo Association'south, 10 billion missing yen, eventually having a little girl named Haruka accompany them as well.

An attempt at reconciliation with his daughter Saya Appointment fails when he gets too drunk to respond to her call, and Kiryu helps Date save her from Shota, who was trying to dispense and take advantage of her. After Kiryu is arrested following a raid on the Snake Flower Triad'southward location in Yokohama, he chooses to forsake his career in the police force (justifying it past saying that his fourth dimension was limited anyway) to leap him from jail.

At the end of the game he appears with Sudo in a helicopter, trying to abort Jingu. Eventually, Sudo has to pull away because of Jingu'south men shooting at the helicopter, only they return to the top of the belfry on human foot later on Nishiki blows up the 10 Billion Yen, killing Jingu in the procedure. In the stop, it is his words that encourage Kiryu to go along going afterward the deaths of Yumi and Nishiki.

Yakuza 2/Yakuza Kiwami 2: 2006 [ ]

After the events of the first game he chose to retire from the law to live with Saya. However, during the second game, he is recruited, forth with his old mentor Kawara, past Sudo in a hush-hush mission to uncover the truth behind the Jingweon mafia. During a shoot-out with a fake Kazuki, an illegal immigrant who is shot and killed, he is falsely accused as the killer. His name is cleared.

Yakuza 3: 2007-2009 [ ]

Engagement becomes a reporter, and continues to assist Kiryu with information most the Tojo Association and the incidents. He is shown to have a crush on the Mama of New Serena, and when she is kidnapped by the aforementioned man who killed her first husband, a detective, years before he saves her. Due to the memories of this incident she refuses to enter into a relationship with Engagement, just by the end of the game propose that anytime she might change her mind.

Yakuza 4: 2010 [ ]

I don't mean to exist rude or anything, just practice you really owe him THAT much for a kidney?

— Appointment to Yasuko

During Yakuza iv, Date takes care of New Serena for the Mama while she is at home, due to a bereavement in her family, though he continues his activities every bit a reporter. He also meets Saya's beau, though at start he disapproves of him. After the fight with Munakata, Date distributes copies of a newspaper article he has written detailing the truth about Munakata from a helicopter in a higher place the Millennium Tower. In the epilogue he is shown to have been reinstated to the police forcefulness, working with Sudo and Tanimura.

Yakuza 5: 2012 [ ]

Date is called to investigate Fujita's suicide. At the site, he sees an Omi Brotherhood pin on the floor, suggesting Fujita was murdered and the crime scene was arranged to arrive await similar a suicide. He suspects Naoki Katsuya may be the murderer, only soon learns the true killer is Tsubasa Kurosawa after Katsuya and Daigo Dojima are wounded by him. He goes to New Serena and sees Kiryu passed out, then remembers the misadventures they had over the years.

Shun Akiyama arrives and explains to Date and Saejima of the events that happened and so far, with Haruka's concert potentially being in danger and the behind-the-scenes events taking place all around the state over a potential war betwixt Tojo and Omi.

Yakuza vi: 2012-2017 [ ]

Date sees the news of Kiryu's incarceration following a war breaking out betwixt the Tojo and the Omi, and states the constabulary are but arresting him to save their reputation. He states Kiryu tin can avoid jail time if he hires a lawyer, simply is doubtful he would practice that. Former later on, Appointment and the owner of New Serena get married.

In 2015, Date is ordered to get to Little Asia, which has been engulfed in flames. In December 2016, Kiryu'south judgement completes and Date meets him in Kamurocho. Kiryu asks Date if he has heard from Haruka, who had vanished three years prior, just he is unsure. Date is told by Jiro Honjo that Haruka was involved in a striking-and-run and she was protecting an infant, Haruto Sawamura, during the accident that put her into coma; data which he passes to Kiryu. Based on the concluding proper name and that Haruka almost died to proceed him safe, he surmises Haruto is Haruka'south son.

Further investigation into Haruka uncovers an image she took on her cellphone with location data from Jingaicho, Onomichi in Hiroshima. Date learns Kiryu kidnapped Haruto out of fear that he volition be placed in an orphanage, and negotiates with Kid Protective Services to not become afterwards Kiryu, stating he himself will take responsibility if whatever harm befell Haruto while he is under Kiryu's care. He finds Kiryu in a convenience shop and gives him baby food for Haruto so he does not feed the baby an onigiri. At new Serena, he informs Kiryu that Haruka was likely hiding in Hiroshima, and informs him of the Hiroshima-based Yomei Alliance which may non take kindly to his presence at that place.

After Kiryu leaves for Hiroshima, Appointment receives telephone calls from men challenge to be from the Tojo Clan asking to come across her. Knowing the danger Haruka may be in, he moves her to a police-endemic hospital to continue her rubber, and asks Akiyama to stay abroad from her to avert risking whatsoever enemies locating her. Afterward Kiryu returns, Date is called to investigate the murder of Shu Tatsukawa, which is suspected to be related to the Saio Triad. He meets Hirose Family yakuza Tsuyoshi Nagumo and Yuta Usami at new Serena, and tells Kiryu what he had told Akiyama, and that Haruka's condition has not improved.

After Kiryu and the Hirose Family investigate Tatsukawa and the Saio, they discuss them potentially wanting to impale Haruto, and of a clandestine in Onomichi. Kiryu hopes to find out more in his coming together with Saio leader Big Lo. Takumi Someya arrives to see Kiryu to come across Lo, but, aware of Engagement'southward occupation as a cop, initially decides not to talk, merely Date turns a blind eye to let him speak. Afterward, Kiryu and his two compatrios caput to Hiroshima afterward receiving news.

The next fourth dimension Kiryu returns, Appointment learns Yuta is Haruto's father. He warns Kiryu that the Yomei Brotherhood is nowadays in Kamurocho, which is putting the Saio Triad on edge, and agrees to take Haruto with him to kep him safe. During their discussion, Yuta leaves to brand a telephone call, only after he takes a while, Date realizsed he snuck off, and Kiryu goes after him. Engagement takes Haruto to the hospital with Haruka, and sees a tear fall from her middle when he brings Haruto to her.

Kiryu retrieves Big Lo and Yuta, and they put bandages on Lo for his injuries. Lo calls Kiryu to see him outisde, at which point Date informs Kiryu of Haruka'south condition improving. When he returns afterward the talk, Kiryu informs Date and Yuta what he learned of the Hugger-mugger of Onomichi, and how Yuta's patriarch Toru Hirose may be involved. He asks Yuta to stay backside to be with Haruka, but Yuta is insistent on going to Hiroshima and killing Lo for accusing his patriarch, which Date takes as grounds to "arrest" Yuta and brand him exist with Haruka, reassuring Kiryu.

While withal looking subsequently Haruka with Yuta and Haruto, she wakes upwardly. Haruka is left in Date'due south care when Kiryu arrives to take Yuta and resolve the consequence with the Yomei Alliance. He moves her around once more to milk shake off any threat, but Honjo suddenly appears and has the law snatch Haruka and Haruto abroad from him. Every bit Date suspected, the officers were paid off to take them and they shoot down both Honjo and Date, Honjo taking a more fatal shot and Date requiring a sling for his arm later.

Date waits outside Kiryu's infirmary room afterward he is critically injured following his showdown with Tsuneo Iwami and Katsumi Sugai. When Kiryu states his conditions for keeping Onomichi's hole-and-corner a secret to a politician, Date bursts into his hospital room, reminding him of the consequences of declaring his own expiry and disappearing from Haruka and Haruto'due south lives. Kiryu still chooses to go with his plan and the politico accepts his conditions, with Engagement acting every bit the witness for Kiryu'southward "death".

Afterwards, while in New Serena, Shun Akiyama appears to question Date, as Date states that he saw Kiryu's body and that the body was cremated. Akiyama refuses to believe him and and so leaves; Date comments on how far he really has to stick his neck out for Kiryu shortly later on.

Yakuza: Similar a Dragon: 2019 [ ]

Koichi Adachi calls Date and asks if he has a identify for him and his friends to stay while they are in Kamurocho. Not wanting to plow down a friend from his days in the police force force, he allows Ichiban Kasuga'south party to stay at New Serena. Before leaving, Date comments on Kasuga'south eyes existence like to a friend of his.

Other Media [ ]

Yakuza: Dead Souls [ ]

Date is an AI partner in Yakuza: Dead Souls. His weapon of selection is the "Engagement Special" submachine gun.

Trivia [ ]

• Date is a playable character in the Yakuza Kiwami Climax Boxing, Proving Grounds 10. His moveset is nearly identical to the regular enemies encountered in the original game, but every assault he inflicts causes him to bend down in exhaustion. He too cannot pick up items.

Notes [ ]

1. ↑ In the original western release of Yakuza, Date was renamed to Mako Engagement.

References [ ]

1. ↑ ^{i.0 1.1} Institute in Yakuza (2005) Booklet Grapheme Bios

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