Ryūzō Washimine (鷲峰 龍三 Washimine Ryūzō) was the thirteenth head of the Washimine Group, a yakuza group that was once on friendly terms with the Kōsa Council. Ryūzō had an unnamed wife and one daughter, Yukio Washimine, a high school student who was not initially involved in his family's group.
Appearance[]
Not much of Ryūzō's physical appearance is known except him being a tall adult man of Japanese descent. He was seen wearing a black haori and kimono in a family photograph.
History[]
It is not known when Ryūzō's wife passed away, but it was claimed by his own enforcers that Ryūzō himself was a man of honor who treated others kindly, especially his own group that engaged in black market dealings. Ryūzō and the at-the-time head of the Kōsa Council were sworn brothers, having an amicable alliance with one another. Because of Ryūzō's sense of justice, Ginji Matsuzaki gladly served under him as the Washimine Group's assassin. In addition, Ryūzō took care of Tsugio Bandō when the latter arrived to Tokyo from the Keihanshin region of Japan.[1] Five years before the "Fujiyama Gangsta Paradise" arc, the Kōsa Council's head died, so his younger brother Masami Kōsa became the head. Masami despised his older brother as well as the Council's relationship with the Washimine Group.
Fujiyama Gangsta Paradise[]
Two years later after the Kōsa elder's death, Ryūzō himself died. Masami had his Council interfere in the Washimines' territory due to the Council's higher rank in the Kanto Peace Council.[2] Meanwhile, Bandō, who was indebted to Ryūzō, volunteered to take care of Ryūzō's daughter Yukio. Masami assigned a replacement leader for the Washimine Group since he created a new rule between the two yakuza requiring that unless the Group could not find a blood-related successor, then he could send in a replacement leader. Bandō then volunteered to take lead of the Washimine Group as the de facto leader, pushing out the hostile Kōsa elements by engaging in more unsavory fields like prostitution and drug dealing, reasoning that not having an occupation was a disgrace to the Washimine Group.[1]
Three years after Ryūzō's death, Bandō resorted to allying with Hotel Moscow in order to save the Washimine Group by weakening the Kōsa Council.[3] After Bandō's death, Ryūzō's daughter Yukio volunteered to become the Group's fourteenth head, telling Ginji that she could not abandon the hundreds of men in the Washimine Group by leaving them leaderless as well as not wanting to let the Group be further degraded by the Kōsa Council after her father's death.[4]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Chapter 23: Fujiyama Gangsta Paradise Part 2
- ↑ Chapter 32: Fujiyama Gangsta Paradise Part 11
- ↑ Chapter 22: Fujiyama Gangsta Paradise Part 1
- ↑ Episode 20: The Succession