"I used to think that Hell was a life under Gihei, but...now? I realise Hell is a life...without Meiji."

GEN GANBE, SOLDIER OF THE TAGASUKI FAMILY, A SUBSIDIARY OF THE JINUCHU CLAN

A thug and a bully who fell too deep, Gen thought he could handle the life of a yakuza after running away from home. But instead, all he found was a miserable life, his hands stained with blood, and the greatest friend he could ever have.

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So, here's the bad boy-turned-unwilling-killer of my li'l fanfic series, one of the first colour sketches I asked from  jamescorck to do. The sickles I was worried most about, but he gave them just the right look.

For a while, me and  philip91 were trying to figure out whether to have Gigan's 1960s design of classic green, or the modern sleek-black Millennium look. Eventually we hit on the idea of a black leather jacket, to have our cake and eat it with both designs XD

Gigan copyrighted to Toho Co. Ltd, Yakuza/Ryu ga Gotoku to SEGA, art by  jamescorck