Takayuki Yagami

Name

Takayuki Yagami

Alias(es)

Tak (ター坊, Tābō)
Nakata
Yagamichi

General

Created By

Toshihiro Nagoshi

First appearance

Judgment

Series

Yakuza/Like a Dragon

Voiced by (English)

Greg Chun

Voiced by (Japanese)

Takuya Kimura

Appearances

Game appearance(s)

Judgment
Lost Judgment
The Kaito Files (text only)

Character Sheet

Age

35 (Judgment)

38 (Lost Judgment)

Species

Human

Gender

Male

Birthdate

c. 1983

Nationality

Japanese

Hair Color

Black

Occupation(s)

Employee at Bar Tender (formerly)
Defense attorney at the Genda Law Office (formerly)
Director of the Yagami Detective Agency
Outside counselor at Seiryo High School

Personality

Helpful, Idealistic, Tough, Pragmatic, Righteous

Special Skills

Adept fist fighter
Mastery over the Crane fighting style
Master of over the Tiger fighting style
Master of over the Snake fighting style
Boxing skills
Parkour skills
Judicial law experience
Keen observation
Abilities and powers further enhanced by using Extracts

Status

Alive

Takayuki Yagami (八神隆之, Yagami Takayuki^?) is the main protagonist of Judgment and Lost Judgment. He is a former defense attorney at Genda Law Office and the director of the Yagami Detective Agency, where he works as a private investigator.

Appearance

Yagami has a slim and athletic build, which allows him to move with fluidity and grace while fighting. He has medium-length black hair in a messy middle part. As a teenager, his hair was dyed brown and slicked back.

Attire

Yagami's standard outfit is a black asymmetrical zip up leather moto jacket with snap-down lapels and epaulettes over a fitted white tee-shirt, a pair of blue medium wash washed out skinny jeans that are distressed around the knees, and a pair of white low-top sneakers. He also wears a wireless earpiece in his right ear. He has a chain on his jeans, which attaches to his wallet to prevent it from being stolen.

While in court, he wears a gray tweed two-piece suit with a red and white regimental striped necktie, a pair of brown dress shoes, and his attorney pin on his lapel. In several flashbacks to 2015, his hair is shown to be slicked back in a much more conservative style. He dislikes how he looks when he wears a suit.

When he first meets Matsugane, he wears a satin red and white zip up varsity jacket, medium wash blue jeans, and red and white skate shoes.

When finding his parents dead at their house, he wears a black cropped blazer, red t-shirt, black baggy slacks, and black oxfords.

History

Judgment

In 2018, former attorney-turned-private investigator Takayuki Yagami resides in Kamurochō and runs the Yagami Detective Agency alongside Masaharu Kaito, Yagami's detective partner and former member of the Tojo clan's Matsugane Family and is investigating several yakuza murder cases committed by an unidentified serial killer dubbed "the Mole" which eventually leads to him uncovering a massive conspiracy linked to his last case from his attorney days.

Lost Judgment

In 2021, Yagami and his allies are called in to investigate bullying in a private school in Isezaki Ijincho. This seemingly innocuous case soon overlaps in surprising and sinister ways with both the discovery of a murder victim in the city, and a highly publicized sexual assault case in Tokyo.