Akira Nishikiyama Husbando

Akira Nishikiyama, often referred to as Nishiki, is a major supporting character in the series. He serves as the the deuteragonist of Kazuma Kiryu's story in Yakuza 0, and is the main antagonist and final boss of the first Yakuza/Yakuza Kiwami. He is the sworn brother of Kiryu, one of the children adopted by Shintaro Kazama, and the patriarch of the Nishikiyama Family. In Yakuza and Yakuza Kiwami, Nishikiyama's primary appearance is depicted as having long slicked-back hair. He wears a double-breasted white suit, black dress shirt, white tie, and black crocodile pattern leather shoes. In Yakuza 0, he wears a maroon suit with a black and gold dress shirt and shiny brown oxfords, as well as having his hair down. During the prologue and flashback sequences of Yakuza and Yakuza Kiwami respectively, he has his hair down similar to his appearance in Yakuza 0 and he wears a two button notch lapel white blazer with black slacks and a black dress shirt with a popped collar, instead of the double breasted peaked lapel white suit and black dress shirt with a white tie that he wears later on. As seen in Yakuza 0, Nishiki started off to be very loyal and supportive towards his friends and family such as Kiryu and Kazama. He also hangs out with Kiryu often in several activities and acting friendly and kind towards him. Several times in the storyline, he helped Kiryu against the Dojima Family and fought alongside him after he couldn't bring himself to kill Kiryu. Nishiki also seems to worry about Kiryu for his reckless attempts against the Dojima family. In spite of his seemingly charming demeanor and cool personality, however, Nishiki harbors a deep inferiority complex throughout the series. In 0, Nishiki struggles to help Kiryu in his attempt to keep him safe from harm as he is shown to be out of his depth in terms of the intrigue of the Tojo clan. His attempt to protect Kiryu repeatedly backfire and his inferiority against Majima only made him more cynical in the process. The inferiority complex would serve as the tipping point during Kiryu's imprisonment when his lack of authority made him easily manipulated by Jingu and Shimano who made it clear to Nishiki that he is unfit to be a leader of a family much less the chairman. During the 10 year time skip of the first game, Nishiki has drastically changed to a cold and heartless person. To get to the missing 10 billion yen, he went as far as hurting his former friends and betraying them for his ambition of becoming a chairman. A prime example of this was when he shot Kazama, the man who raised him, with a sniper rifle. It was at the end of the game where he finally regrets his decisions and sacrificed his life to stop Jingu as well as an attempt to reassert one last degree of control in his life that was defined.