Sega and Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio announced the winners of the Like a Dragon Character Popularity Contest poll on the English and Japanese sites, and Yakuza staple Goro Majima was named most popular and won. He came in at first place with over 49,000 votes, beating fellow lead Kazuma Kiryu by 22,281 votes. Majima was the sole lead in the spin-off Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaiiwhen it debuted in February 2025.
The official social media account for RGG shared some images showing some of the most popular Like a Dragon folks in the Yakuza Character Popularity Poll, with Goro Majima, Kazuma Kiryu, and Taiga Saejima in their own image in honor of them being the top three. 490,278 votes came in worldwide.
Here are the top 30. The official site goes all the way up to 164, though we start to see “ties” around the 72 mark. Vtuber Kson, who plays Kei, came in at 27th. The top 10 will “come to the stage” for performances.
- Goro Majima – 49,296 votes
- Kazuma Kiryu – 27,015 votes
- Taiga Saejima – 22,976 votes
- Akira Nishikiyama – 21,437 votes
- Eric Tomizawa – 20,205 votes
- Fumiya Sugiura – 19,230 votes
- Toru Higashi – 18,581 votes
- Yoshitaka Mine – 17,748 votes
- Daigo Dojima – 17,383 votes
- Ichiban Kasuga – 15,012 votes
- Tianyou Zhao – 14,880 votes
- Shun Akiyama – 14,765 votes
- Kosei Shishido – 11,368 votes
- Ryuji Goda – 11,200 votes
- Yutaka Yamai – 8,772 votes
- Tsukasa Sagawa – 7,472 votes
- Osamu Kashiwagi – 7,388 votes
- Kihei Hanawa – 7,360 votes
- Tatsuo Shinada – 7,328 votes
- Masayoshi Tanimura – 7,080 votes
- Tetsu Tachibana – 6,933 votes
- Joongi Han – 6,692 votes
- Homare Nishitani – 6,380 votes
- Yuki Tsuruno – 6,288 votes
- Masato Arakawa – 5,541 votes
- Michio Ono – 5,156 votes
- Kei – 5,085 votes
- Seonhee – 4,896 votes
- Nanba – 4,608 votes
- Homare Nishitani III – 4,560 votes
Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii is available on the PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, and PC.