Yakuza 8 leaked ending and sequel (spoilers)

at the end of yakuza 8, kiryu heads over to sky finance on kamurocho and asks akiyama for an infinite money loan (an amount which akiyama happens to have on hand), with the usual 0% interest rate and no payment deadlines. now, akiyama would normally put his client through a series of tests at this point, but since the one asking is kiryu he decides to make an exception and immediately hands over the amount requested. kiryu then heads downstairs to new serena where he's meeting ichban, who was just arriving at the bar, ichiban asks ''did you get it?'' to which kiryu replies ''yes''. dramatic music starts playing, ichiban looks at kiryu straight in the eyes and says ''I guess we really became...'' then it cuts to black and the music stops. after 3 seconds of dead silence, white text appears on the screen.

''like a dragon: infinite wealth''

credits roll, the characters are listed alongside their respective voice actors, at the end of that list, you notice something strange, a character is listed that did not appear in any cutscene. in fact, it's a character that should NOT even appear in any cutscene for he was kiled in the first game.

''sohei dojima - hisao egawa''

a new cutscene starts, kiryu and ichiban are still at new serena having some drinks when the door to the backroom opens and out comes patriarch dojima, who starts explaining to kiryu that the sohei dojima that was shot and killed in 1995 was actually a korean mafia man who underwent plastic surgery to become his body double, and ever since then he's been working from the shadows using a fake name and has orchestrated every villain plot from every yakuza game since 1

after some 20-30 minutes of exposition, dojima wants the infinite wealth ichiban and kiryu have, and he will not stop until he gets it.Battle music starts, a title card appears:

"the man who erased his name: SOHEI DOJIMA"

it's time for a boss fight! you notice your attacks deal very little damage, and dojima keeps calling for more and more reinforcements, after a few minutes dojima performs a heat action which you can't avoid getting hit by even if you press all the QTEs correctly, your hp gets reduced to zero and a new cutscene starts.

it was a scripted loss, sohei kills kiryu and ichiban. the game ends. credits roll with no music at all. a grim end for the series

4 years later, sega releases a new game trailer at geoff keighley's all new e3 2: e4

in order to avenge the death of their foster father, ayako, taichi, koji, poison mitsuo, riona, eri, shiro, izumi, and haruka must become the yakuza 9 in ''like a dragon 9: revelations''