| “ | However, there is one thing our clan considers a worse evil than death... and that's for the defeated to live on his weakness. Or her. His or her weakness. "Their" works, too. Kazuma Kiryu, you defeated me, yet you left me clinging to a miserable existence. Your act of allowing me to live is folly and a mortal sin in the eyes of my clan. In my eyes, you—Kazuma Kiryu—are the strongest life form. As long as you live, I cannot truly be complete. | „ |
| ~ Jo Amon's motivation. |
Jo Amon is a major villain from the Yakuza/Like a Dragon series as well as a minor villain in the game Fist of the North Star: Lost Paradise.
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Yakuza 0[]
Jo Amon makes his first chronological appearance in Yakuza 0.
After hearing that a man named Goro Majima had made a name for himself in Sotenbori, Jo Amon decided to challenge him to fight in order to prove himself. Jo would send Majima a message on his pager that Majima misinterprets as a threat and he would rush to fight him.
Jo Amon would try to sound intimidating and maintain a cool aura before dropping the act and fighting Majima.
Jo would end up losing the fight and ask Majima to kill him but he wouldn't kill Jo, however, instead of giving up, Jo would take this as a sign from the heavens. Jo would say that he would train for the next 17 years of his life and challenge the person stronger than Goro Majima before leaving while saying that Majima would regret letting him live.
Yakuza 1/Yakuza Kiwami[]
Jo Amon makes his first appearance in the series in Yakuza 1.
Sometime between Yakuza 0 and Yakuza 1, So Amon would relinquish his title as head of the Amon Clan and Jo Amon would become the second head of the clan.
After completing his training, Jo would return to Japan where he would hear about the Legendary Dragon of Dojima, Kazuma Kiryu and all of his impressive feats.
Jo would challenge Kiryu to a one-on-one fight in order to prove himself as the strongest man in the world, however, Kiryu would win. This would kick start Jo Amon's rivalry with Kiryu where Jo would swear that he would never stop training until the day he could finally defeat and kill Kiryu.
Yakuza 2/Yakuza Kiwami 2[]
Yakuza 3[]
After being beaten two times even after his intense training, Jo Amon would task the scientist Dr. Minamida to build a virtual reality device that Jo could use to train against powerful opponents so that Jo can gain their techniques. Eventually, when Jo Amon used his new skills to kill someone that he had hired, Minamida would witness this and run away, fearing that Jo would kill him next.
After Kiryu had used Minamida's machine to train and learnt the truth about why Minamida made it, he received a call from Jo Amon who challenged Kiryu to another fight.
When Kiryu arrived, Jo Amon immedietally threatened Kiryu, saying that if Kiryu didn't fight him then Jo would kill someone close to Kiryu once per month until their fight, having done a full background check on Kiryu and learning about the Morning Glory Orphanage that Kiryu was running.
This would make Kiryu fight Jo again and once again he won. Jo would order Kiryu to kill him, otherwise he would kill everyone Kiryu loved. Kiryu refused, saying that it goes against his code before telling Jo that their fight should just between them.
After this, Jo would disappear and drop the threat to train some more.
Yakuza 4[]
Yakuza 5[]
Yakuza 6[]
Yakuza Dead Souls[]
Fist of the North Star: Paradise Lost[]
Jo Amon appears in the game Fist of the North Star: Paradise Lost as an optional boss fight.
He sends a message to Kenshiro, challenging him to a fight in order to prove that his style of martial arts is greater than Hokuto Shinken.
Kenshiro would meet Jo in the wasteland on a destroyed motorway where the two would fight before having a small race in their dune buggies before having a second match, all the while, Jo would use various techniques such as Hokuto Shinken, Nanto Seiken and Go No Ken.
In the end, Kenshiro would win, using Hokuto Shinken to strike Jo's pressure points and make his body explode.
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Tojo Clan Chairmen: Masaru Sera | Yukio Terada | Daigo Dojima Dojima Family: Sohei Dojima |
Daisaku Kuze |
Hiroki Awano |
Keiji Shibusawa |
Lao Gui |
Yoneda Others Omi Alliance Go-ryu Clan (Ryuji Goda | Hiroshi Hayashi) | Tsubasa Kurosawa | Hiroshi Kugihara | Shigeki Baba | Homare Nishitani | Homare Nishitani III | Kamon Kanai | Tsukasa Sagawa | Toranosuke Sengoku | Ryo Takashima | Jo Sawashiro | Kosei Shishido | Reiji Ishioda | Yosuke Tendo Daidoji Faction Other Criminal Organizations Jingweon Mafia: Daejin Kim |
Yeongmin Ji |
Joon-gi Han Police Bleach Japan Mr. Shakedowns Mutoh Realty Order of Munan Chohept Onast Amon Clan Other Spin-offs See Also | ||
