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Shogo Akuji is a character in Saints Row 2.
- Listen Jyunichi, I know you're having a hard time...adjusting, to the way I run things here. But how about you let me deal with my father and you deal with whatever the fuck I tell you to deal with.
- — Shogo Akuji
Overview[]
Shogo Akuji is the son of Kazuo Akuji, the founder of a Yakuza gang known as The Ronin, and is one of the gang's leading figures.
Shogo is a young man dressed proudly in the flags of The Ronin, and like the rest of his gang, carries a Samurai Sword on his back. He owns a Kaneda.
Shogo is a ruthless, bossy, bad-tempered, but air-headed man who displays poor quality traits such as: cockiness, arrogance and very poor leadership skills, as well as extreme hedonism. His pride stems from insecurity, due to his father constantly haranguing him and expressing his shame of him being in his family.
Johnny Gat humorously points out Shogo's ineffectiveness as a leader by explaining that he often spends more time spiking up his hair than riding his bike.[Reference needed]
Biography[]
Shogo Akuji runs the American branch of The Ronin in Stilwater. His gang recruits mostly from the city's Asian-American population, including many former members of the Westside Rollerz.[4] He also made a protection racket deal with Dane Vogel of the Ultor Corporation behind his father's back.[Reference needed]
Shogo constantly tries to gain his father's approval, but Mr. Akuji is always disappointed in him, as he sees him as nothing more than a liability.[Reference needed] He also fails to see the gravity of the situation when the resurrected 3rd Street Saints rob The Ronin-owned Poseidon's Palace.[5] Shogo is also not happy when his father decides to come to Stilwater and fix the Saints problem himself and teach him how to properly lead.[Reference needed]
Shogo sends a team of Ronin to kill the Saints, but most of them are killed by Playa.[6] After Jyunichi saves Kazuo Akuji from an assassination attempt at Wardill Airport, Kazuo makes Jyunichi the intermediary between himself and Shogo.[7] Kazuo takes complete control of The Ronin, and demotes Shogo to the rank of lieutenant as punishment for his consistent failures. Humiliated and dishonored, Shogo turns his anger and jealousy on Jyunichi for his "betrayal" and because Jyunichi has won Kazuo's approval. Consumed with thoughts of revenge, Shogo gives up Jyunichi's location to Playa, hoping to win favor with his father by having Jyunichi out of the way. Although this results in Jyunichi's death, it does not improve the relationship between Shogo and his father.[8] Shogo sends a team of Ronin to kill Gat at the hospital, but Playa manages to extract Gat to safety.[9] After Kazuo breaks the business relationship between Ultor and The Ronin, Dane Vogel gives up Kazuo's location to the Saints, resulting in the destruction of a downtown hotel serving as the Ronin's headquarters.[10]
In a last, desperate attempt to destroy the Saints and gain his father's respect, Shogo and a team of Ronin try to kill Gat and Playa at Aisha's funeral for disgracing his family once again. The Saints dispatch the Ronin, and Playa apprehends the fleeing Shogo and brings him to Gat. Infuriated by the attack on the funeral and holding Shogo responsible for Aisha's death, Gat proceeds to severely beat him, breaking Shogo's leg and smashing his head against a gravestone. Gat then brings Shogo to a casket that had yet to be buried, discarding the body within and throwing a horrified Shogo in its place. Locked inside, Shogo's desperate cries and pleas for a quick death fall on deaf ears, as Gat lowers the casket into the hole and buries him alive alongside Playa.[11] The newspapers later report his death.
Saints Row: Gat out of Hell[]
After taking over Downtown, a storybook cutscene plays showing that things are going well for the DeWynter twins. However, things are not all well as Shogo, along with his father, Jyunichi, William Sharp and Killbane form an alliance against the Ultor group.[12] In the Shawarma storybook cutscene after completing City Takeover, is it revealed that Shogo was defeated along with the others, and is now part of Shakespeare's new passion play, where Shakespeare reenacts Shogo's live burial from Saints Row 2.[13]
Trivia[]
- Civilians say that Shogo has an "annoying yapping dog".[14]
- According to Mr Wong's Translator, Shogu killed Mr. Wong's pet dog Sadie at an unknown point prior to Saints Row 2
- Shogo is the second major character throughout the Saints Row series to get a blowjob on-screen.[15] The first is Angelo Lopez when he learned that his brother was killed.[16] If Rico Martinez, the character that gives one of the Mayhem Activities in Saints Row is counted, then Shogo is the third character.
- Johnny Tag, a Brute clone of Johnny Gat, asks "Where Shogo?", and continues to seek vengeance as his memories exist only up to Aisha's death[17]
- Akuji in Japanese can mean either "evil deed", "crime" or "wickedness".[18]
- Shogo sends out members to retrieve drugs for him.[19]
- Shogo is 5 foot 6 inches.[20]
- Sometimes, one of the goths say "Shogo should have been honoured, only the purest of our coven are allowed to be buried alive".[21]
- Despite his leadership being constantly questioned, Shogo is actually more effective than his father Kazuo to some extent:
- Shogo understands that America works differently than in Japan, such as when he told Jyunichi to "speak English" in the after mission cut scene during the mission "Saint's Seven" and his deal with Ultor.[Reference needed]
- The Ronin enjoyed quite a lot of freedom to do as they pleased without police interference, especially with Ultor in their corner.
- Before Playa intervened, Shogo did quite well, with a quarter control of the city, a huge stake in Poseidon's Palace and a level of control over the rest of the city's vice industry and trade.
- As noted by Dane Vogel, Shogo was able to leverage Ultor in the Ronin's favor, yet Kazuo's decision to sever all ties with Ultor (after Dane advises him to keep the Ronin in check when they attack Stilwater Memorial Hospital to assassinate Johnny Gat) cost them Ultor's protection. Dane, whose ulterior motive was to manipulate gang violence before assimilating their territory, would then approach the 3rd Street Saints and tip them off. The Saints destroy the hotel in hopes of killing both Kazuo and Shogo, and while they fail, the Ronin are still badly crippled.
References[]
- ↑ Note: Image only
- ↑ Relation: Father
- ↑ Credits: Saints Row 2 credits
- ↑ Audio:
- ↑ Mission: Saint's Seven
- ↑ Mission: Road Rage
- ↑ Mission: Orange Threat Level
- ↑ Mission: Kanto Connection
- ↑ Mission: Visiting Hours
- ↑ Mission: Room Service
- ↑ Mission: Rest in Peace
- ↑ Image: Shogo and others united against the Saints
- ↑ Image: Shakespeare buries Shogo alive
- ↑ Audio:
- ↑ Mission: Saint's Seven, "The Model of Discipline" cutscene
- ↑ Mission: McManus Says Hello, "Killing the Mood" cutscene
- ↑ Mission: Weird Science.
- ↑ Japanese-English dictionary: Akuji
- ↑ Audio:
- ↑ Image: Ronin line up
- ↑ Audio:
