Lore

Hijikata Clan

 About  The Hijikata Clan is a yakuza familly and subsidiary of the Iwagi Alliance. Based out of Sotenbori, Osaka, the Hijikata clan is one of the most prominent organization within the Iwagi Alliance. At some point, Ryoma Hijikata joined the Hijikata Clan and became a respected member because of his skills and charisma. Due to his father being the head of the Clan, Ryoma was quickly promoted to Lieutenant. Ryoma's father determined that he was getting too old to run both the Iwagi Alliance and the Hijikata Clan, so he resigned as Patriarch of his own organization and allowed Ryoma to succeed him as the Clan's Second Patriach.

Yoshitaka Clan

 About  The Yoshitaka Clan is a yakuza familly and subsidiary of the Iwagi Alliance. This clan was formerly known as the Nagai family before Shinya's takeover. This clan was a high-ranking subsidiary of the Iwagi Alliance with his patriarch, Masayuki Nagai, serving as a retainer to the Iwagi Alliance's previous chairman, Ryoma's father. The clan headquarter is set in Sotenbori. Amongs the many type of groups within the Iwagi Alliance, the Nagai clan was known as "Sotenbori's little band of troublemakers" with Masayuki Nagai picking fight often. Since Shinya's leadership, the group's reputation has now been fixed and work closely with the Hijikata Clan members.

Shinya Yoshitaka

❝ If my flame were to burn out... If I ever were to disappear, gone forever... I would let it fade, content that I lived a life where I was fully free from the chains that bound me. ❞

 About  As a civilian, Shinya was a charismatic and simple minded man. His androgynous look often got him in trouble in the past as a civilian and host at the club. He has learned how to use his tanto and how to defend himself by his mentor Masayuki, a yakuza that made a business deal with him to help him make a male host club.As a patriarch, Shinya is a very resourceful, charismatic and commanding man. This has gained him respect from foes and allies alike, often due to his skill in combat. He would never admit it, but he is incredibly talented business wise. He is incredibly loyal to Ryoma Hijitaka which allowed him to rise up as his oath-brother and senior advisor. Despite being the patriarch of his own family, he despises serious meetings. While he is strict and punish his family harshly for mistakes, he is known to have a soft spot for them and would do anything to protect them. It is rumored that he has a tendency to mope around if Ryoma isn't around him.

Ryoma Hijikata

❝ 'How I need to live' is one thing, but 'How I want to live' is another. Get those mixed up, and life don't make a whole lotta sense anymore ❞

 About  Ryoma is a rather calm and relaxed man. It takes a lot to get him upset or annoyed. At a younger age, he had reluctantly become the Chairman of the Hijitaka Clan. Unlike his father who led with an iron fist and ruthless methods, Ryoma prefer a much more an even-handed approach to dealing with the other factions, seeking equal terms treaties even if they are inferior in size to him. While this solved many issues he was facing with some, there are still others who refuse his ways and would go against him. He is mostly seen with Shinya Yoshitaka, his Second in Command and sworn-brother. He fully trust Shinya who has been loyal to him even before he became the Chairman.

Heisuke Sera

❝ You'll have to use your brain, bro. I can't help you with that one... ❞

 About  When duty strike, Heisuke is known to be strict and straight to the point, not cutting edges. He does not tolerate mistakes and those who do are usually weighted by the consequence. Many have thought the chairman would have choosen him as his sworn brother for how long they were together. His skill with fire arms aren't as great and accurate as Ryoma but he does rarely miss his target. He usually work in the shadows when not requested by Ryoma.

Masayuki Nagai

❝ 'Make mischief long enough, and it'll bite ya in the ass... ❞

 About  Masayuki is a wise and cunning man who will relentlessly pursue whatever he feel like, doing whatever it takes to get what he wants. He is unpredictable and can accurately deduce things and details often left untouched by others. He is also known to be loyal to those who cooperate with him and respect those who can meet him on the same level physically and mentally. His friendship with Shinya began when Shinya was a "hostess" in a hostess club. He would later become his mentor, then fake his own death, letting Shinya wear the mantle of patriarch as he now live a calmer life as co-owner of the Moonlight Grove Host Club.

Hannyan

❝ Break away, escape, Shinya.
From this path that you've made and this wicked fate...I still believe that you can't be a flower of hell... You're not meant for this place, don't you blossom here. ❞

 About  Hannyan is an Hannya spirit who took form of a cat to follow Shinya. They first met as Shinya was fighting for his life at the hospital when his chest had been shot. In her ethereal form, she stood silently staring at him, forcing him again and again to face the same reality of his life, preventing the man to let himself being overtaken by resentment and betrayal from the clan. She knew he had potential and if she led him with his emotions, he would have ruined everything for him, his lover and everyone else that he cared. As he was out of his coma, she was found on his hospital bed as a white Maine Coon cat, resting at his feet's. Since that day, she follow him around, ready to save him once again and correct his path.

Headquarters Office

 About  In a secret location in Sotenbori is located the Yoshitaka clan. The location consist of many rooms with narrow coridors to prevents sudden attacks. There is also many camera in and outside the HQ for protection purpose. Do know when you are here, you are safe.

Shinya's Home

 About  You may catch some rare glance of Shinya's home as he's streaming from his house pc. He mostly use this location for when he's too sick or lazy to head to the HQ. Sneak at your own risk, but we can't promise your safety if you visit unannounced.

Hijikata's Izakaya

 About  Some of Ryoma's familly that aren't part of the clan have their own lil Izakaya's within the city. Their speciality are a mix of Japanese and Chinese dishes as it represent both the family origins from both country.

Shinya's Host Club

 About  The Moonlight Grove is a night club of Sotenbori owned by Shinya and co-owned by Masayuki. The club is mostly know for their very attractive male staff who attend women and men, offering them drink and attentive conversation. The club was initially financed by Masayuki with the aid of Shinya. The club is protected by the Nagai Clan (now Yoshitaka Clan). There is a rumour that people who have not paid their tabs have been missing after their visit at this particular club.

Sotenbori City

 About  Sotenbori is the name of the entertainment district in Osaka (based on the real life Dotonbori district). It is Shinya's and Ryoma's main territory. The area is split by the Sotenbori river, with the north side being the lively Sotenbori street and the south side having a more underground field. The area is usually brightly lit with a proeminance of lavish decorations. Ryoma and Shinya love hanging by the promenade area where they eat from the local small restaurants.

Karaoke Bar

 About  Within the Moonlight Grove club, there is also a Karaoke bar set in there for members of the clans to enjoy. The room is incredibly well isolated, the place is perfect for loud singing or to take care of troublemakers.... is this a drink on the floor or something else?

Civilian Shinya

 About  Being androgenous and having rather unique in look, Shinya was incredibly lucky to find himself a job in a hostess club despite the fact he was a man. He was one of their youngest staff, just starting at 20. Shinya was very mature for his age. His charisma, and empathy got him quite popular as patrons enjoyed opening up to him and feel conection with him. To Shinya, he knew this was all an act since hostess were not supposed to fall in love with their patrons.One day, a particular patron entered the club. Shinya's look intriged them right away, having his full captivation. The man was a patriarch of a yakuza group in Sotenbori. On a few conversations over the weeks, they did got along very well until one day. While well tipsy, the patron tried to touch Shinya and discovered his true gender. From that day on, Shinya did everything to the point of overtaking too many patrons to make sure he was booked for night to not deal with the yakuza patriarch, much to the man's frustration. Yet the patriarch insisted each night to be within the club spending night with hostess but his attention on the silver haired wo"man".This took a big toll on Shinya, making his cheerful and positivity drop to the point that one day he snapped at a patron who did the same as the patriarch and punched the man. The man retaliated but the patriarch halted it, protecting Shinya. He ordered Shinya to head out, to which Shinya reluctantly did. Shinya mind was a mess, he had lost his only job and now he owed his life to a yakuza.He had a long discussion with the patriarch who was highly interested in him, he desperately tried to get him to join the Yakuza but Shinya declined everytime. Shinya had heard of how the life of a yakuza could become when you join them and he didn't want to accept such fate. He enjoyed speaking to others, to be their confident and help them. The patriarch decided to not force him into that lifestyle yet. While speaking of what Shinya would like to do in Sotenbori, he mentioned the desire to have a host club where the staff would only be male, something that has been missing in the city due to the popularity of hostess club.The patriarch considered the idea and proposed to help Shinya to finance his dream. Aware that he was now stuck dealing with a yakuza, he agreed to let any of the unpaid debts of the patrons to be the responsibility of the patriarch's clan as "protection money" deal.

Meeting with Ryoma

 About  With the help of the patriarch, Shinya built a decent club known as Moonlight Grove. The polularity was slow but slowly grew as women learned of their existance. Shinya was initialy co-owner as he owed money to patriarch. His skills and talents, quickly helped him to rise up and pay a decent amount back to the patriarch. They established rules and policy about physical contact on the staff. There was some inner secret about the club when it came about patrons deep in debts, but Shinya would give little attention as it was not part of his bussiness.During their free hours, the patriarch taught Shinya how to defend himself and how to use a weapon, luring Shinya to think this would be useful if the club is under atack and his clan was not present. Shinya was a quick learner and was efficient in battle. The patriarch knew the man was a diamond in the rough, slowly reaching full potential. He had given shinya a beautiful ornemented tanto knife in black lacked wood and blue flowers with golden green leaves.One evening, he played a trick on both the youngest chairman of the clan and Shinya. He had instructed Shinya to prepare a vip section and to be the main host. The young patriarch was invited to the booth. Shinya being the ever so great host made sure everyone had a good evening. He did notice the chairman was rather quiet and not letting much known. Ever so observant, he asked him about his hobbies, to which he learned the man loved doing some shooting range training. After a moment, the patriarch received a call, opening his cellphone to look briefly before closing it to call the person in a less loud area. To shinya surprise, it was characters of his favourite game.As the young chairman return, Shinya started speaking of the video game with him and the chairman expression changed, having finally someone his age who had similar interest. The old patriarch smirked, his plan slowly becoming complete as Ryoma and Shinya bonded together. In the following month, the chairman would visit the club often or have Shinya join him at the shooting range to learn and watch him as they enjoyed time together.Shinya was still stubbornly a civilian but he was growing feelings and also felt attached to Ryoma. A desire of protecting him at all cost was growing into him. little did he knew that he was slowly becoming entangled in the webs of the yakuza clan.

Bar assault

 About  April 2nd, the host club owner’s birthday party had just begun. Ryoma had secretly planned to celebrate it in a small, local bar on their turf. While celebrating with the Nagai's clan family and the Chairman, Shinya was having one of the happiest days of his life. Until the door to the bar suddenly burst open, revealing a rival faction within the clan who wanted to eliminate Ryoma and those he held dear.Shinya, a close friend of the current Chairman, was often confused by others, to be an actualy yakuza. Ryoma's style of leadership was also not accepted by most, even in his own clan. Eliminating the chairman’s closest confidante would enable the rival factions to shift the balance of power in their favor. Now, with tensions at their peak, the faction saw an even greater prize within reach.The rival faction could not afford to miss the opportunity presented by the Chairman’s presence at the party—his death would force the selection of new leadership. Seeing the armed men of the other factions, Heisuke and Masayuki quickly tried to get the Chairman and Shinya to safety. Ryoma, ever the skilled gunman, initially refused to leave, wanting to help Masayuki's men who were covering him. Masayuki yelled that he would handle it here, leaving the trio to leave.After a few shots, he began to retreat with his two friends toward the backdoor of the bar. As Ryoma poised to slide into the car, Shinya spotted a sniper in the distance and instinctively moved to shield his friend, taking aim with his gun—but he was too late. The bullet lodged into the seat before Ryoma, blood splattering over him. The Chairman quickly pulled his friend into the car, while the remaining family members made their own escapes.

Shinya's Recovery

 About  In the following hours, in the safety of the Headquarters, Ryoma paced back and forth across his office, endlessly concerned and worried for Masayuki and Shinya—but also angered and confused about all that happened. Masayuki and Shinya had been hospitalized and had a very slim chance of recovery. Heisuke was tasked with watching the unconscious Shinya.
In his dreamlike state, Shinya could see a vague masked figure floating above his body, ethereal. The figure, wearing a Hannya mask, was silently staring at him.As memories of the events slowly resurfaced, anger and resentment were taking over Shinya, yet his body refused to move. He felt frustrated; he wanted to save everyone but each attempt had failed. Why couldn't he anticipate this attack on his friends and familly, Ryoma and himself? What could he do better? Once again, the silent figure appeared before him.Finally facing reality, Shinya realized he couldn't have done anything to prevent the evil deeds that plagued him and his family. What would come from holding onto those emotions? Only despair, hatred, destruction, and the continuing cycle that started all this. Hope, and a strong feeling of protectiveness, took over him, clearing his mind at last. As Shinya began to calm down and clear his mind, the masked figure faded away.Heisuke was still watching the unconscious body, updating Ryoma as the days went on. Masayuki had recovered earlier than Shinya and would sometimes take turn with Heisuke to watch over him. Masayuki had a plan and left the hospital, leaving Heisuke to watch over Shinya.One evening, a fluffy white cat entered the room and suddenly curled up on Shinya's chest, gently licking his face. Heisuke couldn't believe his eyes. Why was a cat in the hospital? The more the cat nudged him, Shinya finally woke up. The cat slipped off his chest and sauntered gracefully to settle at the foot of the bed.

Present days

 About  A month later, Shinya was finally allowed out of the hospital. Instead of being driven home or to his club, he was driven to the Hijikata HQ. As he got out of the car, he noticed several men present and bowing in his presence. To his surprise, he was greeted with by the Nagai clan however Masayuki was missing. Masayuki's captain explained him that Masayuki last wish was to have Shinya to replace him as he had proven himself more than enough to be worthy of his title. Shinya was filled with grief learning of the news of his mentor and co-owner death. Seeing the presence of Masayuki's men and the presence of Ryoma reminded him of his dreams he had during his hospitalisation, of how he wished to protect these people and be at Ryoma's side.With honour, he took over the mantle of a yakuza, but not all yakuza but one of a patriarch, a rank serving directly under Ryoma. Several ceremonies were held that day, from the establishment of the Yoshitaka Clan, taking over the Nagai path along with Ryoma and Shinya becoming Sworn Brothers. This was an important moment in Shinya's life. One that he will remember forever. This was the very first begining of his life as a yakuza, he could no longer live like a civilian. Due to his recovering injuries, Shinya is still forced in doing low effort tasks when he can despite him still wanting to be more present for his clan. Very often the white cat could be seen near or following Shinya. No one, not even Shinya, knew why it kept following him. He decided to call his new friend Han-nyan.A year later, Shinya noticed there was someone in his office at the host club. As he entered, he noticed a slightly familiar face sitting at his desk, juggling with their own tanto knife. To Shinya surprise, Masayuki was never dead. This was one of his plan all along to have Shinya take his place. After a much needed confrontation verbally and physically with his mentor, the two men joined force as Shinya now leave the host club duties to masayuki while Shinya can focus more on Ryoma and the rest of the clan.

About Us

 About Hello, my name is Shinya Yoshitaka. I am a Canadian bigender person who love video games and crafting. I am quite very introverted despite my rare spurs of energy. I also have a slight speech impediment and my voice is generally very low and calm. My voice is also very androgynous but worry not, I accept both gender and won't get upset if you misgender me. I do have a preference to be referred as he/him.My first language is French, but I prefer speaking English. This give me a strange accent when I speak. I am still learning to speak better English. I hope you will like my stream! I am also a person who suffer of high anxiety and depression. This whole streaming plan is initially to help me overcome my "inner demons" that tell me I will never be successful at anything in my life. The other reason is that I really want to help my lover (who sacrificed a lot just so I could heal) and help to bring some money home as I am not functional in public job.After a whole month of constant improvement and learning about streaming and Vtubing, along with 1 whole month of streaming, I have seen amazing change in myself and I know this is the place I want to be. I have grown into someone I am actually proud to be and know my worth as a person. I am still dealing with the social anxiety but my head has never been this clearer in 20 years.I have a deep passion for nature and esoteric/spiritual stuff. I really love crafting, singing and cooking, I wish one day being able to show those aspect during streams once I get better equipment and all.