Yakuza and the Like a Dragon series has, for the most part, always been incredibly welcoming and inclusive, featuring loads of side quests with positive views on a range of sexualities and backgrounds. Longtime series protagonist Kazuma Kiryu is considered a staunch ally, always keen to lift up the marginalized and downtrodden, but we've yet to get any LGBTQ+ representation of note when it comes to protagonists.

So far, the only two characters we have with even the slightest inkling of being LGBTQ+ are Jun Oda and Yoshitaka Mine, both of whom never really express their true feelings towards their bosses, Tetsu Tachibana and Daigo Dojima, in any meaningful way. That might be set to change with Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth though, which seems to have confirmed that Geomijul leader and new party member Seonhee is either bisexual or lesbian.

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A new scene from Infinite Wealth was spotted by Twitter user TheBasedJ in a recent video by Noisy Pixel, which fans think confirms Seonhee's sexuality outright. In the scene, Seonhee seems to be chastising Nanba and Kiryu for not knowing that "women look at other women too" and that she herself would be "there in a heartbeat".

While not an outright confirmation, as the series does like to tiptoe around the topic on occasion, this single sentence is enough to convince fans that developer Ryu Ga Gotoku Studios has made Seonhee the first protagonist in the series to be part of the LGBTQ+ community. That would be pretty huge when it comes to the future diversity of the Like a Dragon games, especially with a character as popular as Seonhee is.

It is about time we get an LGBTQ+ protagonist in the Yakuza games. - Twitter user Jack840A

Of course, there's always the possibility that fans could be misinterpreting the whole situation, with Seonhee simply putting herself in the shoes of another person who actually is either bisexual or lesbian. We don't see the overall context of the scene, which is definitely the main sticking point here, and it only lasts for a few seconds.

Hopefully, we'll get proper confirmation when Infinite Wealth actually launches, and we can actually interact with Seonhee in the game. We don't have too much longer to wait either, as Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth is set to release a little under a month from now, hitting store shelves on January 26.

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