Okay tbh I’m not super familiar with the Yakuza, so if anything is inaccurate or comes across superficial I apologize!
– Furuta is still playing the Yakuza, just like he’s played everyone else.
– Kaneki is an ex-member who starts his own yakuza-like organization to fight back against some of the more seedy undertones, like human trafficking (Rize, Arima, and many of the Garden kids probably fit into this category).
– Gradually, Touka, a yakuza who is also member of the burakumin, convinces Kaneki he should also advocate against the discrimination groups like the burakumin receive. Kaneki’s goal becomes to reinvent the yakuza as the honorable and helpful organization he believes they can be.
– Ayato definitely used to be in the most violent branch, led by Eto, but is now in Kaneki’s branch.
– Uta and the clowns kinda stick on the periphery of the criminal underworld. They’re not members of the Yakuza, but they usually interact with their members.
– During Furuta’s gang war against Kaneki’s branch, the Oggai are just neighborhood kids Furuta groomed. 😦
– The Tsukiyama family definitely funds much of the Yakuza activities. However, Mirumo also made his fortune off these activities in the past.
Mercy and Magic 