

One of his minions praises him and states that he is "the Dragon of Kansai". Ryuji is first introduced when Kiryu is sitting in the cabaret club The Grand in Sotenbori. When Daigo had arrived Ryuji had cops in the area they were supposed to meet, thus resulting in Daigo going to jail for five years. Kiryu is told by Daigo Dojima that Ryuji once invited him to come to the Kansai region to fight with him. Coincidentally, Ryuji Goda bumps into Kiryu, before noting the city of Kamurocho before him. After meeting said fortune teller, who told him various foreshadowing about the future events from having to take the blame for a serious crime and going to prison for a friend of his, to eventually meeting up with a tall, blond haired man after the whole fortune telling. In this substory, Kiryu Kazuma meets a fortune teller after hearing gossip from two other women. After a battle with the Bontan Hunter, two young boys explain to Majima about how Ryuji is still in Elementary, and even talk about how his father was a big shot Yakuza (his father is actually Jin Goda, chairman of the Omi Alliance), and how he was shunned at school for it. Majima refuses, to which the Bontan Hunter decides to use force and claims that "Peelin' is better than Stealin'".

Later on, Majima then meets a massive blond haired boy who threatens to take his pants. In this substory, Goro Majima first meets a young student who lacks pants (or Bontan), and after beating them up, they explain that a "Bontan Hunter" nabbed his bontan after getting beaten up. Surprisingly, he's 12 here and still retains his massive build. Ryuji Goda chronologically first appears in Yakuza 0 in two different substories.
