#but then what happens to masato ? ikumi and jo were already running back to get him

[todayisafridaynight]

if i start to wonder what would've happened if arakawa did take The Right Baby and ikumi got back masato then no im not dont look at me

[todayisafridaynight]

So, just for everyone so we can get this whole thing over and done with. Arakawa and Jo stuffed their babies in lockers (both for different reasons). Arakawa felt bad so he went back to save Ichi, but since the planets aligned and there were two babies in different lockers he rescues Aoki. Then jiro kasuga comes to actually get baby Ichi because the handout (which I’m assuming means pay off the Yakuza that we’re after Ichi’s mom) goes to shit so rescues Ichi and then Kasuga dies when Ichiban’s 15 and then he goes to live at a whore house.

we're gonna run this back one more time from the very beginning if you're still confused come quiz day i'm failing you and kicking you out of the classroom and im forcing you to read the entire yakuza wiki before you're allowed to write another ask

Masumi Arakawa was expected to date the daughter of the Hikawa clan. However, he was already seeing his girlfriend, Akane, on the side. Eventually, Akane became pregnant, and after Arakawa tells his patriarch about the situation, the two become prime targets of the Hikawa clan.

Just a bit after midnight on New Year's Day, Akane gives birth to Ichiban at the hospital and contacts Arakawa via payphone. Because the two had plotted to meet at Cafe Alps to skip town beforehand, Arakawa was already at the cafe and thus took the call. Over the phone, Arakawa instructs Akane to place their baby in a coin locker at the train station once Akane lets him know the Hikawa are following close behind her. Akane urges Arakawa to take care of their baby, implying she was aware that would be the last time they spoke to each other.

Some time beforehand on the night of New Year's Eve, Jo Sawashiro and his girlfriend at the time, Ikumi, similarly produced a child. Because of their unstable situation as two teenagers barely getting by with just the two of them, Sawashiro takes their child and locks him away in a coin locker, doing so being a common practice in Japan during the 1970-80's.

Back to Arakawa, Arakawa wasn't able to immediately go to the coin lockers due to being cornered by the Hikawa family at the cafe, forcing him to endure a fight with them before reaching the station. Not thinking there would be multiple babies in lockers that night, Arakawa seizes the first locker he hears emit crying- this locker being the locker Sawashiro used, and thus letting Arakawa take Masato to the hospital while Ichiban was left behind.

After Arakawa absconded from the scene, Jiro Kasuga- an ex-coworker of Akane- arrived to the lockers once it was apparent the trade off didn't go as planned. With Arakawa long gone and no one else left to take care of the remaining baby, Jiro adopted Ichiban as his own and raised him in Shangri-La alongside his workers.

Arakawa, unable to reconnect with Akane, assumes she was killed by the Hikawa family, the family infamous for making people disappear without a trace. What exactly happened to her is unknown (as of right now), but it wouldn't be until decades later it's revealed she survived the ordeal. The Hikawa family were unable to find neither Masato or Ichiban that night before Arakawa and Jiro reached their respective children.

Five years later, Sawashiro would encounter Masato and Arakawa, at this time learning that Arakawa had become the patriarch of his own family. Upon seeing Masato's severe health condition, Sawashiro would decide to devote the rest of his life to Masato and to the man who raised him, swearing up to Arakawa and joining the Arakawa family.

Jiro would pass away once Ichiban was 15, leaving Ichiban a drifter. It wouldn't be long after Jiro's passing that Ichiban would cross paths with Arakawa. 100 days after their initial meeting, Ichiban would be allowed to join the Arakawa family.

Arakawa never knew Ichiban was his son, and Ichiban only found out Arakawa was his father after his murder. In LAD8, Ichiban's newest adventure revolves around him venturing to Hawaii to reconnect with his mother, Akane, and to give her Arakawa's ashes in the form of a necklace. Masato never knew Sawashiro was his father, nor did he know Ikumi was his mother.