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"What are you looking for a fight!?"
―Enoki about to fight Ryo. — Listen (file info)[src]

Akio Enoki (榎 彰男 Enoki Akio) is a delinquent who is often seen hanging around Dobuita, Yokosuka with Tetsuya Nagashima.

Biography[]

Enoki leads a gang of similar high school truants and tries to provoke Ryo Hazuki into a fight whenever he sees him, although he has never managed to beat him. Despite his nature, he has a soft spot for animals and goes to the Yamanose Shrine around midnight to feed the orphaned kitten. He always walks around with a twig in his mouth. In Shenmue the Animation, it is revealed that he loves ice cream.

Extra / Alternate Scenes[]

  • After the day of the Heartbeats Bar event on a clear day a extra free battle can occur with Enoki and Nagashima at Sakuragaoka Park. This can only be done if the QTE battle with them is done. Nozomi Harasaki tries to stop Enoki and Nagashima from beating up a kid for throwing a toy plane at Enoki's face. They start to sexually harass Nozomi until Ryo comes in to stop them.
  • Another free battle can occur only if the QTE battle and the previous free battle are done. At night (around 7:30 pm) when Ryo walks into one of the gang's hideouts, they ambush him and fight. After Ryo beats them up he tells Enoki to never come near him again.

Shenmue the Animation[]

Enoki loves ice cream and is sad

Enoki crying about his ice cream getting ruined.

Enoki and Nagashima appear in Shenmue the Animation Episode 1. They threaten a little boy due to him ruining Enoki's ice cream, because Enoki loves ice cream. Nozomi intervenes, and they violently push her, in which Ryo steps in and effortlessly defeats both Enoki and Nagashima.

This scene is very similar to the determinant scene in the game, where Enoki and Nagashima threaten a little boy due to him throwing a toy plane on Enoki's face. In the game, they don't actually hurt Nozomi, and Enoki was about to hit her, until Ryo intervenes. In the anime, the scene takes place before Iwao Hazuki gets murdered, like in Shenmue: The Movie, but in the game, it can be triggered on a day after the fight at Heartbeats bar on a clear day, but only if the QTE battle with them is done first.

Etymology[]

  • The name Akio means "patent, clear" (彰) (aki) and "male, man" (男) (o).
  • Akio's surname Enoki means "lotus tree, nettle tree, hackberry" (榎).

Trivia[]

  • In Shenmue II, a Yellow Head member Mengxia Zhang uses Enoki's fighting style. The name of the fighting style in the game's files is actually 'EN_ENOKI' which is also the same name of Enoki's fighting style in the Shenmue files.
  • Enoki's zodiac sign is Cancer and he has a A blood type.
  • There's a secret scene where Nozomi can actually help Ryo fight Enoki and Nagashima at Sakuragaoka Park. For this to trigger, Ryo must increase the kitten's affinity score above 500, which can be done by feeding her 5 sliced fish. Then after triggering the scene at Sakuragaoka Park, rapidly press Y Y B X A A A (△ △ 〇 ▢ ✕ ✕ ✕ for PS4) in sequence. The timing for pressing this is during the first 8 or so seconds after the cutscene has started, showing Ryo walking along the road in Sakuragaoka towards the park, up until just before Nagashima appears. [1]

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