Yosuke Fujiwara - the face man and team leader
The hub around which the team rotates, Yosuke is a planner, a thinker, and a doer. The escape was his planning, and he fills in all the gaps left in the skill set of the team, whether through his own sizable knowledge base or using his extremely expensive skillwire system. He balances the conflicting personalities of Toshiro the samurai and Masaaki the ninja, and ensures that the magician, Kimura's eccentricities don't cause too much of a problem, thereby maintaining the team working as a well-oiled machine, rather than an argumentative collection of incompatible individuals. At the beginning of the Mob War he stashed 20,000Y in a Swiss bank account in case something should go wrong - and it did. He sports a tattoo of a Buddhist temple in its gardens, with streams and shrubs and clouds and a mountain in the background on his back, front and upper arms and legs. His favourite weapons were a pair of machine pistols, and he likes to play with a Rubik's cube. It helps him concentrate.
Toshiro Uchino - samurai
Tatase Goku's personal bodyguard up until he joined the team, Toshiro is a large, muscular man, who places a lot of importance on the value of honour. To him, to be dishonourable is worse than death - it brings dishonour on yourself, your entire family, and your organisation. This way of thinking sometimes brings him into conflict with Masaaki Ishida, the team's ninja, who has a more pragmatic outlook. Nevertheless, Toshiro is extremely dependable and loyal to the team and to those to whom he feels he owes his loyalty - naturally, this no longer includes Tatase. Toshiro feels personally insulted and hurt by Tatase's betrayal. His brother, Hiro, who Toshiro had raised from childhood and trained in the way of the samurai, is now Tatase's bodyguard. Toshiro has an extensive tattoo of dragons fighting, with fire, claws and destruction on his back, front and upper arms and legs. His favourite weapon is his family katana - now in the posession of Tatase, another fact which burns in Toshiro's mind. He is also adept with a sub-machine gun, of course.
Masaaki Ishida - ninja
The path of shadows is the one walked by Masaaki. Raised as an orphan by a secretive ninja clan, he was turned over to the Yakuza as a debt repayment in his mid-teens. He is exceedingly practical and pragmatic, not wasting time with considerations such as honour or fair play - his sights are set on the end, and the means are irrelevant. He is exceedingly patient, as all good assassins are, willing to sit motionless indefinitely whilst the rest of the team hashes out plans that involve dishonouring their enemies and embarassing them - he doesn't care for these meaninglesses, he is purely a thief and an assassin - although he realises that these things are important to Tatase, which might prove to be his former master's downfall. He wears his hair close-cropped, and his front, back and upper arms and legs are covered by a tattoo of a nest of snakes of various varieties. His weapon of choice is the ancient ninjan-to, with a dagger in the hilt. He practises oragami in his spare time, and his magical abilities have infused his works with an almost-tangible emotional intensity which causes wonder and awe in the few knowledgable in the ways of art who have seen them. Of course, because few may know Masaaki exists, his paper creations remain hidden from the galleries and museums who would be very interested in such things.
Kimura Takashi - magician
A follower of the wujen style of magic, the Asian magic powered by the balance of the forces of nature, the eccentric Kimura devotes his life to the perfect equilibrium of Yin and Yang. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. He learns equal amounts of beneficial and harmful spells, acts in alternately pleasant and unpleasant manners, and attempts to balance each death he causes by planting and maintaining a bonsai tree every time. His front, back and upper and lower arms are tattooed with scenes of lightning storms - rain, clouds, forks of brilliance, and electrical elementals dance about his form. His favoured weapons are a pair of Ares Predator automatic pistols - a chrome one loaded with gel rounds, and a black one loaded with EX explosive ammunition. Tatase's action has caused the team a lot of trouble, and a year in prison. Now, here comes the reaction.