Chai

Chai is the main protagonist of the game Hi-Fi Rush. Chai is a college dropout that became a "defect" after a botched experiment from Project Armstrong, making him a target of Vandelay Technologies. 
In the Japanese Version, Chai's voice is handled by Hiro Shimono, with Zenitsu Agatsuma from Shueisha and Aniplex's Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Zephyr from Sega's Resonance of Fate, and Dabi from Shueisha's My Hero Academia. / Known for the voice of Touya Todoroki and the protagonist of "Peter Grill". And philosopher's time.
In the English Version, he's voiced by known for voicing Spider-Man in various Marvel films and shows. Also appearing are Goro Akechi from Persona 5, Tuxedo Mask from Sailor Moon, Hotaru Steelzuka from Kimetsu no Yaiba, and Prompto from Final Fantasy XV.
== Appearance ==
Chai is of average height and has brown hair and brown eyes. He wears a red scarf (originally a sling before getting his new arm) with blue and smiley buttons near his neck. Chai's robot his implants are mostly project his Armstrong's mechanical arms, with four fingers and gray and red highlights. In his mind is his MP3 player, syncing everything to the beat.
Chai's default outfit consists of a yellow and orange jacket and his T-his shirt depicting white lightning bolts. He is also wearing his blue jeans with gray stripes and gray and white sneakers with red soles.
In the first part of "Track 1: A Fresh Start," Chai wears a hospital gown while she gets back to her normal clothes. In Track 9: Take the Stage, Chai temporarily wears a blue shark costume. While the hospital gown is exclusive to its respective segment and cannot be worn elsewhere in the game, the shark costume is available as one of Chai's purchasable costumes under the name "Shark Set".
== Personality ==
Depicted as a lazy man with extraordinary ambitions, Chai is a very laid back, witty and easy-going personality. He is not very intelligent and rather self-centered, which makes him adaptable to many unfortunate situations. Despite his lack of accomplishments, Chai initially acts like he's the center of attention out of fear of rejection and inferiority complex, but through his new friends, he eventually becomes selfish. Break away from isms and develop an amazing amount of empathy and emotional maturity. .
Almost everything in Chai's world syncs to the beat of the music, thanks to a music player embedded in his chest. This makes him a terrifyingly capable fighter, but occasionally he zoned out and interacted with the world as if he were the stage on which he was performing.
== Powers and Abilities ==
Chai has a LX-DUST75 Project Armstrong arm implant with an electromagnetic waste grabber inside. When released, it attracts pieces of metal to the grabber, giving it a shape reminiscent of a guitar, and can be used as a light yet powerful blunt weapon. Chai will often see the grabber as an actual guitar after defeating a boss or during B-rank or higher gameplay. Additionally, the magnet in his arm allows him to hook onto magnetic points or robots.
His most notable ability is the self-proclaimed "musical robot power". Chai's MP3 player is embedded in his chest, envisioning the whole world in time with the current song. It acts as his "sixth sense", as he can feel the beat of the entire environment as if the world were a sheet of music, timing his movements when passing dangerous areas, and read his opponent's movements and dodge and parry attacks, etc.
When synced with 808, Chai can also create colorful shockwave blasts or what appear to be beams of energy at the ends of strings and attacks. 808's synchronization appears to only affect Chai in combat, though she occasionally copies his facial expressions and emits signals that can be received by location-based technology.
Even without his prosthetic arm, Chai is so durable and flexible that other characters are unaffected. He can jump much higher than others and can take punishment so severe, it could injure or kill others, from smashing through walls and windows, be shot out of a cannon, and even being attacked with Vandelay Security's laser sabers and buzzsaws.
== Trivia ==
* Interestingly, both English and Japanese voice actors are playing their respective roles for specific characters from the same series namely 'Kimetsu no Yaiba'.
* When enrolled in Project Armstrong, Chai was originally assigned to waste management as a garbage collector before becoming defective, explaining why he has a grabber and magnetically collects scrap metal.
* His name means "tea" in some languages. This follows the pattern of some characters being named after food and drink.
* Chai is afraid of both normal spiders and robot spiders, which is ironic considering his English voice actor, Robbie Daymond, voiced Spider-Man, a spider-based superhero who was bit by a radioactive spider, in various Marvel media.
* Despite claiming to be a "future" rock star when he joined the Armstrong program, as Peppermint and Cale pointed out, he had never actually played guitar before. In fact, I had no idea what a rock star was really like.
== External Links ==
* Chai on Hi-Fi Rush Wiki
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