Captain Hayashi

Hayashi is the commander of the Rokakku Police Force, Division 0. He chases after the GG's and other Rudies throughout the majority of *Jet Set Radio Future*, to either neutralize them with his gun or apprehend them with the help of the Rokkaku Police often accompanying him.

## Appearance

Hayashi has white hair, white gloves, and a dark blue coat with a high collar, and is often carrying a gun, a cartoonised Walther P1.

## History

Hayashi is encountered numerous times throughout the game in different locations to challenge you.

#### Chapter 1, Shibuya Terminal

Once you have covered Poison Jam's graffiti in Shibuya Terminal and unlocked Combo, Hayashi shows up with a squad of police. This is the first time you fight him.

#### Chapter 2, Chuo Street

After you deal with the tanks in Chuo Street, Hayashi will challenge you to a battle on a rooftop, by himself. This battle is unique as you can defeat him simply by knocking him off the roof instead of the regular dash and spray technique.

#### Chapter 2, Rokakku-Dai Heights

Near the end of the level, where you spray the final few graffiti, Hayashi will show up with some armored troops which require a Boost Dash to knock down.

#### Chapter 2, 99th Street

After spraying all of the graffiti and fighting the Rokkaku Police twice, Hayashi is waiting for you by himself when you go back up the dragon onto the main road.

#### Chapter 4, Hikage Street

This battle is very different from the others. When you enter one of the areas in the level, you will find Hayashi controlling a gigantic machine, the Terror Drone, amidst one of the giant staircases. You defeat him by grinding on the machine's legs and spraying it.

#### Chapter 4, the Skyscraper District and Pharaoh Park

After defeating the cops in this area, Hayashi will pop in and try to shoot you, showing the onset of his mental slippage from lack of sleep and his anger against the player.

#### Chapter 5, Future Site of Rokkaku Expo Stadium

This is the last time you will battle Hayashi. He raids the stadium before you can win your last game of Death Ball against the Love Shockers, and returns with the Terror Drone once again, but he attacks differently here. However, your strategy is still the game. There are shockwaves the Terror Drone creates that you have to jump over, and then grind on the legs and spray just like before.

In Chapter 7, after his last defeat at the Site, Hayashi is fired from the Rokkaku Police Force, for his inability to stop the GG's 6 times in a row (twice of which, with the giant Terror Drone) and gets replaced by The Golden Rhinos along with the rest of Rokkaku Police. This pushes him to go even more unstable, 'He's gotta be freaking out by now.' as DJ Professor K puts it in his broadcast.

## Personality

Hayashi could be considered insane, as he often laughs manically, or uses untested experimental weapons which could go horribly wrong.

As explained at the beginning of Chapter 2, he is angered easily and doesn't seem to get enough sleep. In DJ Professor K's second broadcast, he mentions how Hayashi once trashed a patrol car because one of his lackeys brought him coffee-flavoured candy instead of his favourite mint flavour.

The English Manual of JSRF describes him as "A psycho inspector of Rokkaku Police Division 0. Nothing good happens when you get involved with him.".

## Other Characters' Thoughts on Hayashi

While he always tries to stop the GG's and works for Gouji Rokkaku, Hayashi doesn't have a direct personal comment with anyone. There are however many times other characters talk about him:

* At the beginning of Chapter 2, DJ Professor K describes him as "Rokakku's own version of hell on earth.".
* If you talk to Yoyo early in the game, he will say: "That guy is one messed up dude. He's a complete psycho. Watch out for him.".
* In Chapter 4, if you talk to Rhyth, she will say: "Is it just me, or does Captain Hayashi not look like he eats his breakfast?" and considering the dialogue in Rokkaku-dai Heights just before this, she is very right.
* In the Special DJ Professor K Interview of the Play magazine, DJ Professor K says he believes Hayashi has several severe disorders and probably was dropped many times on the head both as a baby and an adult.

## Trivia

* He is one of the only characters to have a Japanese voice and get dubbed in the English version, besides the Police and Gouji Rokkaku.
* At one point during the game's development, Hayashi was meant to also use a samurai sword. It can still be found in the game files and was only seen in one trailer.
* Mf is left-handed damn
* In the December 4, 2001 build of JSRF, Hayashi has different textures with lighter colors and a different expression. The expression cannot be seen in-game though, since his head is missing in most of the cutscenes.
* Like other Rokakku Police enemies, you can push Hayashi into the electric fence, but it serves no practical purpose(aside from being funny), since not only you need to hit him twice with a specific rhythm, but he also takes no damage from this.

## Gallery

Hayashi's texturesTextures used for Hayashi in the December 4, 2001 build of JSRF.Hayashi's sword from the trailers which went unused in the final game.Ripped Hayashi's sword model.(Picture from JSRF Inside blog)Hayashi's character icon in JSRFHayashi's character icon in the December 4, 2001 build of JSRF

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 https://archive.org/details/xboxmanual\_Jet\_Set\_Radio\_Future/page/n3/mode/2up
2. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walther\_P38#P1
3. ↑ https://youtu.be/ZId5O3dbYJw?t=13443
4. ↑ https://segaretro.org/index.php?title=File:Play\_US\_006.pdf&page=67
5. ↑ https://youtube.com/watch?v=ipAS7CFZ0SE&feature=youtu.be
6. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6OcQvbxgQM