Kenji Yagami

**Kenji Yagami** (八神ケンジ) is one of the main characters of Need For Speed: Hot Import Nights, and one the main and playable characters in Career Mode: The Yagami Campaign along with Subaru Yagami. He's heroic counterpart of Kenji from Need For Speed: Carbon with different personalities, and he's a great street racer unlike the original, but proves more experienced in drifting and driving than his Carbon counterpart of Kenji. He's also a supporting protagonist in the Hot Import Nights saga who aids Ruka.

## Character Info

### Appearance

Appearance: Unlike the original, Kenji is a different character design than the NFS Carbon counterpart, being 23 years old, with short dark green hair, and the same color as his eyes. He always wears an outfit that is a different design than Kenji's consisting of a white long-sleeved collar shirt, a pale gray jacket with green sleeve cuffs, and while unbuttoned shows off his dark green sweater with the "神" symbol on it, indigo long pants with a brown belt and a pair of brown rubber shoes.

### Personality

Unlike his NFS Carbon counterpart, Kenji is incredibly flippant, casually mouthing off to even the most powerful racers like Caleb and Darius, and he generally enjoys showing off and taunting his opponent racers as often as he can before start the race. Kenji also displays a fearless, almost disinterested attitude towards incredibly dangerous situations even racing.

## Car

Kenji Yagami only drives a modified green Nissan GT-R Nismo R35 with the same Bushido livery designs like the RX-7 with addition of "Kami" kanji on the left side of the hood, a 8-speed manual transmission (unlike Ruka which he's experiences in automatic transmission cars, Kenji however, is more experienced in manual transmission which involves shifting), a direct port nitrous oxide, a enhanced ECU system, a standard turbocharger, and it has a enhanced ABS and the emergency brake systems. In the game and at higher levels of Extreme PLUS, the GT-R Nismo not only greatly increases its acceleration and top speed rating which is to be par with other tier 3 cars, but also enhances the handling rate which is more responsive that the stock GT-R Nismo and It is capable of performing a safety drift physics, even during nitrous or Giganitro (aka, "Kansei Drift"). Also at maximum level of Extreme PLUS, it capable of using a unique Giganitro however, unlike most Extreme PLUS cars with Giganitros which is similar scene seen in the intro movie of Need For Speed 2, with the Extreme PLUS GT-R Nismo's Giganitro is activated and instead of similar scene of NFS2's intro, the GT-R Nismo turns invisible and disappear in the dust, then dashes forward in extreme speeds with only dashing dust effects shown, which allows it to pass through multiple cars, including traffic which can be overtaken without being collided with another vehicle before Giganitro ends and reappears.

The GT-R Nismo's horsepower is now 1250 and the top speed up to nearly 422 KPH (262 MPH), while it goes Giganitros up to almost 510 KPH (316 MPH), it is capable to overtake most opponent vehicles, even match with Ruka's Extreme Plus Porsche Carrera GT in terms of acceleration and top speed, but Kenji must engage the enhanced Braking system, allowing him to safely slowing his vehicle down as he enters a corner or stops almost instant as an emergency brake.

## Trivial

* Kenji Yagami is one of the playable drivers in Need For Speed: Hot Import Nights, not unlike how Need for Speed: Payback had three playable characters.
* Kenji Yagami is an original character in Need For Speed: Hot Import Nights, instead of being a direct NFS Carbon counterpart.
* Kenji's personality is based on Dante's from Devil May Cry.
* His voice actors include:
	+ Matthew Mercer (English)
	+ Yūichi Nakamura (Japanese)