Captain Onishima

**Captain Onishima** is the Police Captain of Tokyo-to and the main villain of the first chapter of Jet Set Radio. He does not appear in the game after the first chapter. When the Golden Rhinos show up, DJ Professor K specifically says in a cutscene that the police force was too scared to take on the Golden Rhinos and this is may be the reason.

## Appearance

Onishima is a middle-aged man, wearing a beige detective coat over a white shirt with a crumpled red tie. His pants are brown and he typically carries an oversized revolver. Like the rest of him, Onishima's hair looks unkempt and greasy. Ironically, his hairstyle is usually associated with delinquents in Japan.

His appearence is a little different in the official artworks. He is seen wearing a grey shirt with a blue tie and his pants are either black or blue. One of the artworks also has a different tie design with text.

Onishima textures. The unused angry expression can also be seen.Artwork that features a different tie design.Artwork featuring a different color pallet,and strangely, cartoonish sharp teeth.
## Personality

Onishima is shown to be exceptionally short-tempered and slightly maniacal, sending whole armed platoons after the GG's or other gangs, ranging from officers, to police dogs, to helicopters armed with missiles, to SWAT, to parachutists with machine guns. He himself uses a large revolver to take out gang members. According to the *Jet Grind Radio* manual, he hates young people, and that may be the case because of some past trauma.

## Trivia

* Captain Onishima does not have an walking animation, as can be seen in the Benten Boogie level.
* Captain Onishima appears as a playable character in the mobile game, *SEGA Heroes.*
* According to the *Jet Grind Radio* manual, his catchphrase is "I'm the judge and the jury and i'm gonna send you down the river".
* According to the *Jet Grind Radio* manual, Onishima has "obviously been watching too many 70's police shows".This line can't be found in the Japanese description, and instead says that he has a habit of saying things he heard somewhere.
* His character description, that can be found on the Japanese Jet Set Radio website, says that he claims to be able to survive for a week only on cigarettes and alcohol.
* Back in the day, IGN created a guide for Jet Grind Radio that featured some bizarre creative liberties regarding character descriptions. Onishima's description reads: "This guy is the classical bad Dirty Harry come Violent Cop. Captain Onishima is a corporate hired law enforcement official who is being paid an enormous fee to clean up the streets of Tokyo. Captain Onishima is an old traditional Japanese style man and has zero tolerance for western influenced graffiti crime invading his ichiban Tokyo. The Rokkaku Corporation picked Captain Onishima for the job because of his strict unconventional off the record lock em' up style of policing."

## Gallery

Concept art from the Jet Set Radio Documentary: The Rude AwakeningOnishima as he appears in SEGA Heroes.
## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 https://segaretro.org/index.php?title=File:Jet\_Grind\_Radio\_DC\_US\_Manual.pdf&page=7
2. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20010430045548/http://jet.dricas.ne.jp/oni.htm
3. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20051230094444/http://guidesarchive.ign.com/guides/13512/characters.html