Poison Jam

Poison Jam
Gender	Male
Debut	The Monster of Kogane

Poison Jam (ポイズンジャム, Poizun Jamu^?) is a rival gang in Jet Set Radio. They are horror movie fanatics who rival the GG's, along with two other gangs. Their home turf is Kogane-cho.

Overview

Appearance

Poison Jam's outfits in Jet Set Radio mimic a Godzilla-style reptilian creature, with its head serving as a mask which covers the head and face, using the mouth as an opening, and appear to be numbered. They further add to their monster theme with scaled gloves fashioned to look like claws. They wear grey coveralls with one strap, and have the legs cut off just below the knee, under which they sport a black t-shirt with the kanji 毒 on the shoulder.

Personality

Poison Jam seemingly likes to play pranks on their rivals as they left a bunch of frogs in the GG's garage when they tagged the Noise Tanks home turf first. They are also fans of slasher flicks. After the GG's tag Kogane-cho, they become pissed and seek out revenge. However, despite all of this, Poison Jam will also provide to be useful as they relay information towards the GG's about the Devil's Contract and the mystery behind it. The Jet Grind Radio manual calls them "a twisted bunch of perverts with crazy masks." The Japanese website for Jet Set Radio notes them as being "stupid", while the Sybex guidebook describes the gang as "rough-and-tumble".

Role in Jet Set Radio

In Jet Set Radio, Poison Jam runs the Kogane-cho district, spray painting their terrorizing graffiti. The GG's rush in to take the territory. However if the GG's go after Benten-cho first, Poison Jam will fill the GG's headquarters with frogs. The frogs eventually leave on their own as the story progresses. After the No. 540 mission, Poison Jam seeks out revenge against the GG's and tries to claim their turf back via a Tagger's Tag mission, only to fail doing so. After losing the battle, Poison Jam gets kidnapped by black limousine. They are not heard from again until near the end of the game, where their masks are gone, and they are under mind control of the Golden Rhinos. After losing another Tagger's Tag match, they tell the GG's Goji's plan. They are mentioned once more in the epilogue as being back on the streets in full health.

Graffiti

Jet Set Radio

POISON JAM - Land of Monsters (No. 31)

POISON JAM - Rip You to Shreds (No. 65)

POISON JAM - Jam to the Venom (No. 99)

Poison Jam's graffiti in Jet Set Radio.

Unlocking

Successfully complete all Kogane-cho levels with a "Jet" rank to unlock Poison Jam. To play as their maskless counterpart, press the X/Square button to do so.

Stats

Poison Jam's maximum health, cans held, and starting graffiti challenge.

Style	Technique
Power	High
Technique	Low to Mid
Graffiti	Low to Mid
Spray Cans	20
Graffiti Command	Beat Type

• Stats are referred by their descriptions in the Sybex guidebook.
• An underline notes the character's highest skill(s).
• Poison Jam's graffiti challenge begins with down, making him a "Beat Type" character. He can hold 20 spray cans.
• He does the Frontside, Makio and X grinds. His backwards grinds are the Ally-oop Makio and Ally-oop Soul.
• His air tricks are the Backflip and 720. His halfpipe air tricks are the Misty Flip and Judo 180. His backwards air tricks are the Judo Backflip and Abstract 360. His backwards halfpipe air tricks are the Stalefish 180 and 540.

Official profiles

Jet Set Radio website

• A team of horror enthusiasts whose trademarks are half-fish masks. They plan to fill Tokyo with fear. However, they are not very smart, due to their stupidity, they kidnapped a beautiful woman only to find out she was a mannequin, combined with their appearance, it turns into a comedy (of course they are unaware of it). They can communicate with cats, crows, and other stray animals, or can't they?

Jet Grind Radio manual

• These weirdos with horror masks hang out in Kogane-cho. Their trademark is the fishy masks that they wear. They're looking to bury Tokyo-to in fear. They're not the most intelligent of guys. The pretty girl they kidnapped turned out to be a mannequin. Apparently, they can speak to cats and crows.

Jet Grind Radio IGN Guide

• The Poison Jams rule Kogane-Cho the city of the sunset. No one has ever seen the true identity of the Poison Mask gang members. The Poison Masks are the most feared gang in to Tokyo due to their frightening facemasks that are designed to conceal their identity and intimidate the other gang members. They took the idea of the monster masks from cult 1960's Japanese devil monster flicks.

• To unlock and play as this Poison Jam character you must get Jet Ranking on every single Kogane-Cho Level in the game. The maximum number of cans this cat can carry is 20. The Poison Jam is a strong character with medium graffiti skills.

Jet Grind Radio: Sybex's Official Strategies & Secrets

• The rough-and-tumble members of Poison Jam are always masked to hide their identities. Who are they and what's their connection to the Rokkaku group? No one knows, but maybe you'll be able to find out.

Gallery

For this character's full image gallery, see Poison Jam/Gallery.

Poison Jam's logo.

Alternate logo.

Poison Jam 1's (Bu) textures.

Poison Jam 2's (Fu) textures.

Poison Jam 3's (Wu) textures.

Expressions for Poison Jam.

PJ-X's face.

PJ-X's expressions.

Poison Jam on a promotional image.

Poison Jam in the intro of the No. 540 mission.

Poison Jam in the intro of the Kogane Circus mission

An unmasked member of Poison Jam in the intro of Behind the Mask.

Poison Jam with a Noise Tank and a Love Shocker in the second-to-last cutscene of the game.

Concept art of Poison Jam from the Jet Set Radio Documentary: The Rude Awakening.

Ranking art icon.

Japanese version of game score textures, featuring a name and logo for unmasked Poison Jam.

Concept art from The Visionary Mind Behind Jet Set Radio.

Trivia

• The three members of Poison Jam are named "Bu", "Wu", and "Fu". This information was only revealed on the Japanese JSR website on the page detailing about past events held for the game.
• The song, "Super Brothers" by Guitar Vader, is the main theme of Poison Jam in Jet Set Radio.
• During the development of Jet Set Radio, Guitar Vader drummer, Suzuki Yoshifumi, came up with a conceptual theme song for Poison Jam called "Ferry Men". In the end, the development team turned it down in favor of "Super Brothers" instead.
• The Jet Grind Radio manual matter-of-factly states they can talk to cats and crows. While the Japanese JSR site questions if they can talk to cats, crows and other stray animals at all.
• Japanese version of game score textures, reveals that unmasked Poison Jam has a name, that being PJ-X. This was removed in the localized releases for unknown reasons.
• In the Game Boy Advance version of Jet Set Radio, Poison Jam is accidentally referred to as "Monster Jam" in some cutscenes.

Credits

• Character model reference sheet created by Wint.

Navigation

Jet Set Radio Characters
Main Beat • Combo • Corn • Cube • Garam • Gum • Mew • Piranha • Pots • Slate • Yo-Yo Gangs Golden Rhinos • Love Shockers • Noise Tanks • Poison Jam • The GG's Other Captain Onishima • Coin • DJ Professor K • Goji Rokkaku • Goji's son • Mister Osaki • Pink no Shijin • Police