Piranha (Sugar)

General

Gallery

JSR Audio

Piranha (Sugar)
(Warning! The provided artwork is an edit. It will be replaced when the official high quality artwork will be released.)
Gender	Female
Age	21 years
Height	166 cm (5 ft 5.35 in)
Trait	Reckless
Likes	Spicy Food
Debut	Shibuya-cho after the Explosion mission.
Appearances	Sega Superstars Tennis (Cameo) Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed (Cameo)

Piranha, (ピラニア, Pirania^?) or Sugar (シュガー, Shugā^?) in Japan, is a playable character and member of the GG's in Jet Set Radio. She joins the GG's after the player copies some of her moves.

Piranha is also another Graffiti character, however, unlike Gum and Yo-Yo, her health is not one of her drawbacks as she has a decent amount compared to most characters. Additionally, her graffiti stat is also good as well. Her real handicaps are her speed, which is just okay, and her spray can limit of 15 cans. Like the aforementioned characters, she is another advanced character in the cast.

Overview

Appearance

Piranha is rather curvy. She is seen wearing a white top with short sleeves, which is very low cut to the point of being open down to below her chest, and also bares her midriff. It has two red stars across the front and a larger one on the back, centered between her shoulder blades. Completing her outfit are white tight fitting bell bottomed white pants, with more red stars at the ankles. Her shoulder-length, dark brown hair sticks out in what appear to be thick braids from behind red tinted goggles, placed above her forehead. She wears bright green gloves with dark green/gray cuffs, and her skates are two toned gray, with bright yellow frame rails, and gray wheels.

Piranha also has a face tattoo of a red katana katakana marking representing the first part of her Japanese name, Sugar (シ), under her right eye. This marking does not appear on her artwork.

Personality

Piranha is a reckless woman who likes spicy food. She also seems to come off as more athletic and energetic compared to other members of the GG's, which is show cased in her idle dance and with her attire, which is noted to be a racing suit in her profile from the Game Boy Advance version of the game. In addition to this, in the original Japanese release of Jet Set Radio, she challenges the GG's to a race. Her dialogue in the GBA version consists of energetic responses too.

Role in Jet Set Radio

Piranha's role in the plot of Jet Set Radio is minimal. She only appears as a rival at the garage after completing the Explosion mission. She challenges the GG's to copy some of her moves in Shibuya-cho. When one of them completes these challenges, she joins the gang, and becomes a playable character. In the original Japanese release of the game, Sugar challenges the GG's to a race around Shibuya-cho instead.

From this point onwards, Piranha can be seen dancing near the middle of the garage on the character select screen.

Graffiti

PIRANHA - Beware My Bite! (No. 5)

PIRANHA - Sharpest Teeth! (No. 39)

CUB WRITER - Goof-off! (No. 73)

Japanese exclusive small graffiti.

Japanese exclusive large graffiti.

Piranha's graffiti in Jet Set Radio.

Dialogue

For audio relating to Piranha/Sugar in JSR, check out Piranha/JSR Audio.

Jet Set Radio dialogue

• "Shall we rumble?"

• "Think you can copy my moves?"

• "How about this? Think you can follow me?"

• "Here's the last one! Try this!"

• "Not bad. I'll join you."

Jet Set Radio (GBA) dialogue

• "You guys need an injection of style and I'm the prescription. Let's see if you can fill the doctor's orders!"

• "Sweet moves, try grooving to this one!"

• "I think you got it baby. One more and I might be seen in public with you!"

• "Those were some smooth moves kid, can't wait to get down with you!"

Stats

Sugar's profile from the JSR Perfect Guide.

Style	Graffiti
Power	Mid to High
Technique/Speed	Mid
Graffiti	High
Spray Cans	15
Graffiti Command	Gum Type

• Stats are referred by their descriptions in the Sybex guidebook. A translation of her profile from the Perfect Guide is also provided.
• An underline notes the character's highest skill(s).
• Piranha/Sugar's graffiti challenge begins with an 180 counterclockwise then 180 clockwise, making her a "Gum Type" character. She can only hold 15 spray cans.
• She does the Frontside, Makio, and X grinds. Her backwards grinds are the Ally-oop Soul and Porn Star.
• Her air tricks are the Shifty and 1080. Her halfpipe air tricks are the Abstract 540 and Rocket 180. Her backwards air tricks are the Flying Kite and Stalefish. Her backwards halfpipe air tricks are the Rocket 180 and Backflip 180.

Official profiles

Jet Set Radio Perfect Guide

• JP: テクニックは少々低いが、ガムタイプのなかでは最高のパワーを持つ。グラフィティメインのキャラ。

• EN: Her technique stat's not that high, but she's got the most power out of all the Gum-type characters. Graffiti is her forte.

Jet Grind Radio: Sybex's Official Strategies & Secrets

• Think of Piranha as a slightly more powerful counterpart to Gum. With strong graffiti skills, you can expect her to grab a lot of points while tagging the town. Though she's not as quick as Gum, she has a little more stamina, which makes her a good choice for levels that pack more enemies.

Jet Grind Radio IGN Guide

• This honey is out to tag the town and she has the skills to rack up points doing just that. Piranha is a strong tagger and has a lot of stamina. She is good to use where there are lots of cops and rival gang members as she can take some punishment. Piranha is not very fast though. Pick up Piranha after finishing Explosion.

Jet Set Radio GBA manual

• Not just her looks are electric; her souped-up magnet skates help to grind over everything. Piranha grinds so fast, she really needs that form fitting racing suit.

Other appearances

Sega Superstars Tennis

Piranha's appearance on the JSR court.

In Sega Superstars Tennis, Piranha appears as a spectator on the Jet Set Radio court next to Tab and DJ Professor K.

Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed

Piranha's only appearance in Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed is via an unlockable sticker. It can be obtained from finishing first in a grand prix tournament on Expert difficulty.

Gallery

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

Piranha/Sugar's logo.

Piranha/Sugar's ranking art.

Piranha/Sugar's arrival at the garage.

Piranha/Sugar's location in the garage.

Piranha/Sugar's exclusive garage dance.

Piranha/Sugar's character select dance.

Piranha/Sugar's finishing pose.

Piranha/Sugar's idle dance.

Piranha/Sugar's maximum health, cans held, and starting graffiti challenge.

Piranha's textures.

Sugar's textures.

Piranha/Sugar's expressions.

Piranha and Slate's profiles from the Jet Set Radio GBA manual.

Censored art from Sega's US website.

Concept art from the Masayoshi Kikuchi and Ryuta Ueda interview by 4Gamer.net.

Trivia

• In the E3 prototype, Piranha is known as Nuts (ナッツ, Nattsu^?).
• Piranha's red tinted goggles are similar to dark adaptor goggles, used by meteorologists to adapt the eyes to darkness for observations at night.
• Piranha has two completely unique idle dances to herself, one seen when playing as her and another exclusive to her appearance in the garage.
• Piranha's E3 design has a small difference from her final appearance in the game, with it being stars on her goggles.
• Piranha is the oldest female in the GG's, with the oldest male being Combo. She is 21 years old.
• Piranha and the Love Shockers share the exact same grind and air tricks.
• In the original Japanese release of Jet Set Radio, Piranha's showdown challenge was a race. This race would be reworked for chapter 2 against Beat as Combo tries to join the GG's.
• Piranha has three songs associated with her.
  • In the original Japanese release of Jet Set Radio, the song "O.K. House" by Idol Taxi, played during her showdown.
  • When the game got localized the song was changed to "Yappie Feet" from Deavid Soul.
  • Due to Sega losing the rights to "Yappie Feet" for the HD release of the game the song was changed to "'Bout the City" from the Reps.
• In a similar fashion to Yo-Yo, Piranha is described as being not as fast in the Sybex and IGN guides for Jet Grind Radio, but the GBA manual refers to her being quick.
• As seen above, Piranha's artwork was censored on the Jet Set Radio page on Sega's website in the United States.
• Piranha/Sugar's logo would be featured in the Roller Champions Jet Set Radio Park alongside various other character logos as well.

Credits

• Character model reference sheet created by Wint.
• Translation of the Jet Set Radio Perfect Guide profile by 6eat.
• Art edited by dedtoot.