De La Jet Set Radio opening

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Jet Set Radio (originally released in North America as Jet Grind Radio) is a 2000 action game developed by Smilebit and published by Sega for the Dreamcast. The player controls a member of a youth gang, the GGs, as they use inline skates to traverse Tokyo, spraying graffiti, challenging rival gangs, and evading authorities.  Sega re-released the game in Japan under the name De La Jet Set Radio. This version was released on October 18, 2001, in Japan via Dreamcast Direct (later renamed Sega Direct) and features content that was originally exclusive to PAL and North American versions, namely music, two playable characters, and two stages.  The opening of Jet Set Radio. Rokkaku Polices, Onishima, and the rest of the gangs speak in their Japanese voices. Specific characters like Cube, Combo, and DJ Professor K retain their dialogue from the English version.

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00:00Somewhere in Asia, there's a city that cannot be found on any map called Tokyoto, but everyone just calls it Tokyo.

00:06The two hottest things in the streets of Tokyoto are the punks wearing magnetically driven inline skates

00:11powered by newly developed metrium batteries and Jet Set Radio, a pirate radio station

00:17manned by the DJ Professor K that plays nothing but non-stop hardcore music.

00:23Those street punks have been named Rudy's by the people of Tokyoto.

00:25They roam the streets and cover the city with their personal graffiti, claiming that it is their way of expressing themselves to the world.

00:33However, ever since the metropolitan government and the financial conglomerate, the Rukkaka Group,

00:38combined their efforts to co-found the 21st century project, the streets of Tokyoto have never been the same again.

00:45Police crackdowns on the Rudy's have become more severe, and Captain Onishima is more anxious than ever to put them behind bars.

00:52The streets of Tokyoto are ready to explode.

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