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“	Arnold: Villainy is a dog-eat-dog world, little boy. You gotta be cutthroat to survive! That's why every moron stays a minion, and the people with any REAL value move up! Bugsy: That's how it is all the way to the Tippy-top of the pyramid scheme!	”
—"Redwood Run"

The Banzai Blasters are an infamous criminal organization in Sweet Jazz City that runs on a pyramid scheme. It primarily appeals to teenage delinquents and disenfranchised divorcees.^[2]

History

Past

Sometime after the organization's founding, low-ranking Banzai Blasters and Captains became notorious for small and petty crime. Eventually, the Sweet Jazz Police began to ignore them, viewing any time to deal with the ruffians as not worth it.^[2]

One day, a group of Banzai Blasters found a family who had dug up a golden box. They stole the box and than shot the parents, leaving their daughter unharmed but orphaned.^[3]

Bugsy Pugsler and Arnold Markdown joined the Banzai Blasters. Both managed to be promoted to Banzai Vice Principals.

Dark Star, Car Crash, Crusher, Ben, Flamethrower, and Spike joined the Banzai Blasters and became apart of a leaderless Banzai team.^[2]

Giovanni Potage joined the Banzai Blasters and was assigned to the leaderless team with the aforementioned six blasters. He was initially mocked by his teammates for bringing creampuffs to their first meeting. However, Giovanni unofficially led several of their missions, including replacing a gas station's hot dogs with cattails and stealing miscellaneous items to present at team-based show-and-tells. The rest of the team warmed up to him, causing Dark Star to unintentionally give him the nickname "Boss" from the team following his ideas. The name stuck within the group.^[2] Giovanni was eventually promoted to Banzai Captain.^[4]

"Museum Arc"

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"Western Arc"

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Ranks

Banzai Blaster

Banzai “Blaster” is the lowest rank that someone can be in the organization. At first, a blaster is a generic grunt in the generic Banzai Blaster^tm uniform (As seen by Ben). Once a blaster has done something cool enough to make them stand out, they get a nickname and they are allowed to customize their costume a little bit (as seen by Car Crash). Anyone who wants to become a blaster has to pay $49.99 a month (plus tax).

Banzai Captain

Banzai Captains, like Giovanni Potage, get to lead missions and get to add one big accessory to their outfit, along with a few other subtle changes. Giovanni, for example, added a cape.

Banzai Vice Principal

Being a Banzai Vice-Principal gives you multiple benefits such as even more customization options and silly cartoon gloves (as seen by Arnold & Bugsy). Vice Principals come in pairs but only one of them is ever able to rank up. This is apparently done to encourage infighting.

Banzai Associate Justice

TBA

Banzai Valedictorian

TBA

Banzai Senpai

TBA

Banzai Baron

The Banzai Baron is the supposed leader of the Banzai Blasters.

Members

Banzai Vice Principals

Banzai Blasters

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Jen, Jenny, and Niffer

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Three female Banzai Blasters, based off the Heathers from the film and musical of the same name. Jello states their names in the Episode Seven commentary.

Former Members

Captains

File:Giovanni map icon.JPG

Blasters

Merch

Doll

A Banzai Blaster doll was sold on Makeship.com.^[5]
- They sold out/ended on October 16. 2020.^[5]
These Dolls appeared in HEIST NIGHT.^[6]

Hoodie

Because the Prison of Plastic Kickstarter reached the $310K stretch goal, the backers got to vote to make either a Molly or Banzai Blaster Hoodie. The Molly hoodie won the poll and the Banzai Blaster Hoodie was never produced.
Both Hoodies would have been produced at the $375K stretch goal, but it wasn't reached in time.

Trivia

The "W"s on the Banzai Blasters' uniforms are actually confirmed to be sideways "B"s for Banzai^[7].
Three of the Banzai Blasters are a Heathers reference^[8].
- Since all three of them are named Jennifer, the crew goes with their nicknames Jenny, Jen and Niffer respectively.^[9]
- JelloApocalypse said that the blonde Jennifer is his favorite, despite the fact that she "absolutely doesn't matter and doesn't have a name"^[10].
The Banzai Blasters were heavily influenced by Team Rocket and Giovanni's pink hair was inspired by the team's grunts having pink hair^[11].
- The Banzai Blasters were also named after the Bushido Blasters from Girlchan in Paradise!!.
If one of Giovanni's boys mentioned that they didn’t like being called a "Boy" he’d stop, but to him "MY BOYS" is a gender-neutral term, hence why he calls Molly and Spike boys.^[12]
Jello imagines that the Banzai Blasters have a small unit who goes around and shakes down members for late fees, but that probably only happens if you’re at Captain rank or higher.^[13]
There are so many low-ranking Banzai Blasters that Jello doesn’t really think they care if they stop paying and fall off the map.^[14]
People solely join this organization because they are idiots.^[15]
The higher the rank, the nastier and more dangerous a Banzai member is.^[16]
If the Banzai Blasters were a group of villains from a Pokémon game, they would use Falinks as the grunts' main Pokémon. ^[17]
Jello stated that male Banzai Blasters uses the generic model of Ben.^[18]
Molly was an unofficial member, since she joined Giovanni's team. Although since Giovanni left the Banzai Blasters this no longer applies.
In general, the organization is not environmentally conscious.^[19]

Adaption from Anime Campaign

In the original Anime Campaign, they are called Bushido Blasters. In Epithet Erased, they are called Banzai Blasters.^[20]

Gallery

Trivia

Trivia 1
Trivia 2

Screenshots

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"Redwood Run"

"All's Well That Ends Well"

File:Ramsey Winking.jpeg

Great at Cowboy

Extended Version

Portraits

Ben's overhead map icon.
Crusher's overhead map icon.
Car Crash's overhead map icon.
Dark Star's overhead map icon.
Flamethrower's overhead map icon.
Spike's overhead map icon.
Jenny's overhead map icon.
Jen's overhead map icon.
Niffer's overhead map icon.
The generic Bushido Blasters portrait in Anime Campaign

Sprites

Jenny, Jen and Niffer
Bugsy and Arnold

Concept Art

Turnaround
Niffer and Jenny sketches by @_Serinaaa_

References

[EP5-1] Epithet Erased | EP5 - Redwood Run

[PoPProB-2] 2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.3 Prison of Plastic, Prologue B: The Banzai Blasters

[3] Great at Cowboy Extended

[EP1-4] Epithet Erased | EP1 - Quiet in the Museum!

[:0-5] 5.0 ^5.1 https://www.makeship.com/products/banzi-blaster-doll

[6] Epithet Erased - HEIST NIGHT

[7] ttps://jelloapocalypse.tumblr.com/post/189394251227/heya-i-wanted-to-ask-what-the-w-on-giovannis

[8] ttps://twitter.com/BrendanBlaber/status/1190431683247521792

[9] ttps://jelloapocalypse.tumblr.com/post/190198786622/bowblasters-welcome-to-the-ee-heathers-tumblr

[10] ttps://twitter.com/brendanblaber/status/1201728583271665669

[11] ttps://jelloapocalypse.tumblr.com/post/189376659342/im-going-to-ask-the-obvious-question-did-you-get

[12] ttps://jelloapocalypse.tumblr.com/post/189851198967/ah-just-read-your-lgbt-answersthank-you-for

[13] ttps://jelloapocalypse.tumblr.com/post/189866450537/what-happens-when-a-banzai-blaster-doesnt-have

[14] ttps://jelloapocalypse.tumblr.com/post/189866450537/what-happens-when-a-banzai-blaster-doesnt-have

[15] ttps://jelloapocalypse.tumblr.com/post/190084833687/if-the-banzai-blasters-are-so-obviously-a-pyramid

[16] ttps://jelloapocalypse.tumblr.com/post/190091391507/are-there-any-actual-criminal-masterminds-or

[17] ttps://jelloapocalypse.tumblr.com/post/190088599072/if-the-banzai-blasters-were-a-bad-guy-team-in-a

[18] ttps://jelloapocalypse.tumblr.com/post/613322520839487488/hi-sorry-if-anyone-has-already-asked-about-this

[19] Writing "Epithet Erased" Songs - Great at Crime

[20] Anime Campaign EP1 - (Official Upload)

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