- "No one takes on the Mad Angels in this harbor and lives to tell about it. It's the bottom of the sea for you!"
- ―Charlie to Ryo.
Charlie Grant (チャーリー・グラント Chārī Guranto) is one of the leading members of the Mad Angels, being the leader of the bikers among the gang.
Appearance[]
Charlie is American and is 172 cm (5' 8") tall. He is white-skinned and has short dark brown hair, and dark brown eyes. He has been described to be "ugly as the worst sin". He wears circular-shaped black sunglasses and is often seen wearing a black leather jacket. Under his jacket he wears a dark green tank top, and white and dark yellow suspenders. He also wears black pants and black boots and has a tattoo on his arm.
Biography[]
Charlie sometimes hangs around on Dobuita Street and is well known among some of the shopkeepers and bikers for his rudeness and showing off on his bike. He rides around recklessly on his bike at night around the New Yokosuka Harbor District and is always causing problems to warehouses by vandalizing them or beating up the security guards. Despite all this, he isn't very strong, so he makes his men do everything or carries a weapon to fight with.
Shenmue[]
Ryo Hazuki searches for Charlie after learning from the Heartbeats bartender, Yoshifumi Hato that he should know about the Chinese cartel and that he has a tattoo on his arm like Lan Di. Due to him having a tattoo on his arm like Lan Di, Ryo wonders if he's connected with him.
Once Ryo is able to enter the tattoo parlor at Okayama Heights, and asks the tattoo artist Takashi Takashiro about Charlie, he reveals that he is sleeping behind a curtain. Once Ryo opens the curtain, Charlie grabs a knife and attempts to attack him with it. He manages to dodge his attacks, and grabs his arm demanding to know about the cartel. He resists the intimidation, until he violently pulls his arm. He instructs him to wait at the You Arcade at 3 p.m. the next day.
The next day, as Ryo enters Sakuragaoka, a little boy named Gaowen Xie runs to him crying and says a man with sunglasses took his soccer ball and that he would give it back if he brought him to the construction site. It was in fact Charlie who came for revenge. He orders three of his henchmen to beat him up. After Ryo beats them, Charlie holds Gaowen hostage and one of his henchmen, Minoru Okayasu, is behind Ryo with a pipe. Gaowen drops his soccer ball, so then Ryo kicks the ball into Charlie's face and knocks out the man behind him. Charlie runs away and tells him not to think he will get away with this.
Later on, when Ryo is working at the New Yokosuka Harbor District, Charlie returns with some henchmen, riding motorcycles on the night of his fourth day of work. They attempt to run over him (Charlie and/or one other henchman can if one or both of the first two QTE's are failed), and then he jump kicks the third driver and rides his motorcycle to chase the other two throughout the harbor. Once Ryo catches up to Charlie, he orders a bunch of henchmen to throw him at the bottom of the sea. Once he defeats all of them, Charlie faces him in a one-on-one hand-to-hand fight. Ryo ends up becoming the victor and interrogates him as he tries to escape demanding to know how the Mad Angels and Chi You Men are connected. He reveals to him that a "Chinese bigshot" is leaving the harbor soon and that he already arranged a crew and ship for him. He reveals that the bigshot wears a silk robe with a dragon on it, which is Lan Di. He begs him not to tell anyone or they'll kill him.
Charlie does not appear or is mentioned again in the series. It is unknown if he was killed by the Mad Angels if they found out that he gave away the information about Lan Di, so this leaves his status as unknown. He could have skipped town, but this has never been confirmed.
Shenmue the Animation[]
Charlie appears in Shenmue the Animation Episode 2. After Ryo gets into a fight and causes a scene at the Heartbeats bar, the bartender Yoshifumi Hato suggests that he looks for Charlie, if he's looking for people of the Chinese underworld. Ryo visits various places looking for Charlie. After he visits the tattoo parlor and asks the tattoo artist Takashi Takashiro about Charlie, Takashi calls Charlie saying that someone's been looking for him. Charlie and his goons wonder if the Chens sent someone to look for him.
To meet Ryo, Charlie steals a soccer ball from Gaowen, and Gaowen tells Ryo what happened and that the only way he would give it back to him is if he brought Ryo to him. Charlie then introduces himself to Ryo and orders his men to attack Ryo. Ryo effortlessly defeats his guys, and Charlie runs away and gets away when Ryo chases after him. Later on, Charlie and his men hang out at Heartbeats and they see Tony and Smith complain about being beaten up by a "schoolboy" and Charlie says that he has a job for the two. Tony and Smith confront Ryo at the arcade when he is asking around for Charlie, and they say that they're friends with Charlie and can take him to him. They take him to the New Yokosuka Movie Theatre, and Charlie and his guys ambush him. Ryo easily defeats the guys and Tony and Smith cowardly run away. Charlie tries to cut Ryo with a knife, but he is effortlessly defeated by Ryo.
Charlie realizes that he isn't connected with the Chens and once Ryo says that he's looking for Lan Di; Charlie warns him saying that he's a dangerous man in the Chinese underworld and that it'd be very dangerous to go after him.
Personality[]
Charlie is known by the people of Dobuita as a "poser", a "loser", and a "nasty piece of work". Noriyuki Tsuruoka, the owner of Jupitor's Jackets describes him as being "ugly as the worst sin". He's a jerk who feels riding a bike makes him look cool, but he's not a real biker. He even tried to pull a food poison act at Junichiro Nemoto of Smiley Flower Shop's restaurant in Yokohama once.
Trivia[]
- In the What's Shenmue? demo, Charlie can be seen riding his motorcycle in free quest, unlike the actual game where he only appears during events in the story.
- Charlie's zodiac sign is Leo and he has a O blood type.