Characters
SCHOOL
JOHNAN
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Naruse Toru
Position : Small Forward
Uniform number : 15
HighSchool grade : 1
He is the main character in Harlem Beat. He is a hard working guy. He is called as " Air Walk boy " because he is the only one who can do the Air Walk. His job is as the offenser. He runs fast too. His duet with Sawamura is the best. His friends call him Monkey ( Saru ).
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Sawamura Masahiro
Position : Shooting Guard
Uniform number : 12
HighSchool grade : 1
He is Naruse's best friend. They first met at the Three Men's Hoop and then become a streetbasket team named Scratch. He is the best three-point-shooter and called as " Miracle Shooter ". He is not good in stamina, but he is very good at tricks and capabilities. His famous nick name is Fox ( Kitsune ) Guy as he is really tricky and loves gambling. He is a clever guy too. His only weakness are money and ghosts.
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Kobayashi Sumisugu
Position : Power Forward
Uniform number : 5
HighSchool grade : 2
He is the type of guy that is really serious and quiet. He doesn't like to talk a lot. He hates Sawamura a lot because Sawamura is the one who like to have a risk in playing basketball to have a higher score. He is powerful in rebounds and dunk. Sawamura calls him as a Umbrella Seller as he holds the old tradition. But when they in the basketball team, they make a quite good team. He likes Caligraphy too.
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Sakurai Shuji
Position : Point Guard
Uniform number : 4
HighSchool grade : 3
In streetbasket, he is known as Syu of the Three Men team. He is a clever guy as he always have the first rank in his school. Sometimes he looks stupid, but it's not true. He is a person who lead the game and put the players in the right place. His capability in basketball is awesome. He gets the title as The Second Best Highschool basketball player in Tokyo.
He is really kind to his juniors. Naruse really respects him.
KYAN
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Higa Yuta
Position : Power Forward
Uniform number : 4
HighSchool grade : 2
He is the captain of Kyan team. This team comes from Okinawa. He is the type of guy that likes fighting. He is a streetbasket player too. His dream is to go to America and play streetbasket there. He is really great at dunk, his best dunk is Double Windmill. It's a really powerful dunk and will make the opponents shock. Actually, he is a kind guy. He likes Naruse.
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Tamanaha Takao
Position : Point Guard
Uniform number : 5
HighSchool grade : 2
Takao is the one that can calm Yuta down. He is a calm person that guide his punk friends in the basketball field. He looks like a girl because he has long hair as his skin is not really healthy and he lives in Okinawa, a really hot place, so he lets his hair long to protect his skin. He likes caligraphy too, just like Kobayashi.
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Zukeran " Kemp " Tatsuya
Position : Center
Uniform number : 6
HighSchool grade : 2
He is the child of a foreign mother and Japanese father. He is really big and tall. He always smiles and kind to everyone. His dunk is really powerful as he has a big body. His nick name is Kemp.
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Koziya Umihiko
Position : Guard
Uniform number : 7
HighSchool grade : 2
He is one of the Koziya twin. He is the older one. He dyed his hair blue, like the color of the sea ( Umi means Sea ). He likes to talk in English ( although it's kinda rough ) and then translated by his brother. He and his brother actually should be in the 3rd grade.
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Koziya Yamahiko
Position : Guard
Uniform number : 8
Highschool grade : 2
The younger Koziya twin. He dyed his hair green, as the color of the mountain is green ( Yama means Mountain ). He has a unique style, just like his brother. The Twins like to argue with Sawamura.
TSUKUBA
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Mikami Keigo
Position : Point Guard
Uniform number : 4
HighSchool grade : 2
Mikami is the captain of Tsukuba team. This team comes from Ibaraki. His older brother is the team's coach. He is a cold person, and always think that he should make the team wins no matter what. Actually, he loves basketball very much, but he begins to stress because his older brother forces him to play basketball perfectly. After meeting Naruse, he realizes that he must play basketball with his own style, not only do the coach order.
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Todo Naoki
Position : Power Forward
Uniform number : 5
HighSchool grade : 2
Todo is the type of person who is very calm with every situation. Actually, his ability is higher than Mikami's. But the coach puts him as power forward. Actually, he is good if he is put as the point guard. But he doesn't hate Mikami, because he knows that Mikami is also stressed because of this. His hair style is really unique. It's really sharp ^_^.
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Hayashida Shotaro
Position : Center
Uniform number : 6
HighSchool grade : 2
Hayashida is a cheerful person. He is just like ordinary highschool student. Although he is a little talkative, but actually he cares of his friends. He is called as Flower Pot by Johnan team's members.
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Majima Makoto
Position : Small Forward
Uniform number : 7
HighSchool grade : 2
He is a cute guy. But don't think that he is not powerful. He is very good in basketball as he has a small body, just like Naruse. He is the one who is responsible in taking the datas of Tsukuba's opponents. He likes pikachu very much ! *_*
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Kow " K2 " Kachinzsky
Position : Shooting Guard
Uniform number : 8
HighSchool grade : 2
K2 is from Russia. He is very good in three-point-shoots. Tsukuba team gains much score because of his three-point-shoots. He pigtailed his hair, which makes him looks cute ^_^.
St. Felicia
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Tomomi Koizumi
Uniform number : 7
HighSchool grade : 2
She's the one who is called as Naruse's girlfriend !! Anyway, she's from Hiroshima, which is very far away from Tokyo, where Naruse lives. She's an energetic girl and really likes to play basketball. She has been playing basketball since she was little. But, she usually uncareful in everything in her daily life. Like, she usually forgets her bag, usually falls down.. and etc.
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Ikeda Hiroko
Uniform number : 8
HighSchool grade : 2
She is a responsible girl. And she's also the one who takes care of Tomomi, just like a babysitter. She cares Tomomi very much. Anyway, she falls in love with the team's coach, and always teasing him as the way to show her care of him.
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Asano Shizuka
Uniform number : 4
HighSchool grade :
Asano is the team's captain. She's planning to go to USA for her next education after the highschool.
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Harada Yoko
Uniform number : 6
HighSchool grade : 3
Nothing much to say about this character, but her dream is to be a good house wife.
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Nomura Mariko
Uniform number : 5
HighSchool grade : 3
She's a calm and quiet person, like she's hiding something. And.. she hasn't got any boyfriend at the moment.
STREET BASKET
SCRATCH
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Naruse Toru
Position : Forward
Naruse is a player of the streetbasket too !
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Kusuda Mizuki
Position : Point Guard
Mizuki is Naruse's ex-classmate when he was in the primary school. She is a sexy girl but still looks cool. She likes Sakurai very much from the first time she met him as Syu, the member of Three Men. But she has a broken heart with him.
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Ozaki Kosuke
Position : Center
He is a civilian. He stole a score from Syu in the Three Men Hoops by his powerful dunk. He really likes Mizuki .And a little flirtatious as he really likes sexy girls.
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Sawamura Masahiro
Position : Shooting Guard
As I told you before, he is Naruse's best friend. He plays streetbasket to earn money as he lives by himself. He likes money very much and gambling is the solution for it. That's why he likes to do three-point-shoots which he likes the risk as he is gambling. He stole a score from Three Men by his tricks.
