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Harlem Beat (Manga)

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Harlem Beat (ハーレム・ビート, Hāremu Biito) is a basketball manga by Nishiyama Yuriko, known in U.S as “Harlem Beat” from volume 1-9 and “Rebound” from volume 10-29. It was serialized in Weekly Shonen Magazine from 1994 to 2000.Nate Torres (Naruse “Narucho” Tohru in the Japanese version) just wanted to be someone; he tried on basketball club only to find himself ended up as a mere benchwarmer. A chance meeting with his Childhood Friends Kusuda Mizuki brought him to the world of streetball, and after his unexpected win against famous streetball player Shu, Naruse renewed his resolve to be a basketball player. Along the way he met Ozaki Kosuke and Sawamura Masahiro, and then together with Mizuki, the four of them formed a streetball team named Scratch.Nate’s progressions as basketball player proved to be a great asset to his high school team, Johnan. With supports of Sakurai Shuuji, his senpai; Yabe Kiriko and Imagawa Kiyoshi, the team managers; Umakure Hiroaki, team captain; Kobayashi Sumisugu, and other members of the team, Nate tackled the world of high school basketball and continued to mature as a player.Not to be confused with Harlem Beat wa Yoake Made by Kazusa Takashima.
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Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other
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Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Nate and Tomomi. Kiriko and Sakurai had their moments.
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Defeat Means Friendship
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Defeat Means Friendship: Almost all rival teams become this with Johnan.
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Mr. Fanservice
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Mr. Fanservice: Sawamura, Kobayashi, and Sakurai often featured in splash-pages with fanservice-y flavors.
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The Rival
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The Rival: As the main character almost every ace of other teams is this to Naruse, but Amami Sasuke is his main rival. Kuwata had a Friendly Rivalry version with Kobayashi and Nate.
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The Stoic
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The Stoic: Kobayashi, Amami.
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Those Two Guys
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Those Two Guys: Saito Nobuyuki and Takakura “Gan” Iwao. Heck, they even have combo move and rarely enter the court without the other! Shades, Ultraman/T-Rock and Bucky from Threemen’s Hoop are those three guys.
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Cool Shades
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Cool Shades: Three Men team, Shades, Ultraman (his shades even shaped like Ultraman’s eyes!), and Kojiya twins from Kyan.
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Heterosexual Life-Partners
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Heterosexual Life-Partners: Nate and Sawamura, Kobayashi and Imagawa.
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Unknown Rival
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Unknown Rival: Poor Matsudaira. Sakurai and the Johnan guys never seemed to recall him or his team.
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Defrosting Ice Queen
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Defrosting Ice Queen: Kiriko was such a Jerkass before Sakurai and Johnan guys defrosted her, same with Sawamura before he joined Scratch and Johnan. Kobayashi also mellowed out during the story and he later smiled more. And then there’s Mikami after Johnan defeated his team.
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Tomboy and Girly Girl
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Tomboy and Girly Girl: Kiriko and Mizuki. Subverted appearance-wise in that Kiriko fits Yamato Nadeshiko stereotype (she always looks good in yukata or kimono) and was seen wearing skirts more often than Mizuki, but Mizuki is the one that's more caring and ladylike between the two.
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Accidental Athlete
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Accidental Athlete: Nerdy Sakurai lined in a wrong queue, entered a streetball game and boom, he was hooked.
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Glass Cannon
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Glass Cannon: Sawamura. Prolific three-pointers, sucky stamina and prone to injury. Joker. Possessing excellent dribbling skill and powerful slam dunks, he is also balanced in strength, accuracy, and intelligence, capable of game-making and scoring many points single-handedly. Too bad his injury stopped him from reaching his peak potential, and he grew bitter from that experience. After Naruse and Scratch "rehabilitated" Joker and he regains his love for basketball, he can only play street basket for a short time while being a Deadpan Snarker.
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Eyes Always Shut
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Eyes Always Shut: Imagawa, Saito and Kemp.
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Scary Black Man
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Sakurai is a bespectacled Team Mom and Umakure is the captain team who had traits of Scary Black Man, similar to Kogure-Akagi duo of Slam Dunk.
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Sensitive Guy and Manly Man
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Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: Sakurai-Umakure, Imagawa-Kobayashi, Takao-Yuuta.
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Attractive Bent-Gender
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Attractive Bent-Gender: Sawamura, even Kosuke fell hard for him before the reveal.
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold
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Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Kosuke may be crass and Sawamura had a Heel–Face Revolving Door syndrome, but both really care for their team. Kiriko often gets on the team’s nerves, but she’s a Lovable Alpha Bitch.
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Cute Sports Club Manager
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Cute Sports Club Manager: Johnan’s opponents usually thought that Kiriko was this. They have NO IDEA.
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The Big Guy
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Gun Takakura and Saito from Johnan, when compared to the bulky Umakure and the genius Sakurai can only be described as "hard workers" at best. Even more so when Kobayashi, Isomura, and Imagawa (before his injury) joined the club and were revealed to have better skills than Gun and Saito. This becomes much clearer when Naruse who is a complete beginner albeit gifted with jumping power, and Sawamura who, despite being a genius scorer, has low stamina, the two freshmen end up starting matches ahead of Gun and Saito in the nationals. Works actually in their favor in a match between Johnan and Kanakita. Kanakita does not really know how to deal with Gun and Saito as there is not enough data about their playing style. Gun and Saito keeps double-teaming Takagi and eventually steal the ball from him, which boost Johnan's spirit.
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Foreign Exchange Student
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Foreign Exchange Student: Tsukuba's Kow is one from Russia.
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Smoking Is Cool
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Smoking Is Cool: Kiriko, Sawamura (before they got serious in Johnan team), Kosuke. Yuuta and Takao bonded over smoke.
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Delinquents
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Delinquents: Kiriko, Kosuke, Sawamura, the WHOLE Kyan team. Musashimaru used to be this, he admits that he stopped getting into gangfights long ago after experiencing a Jerkass Realization and nowadays he only focuses in basketball. He also does not attack anyone without provocation.
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Combat Commentator
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Combat Commentator: Usually done by Threemen’s Hoop kids, Okuda from basketball magazine, and Kuwata.
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Death Glare
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Death Glare: Kobayashi’s trademark. Akutagawa from ‘J’ Invasion Arc weaponized it as ‘The Eyes of Medusa’.
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Game-Breaking Injury
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Game-Breaking Injury: Imagawa and Kiriko in their respective backstory. For "villain" example, Joker and Coach Mikami also count. Joker was beaten up by thugs hired by his envious teammates in the US, thus preventing him from playing in NBA. Coach Mikami in his prime was good enough to play for Japanese national team but was forced to retire early after an injury, therefore he Took a Level in Cynic.
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Trickster Twins
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Trickster Twins: Kyan's Uzumiya twins, both on and off court. Their primary gag is having one of them insult someone in English and the other deliberately mistranslate it as a compliment.
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Hot-Blooded
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Hot-Blooded: Kosuke. Higa Yuuta from Kyan; the reason his team was disqualified in previous year was because he started a fight.
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But Not Too Foreign
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But Not Too Foreign: Kyan's Zukeran Tatsuya is half-American.
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Clark Kenting
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Clark Kenting: Shu of Three Men is the alter ego of Sakurai Shuuji. A darker version is Akutagawa Hideaki, a gentlemanly businessman, as the real ‘J’.
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In-Series Nickname
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In-Series Nickname: Mizuki calls Naruse “Narucho”. Sawamura calls Kiriko “Witch” and Kobayashi “Umbrella Guy” (based on the image of aloof umbrella maker during Jidaigeki). Takao nicknamed Kobayashi as “Musashi” for his samuraiesque attitude. Zukeran Tetsuya from Kyan was often called “Kemp” for his resemblance to Shawn Kemp. Those Three Guys from Threemen’s Hoop only known by their nicknames.
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Tsundere
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Tsundere: Kiriko with everyone, especially Sakurai. Mizuki towards Kosuke and Sawamura.
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Alternate Universe
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Alternate Universe: There are two omake segments in the manga; Super Ultra Basketman Shu (adventure of Shu in Superman flavor with Narucho as his sidekick) and Fantasy Harlem Beat (the characters cast in RPG-like fantasy world).
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Japanese Delinquents
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Japanese Delinquents: Kyan High School's main players are all yankii, although they don't wear the stereotypical look and hair style.
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Tournament Arc
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Tournament Arc: Being a sport series about basketball, this trope is inevitable.
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Revisiting the Roots
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Revisiting the Roots: The story about Naruse's development starts with street basket game and ends also in street basket game.
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Love Interests
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Love Interests: Mizuki and later Tomomi to Naruse. Kiriko to Sakurai and Sakurai to Mizuki.
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Betty and Veronica
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Betty and Veronica: Mizuki as the Betty and Kiriko as the Veronica to Sakurai.
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Chick Magnet
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Chick Magnet: Sawamura, complete with fangirls brigade. Sakurai is also popular among the ladies.
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High-School Hustler
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High-School Hustler: Kiriko and Sawamura often gambled on Johnan games.
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Dogged Nice Guy
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Dogged Nice Guy: Kosuke to Mizuki, Mizuki to Sakurai, Sakurai to Kiriko although they later became the Official Couple. What a delicious Love Triangle.
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Mood Whiplash
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Mood Whiplash: In volume 14 manga, after three funny segments (the uncanny billiard game, the moment Naruse gets stranded in a red light district and almost gets panic attack, and the moment Naruse is forced to "date" Tomomi), the story then shifts to an angsty moment where Sawamura meets his dad.
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Musashimaru used to be this, he admits that he stopped getting into gangfights long ago after experiencing a Jerkass Realization and nowadays he only focuses in basketball. He also does not attack anyone without provocation.
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Time to Unlock More True Potential
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Time to Unlock More True Potential: Naruse often get some new moves for the next game.
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Joker. Possessing excellent dribbling skill and powerful slam dunks, he is also balanced in strength, accuracy, and intelligence, capable of game-making and scoring many points single-handedly. Too bad his injury stopped him from reaching his peak potential, and he grew bitter from that experience. After Naruse and Scratch "rehabilitated" Joker and he regains his love for basketball, he can only play street basket for a short time while being a Deadpan Snarker.
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Ms. Fanservice: Mizuki. Kiriko, to an extent.
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The Lad-ette: Kiriko.
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The Ace: Sakurai, Takagi from Kanakita.
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Berserk Button: Try to diss or hurt Imagawa in front of Kobayashi (as Hayashida and Mikami can testify for you). Or just try to hurt his teammates, and Kobayashi will be out for blood.
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True Companions: Scratch and Johnan team.
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Opposing Sports Team
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From Zero to Hero: This series basically tells the story of Toru Naruse's growth from a mere benchwarmer to an underdog basketball player, and eventually becomes a streetball legend himself, all in span of one year.
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What the Hell, Hero?: In Skykiss Championship arc, Musashimaru was injured by a player from Ice Picks nicknamed Orange. Naruse angrily swears revenge on Ice Picks, and Musashimaru immediately chews him out, calling him stupid for trying to avenge him, something he doesn't asks for. Musashimaru tells Naruse to forget about revenge and focus on playing basketball properly.
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Vitriolic Best Buds: Sawamura with both Kosuke and Kobayashi. They bickered outside the court but had good chemistry during the game.
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Tiger Versus Dragon: The first time they clashed, Sawamura versus Kobayashi was drawn this way.
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Sugar-and-Ice Personality: Kobayashi and post-Interhigh Mikami.
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Dub Name Change: Initially applied, then abandoned in the TokyoPOP translation However, the initial set of characters had their Americanized names grandfathered in: Naruse and Ozami, who were introduced with their full names, remained "Nate Torres" and "Kyle Ozman" respectively, while Mizuki and Shuji, whose full names were not revealed until later, had one changed name alongside one unchanged one, making them "Mizzy Kusuda" and "Shuji Shurman". Sawamura was initially referred to as "Masa", but the manga eventually switched to using his full name. Characters introduced afterwards generally kept their original names.
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Animal Motifs
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Animal Motifs: Naruse is a monkey, Sawamura is a fox, Kiriko is a shark, and Kosuke is a gorilla.
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Bash Brothers: Sawamura with Nate, with Kai in his past and during his brief Face–Heel Turn moment in ‘J’ Invasion Arc, and he later developed similar setup with Kobayashi.
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Art Evolution: The art started in rough and realistic style before it gets softer and ‘prettier’. Subverted with Bucky. In Skykiss 3 on 3 Championship arc he has normal looks except for his bucktooth, and he also has average height. When the series reaches Basketball Interhigh Championship arc and supposedly Growing the Beard, Bucky ends up drawn with cartoonish gonk art style and shorter than Gun Takakura from Johnan.
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Calling the Old Man Out: When Masahiro Sawamura meets his long lost dad accompanied by a woman and her son in volume 14, he is batshit angry, assuming that his dad lives a happy life with a new family after abandoning him and scolding him for not trying to look for his son again. Sawamura even goes as far as threatening to beat up his dad in front of his street basket pals. Fortunately, Sawamura is stopped by Naruse before he does something irreversible.
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Expy: Sakurai is a bespectacled Team Mom and Umakure is the captain team who had traits of Scary Black Man, similar to Kogure-Akagi duo of Slam Dunk. Tsukuba team is based on Mobile Suit Gundam Wing characters.
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Determinator: Getting punched, kicked, beaten up? Naruse will still play, come hell or high water. Sawamura could only use one arm? Then one arm he’ll use. Ankle injury? Don’t worry, Sakurai still storms the court like a badass. Gun Takakura and Saito from Johnan, when compared to the bulky Umakure and the genius Sakurai can only be described as "hard workers" at best. Even more so when Kobayashi, Isomura, and Imagawa (before his injury) joined the club and were revealed to have better skills than Gun and Saito. This becomes much clearer when Naruse who is a complete beginner albeit gifted with jumping power, and Sawamura who, despite being a genius scorer, has low stamina, the two freshmen end up starting matches ahead of Gun and Saito in the nationals. Works actually in their favor in a match between Johnan and Kanakita. Kanakita does not really know how to deal with Gun and Saito as there is not enough data about their playing style. Gun and Saito keeps double-teaming Takagi and eventually steal the ball from him, which boost Johnan's spirit.
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O.O.C. Is Serious Business: After Musashimaru gets injured in a Skykiss street ball match between Notorious and Picks, Naruse breaks a wooden plank with Ice Picks name written on it and angrily swears vengeance upon Ice Picks. This comes from the guy who forgives Keigo Mikami for injuring Sakurai (accidentally, but still...) When Johnan loses to Kanakita, Sawamura is seen swearing and slamming a paper cup. He rarely shows anger for things that don't involve money, free meals, or his disappearing dad (before they make amends). For the first time in many years, Sawamura shows a passion for his team
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Devil in Plain Sight: Kiriko is a witch in plain sight.
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Took a Level in Cynic
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For "villain" example, Joker and Coach Mikami also count. Joker was beaten up by thugs hired by his envious teammates in the US, thus preventing him from playing in NBA. Coach Mikami in his prime was good enough to play for Japanese national team but was forced to retire early after an injury, therefore he Took a Level in Cynic.
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Beware the Nice Ones: Sakurai is the least confrontative senior player in Johnan basketball team, but in Johnan vs Kyan match, he slaps Kobayashi and proceeds to chew him out for getting obsessed in avenging Imagawa instead of focusing in the match. Sakurai's angry outburst startled the whole Johnan team and seemingly scared the Shibuya street basket guys as well.
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The Corrupter: J aka Akutagawa attempts to persuade Naruse to follow him in his journey and abandon Kosuke, Sawamura, and Mizuki. J who admires Naruse's growth both as a basketball player and as a person (so much that J calls Naruse as his hero), believes that Scratch is only holding Naruse back and Naruse deserves better teammates. Naruse declines, claiming that Scratch teammates are his heroes and everyone can become hero for someone.
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Dark and Troubled Past: Oh Lord, Sawamura… Kiriko, Kobayashi and Mikami to an extent.
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