Harlem Beat
Japanese manga series
Harlem Beat (ハーレム・ビート, Hāremu Bīto) is a Japanese manga series created by Yuriko Nishiyama. It details the struggles of young Nate Torres to go from a benchwarmer to a street-ball player. The story's scope expands as he makes friends and eventually becomes a member of his high school basketball team. It was compiled into 29 tankōbon volumes.
In North America, it was published by Tokyopop. The manga goes up to 9 volumes under the name Harlem Beat, while what were volumes 12+ in Japan were published under the series title Rebound, with the Rebound volumes renumbered beginning at 1. As of August 31, 2009, the Rebound volumes are out of print. The Japanese Harlem Beat Volumes 10 and 11 were never translated by Mixx/Tokyopop.
Jason Thompson stated that it was the author's "most popular manga". According to Thompson the work "assumes that the reader knows basketball."
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Creation and conception
Initially Nishiyama planned for the series to be only about street basketball, but later added a school-based team.
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