Beat

**Beat** (ビート, *Biito*) is a 17 year old Rudie living in Tokyo-to as a member of the GG's. He is a playable character and overall protagonist in the *Jet Set Radio* series, as well as the game's mascot. He, alongside Tab and Gum, is an original member of the GG's.

## Appearance

Beat wears an orange shirt bearing the katakana of his name (ビート), dark pants, green lensed goggles with soundwave patterns imbedded and a dark green rim . He dons black fingerless gloves, and large gray headphones. His hair is burgundy brown and short, and his skates are mainly yellow and orange with neon green wheels. The back of his shirt has a stylized vinyl record. He wears a radio wrist device on his left arm.

In 2D art, he wears no wrist device and the rim on his goggles is white.

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## Personality

Beat is described as a delinquent who likes vinyl records.

## History

Beat is the first playable character in Jet Set Radio. His description in Sonic and all Stars Racing, reveals that he ran away from home to join one of the gangs of Tokyo-to. The gang he joined was the GG's.

## Dialogue

### Jet Set Radio dialogue

"Alright then, you gotta race with me. Whoever tags first will win!"

"Not bad! Way better than i thought. From now on, you guys are GG too - but you have to tell me what's really going on."

### Jet Set Radio GBA dialogue

"Not bad. We might be able to do something. Let's see what your friend has got... You'll have to keep up with me if you want to skate with us!"

"Wow, you're faster than you look! We'll give you a hand."

## Statistic

***To know more about stats, look here!***

 ***Technique*** | Average

## Trademark Graffiti

BEAT - Beat the Clock. Beat's Small Graffiti. It features his stylized silhouette standing in a yellow glow, with a spray can at the ready.Beat - Beat This. Beat's Large Graffiti. Kanji and Hiragana in a slate blue, popped out with shading and texture and piled atop another.Beat - Beat This in the original Japanese release.KABUKI JAM - Theater of Sound. Beat's Extra-Large Graffiti. An Ukiyo-e inspired graffiti, with a stylish Kabuki spraying down neon green hiragana about a blue mist.KABUKI JAM - Theater of Sound in the original Japanese release.
## Other media appearances

Sega Superstars Tennis
Beat is a playable character in SEGA Superstars Tennis and is unlocked from the start. He has his original look from Jet Set Radio while using a green tennis racket with a lightning bolt symbol. He is also a Speed-type character. For Beat's All Star Move, Combo grinds on the tennis net to spray graffiti on the opponents side to make them slip and mess up their control every time Beat hits the ball.

Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing Beat is a playable character in Sonic and All Stars Racing. His character description reads:

Beat was a young “rudie” who ran away from home to join one of the gangs of Tokyo-to. He impressed fellow “rudies” Gum and Tab with his skating and graffiti skills in Shibuya bus station, and joined as a member of the gang, the GG's. Beat spends his time skating around fighting for turf with rival gangs by marking his territory with graffiti and eradicating others’ tags. This attracts the attention of Police Captain Onishima and his S.W.A.T. team, who relentlessly pursue Beat and his friends. Beat drives a heavily customized street racer, with all the extras – including an extra bass system and neon under-lights!

Sonic\_&\_All-Stars\_Racing\_Transformed
Beat is a playable character in Sonic and All Stars Racing Transformed and he is unlocked from the start. He is back to his original Jet Set Radio look and drives a black and yellow ATV with some fire painted on the side and the sound waves from his goggles as the headlights. For Beat's All Star move, he summons loud stereos around him to send sound waves to the other racers and knock them away. The song that plays is a remix of Grace and Glory.

## Trivia

* At one point in development, Beat's name was Ereki(which is short for "electricity"), as can be seen by one of his earlier textures, and this name is still used for his game files. In fact, this texture is accidentaly used in cutscene where GG's garage was full of frogs, in a shot of Beat shrugging, but it's usually not noticed since that shot is pretty short.
* Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing, despite having Jet Set Radio description of Beat and saying from which game it came from, uses Beat's design from Jet Set Radio Future.
* Back in the day, IGN created a guide for Jet Grind Radio that featured some bizarre creative liberties regarding character descriptions. Beat's description reads: "This cat is the Thrasher dude; a Kali influenced surf/skate punk living in 21st century Tokyo-Cho. Beat now listens to Hip-Hop although his roots are in Punk and Skateboarding. Beat is a mellow, level headed cat that loves skating and breaking the law. Beat is originally from Fukowoka and ran away from home to Shibuya to join a street gang and become a Rudie. The other gangs originally shunned beat, so he decided to form his own gang. Beat is the leader of the GG's."

* Information about Beat living or causing trouble in Fukuoka appears both in the JGR IGN guide and a description for Beat TUBBZ figurine.

## References

1. ↑ Information taken from the Jet Set Radio Perfect Guide. Tranlation source: https://6eat.tumblr.com/post/102415841903
2. ↑ https://tcrf.net/Jet\_Grind\_Radio\_(Dreamcast)#Characters
3. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20051230094444/http://guidesarchive.ign.com/guides/13512/characters.html
4. ↑ https://numskull.com/jet-set-radio-beat-tubbz-cosplaying-duck-collectible/