Tab

**Tab** (タブ, *Tabu*) also known as **Corn** (コーン; Kōn) in Japan, is a 16 year old Rudie and a member of the GG's. He, alongside Gum and Beat, is an original member of the GG's.

## Appearance

Tab wears a light blue jumpsuit along with a large dark blue knit hat that covers his eyes. Hat has a yellow tab. Tab's hair is spiky and dark brown, and can be seen sticking out from under the back of the hat. His roller blades are mostly yellow, with gray patterns and blue wheels as well as red thrusters. On the back of his jumpsuit, he has yellow katakana that appears to spell his name. He wears a gray wrist device on his left arm.

In 2D art, he has no wrist device and his name is displayed in yellow katakana on his hat.

Corn's textures.Tab's textures.Tab's expressions.

## History

Tab appears in the progoue and gives challenges to Beat. After the prologue he can be seen sitting on the couch in the garage.

## Dialogue

### Jet Set Radio dialogue

"Think you can keep up with me? Let's check your qualifications. If you see an arrow, use the analog joystick to follow it and paint some phat lines."

"You think you're all that? Try this... If you grab onto the back of the car, you can slide uphill with ease! Press back to let go."

"Think you can do this last run?"

"Heh. I guess you're cool. Listen up. Bullets can't touch you when you're dashing. Got it?"

### Jet Set Radio GBA dialogue

"Think you can keep up with me? Let's check your qualifications. If you see a floating arrow, you can tag that spot. Make sure you have spray cans before trying to spray something. When you see something floating over your head, push the A button to start spaying."

"You think you're all that? Let's try a bigger one. Use the control pad to repeat the arrows that come up to paint some phat lines. Make sure you have enough paint. Bigger graffiti takes more paint. Yellow cans are worth 1, blue cans are worth 5, red ones are health."

""Heh. I guess you're cool. Listen up, bullets can't touch you when you're boosting or grinding, got it?"

## Stats

Style: Technique type

Power: Mid to high

Technique: Mid

Graffiti: Mid

Max number of spray cans: 30

## Tricks

### Grind Tricks

###### Front technique

X\Farside X

Frontside Rail\Backside Rail

Makio\Farside Makio

###### Ally-Oop technique

Ally-Oop Miz\Farside Ally-Oop Miz

Pornstar\Farside Pornstar

### Air Tricks

###### 360

Method

Judo Backflip(Backwards)

Shifty(Backwards)

###### Half-pipe technique

Backflip 180

Judo 180(Backwards)

Misty(Backwards)

Stalefish(Backwards)

180

## Trademark Graffiti

TAB - Tab MeTAB - Tab Me in the original Japanese release.TAB - Pull the TabMONKEY BUSINESS - Don't Monkey Around!

## Trivia

* Due to the name change in the international release, Tab has two different textures: one with his Japanese name, Corn, and another one with his English name, Tab. Each texture is used in their respective versions.
* There's a possibility that Tab's name in the Japanese version was supossed to be Cone instead, since his earlier logo featues a a trafic cone drawing, and even his final logo design features a cone-like symbol.
* Back in the day, IGN created a guide for Jet Grind Radio that featured some bizarre creative liberties regarding character descriptions. Tab's description reads: "Tab is the cool Tokyo Hip-Hop cat; he is the ultimate breakdancing graffiti tagging B-boy. He has the correct B-boy documents; he rocks suede Adidas and listens to Slick Rick. Tab likes to tease the cops when they are chasing him by stopping and breakdancing around them."

## 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)#The\_Garage
3. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20051230094444/http://guidesarchive.ign.com/guides/13512/characters.html