Beck: Mongolian Chop Squad (Blog Post #1)

Yukio, known by his friends as "Koyuki", is a regular 14-year-old Japanese boy whose boring life is changed when he saves an odd-looking dog, named Beck, from some kids. Beck's owner turns out to be an emerging rock musician, Ryûsuke Minami, who soon influences Koyuki to start playing the guitar, and even gives one to him.

The story focuses on the trials and tribulations of their rock band named BECK, and Koyuki's relationships with the members of the band, in particular Ryûsuke and Ryûsuke's sister Maho.



Now this anime, BECK: Mongolian Chop Squad- (let's just call it BECK)- inspired me to begin expressing myself through song and music.

During my time watching BECK, I got to learn the songs and even started singing along whenever the band would play a song. The music always got me up and dancing, singing and sometimes a scene would even have my crying.

The Theme song is HIT IN THE USA by The Beat Crusaders
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xClFjEe0SBw


In this anime, BECK, even the animation itself is AMAZINGLY WELL DONE.
And I mean, really well done.
The details on the people, backgrounds, scenery... It's all very amazing.
During the series, the character Ryûsuke Minami gives Koyuki a guitar. The name and brand of the guitar escape me at the moment, however I clearly remember that the guitar looked exactly like the original one in real-life.

The hands as well, are breathtaking. Now, you would not imagine one to go on and on about hands, however the animators who did the anime obviously put in everything they had to make this show perfect.
In usual anime, if a character is playing an instrument the shot will pan out and scan over a crowd or even just have simple finger movements playing these complex strings.
In BECK, the shot of the screen zooms in to look at the hands playing the guitar or bass. The hands playing the instrument look real, the moevents are beleiveable and just breathtaking.

BECK: Mongolian Chop Squad was what really inspired me to start music and art, and to pursue art professionally.

I would definitely recommend this anime to any and all music lovers. I truly admire the animators who put in so much time to make this show amazing.

For next time,
Tomo <3