Alternative TitlesEnglish: Beck - Mongolian Chop Squad Japanese: ベック
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Type: Manga
Volumes: 34
Chapters: 103
Status: Finished
Published: Feb 17, 2000 to Jun 5, 2008
StatisticsScore: 8.731 (scored by 5770 users)
Ranked: #352
Popularity: #160
Members: 10,545
Favorites: 1,124 1 indicates a weighted score
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Both series are about characters that aim to be successful in their respective careers.
You learn about the hardship and problems they go through. Light comedy and romance.
Definitely something you should pick up.
Both are coming of age/rags to riches stories.
The main characters strive to make a dream become reality against the odds. Through the way they fail some times and have internal disagreements between them and even risk breaking up as a group/pair. And both main characters start out living a normal, empty, regular life until something gives them the motivation to move forward.
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Music is an essential focus in both series due to its use to drive character development and plot progression.
Both involve people in a band. The style of humor is similar. Solanin focuses more on drama while Beck focuses more on the music.
Both series are about the awkwardness and uncertainty inherent in growing up and growing idle, relationship troubles, struggling to overcome common problems, adversity, and tragedy, and of course, music.
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Beck is about music and Worst about fights, okay, but for the rest they're really similar. The reader gets the same feelings, both mangas have the same atmosphere. Besides, the drawing style is pretty similar. If you've enjoyed Beck, you'll like Worst; and viceversa.
Even though 'Worst' is about high school gangs and 'Beck' is about music, they still have a lot in common. They share the same sense of humour and a large cast of characters that are sure to make you laugh with their crazy antics. But the thing that stands out the most is their strong portrayal of friendship. Both authors express how powerful bonds between true friends are and how they can change a person.
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The manga content covered by Beck's anime and the first three volumes of Ciguatera are incredibly similar in terms of both their content and tone. The two are coming of age stories where a nobody tries to become a somebody and overcome their insecurities, with the main driving force being romance. In both the leads suffer from daily bullying at school and just deal with it because, like in the land of the real, crying like a bitch doesn't help any.
Ciguatera has less far less drama on the romance side and - until the final chapter - is FAR less frustrating. It also has various hilarious black comedy moments.
Drawings, reflexions are quite the same, the everyday life of an average naive youngster feeling a bit lost and getting bullied but dealing with it through his passion (motorcycles in ciguatera and music in Beck) and the discover of love... Just growing up, very realistic and funny. Ogino and Yukio are quite the same :)
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The art style is very similar. Also each main characters starts off as a whinny self- pitying brat and slowly becomes the best at whatever they're doing. through constant hard work they gain the recognition from many others. What i especially like about the art is that you can actually see them growing older, unlike some manga that only declare the passing of time but the characters look exactly the same.
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similar humour, some characteristics are the same, the protagonists have similar personality
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Features a powerful singer and his struggle to the top
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Two mangas that are able to pass the feeling of music (be it rock or blues).......... without music.
Highly recommended for fans of good music in general.
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Both slice of life manga's, in both the main character goes into something completely different which he know's nothing about (guitar, go), both start with the main character as a kid and watch him grow (and drop out of high school).
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if you really like the setting of Beck and any influence band on it. than you may end up like to read this tittle so much.
but with some lovey dovey cliche plot which about a guy who want to learn music just because he want to be aknowledge by the girl he like. hahahahaha
but aside of that. they were many comedy some sort of it (yes, its not slice of life genre) for high school theme. its great to read these one .
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Although Baby Steps is about sports and Beck about music, the main characters are very similar in looks and personality : They both lack ''something in their life'', they are hardworkers and try to give their best. Both manga have romance.
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Both are same Story theme : music, and the protagonist is an novice in guitar, but he is the guitarist in a band. Here in Fool, there is more humour, subjects are less serious than Beck, and concerts are not too great.
Personally, Beck is the best! For me, fool on the rock is a "bad" copy of Beck.
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While beck on a different take on the music genre in manga, AUDITION is all about music from the backstories of the characters to the ways you get to meet them its all about music. It has intense parts and very intellectual ones and I have to say its one of the funniest mangas I know involving music.
If you're a lover of music and a good detective story pick up the first manga. The story involves 4 gorgeous(of course) variously tatooed-pierced-barely clothed-sexually ambiguous Musical geniuses who are being scouted by the daughter of a old man each boy met as a child. Using only the old man's diary and a little detective work you soon become lost in the genius of this manga. I love BECK and I love AUDITION even more it's a KOREAN MANGWA and it deserves to be right up there with all the other greats like it.. so check it out!
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Both manga deal with a band striving for the top in the music world! DMC is less serious.
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Music plays an integral aspect in these two series - particularly for the male lead. The protagonists experience coming-of-age realisations when they are introduced to the lives of musicians.
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Both deal with hardships in the music industry and the never ending struggle to be heard through one's originality. Beck is more about the guys' take on making a successfull rockband while Nana is about making a rock band with a female lead singer. Both show how imperfection is more beautiful than the mundane.
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Basically, it's the same thing, but Bremen's characters have a different personality, they have much more self-confidence. And... there is some supernatural at the end of the plot, you'll see. Also, Bremen is somewhat more violent.
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Despite their differences in protagonist age and target audience--Beck is for and about teenage boys, Ashita no Ousama adult women--both manga follow slightly dorky, down-to-earth main characters growing up and learning to follow their talents in creative fields. Both of the series show realistic ups and downs but maintain a basically optimistic tone, and both also have a nice but mostly background romance subplot.
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