This story centers around a main character and his painfully slow development from an ordinary boy into a charismatic passionate young adult.
The pacing of the story conveys perfectly the frustration and sacrifice required for personal development. In many instances, the story appears to move at snail pace, just like any real life attempt at self improvement, but as you bear with the characters continuous efforts, you are finally rewarded by a transformation as distant from its origins as you can possibly make.
This in itself made the whole anime awesome for me, so If you're willing to tag along on a life changing journey day by day, this is the right anime for you.
The story is so good, that makes up for the lower quality art and terrible english by supposedly japanese-americans throughout the series.
To the BECK producers, you've got a gold mine here. Please remake this series in HD with better animations and this time around, please hire real japanese-americans for the corresponding voice actors and have them correct the garbled attempts at english everyday phrases sprinkled all over the place. With this few adjustments, it is sure to become a runaway hit back in America.
Cheers!!
BronzeAge / Aug 2013
