Beck: Mongolian Chop Squad, Volume 11

BECK: Mongolian Chop Squad #11

by Harold Sakuishi

When fourteen-year-old Yukio Tanaka meets Ryusuke, a sixteen-year-old rocker from the United States, Yukio is introduced to rock and roll music and begins a journey that takes him from being a nobody to becoming a musician.

Genres: Manga, Comics, Music, Japanese Literature, Fiction, Slice Of Life, Romance

224 pages, Paperback

First published May 15, 2002

About the author

Associated names :
哈罗德作石
HAROLD作石

Name (in native language) : ハロルド 作石

Birth Name : Sakuishi (作石) Takahiro (貴浩)

Blood type : AB

Sakuishi has a wide variety of interests which include baseball (he is a huge Chunichi Dragons fan), martial arts, MMA, and music (he is a huge Red Hot Chili Peppers fan).
Each of these has become the basis for his most popular series (baseball in Stopper Busujima, fighting in Bakaichi, and music in Beck).
His series also often include character cameos from his past works; one of the newspaper reporters in Beck is actually from Stopper Busujima and so on. Additionally, he's a big fan of Sangokushi (Romance of the Three Kingdoms) with an altered version of that story appearing in Beck written by "Christy Sakuishi".
In Beck he included many famous people in background crowds. These included many popular musicians, characters from Happy Sangokushi and MMA legends Royce Gracie and Kazushi Sakuraba.

Reviews

[hotsake (André Troesch) · Rating 4 out of 5]

I had forgotten just how much I enjoy this series.
4/5

[⋆ ࣪˖ ִֶָ sel ་༘࿐ · Rating 4 out of 5]

Everyone is working hard! Ryusuke, get your ass back in Beck!

[Michelle · Rating 5 out of 5]

Koyuki ❤️

Gostei que esse volume é mais introspectivo que o anterior, com cada um dos integrantes focando em suas próprias vidas e meio que decidindo o que fazer. Amei a forma como cada um foi encontrando seu próprio caminho de volta para a banda e, principalmente, o papel do Koyuki nisso tudo. Apenas o Ryusuke seguiu todo misterioso nesse volume - quais são os planos dele? - e realmente senti a sua falta, mas acho que no próximo devemos saber mais sobre ele e, espero, sobre o cachorro Beck.

[Laras · Rating 4 out of 5]

They fight they break up, they kiss they make up in this volume. This is an emotional episode, compared with the rest so far. They are separated, scattered around chasing own interests, but Beck's beckon is too strong to ignore. But I'm concerned about the kids quitting school.

[Lara · Rating 4 out of 5]

I liked this volume a lot as everyone is doing different things and there's no band. And then I liked seeing them all come back together again, except for Ryuske--where is that guy?

Also, I'm still worried about Beck the dog!!! Let's get back to his story already!!!

[Kurtis Burkhardt · Rating 4 out of 5]

A must read for any music lover🎧🥁🎸 Pretty great rock and roll manga, good art and pretty good story!😁🤟💕

[Diego Seibert Lyrio Bragança · Rating 5 out of 5]

Sakuishi é insano demais

[fonz · Rating 4 out of 5]

Esto ya va siendo otra cosa.

[saoirse ☆]

worst volume so far (still a good read) but i guess it can't be helped with the band being broken up

[Craig Schorling · Rating 4 out of 5]

The band is attempting to get back together but Ryusuke is in NYC. Koyuki is again offered to tour the US but this time possibly with Beck.

[Steinhecr · Rating 4 out of 5]

Hay canciones de rock que salvan vidas

[clo · Rating 4 out of 5]

thank FUCK they reunited quickly

[notjoshy · Rating 5 out of 5]

This manga is so good man

[Florence Mullot · Rating 4 out of 5]

Contre toute attente, j'ai vraiment beaucoup aimé ce tome onze de Beck, et pourtant, il n'a rien de très réjouissant au premier abord. Mais Harold Sakuishi arrive à créer un tournant pour Beck avec une nostalgie et aussi un coup de pouce vers un futur qui semble briller de nouveau. Un traitement de l'histoire intuitif, plein d'émotion, et vraiment très sympathique.

Après le concert du Greatful Sound, le groupe s'est donc séparé. C'est dommage, même si en un sens, il est facile de comprendre que Ryusuke veut aussi protéger les plus jeunes du deal qu'il a passé avec Léon. Mais il n'empêche qu'il est difficile de voir les cinq amis se séparer et surtout, pour certains, délaisser la musique. Cela donc une impression très nostalgique, et j'ai eu un pincement au coeur de les voir ainsi.

Mais, parce qu'on est quand même qu'au tome onze sur trente-quatre, Koyuki relance la machine. le départ de Saku lui fait un choc, et il se rend enfin compte de ce qu'il a réellement perdu. Beck n'était pas une phase pour lui, ni pour les quatre autres garçons, et l'on s'en rend bien compte.

Même si ce tome n'est pas très facile à lire à certains moments, il est aussi solaire. On voit ce que Beck a apporté à nos héros même si eux ne s'en rendent pas encore totalement compte. C'est beau de voir une telle passion changer la vie d'une personne. Et il y a aussi cette humilité qui fait sourire, notre Koyuki qui ne se rend pas compte de combien il est doit. Pour lui, ce sont ses amis qui ont progressé, mais il n'arrive pas encore à avoir une totale confiance en lui. Cela fait son charme, donc, surtout pourvu qu'il reste ainsi.

[Nick · Rating 5 out of 5]

Overall Rating: A+
Synopsis: Beck is a manga by Harold Sakuishi that follows Koyuki, a junior high nerd. At the beginning of the series, Koyuki leads a boring life, with a pervert as his only friend. That all changes when he saves a strange looking dog named Beck, and meets the dog's owner, Ryuusuke. The two become friends, and Koyuki starts down the path to being cool.

Beck centers around a band formed by Ryuusuke, and its rise to fame, but that's not what the series is about. The manga primarily follows Koyuki, and focuses on his trouble with girls, trying to learn to play the guitar, getting extorted for money by a bully, and his failing grades. Oh, yeah, and his swimming lessons from Saitou-san. The series touches on Koyuki's struggles in a way that makes the fact that he is becoming famous (at least at his school and in underground clubs) for his singing.

As the story progresses, it focuses more and more on the fledgling band, and its rise in popularity. At the end of volume 7, there is even an interesting subplot based around Ryuusuke's guitar, Lucille. It's these little things, subplots that don't focus on the band itself, but on its members that make Beck one of the better manga out there. It makes the characters intriguing, and I identify with the geek in Koyuki. Maybe one day, I can be in a Japanese punk band...

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[Indah Threez Lestari · Rating 4 out of 5]

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