Beat & Motion

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Synonyms: Beat and Motion

Japanese: BEAT＆MOTION

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Type: Manga

Volumes: 6

Chapters: 49

Status: Finished

Published: Feb 25, 2023 to Jan 25, 2025

Themes: Music, Otaku Culture

Demographic: Shounen

Serialization: Shounen Jump+

Authors: Fujita, Naoki (Story & Art)

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Ranked: #5590²

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MangaShounen Jump+Fujita, Naoki (Story & Art)

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Tatsuhiko's love for drawing began at a young age, and his aspiration was to work in animation someday. But when the young boy is bullied for his art, Tatsuhiko swears to never draw in front of others ever again. Desperate to find something new to fill the void in his heart, he turns to music, but eventually becomes jaded by his mediocrity.

While out drinking with his friends, Tatsuhiko's sob story earns the ire of a drunk woman, who intimidates the young man into reassessing his attitude toward life. He decides to give animation another chance, and in the process rediscovers his love for the medium, pushing himself to publish a short video. Tatsuhiko is stunned when the video goes viral, even more so when his favorite singer, Nico Kashiwagi, requests a collaboration on her next music video!

Excited to finally meet the artist he has admired for so long, the young man is shocked to discover that Nico is the same bar patron that gave him an earful, though she has no recollection of that drunken night. While initially hesitant of their new partnership, Tatsuhiko slowly learns that there is more to Nico's brutish passion than he realizes.

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Naoki Fujita won Shueisha's Million Tag competition with Beat & Motion, which earned him a serialization and an anime adaptation of the series.

Beat & Motion was published digitally as an English simulpub through MANGA Plus.

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Feb 2, 2025

GT3_gamer

Recommended

Another amazing manga ended. I couldn't believe how satisfying this manga is. But first of all, I want to thank MangaPlus for bringing this masterpiece into the app, I couldn't ask for more than this treatment.

Story. Straight, point blank. Both MCs have dreams and they actually achieve them. Not only that, they ended up together very fast unlike a certain series that took up hundreds of chapters to confess and they still haven't gone out together. Even tho, the ending could be a little better, I would say overall the author did a great job of conveying the story straight and didn't take an off-rail ...

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Dec 15, 2023

Huang-Teizan

Mixed Feelings

Preliminary (22/49 eps)

6.9/10

Whenever I review a story, I directly try to find reasons to love or hate the story, but this has left me perplexed — this does absolutely nothing detrimentally wrong, but it doesn’t do any of the later arcs in a fascinating way, rather, everything becomes predictable and drawn-out for the sake of filling out chapters.

Let me be clear: The introduction of the this manga was well done, and it has a rather unique setup of events/backstory for the plot and characters; however, this was also done in a “convenien, too convenient way,” which foreshadows this manga’s storyline.

To be blunt, the storyline/plot is all ... too convenient — it is so convenient that it becomes rather hard to be engaged to the story, since everything is either A) Predictable or B) Underwhelming. Because of this, there’s a lot of disinterest in the manga from the downtime it has between each chapter, since as the chapters go by, I lose the passion and urge I once had to click on the next chapter.

You know, I would love to say the characters are well-explored and meaningful, adding a drastic amount to the story’s intrigue and interest; however, their backstory and introductions to the plot sort of cause an opposite effect. Since the story utilizes so many meaningful characters to drive the plot, the plot has to revolve around them for the story to continue being interesting — now, this is hard to explain but I’ll try to explain it in a direct, forward way to understand: The plot has numerous of arcs, and each arc focuses on a select few of characters, leaving out the other well-developed and interesting characters, which causes a sense of dissatisfaction within the manga’s focus/plot/arc.

Regarding the characters and plot as a whole, there’s a lot of unnecessary details, flashbacks, events, and tropes that this manga employs within them to “buff” up the chapter length and story which does the exact opposite effect, since it’s mostly uninteresting due to its forced nature.

I really wanted to find a reason to continue loving this manga from its setup up to the 11-12 chapter point, but it failed to maintain that pace by introducing random tropes and events that are unnecessary and too convenient to find enjoyable.

You guys know this is just my opinion, right?

Reading Rankings (Portnoy inspired + A Huang-Teizan Original)
10 - God’s penmanship
9 - Must-read. Drop everything else.
8 - Instant bookmark
7 - Entertaining
6 - Good to pass time
5 - Why are you reading this?
4 - Bad.
3 - Typical garbage.
2 - My head hurts.
1 - Retirement is a thought.
0 - “Did they even give you a story?!”

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Mar 25, 2023

Ionliosite2

Not Recommended

Preliminary (3/49 eps)

Sorry but this series is just bad. Beat & Motion is something I came into after looking for more manga about artists after finishing and loving Time Paradox Ghost Writer, and the first chapter starts extremely promising, but it soon shows itself to just be nothing but a boring romcom with no identity.

Our MC had an interesting story at the start - he was a kid who always dreamed of directing anime, and was constantly drawing, but eventually phased that out to start a rock band that, no matter the many years he and his friends poured into it, never caught up - but the ...

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