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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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Score: 7.23¹ (scored by 4,191 users)

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Ranked: #5823²

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Popularity: #1518

Members: 14,149

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Dec 1, 2023

SGLima

Recommended

Preliminary (20/49 chp)

Beat & Motion is a breath of originality and inspiration in the midst of tried and tested formulas.

The main character of Fujita Naoki's manga is Tatsuhiko. We follow the protagonist through his rather bleak daily life as he deals with the frustrations of his existence. The initial turning point in the manga that starts the plot is his encounter with a girl at a social event.

Beat & Motion's great asset is the real and nuanced way it deals with life's themes. Here we have a protagonist who is a young adult dealing with bad choices, a complicated life and dreams. I won't spoil anything, but ... I can assure you that this delicate way of dealing with these themes is maintained throughout the chapters. We follow characters who seem real, dealing with real problems, without limiting stereotypes, but without losing the playfulness of a plot suitable for a manga. For that reason alone, the manga is worth reading.

However, this is just one of its qualities. The manga also has a good art direction. I found myself feeling the tension of flipping a page because of the way the drawing was laid out. Fujita knows very well how to use a simple line and the frames to convey the right feeling. What's more, the manga is fun. Dealing with serious themes didn't stop it from being entertaining.

In summary: Beat & Motion is a manga full of personality and sensitivity to complex themes available on the mangaplus website and deserves to be recognized for its originality!

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Beat & Motion é um respiro de originalidade e inspiração em meio a fórmulas fáceis e batidas.

O mangá de Fujita Naoki tem como personagem principal Tatsuhiko. Acompanhamos o protagonista em seu dia a dia um tanto desolador, enquanto lida com frustrações de sua vida. A virada inicial do mangá que começa o enredo é o encontro que tem com uma moça em um evento social.

O grande trunfo de Beat & Motion é modo real e nuançado que lida com temas da vida. Aqui temos um protagonista que é um jovem adulto lidando com escolhas ruins, com uma vida complicada e com sonhos. Não darei spoiler, mas posso garantir que esse modo delicado de lidar com esses temas se mantém no decorrer dos capítulos. Acompanhamos personagens que parecem reais, lidando com problemas reais, sem esteriótipos limitadores, só que sem perder o lúdico de um enredo adequado para um mangá. Só por isso, o mangá já valeria ser lido.

Contudo, isso é apenas uma de suas qualidades. O mangá também conta com uma boa quadrinização. Já me peguei sentindo a tensão de passar uma página, por conta da forma como o desenho era disposto. Fujita sabe muito bem usar seu traço simples e os quadros para passar o sentimento adequado. Além disso, o mangá é divertido. Tratar de temas sério não o impediu de ser um bom entretenimento.

Em resumo: Beat & Motion é um mangá cheio de personalidade e sensibilidade para temas complexos disponível no site mangaplus e merece ser reconhecido pela sua originalidade!

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Dec 15, 2023

Huang-Teizan

Mixed Feelings

Preliminary (22/49 chp)

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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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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Nov 11, 2024

d_t_a0811

Recommended

Preliminary (39/49 chp)

Now that more than two chapters have been released from my initial review, more than enough time has passed to make a fuller evaluation of for Beat & Motion. While promising from its start, the series has continued its trajectory of being a stand-out series worth reading.

The author continues to have a remarkable grasp of using visual metaphor to capture the up-and-down experiences of the characters. Additionally, while the over-arcing narrative has been mostly linear in terms of success for the main characters, there's a potent sense of anxiety in their day-to-day pursuit of those goals that aims to draw the reader into the ...

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Jan 28, 2025

sosmeos

Recommended

Despite the character design making them look rather young even as adults, I think we get to see some of the more proper adult characters in the shonen jump space, though they do suffer from being a lil delulu, childish, and struggling (that's a neutral statement, many artists struggle). We have a musician wishing to make it big despite having a former superstar musician mom, she's trying to escape the nepobaby curse, which, good on you, girliepop. Then we have an artist who aims to make his animations into films at some point, but he always had a love for the musician's music so he ... wants to animate a music video for her.

Great, the characters intermingle, the goals are set, there's some setbacks, some drama, some growth, and overall just a solid time, if a little boring and with typical usage of cliffhanger endings due to weekly chapter drops. I read somewhere that this was not intended to be a super long running manga, which is great to see from time to time, if anything, its rambling, uneven attention to detail or plot may be due to extending something beyond its intended ending point. And that's honestly a good problem to have instead of the opposite where your wings are cut before you get to fly.

There's kind of a sweet spot that this manga hits between realism and the contrived, messy plot creations of shonen manga. The characters don't express their feelings and bottle it up until it explodes or causes a problem, another manga might have this go on for entire arcs, this one solves it in a couple chapters. A different musician is later introduced and she has a major problem with main protag musician Kashiwagi, and the first time they interact while alone, we see the problem directly, they yell, they air out their grievances, and then they become closer, then another issue arises and since they aired out a previous grievance, they are at a better, healthier place to discuss a new one. Similarly, the main protagonists don't stay in the will they won't they stage for too long, and once the reveal is made the couple moves with certainty. Main dramatic moments are solved relatively quickly with a conversation and a rant and things get better. Main themes include music and animation industry woes, relationship mismatches due to business, creative differences, and success and failure in creative endeavors.

This is decent read for anyone who wishes to see how creatives deal with their problems in a productive way, and while the beginning of this manga really focuses on the intensely driven drunken but ambitious waifu-bait, I think that changes and improves enough to keep things interesting. Our main guy is kind of boring the whole way though he is hardworking and resilient, and the moments where the mangaka's art vastly shines are in those contemplative moments where the main man questions why he is even an artist, or those moments of realization that he's not alone anymore or he's improved in quality. Things got a little rushed towards the end but that's fine, author probably wanted to end things semi-ambiguously because the story should have been relatively short.

It's not a remarkably amazing manga but I hold a sweet spot for its short, self-contained story with an endless possibility for what happens after the curtains fall. I wanted our cast to succeed and I think I was left satisfied with how things ended up. Side characters were not the most fleshed out but they contained a lil bit of growth in their interaction with the two protags.

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Mar 25, 2023

Ionliosite2

Not Recommended

Preliminary (3/49 chp)

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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