If Beck Stumbles, If Beck Falls
January 16th, 2008
What makes Beck connect with me is how it can remind me of the dreams I had before joining the real world. Nowhere in that dream of red guitars, three chords, and the truth was the idiocy of Leon Sykes, which is where Beck kind of loses me in volume 5. It almost feels like the writer was unaware of how good that story he was writing was and felt scared that without some heavy man vs. man basic plot action the audience would leave.
But you know, writing is tough and people often don’t realize what’s in front of them, like Koyuki. He’s got this Hiromi girl right in front of him, but he doesn’t seem to notice. Well, he sort of notices at one point, but he’s pre-occupied with someone else who he can’t shake off. I can understand that though, especially at that age, the girl you can’t figure out is who you want. You’d think with all those hormones that we’d be all over the girl giving us the green light, but that seems to go against our programming or maybe the hormones just screw us up in order to feed off our frustration.
I thought I’d have more to say about volume 5 of Beck, seeing as the second to last volume usually gives a lot to talk about, but Leon Sykes’ involvement in the story feels like a bad tangent rather than the heart of the story. That probably sums up what I’m feeling with the story, that we’re getting away from the heart of it here, away from five guys vs. complacency to Ryuske vs. Leon. I just find the battle versus complacency a more compelling riff for this band.
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January 16th, 2008 at 1:29 pm
I watched one episode of Beck on Muchmusic, and it somewhat reminded me of by Naoki Urasawa, since both of them are about childhood dreams and rock&roll :D.
I think Beck and 20th Century Boys are both those kinds of anime/manga that are not of the most public interest (say, Naruto and Bleach), but they are the truly bests out there because they have so many feelings built into them and are not just simple fightings and killings that make people think “cool”.
January 16th, 2008 at 1:56 pm
Good thoughts on Beck. It really is interesting how easily you can relate it to real life events. I suppose that is perhaps its greatest accomplishment as a story, is that it feels very real and down to earth.
January 18th, 2008 at 12:27 am
It constantly amazes me how this show doesn’t have a bigger fan base.
January 20th, 2008 at 1:26 am
It constantly irritates me how this show doesn’t have a second season.