BECK, Vol. 7

BECK: Mongolian Chop Squad #7

by Harold Sakuishi

With brass in pocket, Beck's popularity is snowballing: CD sales are up in the U.S., and they keep booking great gigs. But not all is what it really seems to be. Eddie has a message for Ryusuke, and it doesn't sound like fan mail. Ryusuke's bullet-ridden guitar and secret weapon, Lucille, has an admirer that will stop at nothing to get her. Meanwhile, Maho has a new suitor ... but do all the best cowboys really have Chinese eyes? Saku and Koyuki share more than a lust for life—they are chasing the same girl. What else can happen to Beck? Is a U.S. tour in the works?

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Genres: Manga, Comics, Music, Japanese Literature, Shonen, Fiction, Graphic Novels

199 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 15, 2001

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

[Lara · Rating 4 out of 5]

I feel like this series is finally starting to click with me. I still don’t really want anymore closeups of butts as girls adjust leotards or swimsuits, etc. but at least the music parts are starting to pick up a bit!

[clo · Rating 3 out of 5]

no offense ma come fa questo a pullare tutte ste tipe. basta close up di culi di minorenni anche grazie

[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!😁🤟💕

[Craig Schorling · Rating 3 out of 5]

This one was a little difficult to follow and over the top at the beginning. Beck is getting ready to play a big festival.

[Steinhecr · Rating 4 out of 5]

Por qué cojones le robas un perro y una guitarra a un capo de la mafia?

[notjoshy · Rating 5 out of 5]

I was wondering where the "mongolian chop squad" comes from.

[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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[Kayla · Rating 5 out of 5]

Damn! The story is seriously starting! In this volume we find out the secret of Lucille, the guitar that Ryusuke plays sometimes, and that it was stolen from some drug lord (assumption, there were large amounts of drugs where Lucille was found) who wants it back. Also, Beck the dog was also stolen aat that time, of course as a puppy (puppy Beck was so cute).
Hilarious that Ryusuke let the American distributer choose their American name, and comes out with "Mongolian Chop Squad". His shock was great. What a band name

[dexqa · Rating 4 out of 5]

Let music safe your soul.

Tanaka Yukio think he's gonna spend all his life in boredom.
One day a cross-stitched-Frankensteinish-sort of a dog bit him
and the owner influences soon change his future course.

A recommended reading

[Indah Threez Lestari · Rating 4 out of 5]

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