To be honest, I don't like the name of the Chinese translation, so I can directly call it "BECK", and the original work is also this name. The manga of the work was serialized in 1999, and the animation was released in 2004, with a Douban score of 9 points.
Please note! The style of this work is not beautiful! Not at all! It is far from the style of painting that anime is pursuing now!
But at that time, the popular style was either muscular or this type of painting style, such as "Youth Basketball Dream", "Olympic Master", "Football Junior", "Four Wheel Drive Brothers", "Parasitic Beasts" and so on...
The painting style is more realistic, the appearance of the characters is not paid much attention, and the author has left most of his energy to the plot. You only need to recall that the anime of that time and the anime of today are almost like living in two different dimensions!
In addition to the less beautiful style of painting, this work also used a lot of repetitive pictures due to the extreme lack of production funds, especially when the band was performing and singing.
But it is for this reason that an alternative style of this work has been formed! The production team cleverly used a very small number of simple pictures, and used a lot of freehand blank techniques in the animation, and the performance scenes that required intense and large movements were very poetic, but not conventional! Left a lot of room for the audience to imagine, so a somewhat literary rock anime appeared.
Of course, due to the poverty of the production team, the content of the animation plot has been drastically reduced, resulting in many plots in the manga not being shown, which is a fly in the ointment.
In addition, the work also has a live-action film version, but the evaluation is not high, only 7.6 points, but it is also comparable to many movies now...
Then someone wanted to ask, where did most of those production costs go?
Well, of course, rock music! Although poor, I still asked the band to sing and write songs! So the most noteworthy thing in this animation is the song in it!
Many viewers who have seen this work have given praise to the songs in the work, but unfortunately there are too few songs!
If you are interested in this work, don't look at it with a sense of contrast, it is very realistic, and it is especially written about the embarrassment, embarrassment, loss, and conflict of real life.
This is not a commercial comic, except for music, there is no selling point at all, they do not talk about love, in addition to trying to chase the dream of music, everything else is the indifference of reality, so don't treat this work as a relaxing consumer product, it can't afford it.