Manga: Beck

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not only that, one of hte guys from the group who were doing the scanlations was hired by tokyopop to be the main translator. now we will have to wait FOREVER to finish the story... i/expressions/brokenheart.gif i/expressions/face-icon-small-sad.gif
i mean its great that it got licensed at all so that we now can support a really awesome manga and add to our collections, but after waiting that long to be able to finish a story; one just looses interest or forgets about it completely.

from mangascreeners site:

Sunday, Jan 23rd, 2005
Beck licensed by Tokyopop
As you can see here, Beck now appears in Tokyopop's online shop site. That means the usual: no more torrents, typing "@find beck" in the channel sets off the licensed ban script, etc. After everyone comes to grips with the fact that we won't be scanlating it anymore, you might be wondering if, like other manga I translated for Mangascreener that have been licensed, I will continue to offer text scripts on my website. The answer is no. This is not, as many people might suppose, an act of spite. It's because I am Tokyopop's official translator for Beck, and therefore I am not at liberty to disseminate them anymore (not that I would even if they didn't care). This also explains why I did not make this announcement months ago when I signed a contract with them... because they could easily terminate said contract for releasing information that was not public.

[DDBen]

That certainly explains why Volume 20 hadn't been translaited *mutters* Of course I think while Beck happens to be a good anime and Manga it has no future if its dubbed as its suppose to be half in Engrish and the show will lose its charm.

[glitched]

hmm, a hint of good news! (note: my first post was about the MANGA being licensed, this News artical is mostly about the anime , however the last line is the light of shining hope for the manga)


From shinsen subs site:

Beck Explanation. posted by newmiyamoto on Thu 27th, Jan 2005 12:52 am
» confessions of a Beck Freak.
As a few of you know I'm a Beck freak, and have been doing the anime from day 1 with A-E. Now a few weeks ago it came to our attention that the anime had all but been licensed by Funimation (this is NOT based on the funi registraion story). In preparation for the eventual licensing I decided to sort out a gameplan with my buddy vincent from shinsen (who I am also a part of), as the group at A-E consisted of some decent people I began to ask people i would want to work with to join the project for post-licensed releases. First person I asked was X (Beck Translator) who told me he was unhappy with the A-E situation (various reasons) and he would be willing to make a move a lot sooner. However, as we had already done work on ep 11+12, enough to put into the later stages of release we thought it best to start from 13+ and there you have it...

#are you going to do 11+12?
#depending on A-E's response, we will either forge ahead and release these or allow A-E to release them.

#Are you going to do the manga?
#Maybe not as part of Shinsen, but some of us here at Shinsen will be releasing further chapters of the manga soon...

[Hakeem_21]

They sure kept thier promise cause Beck 58 just came out and you can find it

here http://www.youshareit.com/download.php?d60040dc3d177bcbae9507f62470092a

Finaly new Becki/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif

Two more chaps will be out before the end of this monthi/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif

[tensai]

i checked out the download site, it says that the download is expired
this is what it says on the bottom
"Please wait for timer to reach zero
and then press download button to start download"
but there is no timer

[Hakeem_21]

Here is the torrent



http://www.hongfire.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=24146

[Munsu]

i just caught up....

chapter 59 is out btw...

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[Santah]

Ryuusuke is really starting to piss me off. He has deff been the bands biggest problem consitently for the entire manga. I wish he'd get his shit together.

[Munsu]

yep he has... but he's also what has made the big difference between them being an ok band, into being a good band, so they have to bear with it...

and you can't really blame him, he has gone through some tough shit, only complaint is his lack of communication

[Lefty]

But lets forget that the lack of Ray ahs force Koyuki to become extreamly better guitar player.

[Hakeem_21]

Ryuueske isnt the only diffrence beteween them bieng god or great, it just that they are better when they are all five than just four with just Koyuki play the guitar.

Yeah if Koyuki could get better at the guitar they wouldnt need Ryuueske so much.

[Santah]

Koyuki became a better player because he had to fill the gap left by Ryuusuke when he was always gone. However the whole point of getting Koyuki in the band in the first place was "to fill out the sound" of Beck... with only one guitarist there is always a bit missing from their sound, it would be same if koyuki left and only Ryuusuke played.

[Hakeem_21]

That was my point that one quitar isnt enough but if koyuki got even better they could get a replacement for Ryuueske next time he suddenly dissapears.

I miss Maho she was a good characther, hope she will return soon.

And whats up with Koyuki always checking out that girl, has he already forgot about his girlfriend.

[Munsu]

i hope maho is not cheating on him...

and i like how they make koyuki think about girls, like that girl that has been appearing lately (when he was handing out flyiers and such)


and remember, that she said that the 1969 cap was given by a special person in london if not mistaken...

[Hakeem_21]

Mm mabye then why didnt she tell koyuki that they are over if she had someone else.

[Munsu]

just saying that if she sees that someone else (even if she doesnt feel anything for him now) old feelings might come back...

[Hakeem_21]

Yeah that wouldnt be so suprising cause its not the first time a realtionship like Koyuki's and Maho's crumbles.

[Santah]

Yeah you can tell they are already breaking apart by the fact Koyuki said they weren't sending each other very many emails anymore.

[Santah]

c60 is out

[Munsu]

yep nice

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[Munsu]

yep nice

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[Hakeem_21]

I love mangaone,they are so fasti/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif

[Munsu]

man koyuki is a pussy... he should go to London

[Lefty]

Give the kid a break Bud. With out him they would lose some of the spark that beck has. Plus he would be hella nervous in that situation.

[Hakeem_21]

Also i dont think he can afford it cause they dont even have money to make an album and they all work just to have money to rent the studio for practice.

[Hakeem_21]

http://gantz.is-a-geek.org/MonE/Beck_v21_c061%5bMonE%5d.zip

[Santah]

wow something actually went right for them for a change... its been a while i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif

[Hakeem_21]

Yeah hopefully they can have it easy for once without a problem.

Its was intresting seeing that Koyuki's voice gave them the contract since they all think Ryuueske guitar playing is the best that Beck has.

[tensai]

chapter 62 is out
its funny what chiba does with koyuki's phone

[Santah]

wtf they are using that piano guy to be their sound engineer again?!? Didn't he basically fuck up their last album :S?

[Hakeem_21]

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[Makenai]

Oh man! That was so funny what Chiba did. XD "I like chicks with glasses."

[Munsu]

nothing much happening in the last 2 chapters... it has been pretty stale... i hope next chapters pick up a bit of momentum

[Hakeem_21]

Nothing much happening??

They did get a contract by a famous label didnt they i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif

[Mut]

Okay... I just read up to chapter 63... Is there more?

Maho gives me hardons every page.

[Ryllharu]

I know that they haven't made another release, but at least the books will be worth buying when they come out in America, because the guy doing it before is the head translators for whoever got the license.

Volume 22, which contains the next chapters, came out on the 15th of April in Japan. And they have that noted in their IRC channel. I think we can probably expect a release soon.

And I know exactly what you mean about Maho. She is one of the best characters to come to anime, that, and she's hot.

[Mut]

God... I'm so hooked on this manga. I don't really like the type of music they play but the actual series is really addicting...

Either that or Maho, alone, has me.

[Hakeem_21]

I didnt like this kind of manga before but the struggle they go through to make it and some great charachters has made me a fan of this manga.

About Maho i hope she comes back to japan, i hope the mangaka doesnt dump her in London.
But i like Saitou(sp?) most.

[chronium]

sordove surprised none of you have mentioned any beck fansites

Beckfan (http://beckfan.co.nr) its my site, I have lots of info on the site

Please don't go around making posts to promote your site. There are more discreet ways of doing that. Thanks.

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[Mut]

Uhh... Anyone know what's going on with the latest volume? It's suppose to be released in Japan on 4/22 or something...

[rdperalta]

Volume 22 chapter 64 was just released by MangaOne i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif

[Santah]

got a http download link? I can't connect to rizon atm...

[chronium]

I also have a torrent and you can download it from http://beckfan.co.nr

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[Honoko]

sweet. thanks a lot!

EDIT
man, i'm really excited for the band but i can't help wondering when all this good luck's gonna end and they start wading through music business politics again. i hope it won't >_<;

[Hakeem_21]

Honoko the good luck might not end very soon cause they have so much bad luck and problems keeping them down.

[Meatbun-man]

I'm gonna say this once... and only once. I do not appreciate the link being spread around. If you want the chapter join mangaone's channel and get it from there. The link is provided there too. If I find out your continuing to do this. I will stop providing the space. I am giving you 3 days warning. If the links on this forum are not gone by then do not expect to get any chapters off http anymore.

BTW, my link is not the "http://beckfan.co.nr. " one. Its the other one.

EDIT: Thanks.

[tensai]

beck 65 was released, i thought something bad was going to happen but it was cool
damn semi cliff hanger again

[Mut]

What the fuck, no Maho?

This chapter gets an F.

[Hakeem_21]

Haha no maho what did you expect i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif

[chronium]

theres no maho in 66 as well

[Lefty]

Or for the rest of 22, so Mut just wait.

[Shaka Zulu]

Damn,too bad the prick Ran didnt find them with Jim after shooting the video i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif They would have gotten into even more trouble.But I would like to have seen Jim dissing on Ran i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif

But that would have been typical,good it didnt happend.Cant wait to see how their music video turns out,prolly gonna get some troubles with it.But if they get so much commotion just by having an article written of them,imagine the impact a music video will have.

Who was that moviestar/singer? Koyuku met on the set,he met her somewhere earlier but I dont remember it.Highly amusing wen Jim filmed wen Chiba talked about Koyuki's female friend and gave him a condom i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif

Yeah no Maho,not to upset because I know we wont see her for a while,but still,I hope he comes back to the series for good,she is a great(and hoti/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif) character.But the question is how,the only way I would see that happening if she cancelled her studies in London,or if she gets back after a year (the time flies by in this manga).

[Hakeem_21]

http://www.kippei.x-wh.net/manga/

There is the place for the NEW Beck chap 66.

[Ryllharu]

Has anyone else noticed that the drawing style has signifigantly changed since the beginning of the series? I didn't really notice it at first but its starting to bother me in the last couple of chapters. I know most of the characters are getting older: the series started when Koyuki was 14 and its been 5-6 years, but it just looks really strange. Their mouths are all HUGE. At the beginning were larger than average for Japanese drawing style, no big deal, but now most of the characters look rediculous. Ryusuke is just about the only one who doesn't really look any different, but Koyuki looks particularly abnormal lately.

[Hakeem_21]

Thier mouths look bigger when its a comedie sitaution but it looks normal the other times.

[chronium]

well I just baught my copy of volume 1 i/expressions/face-icon-small-happy.gif The style of the characters are slowly changing but I think its fine because their personalities are slowly maturing as well

[Honoko]

ch 67 came out....


http://66.49.240.181/torrent/B...ent">ch 67 torrent (http://66.49.240.181/torrent/Beck_v23_c067MonE.zip.torrent)</a>[/L]

i haven't read it yet but have fun =P

[Honoko]

for some reason, i can't edit the above post to fix the link.

copy and paste below:
http://66.49.240.181/torrent/B...3_c067MonE.zip.torrent (http://66.49.240.181/torrent/Beck_v23_c067MonE.zip.torrent)

[Hakeem_21]

Beck 68 is out now!!

Irc only so far.

[tensai]

its also out on bittorrent

i feel sorry for koyuki

[Honoko]

koyuki burning that menu was hilarious hahahaha

[Hakeem_21]

Have you guys read chap 69 yet?

I thought things would go better for them now but Ran is a son of a b****.

[Honoko]

i finally read it-- see? i KNEW things were too good to be true! grrrr... but that guy who's helping out ran's even worse. poor koyuki.....

[Lefty]

Well Look at it this way. All of the crap Ran is doing to beck will back fire seriously in his face eventually. With intrest.

[Hakeem_21]

Yeah eventually but right now things sucks bigtime for Beck.

[paulfear]

i have a feeling in one of the up coming chapters they will use the pics from the meeting in chapter 68 to attempt to break up the band. try to get them to think koyuki is going to hit a solo career or something.

[Hakeem_21]

Its pretty clear that will happen but i more intrested in how the rest of the guys will react.

[Honoko]

http://www.onemanga.com/Beck/

Resurrecting this dinosaur of a thread because Beck is finally completely scanslated! As far as manga series with "real life" settings go, I've enjoyed this one the most; and its re-read factor is quite high. You've got villains you could truly hate, underdogs you can truly root for... and the conflicts and the subsequent resolutions in the series are all handled very well, hardly ever cheesy. Highly recommended (for whatever my opinion's worth =P)

[Munsu]

I really need to catch up to this, though I have no idea where I left off... somewhere during their tour in the US. Probably somewhere around volume 23. That will be a pain in the ass to figure out.

[Honoko]

Hopefully not too much of a pain because each volume has 3 fat chapters. So do some simple math and....?