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Synonyms: Beat and Motion
Japanese: BEAT＆MOTION
English: Beat & Motion
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Type: Manga
Volumes: 6
Chapters: 49
Status: Finished
Published: Feb 25, 2023 to Jan 25, 2025
Themes: Music Music, Otaku Culture Otaku Culture
Demographic: Shounen Shounen
Serialization: Shounen Jump+
Authors: Fujita, Naoki (Story & Art)

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Score: 7.231 (scored by 48224,822 users)
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Ranked: #59192
2 based on the top manga page. Please note that 'R18+' titles are excluded.
Popularity: #1443
Members: 15,733
Favorites: 128

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Tatsuhiko Hirayama's love for drawing began at a young age, and his aspiration was to work in animation someday. But when the young boy is bullied for his art, Tatsuhiko swears to never draw in front of others ever again. Desperate to find something new to fill the void in his heart, he turns to music but eventually becomes jaded by his own mediocrity.

While Tatsuhiko is out drinking with his friends, his sob story earns the ire of a drunk woman, who intimidates the young man into reassessing his attitude toward life. He decides to give animation another chance and soon rediscovers his love for the medium, pushing himself to publish a short video. Tatsuhiko is stunned when the video goes viral, even more so when his favorite singer, Nico Kashiwagi, requests a collaboration on her next music video!

Excited to finally meet the artist he has admired for so long, the young man is shocked to discover that Nico is the same bar patron that gave him an earful, though she has no recollection of that drunken night. While initially hesitant of their new partnership, Tatsuhiko slowly learns that there is more to Nico's brutish passion than he realizes.

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Naoki Fujita won Shueisha's Million Tag competition with Beat & Motion, which earned him a serialization and an anime adaptation of the series.

Beat & Motion was published digitally as an English simulpub through MANGA Plus.

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8 Recommended
2 Mixed Feelings
1 Not Recommended
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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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Jun 2, 2025
flick_ty
Mixed Feelings
Beat and Motion follows an animator and a singer, and how they form a friendship which then spirals into a relationship. The story follows many themes of success/failure, friendship and following your dreams. The plot essentially begins with a guy who wants to do art but feels like he can't pursue art due to a variety of reasons, who eventually meets a girl who is following her dreams despite them being difficult and hard to reach. They start out on the wrong foot to begin with, but eventually become friends who aim to work together on a project. His first project fails and during the ...
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Mar 25, 2023
Ionliosite2
Not Recommended
Preliminary (3/49 eps)
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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