It’s been a couple of months since I watched BECK back when I was in Japan. I needed something to help me kill time on those long train rides, especially the 7 hours from Hakata to Tokyo, and I randomly uploaded BECK into my iPod Touch. Before BECK, never had I come across anime series of the music genre, except for Nodame Cantabile which I’ve heard of but yet to watch or read.
I finished the series way before my trip ended, and ended up watching it over again, not because I had nothing else better to do on the train rides. Rather, it was because I found myself enjoying the band’s performance, especially their epic live at Greatful Sound in the last few episodes. Ever since then, I had always wanted to write about BECK, but the idea somehow got lost along the way.
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