Beck: Live Action Movie

I remember during season when International NANA Day was held,  Beck was being shown in Hero Channel (do I remember it right?).  I never took notice coz that was the year I was heavily into NANA. 2007 is NANA’s year.  In fact, it was the year I dressed up in punk-lolita fashion.

Both manga focuses on rock bands.  The only difference is NANA is for girls like me.  And Beck, obviously is for guys.  I still want to check it out.  I even want to check out the tagalized version as very popular 90s rock icons were chosen as Filipino seiyuu.  However, I’m looking forward to its upcoming live-action movie version.

In the movie, they will be focusing on the guitarist who formed the band, Beck — as opposed to the manga that focused on the young vocalist.  What’s fun about this, they’ll be lead by Mizushima Hiro as the lead guitar player.  I still haven’t checked out DROP — it’s not easy finding a copy with subs (I really should take my Japanese seriously).  Mizushima Hiro, even though recently getting married to Jpop star Ayaka, is still very bankable.  Two years after, Ikemen power still lingers.  Yokatta yo~

Mizushima Hiro will be joined by Takeru Sato and Mukai Osamu (kyaaaaaa~) who he has worked with in winter season’s Mei-Chan No Shitsuji.  More Mukai Osamu for me, yay!

Shooting of the film starts next month.  The film is slated for next year.  I’m confident that soundtrack will dominate the charts.  How good it’ll be, I wonder.  I was raised in a very rock-&-roll oriented family.  So I’m pretty excited about the songs.  I’m not sure about Takeru Sato’s voice though — but I’ll reserve my judgment untill I hear him sing.

So many of the fans are already excited about the movie.  More because of the ikemen in it than the anime itself (or probably I’ve been hanging out at fangirl-dominated-sites more than anime-fansites). 

Check out the pictures and their corresponding characters … 

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 Mukai Osamu in white hair again?  It’s really Mei-chan no Shitsuji all over again.  I love it.

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Ja, mata ne~

Note/Credits: Beck images taken from Animax Forums; Ikemen images taken from Asiafanatics.net.