{"product_id":"beck-mongolian-chop-squad-dvd","title":"Beck : Mongolian Chop Squad - DVD","description":"\u003cp\u003eYukio Tanaka — Koyuki to his friends — is fourteen years old and comprehensively unremarkable. He is not athletic, not popular, not particularly talented at anything, and has spent most of his adolescence drifting through the comfortable numbness of being a nobody. Then he meets Ryusuke Minami: a guitarist just back from the United States, carrying a battered dog named Beck and a reputation for trouble, whose playing sounds like nothing Koyuki has ever heard. Ryusuke teaches Koyuki to play guitar. Koyuki turns out to have a voice — a voice that, when it comes out fully, stops rooms. Around them assembles a band: Taira on bass, Saku on drums, Chiba on vocals. They call themselves Beck, and they start playing. The road from a practice space in Tokyo to the stage at Grateful Sound is not short, and it is not easy, and it is not free of the kind of setbacks that destroy most bands. But the music is real, and so is Koyuki's feeling for Maho — Ryusuke's sister — and both of those things turn out to be enough to keep going.\u003cbr\u003e\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u003cbr\u003eBeck: Mongolian Chop Squad is a 26-episode music drama series produced by Madhouse — the studio behind Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust, Kaiba, and Paprika — directed and written by Osamu Kobayashi, and based on Harold Sakuishi's manga, which won the 2002 Kodansha Manga Award in the shonen category and has sold over 15 million copies. It aired on TV Tokyo from October 7, 2004 to March 31, 2005. \u003cbr\u003e\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;The series is widely considered the definitive music anime — distinguished by its real rock sensibility, its accurate depiction of the work and culture of band life, and its extensive use of actual licensed music alongside original songs performed for the series.\u003cbr\u003e\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u003cbr\u003e\u0026lt;b\u0026gt;Notable Staff \u0026amp; Voice Talent\u0026lt;\/b\u0026gt;\u003cbr\u003e\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u003cbr\u003e\u0026lt;b\u0026gt;Director \/ Series Composition:\u0026lt;\/b\u0026gt; Osamu Kobayashi\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u003cbr\u003e\u0026lt;b\u0026gt;Original Manga:\u0026lt;\/b\u0026gt; Harold Sakuishi (Beck, serialized in Monthly Shōnen Magazine, Kodansha, 1999–2008, 34 volumes; Kodansha Manga Award winner 2002; English license: Tokyopop \/ ComiXology \/ Kodansha USA)\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u003cbr\u003e\u0026lt;b\u0026gt;Studio:\u0026lt;\/b\u0026gt; Madhouse\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u003cbr\u003e\u0026lt;b\u0026gt;Music:\u0026lt;\/b\u0026gt; Yoshihisa Hirano \u0026amp; Hiroki Kikuta\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u003cbr\u003e\u0026lt;b\u0026gt;Opening Theme:\u0026lt;\/b\u0026gt; \"Hit in the USA\" by Beat Crusaders\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u003cbr\u003e\u0026lt;b\u0026gt;Ending Theme 1 (eps 1–20):\u0026lt;\/b\u0026gt; \"My World Down\" by Meister (performed in-show by fictional band Dying Breed)\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u003cbr\u003e\u0026lt;b\u0026gt;Ending Theme 2 (eps 21–26):\u0026lt;\/b\u0026gt; \"Moon on the Water\" by Beat Crusaders\u003cbr\u003e\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u003cbr\u003e\u0026lt;b\u0026gt;Japanese Cast:\u0026lt;\/b\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u003cbr\u003e• Tatsuya Fujiwara as Koyuki \/ Yukio Tanaka\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u003cbr\u003e• Hiro Shimono as Ryusuke Minami (Ben-To — Yo Sato)\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u003cbr\u003e• Ayumi Fujimura as Maho Minami (Maid Sama! — Misaki Ayuzawa)\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u003cbr\u003e• Kentaro Ito as Chiba\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u003cbr\u003e• Yosuke Akimoto as Taira\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u003cbr\u003e• Yoshimasa Hosoya as Saku\u003cbr\u003e\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u003cbr\u003e\u0026lt;b\u0026gt;English Dub Cast (FUNimation — Texas):\u0026lt;\/b\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u003cbr\u003e• Greg Ayres as Koyuki \/ Yukio Tanaka \u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u003cbr\u003e• Eric Vale as Ryusuke Minami \u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u003cbr\u003e• Luci Christian as Maho Minami ( One Piece — Nami)\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u003cbr\u003e• Tyler Walker as Chiba\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u003cbr\u003e• Jerry Jewell as Taira (Case Closed — Jimmy Kudo)\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u003cbr\u003e• Joel McDonald as Saku\u003cbr\u003e\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u003cbr\u003e\u0026lt;b\u0026gt;DVD Features (FUNimation Viridian Collection Complete Series, 4 Discs)\u0026lt;\/b\u0026gt;\u003cbr\u003e\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u003cbr\u003e• All 26 Episodes on 4 Discs — Complete Series\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u003cbr\u003e• \"A Life on the Road\" Music Video\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u003cbr\u003e• \"A Day in the Life\" — Director Commentary\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u003cbr\u003e• \"With a Little Help From My Friends\" — Cast and Director Commentary\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u003cbr\u003e• \"We Can Work It Out\" — Music Commentary\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u003cbr\u003e• Textless Opening \u0026amp; Closing Songs\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u003cbr\u003e• Trailers\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u003cbr\u003e• FUNimation Previews\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u003cbr\u003e• Note: Vol. 1 of the original 6-volume individual release included an amp artbox, guitar pick, and Beck stickers — not included in this Viridian set\u003cbr\u003e\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u003cbr\u003e\u0026lt;b\u0026gt;Spoken Languages:\u0026lt;\/b\u0026gt; English \u0026amp; Japanese Audio, English Subtitles\u003cbr\u003e\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u003cbr\u003e\u0026lt;b\u0026gt;Edition Details\u0026lt;\/b\u0026gt;\u003cbr\u003e\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u003cbr\u003e\u0026lt;b\u0026gt;Japanese Title:\u0026lt;\/b\u0026gt; BECK モンゴリアン・チョップ・スクワッド (Bekku Mongoriang Choppu Sukuwaddo)\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u003cbr\u003e\u0026lt;b\u0026gt;Runtime:\u0026lt;\/b\u0026gt; ~635 Minutes (Complete Series, 26 Episodes, 4 Discs)\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u003cbr\u003e\u0026lt;b\u0026gt;Director:\u0026lt;\/b\u0026gt; Osamu Kobayashi\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u003cbr\u003e\u0026lt;b\u0026gt;DVD Release Year:\u0026lt;\/b\u0026gt; 2009 \u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u003cbr\u003e\u0026lt;b\u0026gt;Original Broadcast Date (Japan):\u0026lt;\/b\u0026gt; October 7, 2004 – March 31, 2005 (TV Tokyo)\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u003cbr\u003e\u0026lt;b\u0026gt;Publisher:\u0026lt;\/b\u0026gt; FUNimation Entertainment\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u003cbr\u003e\u0026lt;b\u0026gt;Rating:\u0026lt;\/b\u0026gt; 17+\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u003cbr\u003e\u0026lt;b\u0026gt;Region:\u0026lt;\/b\u0026gt; Region 1 (U.S. \/ Canada)\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u003cbr\u003e\u0026lt;b\u0026gt;Genre:\u0026lt;\/b\u0026gt; Drama, Music\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u003cbr\u003e\u0026lt;b\u0026gt;Themes:\u0026lt;\/b\u0026gt; Band Formation, Rock Music, Coming of Age, Underground Scene to Major Stage, Kodansha Manga Award Winner\u003cbr\u003e\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u003cbr\u003eMedia assumed VG+ unless otherwise noted.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Funimation","offers":[{"title":"S.A.V.E. 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