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 ... tangent to try to get as much rage money from their fans with their ridiculous story that took more than 1 year to develop.

Illustration. I saw some people complaining about this actually saying that their appearance doesn't look like their age, which is about twenties. And I would like to say, I kind of agree and disagree. I agree sometimes these authors try too hard to make their OC look so young despite their age but on this occasion, I would have to disagree because I looked into the mirror and felt like I still looked the same as myself at 17 (and I'm in my 24 this year). So, their appearance is valid I would say. Other than appearance, the background illustration looks stunning and I don't have a complaint about it.

Characters. I would love to discuss a lot in this section of the review, but I don't want you all to sit here and read my praises for these characters. So, I'm just going to say read it, and you'll love them. No extended drama, no misunderstanding of more than 2 chapters, and even better, they talked about their problems and solved them like champs by collaborating and finding the solutions. That's insanely rare in these days and ages of manga/webtoon/comic, right?

Proportions of the manga. I wish I could buy the physical version to compare it but I'm just going to talk about the MangaPlus version. Overall I don't have any complaints. I don't even have nitpick. I could see this manga becoming popular if they decide to make an anime out of it and animate it beautifully. I wish the story would stay longer though, like just a little bit more.

Overall, I recommended this manga. It's 9.9/10 for me.

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 ... production he meets two other art dudes who help him with another project that eventually takes off and then bam, the dude gets to work with the main girl who is now his girlfriend and it's all yipee and wahoo. Overall- it's a fine manga, plot isn't generic but isn't anything outstanding. The artstyle is okay, definitely isn't a favourite, but isn't anything horrendous. The series begins to feel rushed towards the end, as most shorter mangas tend to. It is not a super memorable manga, but the female lead is pretty cute. Male lead is pretty forgettable. Not a bad read and doesn't take up a heap of time.

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 ... series soon loses all sense of realism when he recovers his ion and makes an extremely short, extremely simple 3 minutes long animation on a random Twitter ... and it goes viral overnight and he has the idol he had a crush on since middle school suddenly wanting him????? Romcoms aren't exactly the pinnacle of writing, but suspension of disbelief is a thing, and when I'm not even done with the first chapter of the series they already break it, there's an issue.

From there the series just becomes about him going out with the idol of his dreams, who clearly appreciates him immensely and loves everything he does, and I'm just bored. This is the millionth romcom about the perfect girl suddenly falling on top of the lap of some loser and acting as his manic pixie dream girl, the interesting themes about lost ion from the first part of chapter 1 gone, all replaced by the most insipid and done to death romcom plot imaginable. I don't even want to know how this series goes going forward, because I've read a lot of romcom, so I know this will just slowly degrade into nothing but waifu pandering and never again try anything interesting with its characters or story.

Thank you for reading.