Beck ep. 6
ryuusuke introduces chiba to taira and chiba is disappointed taira’s not a girl (taira: can he sing?). maho gives koyuki eddie’s pick she picked up from one of dybre’s concerts. taira tells eiji that he’s joining ryuusuke’s band (it’s magic!). koyuki’s class has a new music teacher, momoko-sensei (momo-chan). koyuki and his friend (i forgot his name) sees momo-chan crying during breaktime because nobody listens to her in class. momoko-sensei asks koyuki to lead the class’s choir for the school festival because she heard he has a good voice (ousu!).
during practice, koyuki asks the class to take things seriously but he meets opposition in hyodo who tears up the lyrics sheet (wow, hyodo looks different in the manga). izumi tells koyuki that ryuusuke’s band had already decided on a name, beck, after ryuusuke’s dog (chiba thought of the name). hyodo sees koyuki getting friendly with ishiguro-sempai. hyodo practices guitar alone inside the music room. while the school was busy making preparations for the school festival, koyuki goes inside the music room and was disappointed nobody is practicing.
he spots a jaguar guitar and starts playing it. enters hyodo and gang who sees koyuki with the jaguar and asks him to play for them. hyodo and gang laughs at koyuki’s playing and koyuki tells them he just started last summer break under saitou’san’s tutelage. one of hyodo’s goons insults saitou-san and koyuki gets mad. the goon attacks koyuki and the guitar falls and gets chipped off. hyodo tells koyuki that the jaguar belongs to rikia, one of the toughest delinquents at school. koyuki sees rikia beating some guy up. hyodo and gang bullies koyuki and forces him to do whatever they please in exchange for not telling rikia about the guitar.
koyuki meets maho and they eat out (maho paid though because hyodo used up all of koyuki’s money). maho asks koyuki to join the band since they were practicing at the studio but koyuki says no because ryuusuke is still mad at him. maho convinces koyuki to take a peek at the band practicing but koyuki runs away after a while. koyuki’s class gets laughed at during the choir festival because they sucked (but i thought they weren’t that bad though). koyuki and friend catches hyodo’s guitar-playing at the festival and they’re impressed.
koyuki talks to hyodo about hyodo’s performance but hyodo orders him to buy food instead (hyodo: i don’t want to talk about music with you). koyuki doesn’t want to comply but he sees rikia beating the school’s judo champion up and koyuki changes his mind. eiji destroys ryuusuke’s guitar so ryuusuke decides to use lucille instead. whew!