The award-winning manga is finally getting an anime adaptation!
MAPPA has confirmed during its 15th anniversary livestream this Friday, 19 June, that Naoki Fujita's manga, “BEAT&MOTION”, is finally getting an anime adaptation!
The livestream featured a teaser trailer, and that the adaptation will stream exclusively on Netflix in 2027. No other details, like cast and staff, have been revealed.
Here's a look at the visual released by MAPPA:
What is BEAT&MOTION about?
BEAT&MOTION was serialised on Shueisha's ShonenJump+ platform, running from February 2023 to January 2025. The series has been collected into six tankobon volumes.
An English translation from Viz Media was simultaneously published through Shueisha's Manga Plus service. The story is described by MyAnimeList as:
Tatsuhiko Hirayama's love for drawing began at a young age, and his aspiration was to work in animation someday. But when the young boy is bullied for his art, Tatsuhiko swears to never draw in front of others ever again. Desperate to find something new to fill the void in his heart, he turns to music but eventually becomes jaded by his own mediocrity.
While Tatsuhiko is out drinking with his friends, his sob story earns the ire of a drunk woman, who intimidates the young man into reassessing his attitude toward life. He decides to give animation another chance and soon rediscovers his love for the medium, pushing himself to publish a short video. Tatsuhiko is stunned when the video goes viral, even more so when his favorite singer, Nico Kashiwagi, requests a collaboration on her next music video!
Excited to finally meet the artist he has admired for so long, the young man is shocked to discover that Nico is the same bar patron that gave him an earful, though she has no recollection of that drunken night. While initially hesitant of their new partnership, Tatsuhiko slowly learns that there is more to Nico's brutish passion than he realizes.
BEAT&MOTION won Shueisha's Million Tag competition, which earned the title the serialisation and an anime adaptation.