The 15th Anniversary Event of MAPPA announced an anime adaptation of Naoki Fujita's Beat & Motion manga on Friday, revealing the main cast, staff, teaser visual (pictured), and a promotional video. The anime will stream worldwide exclusively on Netflix in 2027.

Voice actors Shuuichirou Umeda (Make Heroine ga Oosugiru!) and Aya Gomazuru (Hanyou no Yashahime: Sengoku Otogizoushi) are starring as Tatsuhiko Hirayama and Nico Kashiwagi, respectively.

Staff
Director: Yuki Komada (Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Kenkaku Romantan - Kyoto Douran)
Assistant Director: Izumi Takizawa (Yofukashi no Uta Season 2)
Series Composition, Script: Misaki Morie (Zenryoku Usagi (2023))
Character Design: Kazunori Aoki (Dororo chief animation director)
Chief Animation Director: Mina Osawa (Maou no Ore ga Dorei Elf wo Yome ni Shitanda ga, Dou Medereba Ii?), Kazunori Aoki
Chief Episode Director: Megumi Soga (Koi wa Sekai Seifuku no Ato de episode director)
Art Director: Haruna Sakamoto (Alice to Therese no Maboroshi Koujou background art)
Color Design: Minori Nishida (Vinland Saga Season 2)
CGI Producer: Yuusuke Tannawa (Jujutsu Kaisen)
3DCG Directors: Sayaka Tsushima, Tamaki Ishida (Lazarus 3DCG modelling)
Director of Photography: Madoka Yagi (Dance Dance Danseur)
Editing: Masato Yoshitake (Kowloon Generic Romance)
Script Supervision, Concept Design: Tomoyuki Itamura (Yofukashi no Uta director)
Stylist: Mari Ishibashi (dexi)
Sound Director: Yasushi Nagura (Kanan-sama wa Akumade Choroi)
Sound Production: dugout
Animation Producer: Takahiro Ogawa (Zenshuu.)
Studio: MAPPA

Fujita serialized the music manga on the Shounen Jump+ app and website from February 2023 to January 2025. Shueisha published the sixth and final volume in March 2025.

The series originated from the "Million Tag" contest, an eight-part web competition launched by Shounen Jump+ in June 2021. Beat & Motion won the grand prize, securing its serialization and anime production.

VIZ Media and Shueisha's Manga Plus service began simupublishing the manga in English in February 2023. The former licensed the title for physical release and published the sixth and final volume in December 2025.

Synopsis
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. [Written by MAL Rewrite]

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Official site: https://beatandmotion-anime.com/
Official X: @beatandmotion

Source: Denfaminico Gamer

Beat & Motion on MAL