Beck

If you want more about cool alternative bands making it big through their talents and despite their personal issues, then Nana is a great one to try out after Beck. The animation styles are different and Nana has more emphasis on the psychology/relationships of the characters involved, but the musical element is a huge driving force for most of the plot.

While Beck doesn't have nearly as much character development as Nana does, at the very heart they're both still a music-oriented series. If you have a love of the musical genre, both Nana and Beck are classics that should not be missed!

Both Beck and Nana deal with the hardships that certain people face as they attempt to make themselves and their music known, as well as deal with other day-to-day conflicts.

Both Nana and Beck deal with the lives of musicians and how people can be changed by music. In each of the series there is a band that is trying to get started up, and become a group that everyone knows. If you like rock music I think you will enjoy this anime.

Both anime deal with a group of young people who create a band and try to become famous. Beck is more centered on the world of music, whereas Nana gives more importance to the relationships within the band; this makes the two anime very much complementary. If you like one, you'll probably also like the other.

Nana and Beck tell us about the musical industry and everything concerning the creative process. We'll meet naive novices and tycoons of record labels, rookies and stars. Although in Nana the story is focused on love and relationships, it's also about the life of musicians, including live shows in small clubs, the recording process, promotion and music videos. If you want to know more about the musical industry you'll enjoy watching these series.

The largest difference between Nana and Beck is Beck focuses more on the music. However if you still enjoyed the great music and the drama behind it, then I definetly recommend Nana. Nana features fatastic punk rock music from two bands and drama galore. Nana is a more mature story line but will have those hiliarious moments.

Nana and Beck are charming coming-of-age dramas framed around the highs and lows of the talented bands' struggle to get signed to a major label. While differences stemming from the shows' intended audience--Nana, a josei; and Beck, a shounen--are clear, both believably chart the growth in its main character's maturity with wonderful relationships to supporting characters, love interests, and the abstraction of the music business as an antagonist. These anime are top notch in the music genre.

In both series they show the sacrifices that need to be made while in a band as well as relationships and hardships that must be dealth with in everyday life. If you enjoyed one of the series because of its writing as well as music concepts you will no doubt more than enjoy the other.

Both animes are about band, love and their life problems and how they handle them. I'm sure if you liked NANA you will like Beck and vice versa.

Both this anime are music based anime. One (beck) more centred on the music and the relations between the bandmate and the other (nana) is more shoujo but i think the music predominant.

The OST of both anime is made by professional musicians and it isn't so bad for j-rock!

How does one rock group get from singing in forgotten pubs to performing in front of tousands? How is the life of a rock star in making? If you want to know, both these anime have the answer. Filled with great music, realistic, romantic and entertaining, both Beck and Nana are sure to keep you chained to the chair.

Anyone who has ever been in a band, had a friend in a band or been a fanatical groupie will find something appealing in both Nana and Beck.

The shows follow a band from the ground up; from the bickering arguments, romance, record deals and break-ups. Nana, being a significantly longer series, is much more character orientated and probably aimed more at a female audience. However, Beck explores each character well but is firmly rooted in the music.

As similar, and as different as these shows are, I think they will both appeal to the same crowd.

I think that Beck and Nana are similiar, because of their unquestioned ambiency.Both animes are showing extraordinarily passion for music, ambition, and hard work for making dreams come true.Beck and Nana tell us also that our exertions aren't giving us any safety, that sometimes in our life we must resign for sake of other people. Against they are showing how important and beautiful frendship can be.If you like one, I'm sure you will enjoy the other.

Both are jrock joy to the ears.  Altho I much prefer Nana shoujo over Beck shounen since i'm a girl.  Beck is engaging but Nana is addicting.  Watching one reminds of the other for its story ambience, rock music, romance sacrifices, band hardships and life dramas.  Guys may say Beck is good whilst girls will say Nana is the greatest.  Must watch jrock appreciation for all bandmates!

One word sums it up really: Music!

Yup if you are a fan of music and enjoyed either one...you simply have to watch the other! Agreed the stories have hardly anything in common, the animation sytles vary a fair bit as well but again, both animes are built around music and as such, if you like music, both are must-watch!

On the other hand, if you don't enjoy music...well why are you even reading this? :)

Both Paradise Kiss and Beck follow an unlikely group on a long journey of love and accomplishment. Although the subject matter is very different it is easy to find similarities in the main characters; they are both new to the fields that lead them down their new paths and both needed that supplement to their lives, although neither realized it before they found it.

Understated, passionate, and infinitely cool, both Beck and Paradise Kiss portray the counterculture of how a young person escapes the droll/oppressive nature of nine-to-five society by immersing themselves in an artform. Beck chooses the rock music route whilst Paradise Kiss is about bohemian fashion but in the end, it's all about the sex, drugs, and rock'n'roll, baby.

Both of these shows take a more mature look at the teen drama. In each the main character meets some new friends and discovers a new passion. In Beck it's music, while in ParaKiss, it's fashion. The plots aren't similar at all, it's the tone and the style that make these two shows seem alike.

Both series are about outsiders, feeling bitter about their grey and boring life, who suddenly find the passion, which becomes point of their life. They manage to get out from the sterotype layout of life (school->university->work), make friends with some crazy and great people (even find love among them...) and fight the world, that isn't interrested in their job, parents, whose plans about their children's future where different and their own fears and flaws.

It's all about art, leaving daily preocupations aside and creating not  something satisfactory, but something great. Characters in both anime give their all to make a difference and stand out from the rest in the music industry in Beck and in the fashion industry in Paradise Kiss.

If you impressed by passion while watching one series and want more, the other is a perfect fit.

If you liked Beck, you might like Full Moon. It's a very cute anime and is more for girls. I didn't think that it would get me emotionally involved with it because it looked so cutesy, but it really does have a good story to it, and it also has a great end. Beck is totally different and yet it leaves with the same feel as Full Moon wo Sagashite; in both you want them to make it as a band, and also both anime have really good songs to them. Definitely watch these if you enjoy anime that leaves you warm and fuzzy inside.

You could propably think, this guy isn't sane to compare FMwS and Beck, and you're right. However there are a few similarities. For first, if you see mitsuki and how hard she tries to become a star, you just have to cheer her on. Somehow the same happens with tanaka and ryuuske from beck. The soundtracks are both very well produced and fit to the anime. Well but if you are the more realistic type just stick with beck, if you like the magical girl genre try fmws.

Well both anime are about teenagers trying to reach the top in harsh and cruel music buziness. While both anime have very little in common, if you enjoy listening to music I'm sure you will like them.