Time is running out for Beck. With the weight of the world on their shoulders, they must perform better than any other band in the Greatful Sound performance. Ryusuke's low-down and dirty deal with Leon Sykes could potentially destroy the group before fame has its chance to do it. Older teens.

Beck's popularity is snowballing, but all is not perfect. Eddie sends Ryusuke a message--and it's not fan mail. In addition, an admirer of Ruysuke's guitar will do anything to get it. Plus, Maho has a new boyfriend, and Saku and Koyuki are after the same girl.

Between the skinny-dipping adventure, tensions with a school bully, and Ryusuke's anger, Koyuki's life is one big ball of confusion.

Fourteen-year-old Yukio Tanaka is one heck of a boring guy. He has no hobbies, a weak taste in music, and only a small vestige of a personality. His shy and somewhat neurotic personality makes him his own worst enemy. Little does he know that his life will be forever changed when he meets rocker Ryusuke Minami, an unpredictable sixteen-year-old with a cool dog named Beck. Ryusuke has just returned to Japan from America, and when he inspires Yukio to get into music, the two begin a journey through the world of rock 'n' roll dreams! Lace up your Docs and head to the mosh pit—Harold Sakuishi's highly addictive manga series that spawned the hit anime is back at last!

When fourteen-year-old Yukio Tanaka meets Ryusuke, a sixteen-year-old rocker from the United States, Yukio is introduced to rock and roll music and begins a journey that takes him from being a nobody to becoming a musician.

Time is running out for Beck. With the weight of the world on their shoulders, they must perform better than any other band in the Greatful Sound performance. Ryusuke's low-down and dirty deal with Leon Sykes could potentially destroy the group before fame has its chance to do it. Older teens.

Time is running out for Beck. With the weight of the world on their shoulders, they must perform better than any other band in the Greatful Sound performance. Ryusuke's low-down and dirty deal with Leon Sykes could potentially destroy the group before fame has its chance to do it. Older teens.

Beck just needs sixty-thousand yen and a microphone to record a demo! During a break from trying to earn some cash to cut the record, Koyuki and Saku decide it's not their place in the 9-to-5 world. They join Tanabe and Ciel Bleu—it's the school's Battle of the Bands, and time to rock out! Later, Koyuki realizes he's got to splurge for a new six-string, and he will do anything to buy one. But in his search for the perfect instrument, someone sends him a special message ... and when he realizes it's filled with more than just love, Koyuki knows he's got to be cruel to be kind. Will someone ... anyone ... call the karma police?

Showcasing up-and-coming talent, Volume 6 features the work of ten winners ofTokyopop's Rising Stars of Manga contest.

BECK's national tour is off to a great start. But under the surface, the discord between Koyuki and Chiba slowly begins to impinge the band at a whole... Amidst the morass, Chiba decides to enter a solo freestyle battle in order to determine just what his purpose in BECK is. Riddled with self-doubt, Chiba faces off against some of the hip-hop world's best, grabbing the audience by the heart with each bout. Where will the bewildered warrior's battle take him?!