History Manga / Beck1999

* LanguageBarrier: A rare serious example, Koyuki's utter failure to understand a word of English despite singing in it when he runs into some of Maho's American friends, who callously make fun of him to his face, and he has no idea.

Not to be confused with the [[Music/BeckMusician alternative rock musician of the same name]], nor with the [[Film/{{Beck}} Swedish movie and TV series]].

** BECK is known as Mongolian Chop Squad overseas because there's already an American group called Music/{{Beck}}.

** The name BECK is more than likely an obvious reference to the musician of the same name. Considering the [[ThemeNaming naming conventions]] for pets in the series, such as the cockatoo [[Music/LedZeppelin Page]] and the other dog [[Music/KeithRichards Keith]], it's also more likely BECK's named after Jeff Beck from Music/TheYardbirds. This becomes unfortunate when Funimation was (eventually) forced to rename their release of the anime, allegedly because the real {{Music/Beck}} complained.

''Beck'' is a [[ComingOfAge coming-of-age]] musical drama manga by Harold Sakuishi, which was originally serialized in ''[[Magazine/ShonenMagazine Monthly Shonen Magazine]]'' from 1999 to 2008 and compiled into 34 volumes. It was later adapted to a 26-episode anime series that first aired from 2004 to 2005.