Chapter 1 (side DH & BAT)

Beat-1 is the first chapter of the Hypnosis Mic -Division Rap Battle- side D.H & B.A.T manga. The chapter was released on April 8, 2020.

Summary
Returning home after the performance, Sasara receives a package from Chuohku with Hypnosis Mics and an invitation to participate in the Division Rap Battle. Sasara comments that there are not much people that he would like to team up with except for his ex-partner Rosho Tsutsujimori.

Eight years ago. Sasara enters the NOC Training Academy to fulfill his dreams of becoming a comedian. There, he meets Rosho whose intimidating appearance keeps everyone at distance from him. During the interview session, Rosho loses his temper and starts a fight with the academy representatives who harshly treat the other student. Sasara tries to defuse the situation with rather bad joke that results in both of them being kicked out.

Teachers decided not to reject both of them, so Sasara and Rosho visit the entrance ceremony and listen to Tamon Hyokin's welcoming speech. After the ceremony, Hyokin tells Sasara that he was the one who convinced other teachers to let them stay and encourages Sasara to keep going with his dreams.

At the first lesson, teacher is not impressed with Rosho's jokes being too confusing, while Sasara's straight-man act is not convincing enough. Other students however, are impressed with Sasara's delivery and ask if he wants any of them to be his partner. Sasara goes to the Tsutenkaku Tower to get his thoughts together and rememberes how his parents used to fight a lot and Sasara would try to cheer them up by impersonating comedians he loved, although it didn't work.

Suddenly, Sasara notices Rosho and assuming that he was about to jump off, drags him away. Rosho later tells him that he just wanted to think about new material for his Tsutenkaku skit. Rosho performs it for Sasara but he doesn't get any of his jokes but notices that Rosho is much more polite that he appears. Rosho tells him that his parents were very strict teachers, which resulted in him putting a delinquent act and pursuing the comedy to entertain people.

Sasara tries to improve his skit and his delivery makes everyone at the cafe laugh. Rosho later joins him, making their improvisation a success. Sasara offers Rosho to form a duo together and suggests him taking a straight-man role, with Sasara being a funny-man.

Characters

 * Sasara Nurude
 * Rosho Tsutsujimori
 * Tamon Hyokin

Trivia

 * The beginning bit of the chapter is adapted from Aikata Back Again.