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| i love nizuma eiji!!! my fav ep so far |
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| I'm now missing Takagi |
| Standby!Music! I really felt bad for Nakia, he looked so sad! & I love how Eiji even for a great manga artist, has flaws and Mashiro pointed them out :) I really loved the outline of making a manga and the discussions. |
| The old guy is so poor that he can't follow the youngsters. xD Fukuda is so cool btw. :D |
"Perhaps the distant part of the sky always seems clearest, so that we will always strive to reach it."  chiquit |
| I feel so bad for Nakai ...X.X |
| Nizuma is a very interesting character, a very interesting character indeed. He is actually pretty likable to be honest (I had a bad impression of him when I first saw him). |
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| I'm not disliking Eiji anyone, but I don't like him either. He's ok after this episode. I want the 33 year old guy (Nakai) to succeed, I feel sorry for him. The new Albino guy is quite the punk. I noted that this show's character designs are really realistic, all characters so far have realistic hair color and it wouldn't look (that) strange in real life. |
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| God assistants are pretty op! |
 "I like to expose what people hide. I'm an intellectual rapist." - Furudo Erika |
| Was not expecting that change from Nizuma at the end. Seeing him with a slightly more down to earth character was a really nice change. The way they explained the whole process in making a good manga makes a lot of sense. I can see people trying to make something through the use of just cool characters, but unless something is added to make it more interesting, it is bound for failure. |
| Eiji is so funny XD Poor Nakai.. Fukuda is cool lol. |
| Great episode. Really fun to watch. |
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| Quite a lovely episode, enjoyed the couple new characters and well it was quite a nice experience for Mashiro as well! It also seems Akito and Miyoshi are hitting it off quite good! He didn't appeared a lot but well his development is going steady as well! |
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| Poor nakai san |
| This episode was the best yet, two interesting new characters with a lot of emotion and also some development from Eiji!! He is actually so likable for a rival! I'm so excited to see what happens, I wish that all of them could get serialized. The other (older) background assistant is really bringing a lot of heartfelt emotions into this anime; I love how they showed his talents. |
| It was great to see that Nizuma also have his flaw as a mangaka. This new Fukoda is also cool. Poor Nakai, or whatever his name was, getting denigrated by much younger people xD I was scared that by working with Nizuma, it would seclude our duo, but Mashiro still seem to believe in Takagi. By working the three of them together, he should learn something. The last frames of the preview were hilarious xD |
| «Time is passing so quickly. Right now, I feel like complaining to Einstein. Whether time is slow or fast depends on perception. Relativity theory is so romantic. And so sad.» - Kurisu Makise a.k.a. The Zombie |
| Never thought I'd see the day when Nizuma would act like a normal person even if it was just for a bit o.O |
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| ahhh, to me, this was the most interesting episode in a while. i just couldn't take my eyes off the screen! |
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| The assistants are cool, love how everyone pulled together to help him out. I love when characters don't dick other people over who are trying to achieve the same dream as them, I mean the guy is really impressionable in such company and I'm happy they don't take advantage of it ^~^ Gives off a really good feel. |
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| This was nice episode. It was fun to see that even Eji isn't perfect. The new guy, Fukuda, is also really cool (and quite funny although little mean). I like him! I hope there is more Takagi in the next episode |
| "Oh, I wasn't trying to be funny.. I would've put a 'Haha' at the end of it." |
| Niizuma has gotten A LOT better. Great episode. |
| Really good episode. I'm gaining more respect for Eiji. |
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| Poor Nakai has a rough time going lol. And damn Fukuda is cool af. |
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| Some of the ideas seem to be falling flat, but Eiji's character development and the introduction of Fukuda were good! |
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| I dunno why Fukuda reminds me of Gin from Gintama. They both have white hair and a similar facial structure, but Fukuda's hair is differently stylized. Their personalities are a little similar, though Fukuda is a bit more serious/grim in his attitude. "We pick up the manuscripts Eiji just throws on the ground because his assistants are fucking animals to him..." "From me? Is there anything you [i[can[/i] learn?" "I could learn how to draw manga while having an epileptic seizure." If the most major problem with Eiji's manuscripts after drawing them in 30 minutes is that they're slightly less interesting, maybe he should spend an hour on them. Wooow, that one guy can eat a lot. Steak, fried chicken, tuna, a banana parfait...I was expecting them to make a joke of Mashiro saying something like "Huh? You weren't ordering for both of us?" I guess even though everyone thought Eiji didn't really need his assistants, they turned out to be beneficial for him in the long run. He's calmed down and actually apologized for being a little shit earlier. It's also good that Mashiro still remembers why he became Eiji's assistant: in order to help with his own manga. |
| "No, son, you may not have your body pillow at the dinner table!" |
| I am really starting to get attached to this crazy kid. |
| Lol nice episode, I find it a bit strange you'd strengthen your opponent like that, but whatever floats your boat! |
| I'm Bruneian and I like anime. And Manchester United. And fat cats. |
| Mashiro and the other guy actually helped Niizuma out :O what beautiful frenemies lol |
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| Great episode, and man am I glad to see Fukuda animated again. One of my favorite Bakuman characters and definitely really underrated in comparison to a lot of his peers in my opinion. It was really interesting seeing mangaka/artists from various backgrounds and styles interact and play off each other in this episode, and it was nice seeing Fukuda despite his abrasive attitude at times, be someone who genuinely cares for the readers of the manga by thinking in their best interests, and it worked well when he and Mashiro both advice Niizuma on what he needed to improve to make Crow more interesting with a long-term appeal, especially narratively. He has fantastic art and genius-levels of talent but he's still a diamond in the rough when it comes to becoming a pro so it was humbling to see him accept criticism and even draw names and work well with the others to improve his manga. These guys are going to really become special rivals down the line. Takagi also seems to be distracting himself a bit more from actually making progress with a concept of a story to write a name of, focusing on being at an internet cafe with Miyoshi instead, helping her with her cell phone novel. Miyoshi's grateful for Takagi helping her and spending more time with her but even she's worried now for him as he continues to just drift a bit further from his own stuff with Mashiro. Hopefully he gets back on track a bit, since Mashiro is learning a lot from his own little side journey as an assistant for Niizuma. |
| So Eiji's editor is aware he won't success as a mangaka in the long run....feel sorry for Eiji just being used to make fast profit for the company... |
| so we start this mini-arc, really like mostly due the new characters nakai and fukuda and the chemistry between the four which going to be future rivals. fukuda is great character in all means, he's kind of tsunedre in denying, mashiro telling him he's not that bad and he answer back he's bad xD but yeah he have great ideas, and though insulting nakai he admits he have talents. nakai doesn't show much of himself yet, but we see here great promise on him. he actually one of the characters that shows how ohba made the characters - there's no one of them who is perfect, and theyr weakness is also they strengths, which makes them much more reality. eiji on the other hand really continue to amaze, as he opens himself for critics, and not consider himself as top mangaka or something, but doing what he must do. gad though this mini-arc is short, because i wanna see more of ashirogi muto. |
| I feel so bad for Nakai. I respect him for still chasing after his dreams after such a long time. I don't like Fukuda for his attitude in disrespecting Nakai so blatantly. After all, what's so wrong with chasing after your dreams? It doesn't always work out. Felt especially sad when Nakai was crying at night ;-; |
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| This guy is just ADHD incarnated |
| I hate everyone equally |
| It's nice to see the manga artists collaborating, even if it isn't their work. I mean, as bad as it can feel to support someone else's success, there definitely has to be some benefit to working on a major publication. It would be experience by proxy anyway. I certainly wouldn't mind a collaboration with people. Of course, in Niizuma's case, if the main author isn't willing to teach or even interact with their assistants, I suppose it could be frustrating. That being said, Niizuma is getting a lot of development this episode. Whereas I was okay with him failing, it's hard to root against someone who is willing to actually try and put in the work, rather than continue to rest on his laurels. I suppose, at this point, he was just young and misunderstood. But really, other than the first time he was introduced, I never particularly felt like he was a bad person anyway. It's not like he saw Moritaka and Takagi's manga and tried to sabotage it or anything. Anyway, things seem to be going well for Moritaka. Now I just have to wonder how Takagi is doing? |
 "...Is your mother worried? Would you like us to assign someone to worry your mother?" |
| Great and wholesome episode |
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