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Bakuman (Manga)

Bakuman

Alternative Titles

Japanese: バクマン

Information

Type: Manga
Volumes: Unknown
Chapters: Unknown
Status: Publishing
Published: Aug 8, 2008 to ?
Authors: Ohba, Tsugumi (Story), Obata, Takeshi (Art)
Serialization: Shounen Jump (Weekly)

Statistics

Score: 8.441 (scored by 5440 users)
Ranked: #1232
Popularity: #24
Members: 9,878
Favorites: 1,057
1 indicates a weighted score
2 based on the top manga page.

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Popular Tags

comedy shounen slice of life

Synopsis

Bakuman follows the story of high school student Moritaka Mashiro, a talented artist who does not know what he wants to do with his future. One day he draws a picture of Azuki Miho, a girl he is secretly fond of, during class and forgets the notebook at school. He comes back to find that his classmate Akito Takagi is waiting for him with his notebook. Takagi tries to convince Mashiro to become a mangaka, a manga artist, with him, only leading to Mashiro's disagreement. Mashiro goes home and thinks about his mangaka uncle, who had only one successful series before he died in obscurity. Mashiro is interrupted by a phone call from Takagi, who says that he is going to tell Azuki that Mashiro likes her. Mashiro runs down to Azuki's house to find Takagi waiting for him. Once Azuki comes out to meet them, Takagi tells her that he and Mashiro are aiming to be mangaka. Mashiro then learns that she wants to be a seiyū, a voice actor, and has shown promise in the field. Mashiro, once again thinking about his uncle, accidentally proposes to Azuki. She accepts. However, she will only marry him after they achieve their dreams. In addition, they cannot see each other until then. (Source: Wikipedia)

Related Manga

Adaptation: Bakuman

Characters

 Miho
Azuki, Miho
Main
 Moritaka
Mashiro, Moritaka
Main
 Kaya
Miyoshi, Kaya
Main
 Akito
Takagi, Akito
Main
 Miura
Miura
Supporting
 Koogy
Koogy
Supporting
 Yuriko
Aoki, Yuriko
Supporting


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Nov 14, 2008
Grimmm
Bakuman is a pretty unique story. I've never read or heard of any other story like it.

Story: The story starts out in a weird way. It gives you the feeling that it's going to end up like another typical Shounen series (lame main character who mysteriously gets an interesting life with all kinds of fantasy and supernatural aspects), but that will change quickly. After a quick reference to the author's previous work (Death Note, ever heard of it? :P), we begin to learn the basis. Mashiro is just your average 9th grader, but when he accidentally leaves his notebook in school, he ends up read more
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Jun 4, 2009
supermario23
It looks like Obata and Ohba struck gold again. After the phenomenal success of Death Note, the duo came up with Bakuman, a manga about making manga. While this series is a whole lot different than Death Note, it still maintains Ohba's style of intelligent writing coupled with Obata's masterful artwork(Come on, the guy's gotta move to seinen already). Bakuman's plot isn't really groundbreaking, but the storytelling is one of the best in current shonen manga nowadays. The manga shows us how writing manga for Jump works, how hard it is to even get published, how it is even harder to stay serialized in Japan's read more
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User Recommendations

Similar stories, students wanting to be the best at something (Go for Hikaru no Go and Manga for Bakuman). They have rivals that are better than them, though the main characters practice a lot to reach their dream. Even though the stories are about Go and Manga, there is a lot of character drama in each.

Takeshi Obata does the illustrations for both manga series.
Both series have a similiar premise, an unlikely duo collaborate to start a manga..And they encounter obstacles in their love lifes, and in their way to becoming mangakas.

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This is a depressing manga about the times we are living in.
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