{Story} - The story of Bakuman is what created the structure for it to be a masterpiece. Every episode serves a purpose in building up your investment in characters and highlighting key facets of the manga industry. As someone that was previously ignorant of the difficulties and challenges faced by mangaka, Bakuman will draw you into the world of manga and leave you breathless. The story draws you into the creative process and will leave you exhausted alongside the main characters as they fight for serialization and an anime adapation. This anime will make you feel the story like no other.
{Art} - While I am inexperienced in what constitutes "good animation art", the visuals in this anime certainly created an atmosphere that allowed the story and characters to succeed. I would say I have seen more beautiful anime out there, but Bakuman's art felt proper and natural for the setting.
{Sound} - Similar to the art side side, the sound in Bakuman felt right. There was no noise or songs that felt out of place or distracting from the anime. Every song and sound effect added to the ambiance that Bakuman needed to succeed and it did just that.
{Character} - By far and away the strongest point of Bakuman and what filled out the story frame that allowed this anime to become a masterpiece. I often find anime that have many different "main characters" to spread themselves too thin and to draw away from the rest of the story, but every single character in Bakuman served an integral purpose to the overall story. You will care about every character in this story (except maybe Nakai who frustrated the heck out of me) by the time it is finished and understand just how important each person was to the story. I've never felt so heavily invested in over 10 main characters in an anime before - but Bakuman did it in such an excellent fashion that I have zero complaints. I cared more about some of the minor characters in Bakuman due to the way they were developed than I care about most main characters in an average anime.
{Enjoyment} - To put it bluntly, I watched all three seasons of Bakuman (75 episodes) in three days. That's just how incredible the anime was for me. While I tend to binge watch shows, its rare for me to get invested in an anime with more than 25ish episodes and feel the need to watch the next episode immediately. Needless to say, Bakuman is a masterpiece that you will be unable to put down.
{Overall} - Overall I gave Bakuman a 10/10 - a true masterpiece. I felt this anime to be one of the most complete and fulfilling anime that I have ever watched and it will be one of those anime that I binge watch again in the future when I have a hole left in my chest from a less satisfying anime.
Bakuman - a true masterpiece.
