Average student Moritaka Mashiro enjoys drawing for fun. When his classmate and aspiring writer Akito Takagi discovers his talent, he begs Moritaka to team up with him as a manga-creating duo. But what exactly does it take to make it in the manga-publishing world? Moritaka is hesitant to seriously consider Akito's proposal because he knows how difficult reaching the professional level can be. Still, encouragement from persistent Akito and motivation from his crush push Moritaka to test his limits!
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Born in Tokyo, Tsugumi Ohba is the author of the hit series Death Note. His current series Bakuman is serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump. Takeshi Obata was born in 1969 in Niigata, Japan, and is the artist of Hikaru no Go, which won the 2003 Tezuka Shinsei New Hope award and the Shogakukan Manga award. Obata is also the artist of Arabian Majin Bokentan Lamp Lamp, Ayatsuri Sakon, Cyborg Jichan G., and the smash hit manga Death Note.
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By Nikoran
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Bakuman shows us the story of two young, aspiring manga artists trying to hit it big in the famous Shonen Jump. It follows their triumphs and their many fails. It goes into great detail on the different categories and how to make the best piece of work out there. It is done by the same duo who created Death Note and they do a great job again with this series. Definitely a must if you enjoy slice of life mangas or are interested in how manga artists and writers create manga.
By james Mckay
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I have watched the T.V show of this and loved it.The books have a better feel that the T.V show and the art work in the books are one of the best i have ever seen
By Mike Crosby
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I saw a good review of this book and had some change spare.. So I went for it... From the creators of Death Note Bakuman once again is a manga hit! It's interesting to see the process between making a manga etc.. and the story of it is just plain fun! I recommend anyone to try it, or at least look at a video review on YouTube.
4 of 7 people found the following review helpful
By B. Joan
Format:Paperback
"Bakuman is a pretty unique story. I've never read or heard of any other story like it."
Bakuman is a romance/comedy/shonen manga about mangaka. It is original because it shows the life of the people who create manga. This isn't just a manga, it is pure art. This manga has a good story and amazing art.
Bakuman is a romance/comedy/shonen manga about mangaka. It is original because it shows the life of the people who create manga. This isn't just a manga, it is pure art. This manga has a good story and amazing art.
5 of 10 people found the following review helpful
By Oliver Twist
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Although it does have some good elements (Mashiro's uncle being one of them), in my view Bakuman is neither as well written nor as well drawn as Hikaru No Go - a manga which, in some senses, it seeks to emulate. However, it is certainly better written than either Ral and Grad or the commercially very successful Death Note.
One of the curious things about volume one of Bakuman is that in the first half of the manga the writer shows himself to have quite a highly developed sense of humour, but this quality is almost completely absent from the second half. It is as though the editor stepped in and told him to remove it.
One of the curious things about volume one of Bakuman is that in the first half of the manga the writer shows himself to have quite a highly developed sense of humour, but this quality is almost completely absent from the second half. It is as though the editor stepped in and told him to remove it.
3 of 7 people found the following review helpful
By Deathpaul
Format:Paperback
this manga is amazing i just got the book to try really because it was done by the people who done death note but OMG it amazing it really funny. the story all about a boy moritaka mashiro he is amazing at drawing and his class mate akito takagi who is an aspiring writer and they both take a big gamble by trying to became a manga artsit all I got to say 5 stars BUY IT.
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By DUDE!
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Amazing Buy arrived very quick and an amazing Manga, I went to my local Forbidden Planet and bought Volume 2 and I' about to Pre-Order 3 and 4 defiantly a decent move on from Death Note
6 of 29 people found the following review helpful
By elfgrass
Format:Paperback
I read the first few pages of this online, and as I liked what I saw, and the concept appealed to me, I went ahead and bought it. However, having just finished it, I was thoroughly disappointed.
The main issue for me was the horrifying, shameless and very consistent sexism. I'll admit, it's not what I expected when I thought I was buying a manga about two kids trying to become successful manga creators. I know that in Japan equality of the sexes might not be as far progressed as it should be, but I've only ever come across hints of it in other manga series. Here, it's not something that's alluded to in passing on occasion, but it's a consistent theme, an integral part of what the manga is.
Here are a few examples. Moritaka's mother objects to her son becoming a manga artist (and with good reason), but when she runs it by her husband (who is, apparently, too important to talk to Moritaka himself), he tells her to tell him "Let him do it. Men have dreams women can never understand." Which she goes and says to Moritaka, clearly demeaned. So apparently, women are too dumb/selfish/narrow-minded to understand these great aspirations of men, and of course cannot have such aspirations themselves. Not to mention the fact that the mother's opinion is overruled. Why? She's a woman.
This brings me to another major point, and probably one of the most offensive things in the manga. In a little speech by Akito, he sums up the 'fact', being the genius that he is, that Azuki, Moritaka's love interest, doesn't get high grades because she knows girls shouldn't do that. And it gets worse. "Azuki naturally knows a girl should be graceful and polite... and because she is a girl, she should be earnest about things and get average grades.... Read more ›
The main issue for me was the horrifying, shameless and very consistent sexism. I'll admit, it's not what I expected when I thought I was buying a manga about two kids trying to become successful manga creators. I know that in Japan equality of the sexes might not be as far progressed as it should be, but I've only ever come across hints of it in other manga series. Here, it's not something that's alluded to in passing on occasion, but it's a consistent theme, an integral part of what the manga is.
Here are a few examples. Moritaka's mother objects to her son becoming a manga artist (and with good reason), but when she runs it by her husband (who is, apparently, too important to talk to Moritaka himself), he tells her to tell him "Let him do it. Men have dreams women can never understand." Which she goes and says to Moritaka, clearly demeaned. So apparently, women are too dumb/selfish/narrow-minded to understand these great aspirations of men, and of course cannot have such aspirations themselves. Not to mention the fact that the mother's opinion is overruled. Why? She's a woman.
This brings me to another major point, and probably one of the most offensive things in the manga. In a little speech by Akito, he sums up the 'fact', being the genius that he is, that Azuki, Moritaka's love interest, doesn't get high grades because she knows girls shouldn't do that. And it gets worse. "Azuki naturally knows a girl should be graceful and polite... and because she is a girl, she should be earnest about things and get average grades.... Read more ›
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