In response, Azuki reveals her plans to be a voice actress. Takagi incites Mashiro to meet with Miho Azuki, Mashiro's crush, and tells her the two plan to become manga artists. However, Mashiro declines, citing his late manga artist uncle, who died from overworking. Takagi asks him to become a manga artist to his stories. When Moritaka Mashiro, a middle school student, forgets his notebook in class, he finds his classmate, Akito Takagi, who notes Mashiro's drawings. A live-action film adaptation was released in October 2015.īakuman topped the Kono Manga ga Sugoi! list for male readers in 2010, was the seventh best-selling manga series of 2011 and the tenth best of 2012, and has over 15 million volumes in circulation. A 75-episode anime television adaptation of the series by J.C.Staff was broadcast for three seasons on NHK Educational TV from October 2010 to March 2013. Besides releasing the series in collected volumes, they also released it in their online manga anthology Weekly Shonen Jump Alpha. In 2009, Viz Media licensed the manga for English release in North America. It is the first manga released online by Shueisha in multiple languages before becoming available in print outside Japan. Some characters resemble real authors and editors of Weekly Shōnen Jump, and many manga titles mentioned in Bakuman have actually been published in the magazine. The story follows talented artist Moritaka Mashiro and aspiring writer Akito Takagi, two ninth grade boys who wish to become manga artists, with Mashiro as the illustrator and Takagi as the writer. It was serialized in Shueisha's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump from August 2008 to April 2012, with its 176 chapters collected into 20 tankōbon volumes. Bakuman ( バクマン。, stylized as BAKUMAN。) is a Japanese manga series written by Tsugumi Ohba and illustrated by Takeshi Obata, the same creative team responsible for Death Note.

Bakuman, Band 1 by Tsugumi Ohba