“Two middle schoolers team up to create manga, aiming for fame and Mashiro's dream girl.”
Bakuman。
BAKUMAN。 バクマン。
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Synopsis
Two middle schoolers team up to create manga, aiming for fame and Mashiro's dream girl.
Despite being a talented artist, middle school student Moritaka Mashiro is unsure about his future, accepting that he will simply lead a normal life. After seeing one of Mashiro's drawings in class, Akito Takagi—an aspiring writer—insists that they write a manga together. But Mashiro is hesitant—his uncle, a mangaka, had died from overworking just a few years prior. However, when Mashiro hears that his crush, Miho Azuki, aims to be a voice actress, he becomes determined to create a manga that can be adapted into an anime for her to star in. Reciprocating Mashiro's feelings, she agrees to get married once they have both achieved their dreams. Bakuman. chronicles Mashiro and Takagi's successes and struggles in their attempts to be serialized in Weekly Shounen Jump and become famous mangakas. Will their gamble pay off, or will they join the countless number of failures?
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 20 sampled reviews
What 20 readers settled on.
Mostly aligned
σ 1.31 · some divergence
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Not enough recommend signal yet
↑ 0.15
Running avg · Nov 2008 → Jun 2020
- 9 “Dude let's write a manga about writing a manga!? Something so wrong had never turned out so right. If you've only read a couple of manga before your not going to understand this so go read...”
- 8 “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...”
- 8 “The story of Bakuman is pretty obvious really... It's a story of two manga lovers trying to make their own anime. But it has a nice twist, or many twists even. With a variety of colourful...”
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A Manga Publication
- Format 176 × 20 ch × vol
- Total read 23h 28m approx
- Published Aug 2008 – Apr 2012
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M6588 catalog