Bakuman.

Description

From Viz:
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?

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Note: Nominated for the 3rd Manga Taisho Award (2010).

Type

Manga

Related Series

Otter No. 11 (Spin-Off)

Bakuman Bangai-hen (Sequel)

Associated Names

Baku-man

Bakuman

Bakuman - Giấc mơ họa sĩ truyện tranh

Bakuman。

Бакуман.

बाकुमान

วัยซนคนการ์ตูน

バクマン。

爆漫-夢與現實 Baku Man

爆漫王。

食夢者

食梦者

바쿠만

Groups Scanlating

Latest Release(s)

c.176 by MANGA Plus 3 years ago

c.175 by MANGA Plus 3 years ago

c.174 by MANGA Plus 3 years ago

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Status in Country of Origin

20 Volumes (Complete)
12 Volumes (Bunkoban, 2017, Complete)

Completely Scanlated?

Yes

Anime Start/End Chapter

Starts at Vol 1, Chap 1 (S1) / Vol 4, Chap 35 (S2) / Vol 11, Chap 98 (S3)

Ends at Vol 4, Chap 35 (S1) / Vol 11, Chap 97 (S2) / Vol 20, Chap 176 (S3)

User Reviews

Bakuman by Mangaka714

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61 topics, 493 posts

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User Rating

Average: 8.5 / 10.0 (2614 votes)

Bayesian Average: 8.48 / 10.0

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Last Updated

July 14th, 2024 8:37pm PDT - 1 year ago

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Genre

Comedy Drama Romance School Life Shounen Slice of Life
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Author(s)

Artist(s)

Year

Original Publisher

Shueisha

Serialized In (magazine)

Shuukan Shounen Jump (Shueisha)

Licensed (in English)

Yes

English Publisher

MANGA Plus

Viz (20 Vols - Complete)

Activity Stats (vs. other series)

Weekly Pos #759

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Monthly Pos #1282

(-44)

3 Month Pos #2003

(-488)

6 Month Pos #2628

(-216)

Year Pos #2914

(-62)

List Stats

On 4386 reading lists

On 1568 wish lists

On 4618 completed lists

On 370 unfinished lists

On 734 custom lists

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User Comments [ Order by time added ]

Death Note creators' new series shows promise. [Edit: NOT!]

by DarkSlushie
17 years ago

Rating: 3.0 / 10.0

I hated Death Note but this new series actually shows some promise. And Making-Of type stories seem to be all the rage these day. Let's hope it achieves a nice, long run on its own and not just ride the wave of popularity generated by the mangaka's last project.

[Edit] I take it all back. Three chapters in, I'm already bored to tears. This is a classic example of a series that should have been a oneshot but ended up getting dragged out into 7 volumes. NOTHING HAPPENS IN THIS MANGA! Absolutely nothing!

... Last updated 17 years ago

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are you cereal?

by revilenigma
16 years ago

Rating: 4.0 / 10.0

The main characters are despicable imo, all they ever care about are votes and getting an anime and not on making a good manga, just so one of them can get married on some ridiculous unbelievable deal that he made with a classmate he never talked to.

The art is usually uninteresting as it is mostly just characters screaming at each other through the phone.

If you like a manga where all anybody does is scream voting statistics at each other, then this is the manga for you. It represents everything wrong with WSJ.

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Not good ...

by Dickegrobe
10 years ago

Rating: 3.0 / 10.0

I've only seen the anime, so I might be referring to something else entirely (but from the glimpses I got, I do not think it deviates much from the manga other than being maybe a wee bit more compact in some places).

Originally, I wanted to rant about how unbelievably annoying, shallow, dumb and whatnot Bakuman is, but Textualpoacher already mentioned most of it, I guess.

Let me add - this work is so full of sports/battle shounen manga (basically the same thing) stereotypes that you could say it actually is one. All the crap that manga kiddies must love so much ...

suberbestest rivalfriends;

excessive use of superlatives (like, how almost each new approach of the MC must and, for sure, will absolutely with no doubt beat their eternal super-suberbestest rivalfriend Eichi ... and then won't);

beating enemies and recruiting them as future superbestest rivalfriends (like the tea-sipping manga girl that - for no apparent reason - looses the bit of (arrogant) personality she has in the beginning and turns into ... nothing; or like that guy doing manga with a think tank of dunno-how-much-people)

humongous amount of (mainly, but not exclusively, male) shallow pride oozing out of every pore ...

it's all there! Yayyyyyy!

I'm not sure if this is anime-exclusive thing or if it's the manga as well, but ... At some point, ALL characters develop the habit of saying certain things - perhaps meant to be slightly more meaningful, deeper, funnier, whatever than the rest - with one eye closed. Really, ALL OF THEM. A-N-N-O-Y-I-N-G. I am as peace-loving and inoffensive as one can be, but I really wanted to smack that stupid look out of their faces, hard.

What's else to say? Oh, in all fairness, the work has its good points as well: Hiamaru and his editor are funny, Kaya (Kaya? ... the girl with big tits) is kind of likeable (although a bit generic).

... Last updated 10 years ago

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Waste of time

by Mushu
15 years ago

Rating: 1.0 / 10.0

Don't read it. I got to about chapter 60 a while ago and just quit. It's stupid as hell. This could've been something sick like another thriller+tragedy like death note but the author is looking like a one hit wonder after this.

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Not worth your time

by N0X
15 years ago

Rating: 1.0 / 10.0

Total worthless manga. One of the worst I ever read, and that's saying something. So the guy behind Death Note decides to take the easy way out and just draw a manga about... drawing manga. Wow, talk about making it easy for yourself. The characters are all standard-generalized shonen stereotypes. A weak main character who grows and overcomes his weaknesses and with his strong-personality friends eventually makes it into the manga-drawing business. Predictable and total garbage for anyone interested in actually interesting plot and characters. I would give it a 0, but unfortunately, I can't.

... Last updated 15 years ago

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