As we approach the end of Bakuman, it only makes sense that loose ends begin to be taken care of. Iwase’s half of the episode was nothing more than a loose end to be tied. Since it’s been a while – it felt like that with the manga – she’s brought back just Ashirogi Muto … Continue reading »The post Bakuman Season 3 – 17 appeared first on Anime Aura.
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Last Chapter and Comments Key Events Confidence is high with Ashirogi Muto as they think they’ve got something that can win with their latest challenge against Eiji. The chapter is based around the centre colour page, which is an ‘invitation’ letter of sorts in the manga that is given to PCP’s main group by Sigma [...]
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As Bakuman proves, rivalry can be a touching and heart-warming thing. A rare occasion for us to get a true Eiji-centric episode. The past three episodes may have centred around him, but they weren’t so much about him. They were more about giving the other authors their due via a pseudo-antagonistic relationship with Eiji. It … Continue reading »The post Bakuman Season 3 – 16 appeared first on Anime Aura.
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The final battle (for now at least) between Nizuma and Ashirogi Muto is upon us, and it seems as if our pair of heroes have something rather special up their sleeves to compete for the top spot in their final opportunity to dislodge their rival from his perch at the top of the tree.
Certainly, as Mashiro and Takagi unveil the manuscript for their latest chapter to Hattori, he seems delighted
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Opening Page & Centre Key Events: With everything set, Eiji has 16 weeks to continuously keep first place before he can end Crow. Eiji also allows Yujiro to tell the other editors so they’ll also try to get their mangaka to take first spot to stop Crow. So everyone thinks of their own ideas to [...]
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Now that the lid has been lifted on which manga series Nizuma is planning to cancel once he proves himself to be king of the Shounen Jack hill, both his rivals and the magazine's editorial department are fired up to do everything possible to knock him from his perch.
This means that all of the major creative players in the magazine's output are suddenly awash with new ideas - introducing new
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With the previous episode setting up the fight, this episode of Bakuman shows us how exactly to compete with your fellow mangaka. There’s certainly a lot to discuss here. One thing we learn this episode, is that all authors are calculating types at one point or another. For some like Takagi this is second nature, … Continue reading »The post Bakuman Season 3 – 15 appeared first on Anime Aura.
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Continuity and Obstruction Key Events: Crow’s taken first 3 weeks in a row. Yoshida comes up with a new plan to motivate Nakai and Hiramaru involving Nakai dieting and trying to get a girlfriend. Fukuda’s manga gets a boost to overtake PCP in the rankings when the anime airs. Everything seems fine with Eiji so [...]
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Their rivalry with Nanamine may have been quickly quashed by crushing their opponent, but that just means that our focus has returned to an even bigger rivalry now, that being Eiji Nizuma.
As if Nizuma wasn't already prolific and successful enough, his recent burst of new-found motivation proves him to be an even more terrifying prospect as he races to the top of Shounen Jack's charts and stays
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I find this episode of Bakuman to be a little odd….. A little funny that in a relatively straightforward series there would be such an episode that didn’t make complete sense. I guess it all comes down to adaptations taking a different route with their storytelling, which is clear in this episode. A lot of … Continue reading »The post Bakuman Season 3 – 14 appeared first on Anime Aura.
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With the Nanamine arc coming to an end this is a good opportunity to discuss a very peculiar skill that a lot of main characters in shounen series lack but is essential to being a main character in Bakuman – creativity. Nanamine’s “Army of 50″ Here’s a seemingly simple logical query: if two people are [...]
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Imitation and Unconsciousness Key Events Mashiro isn’t bothered by the news but he is worried about Takagi as he’s the one thinking up the stories. Hattori decides not to bring it up and will laugh it off if Ashirogi bring it up. Takagi does bring it up but Hattori reassures them. Even so Takagi is [...]
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The risk of PCP's "crimes" being carried over into real life has been a burden which Ashirogi Muto has had to carry almost from the outset with their current work, but even then surely they never expected someone to commit a bank robbery in the name of their manga?
While both the magazine's editorial department and Mashiro are both willing to shrug off the negative publicity and carry on in the
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Nanamine's career as a manga artist (if you can call him that) might be on the ropes, but he isn't quite done yet - in spite of being fund out, his final chance to shine is set up via a direct face-off with Ashirogi Muto, as both artists publish their own spin on the same story in the same issue.
Although he's already lost a number of the "collective" who brainstorm his works for him, Nanamine
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Just as I stopped worrying about Bakuman‘s pacing, this episode gave me something to worry about. Looks like the staff have decided to make some cuts for the worse, starting with the much shortened Nakai epilogue. I don’t expect many to like, or even care for Nakai but his part of the episode was cut … Continue reading »The post Bakuman Season 3 – 13 appeared first on Anime Aura.
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