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Bakuman
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:CreationDate: 2014-03-19 12:03:43
:Id: anime/review/bakuman
:tags: - anime
- review
:rating: 3.5
:original: https://www.easternkicks.com/reviews/bakuman-season-1
You may be familiar with the names OBATA Takeshi (小畑 健) and OOBA
Tsugumi (大場 つぐみ): they're the ones who created Death Note, they
supernatural psychological thriller that's one of the most appreciated
and talked-about manga+anime in recent years.
Bakuman is their second work together, and it couldn't be more
different from Death Note: no spirits, no mysterious deaths, no mind
games. It's a much "softer" story, about family, ambition, growth,
love, and hard work.
Akito wants to become a mangaka; he convinces Moritaka, nephew of a
famous manga artist, to join forces and work toward their dream. As an
additional motivation, Moritaka's sweetheart Miho promises to marry
him when their reach their dream goals (she wants to become a voice
actress).
The road to fame, publication, and love is not easy, though: the world
of professional mangaka is very competitive, everyone works as hard as
they can to win one of the very few serialised publication slots, and
even winning a few contests is no guarantee of success.
Even if the premise may seem a bit flimsy, there's enough story to
fill this season's 25 episodes, plus two more seasons (which will
hopefully be published in the UK in the next two or three years). If
you like action, fights, explosions, and the like, you'll probably
find Bakuman rather boring and slow; if on the other hand you like
stories of normal people reaching for their dreams with hard work,
friendship, and (to be honest) an amazing amount of luck, you should
really treat yourself with this series.
