{"id":5348,"date":"2010-10-25T17:30:46","date_gmt":"2010-10-25T21:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/?p=5348"},"modified":"2010-10-24T21:48:33","modified_gmt":"2010-10-25T01:48:33","slug":"bakuman-anime-first-impressions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2010\/10\/25\/bakuman-anime-first-impressions\/","title":{"rendered":"Bakuman–Anime First Impressions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bakuman<\/em> is a new anime<\/a> series that may be getting less attention than it deserves. I’m not saying that it is destined to be one of the all-time great classics, but it is smart and enjoyable. Still it won’t be to everyone’s taste. It’s a coming of age\/romance story, told in a fairly realistic style with no hint of supernatural elements, with characters who are all normal believable human beings.<\/p>\n

The story focuses on two middle school boys who want to be mangaka<\/a>. Moritaka Mashiro (Atsushi Abe) is a talented whose uncle was an unsuccessful mangaka who ended up working himself to death. His uncle’s example inspired him to dream of being a mangaka, but also left him afraid to try. He is grimly aware of the odds against success in the field, but he dreads the prospect of becoming an ordinary salaryman.<\/p>\n

He is galvanized into action by Akito Takagi (Satoshi Hino), a talented student who dreams of writing a successful manga<\/a> and thinks all he needs to do is find a capable artist. Akito is arrogant and cocksure, but in many respects he is more mature and insightful than Moritaka.<\/p>\n

Moritaka has a major crush on his classmate Miho Azuki (Saori Hayami) who wants to be a seiyuu<\/a>. She seems interested in him too, but both of them are so impossibly shy with the opposite sex that they can barely speak to each other. (Maybe I shouldn’t say “impossibly” considering how I was at that age.) Nevertheless their romance is clearly going nowhere unless Moritaka grows a pair (or unless she does.)<\/p>\n

Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata, who wrote and illustrated the original manga, clearly drew on their own experiences. This gives the anime a believable and heartfelt quality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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