Bakuman
Bakuman | |
バクマン。 | |
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Genre | |
Manga | |
Written by | Weekly Shonen Jump Alpha |
Demographic | Shōnen |
Original run | August 11, 2008 – April 23, 2012 |
Volumes | 20 |
Anime television series | |
Directed by |
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Written by | Reiko Yoshida |
Music by | Audio Highs |
Studio | J.C.Staff |
Licensed by | |
Original network | NHK Educational TV |
Original run | October 2, 2010 – March 30, 2013 |
Episodes | 75 |
Game | |
Bakuman.: Mangaka e no Michi | |
Puzzle game | |
Platform | Nintendo DS |
Released | : December 15, 2011 |
Novel | |
PCP -Perfect Crime Party- | |
Written by | Sei Hatsuno |
Published by | Shueisha |
Imprint | Jump J-Books |
Demographic | Male |
Published | October 2, 2015 |
Related media | |
Bakuman (バクマン。, stylized as BAKUMAN。) is a Japanese
It is the first manga released online by Shueisha in multiple languages before becoming available in print outside Japan. In 2009,
Bakuman topped the Kono Manga ga Sugoi! list for male readers in 2010, was the seventh best-selling manga series of 2011 and the 10th best of 2012. The manga has had over 15 million copies in circulation.
Plot
When
After submitting many
Production
Tsugumi Ohba came up the idea for Bakuman after thinking of all the people who long to be manga artists. Because he is in the industry, he felt he could create a manga about manga.[4] Takeshi Obata, illustrator of the series, said that the title "means bakuhatsu (explosion), bakuchi (gamble) and baku (an animal that supposedly eats dreams)... It has many meanings to it, and I think it's a very fun title."[5] Ohba said that for the fictional manga created in the series, he did not worry about the plot and settings, only focusing on "cranking them out." He revealed that he did actually make storyboards for the fictional The Classroom of Truth, and one he created for Otter No. 11 is actually seen in Bakuman.[4]
When creating a chapter, Ohba did not meet with Obata. He would discuss things with his editor and create storyboards that were given to Obata. Obata then would create his own storyboards that were given to Ohba and their editor. The author said only minor changes were ever made and they never had disagreements.[4] Obata said that when he started the manga, he struggled with the large amount of dialogue and information, not having enough space to draw the detailed backgrounds that he wanted. But he eventually realized that the dialogue is "the main character" of the series and shifted to making the art as unobtrusive as possible, such as using simple camera angles so that the composition was not too elaborate and the text could be read smoothly.[6] Ohba referred to Bakuman as "a weird series." He revealed that the hardest part was coming up with new ideas as the story kept getting longer. But said because of this, he was able to include stories that he never initially considered.[4]
When asked how accurate the manga process depicted in Bakuman is to reality, current Weekly Shōnen Jump editor-in-chief Hiroyuki Nakano said that as a work of fiction, some things are exaggerated for dramatic effect, "But it takes a lot of details from real life, so I think it's quite close."
Media
Manga
Written by
Several chapters of the series were released on Jumpland's official website in Japanese, English, French, and German; the first chapter released on August 19, 2008. It is Shueisha's first manga to be released online in multiple languages before becoming available in print outside Japan.
Anime
A 25-episode anime television series based on Bakuman was announced in Weekly Shōnen Jump's second issue of 2010.[26] Produced by J.C.Staff, it began broadcasting on NHK on October 2, 2010 and ran until April 2, 2011. In December 2010, Weekly Shōnen Jump announced that a second season would air in Fall 2011; it ran from October 1, 2011 to March 24, 2012.[27][28] A third and final season was announced in the 3/4th (2012) combined issue of Weekly Shōnen Jump and began airing on October 6, 2012.[29] It ran for 25 episodes between October 6, 2012 and March 30, 2013.
In August 2011,
Live-action
A live-action film adaptation of Bakuman was released on October 3, 2015. Written and directed by Hitoshi Ōne (Moteki), the film stars Takeru Satoh as Moritaka Mashiro and Ryunosuke Kamiki as Akito Takagi.[37] Japanese rock band Sakanaction performed the soundtrack, Motion Music of Bakuman, including the theme song "Shin Takarajima", which they released as a single four days before the film's release.[38]
A play adaptation, Bakuman The Stage, ran at three locations in Tokyo and Osaka throughout October 2021. Written and directed by Worry Kinoshita, it starred Hiroki Suzuki as Mashiro and Yoshihiko Aramaki as Takagi. A recorded performance was released on home video on March 29, 2022.[39]
Other media
Bakuman received a four-episode Vomic adaptation, where voice actors, music and sound effects are heard as the manga images appear on screen, that was broadcast on the TV show Sakiyomi Jum-Bang! in June 2009. Mashiro and Takagi were voiced by Jun Fukuyama and Shinnosuke Tachibana respectively.[40]
A video game based on Bakuman was made for the
A novel titled PCP -Perfect Crime Party- and based on the fictional manga of the same name created by Takagi and Mashiro in Bakuman was released by Shueisha on October 2, 2015. It was written by Sei Hatsuno, although Takagi and Mashiro's fictional pen name "Muto Ashirogi" is credited with the original story.[16]
Reception
Bakuman was chosen as the best manga for male readers in the 2010 Kono Manga ga Sugoi! guidebook, which surveys people in the manga and publishing industry.[43] It was nominated for the third annual Manga Taishō award in 2010.[44] The first volume of the series placed fourth on the Oricon manga chart during its debut week, selling 154,675 copies.[45] The second volume followed suit, placing second during its first week with 228,056 copies.[46] The third volume continued the trend and placed fourth during its debut week, selling 200,369 copies.[47] During the first half of 2009, the first volume placed twenty-eighth and the second volume placed twenty-seventh on Oricon's list of fifty top-selling manga in Japan, selling 381,633 and 394,567 copies respectively.[48] Bakuman was the seventh best-selling manga series of 2011, with almost 4.4 million copies sold, and the tenth best of 2012, with over 3.2 million sold that year.[49][50] By April 2012, over 13 million copies had been sold,[51] with this number growing to over 15 million copies in publication by May 2014.[37] In the United States, volume one debuted at number 6 on The New York Times Manga Graphic Books list for the week of August 12[52] and remained on the list for eight weeks straight.[53]
Christopher Butcher reviewing volume one for
The film was
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External links
- Bakuman. anime at the NHK website (in Japanese)
- Bakuman. at Viz Media website
- Bakuman. (anime) at IMDb
- Bakuman (manga) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia