Introduction
With the serialization of their new manga, "Detective Trap," the writer-artist team, Akito Takagi and Moritaka Mashiro, better known by their pseudonym Muto Ashirogi, are one step closer to becoming world-renowned mangaka. For Mashiro, however, serialization is just the first step. Having promised to marry his childhood sweetheart and aspiring voice actress, Azuki Miho, once his manga gets an anime adaptation, Mashiro must continue his to popularize Ashirogi's work. A tremendously competitive cast of ambitious mangaka—including the wild genius, Eiji Niizuma; the elegant student, Yuriko Aoki, and her older admirer and partner, Takurou Nakai; the lazy prodigy, Kazuya Hiramaru; and the abrasive artist, Shinta Fukuda—both support and compete against Muto Ashirogi in creating the next big hit.
As they adjust to their young and seemingly untested new editor, the dynamic duo struggle to maintain their current serialization, secure the top spot in Shounen Jack, and ultimately, achieve an anime adaptation of their manga. With new rivals and friends, Bakuman. 2nd Season continues Takagi and Mashiro's inspiring story of hard work and young love.
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Bakuman series is one of my favorites, I watched the anime couple of times and read the manga twice, the inner need to write a review about this amazing series is what made me write a review before on the S1 part. though that review was one of my firsts in MAL, when my english writing was very poor and was structured badly. yet going back to that review I realized that rewriting it will be a pain instead writing an entirely new review [on other anime]. writing new review on S1 didn’t occurred in my mind since that review already explained my opinions on S1 pretty well. so what I decided to do is writing a review for S2 with sort of renew my opinions on S1 and connecting them to S2, and ending up opening a path for S3 review.
keep in mind that the review will have spoilers to S1 ending. as…
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DISCLAIMER: THIS HAS A POSSIBLE SPOILER FOR SEASON 1.
It's hard to say whether this is an improvement over the first season, or that this is just the natural progression from everything they set up in the first season. Nevertheless, the second season has been more enjoyable than the first in every way. Mashiro is more likeable as a character, but that could just be the writers being attentive to the fact that Mashiro is now a university student.
We get even better developments and drama than season 1. Now that Ashirogi Muto are serialized, the stakes feel even higher than before. The competition is more fierce now that they are in direct competition with actual professionals, as well as new rivals appearing over the course of the season, ready to pull the rug from underneath them. Everyt…
Read at the sourceCyanCheetah
Bakuman the second inning.
This season was good. This one really really showed the struggles of mangaka.
The humour was good as well.
What I really like about Takagi and Mashiro, they never give up. It is super hard work.
Second season is about how they want to make a manga that makes in impact and beats Niizuma.
They make gag manga and stuff but they arent fulfilled with the work. Nowadays people do jobs for money but these people are driven by passion. It is quite mesmerizing. No spoilers but this season is good.
The OP was alright
The animation is quite good
The side stories are also finally progressing!!! Side stories progression is slow.
I like this season but I liked first season due to the fact that in the first season they really stepped it up and discovered their passio…
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Well, well, well, what do we have here? It's Bakuman, the anime about making manga. And let me tell you, this show is about as exciting as a bag of hammers.
Don't get me wrong, there are some interesting moments, but most of the time it feels like you're watching paint dry. The characters are all a bunch of nerds who take themselves way too seriously, and the animation is about as dynamic as a bowl of oatmeal.
Now, I know some people love this kind of stuff. They like to nerd out over the intricacies of manga creation and the struggles of the industry. But for the rest of us, it's about as thrilling as watching grass grow.
That being said, the show does have its moments. The characters are well-developed and…
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Going into the second season we have a lot of momentum as Ashrogi Muto finally gets their story published, but begin dealing with the new challenges that come with it. For one I think forcing them to work with a new editor is brilliant, and probably a tongue and cheek reference to some real editor the authors had to work with at some point. The story is loosely based on parts of the real careers and experiences with the manga industry of the Ohba and Obata, who also did Death Note.
Like the first season it really manages to suck you in and make you so invested in something that you previously would never have cared about. Watching the characters struggle and make deadlines and their passion for the art and the stories they want to tell is all captured so well, to the point it makes me wis…
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This to me is the best season of the 3. It literally has one of the greatest scenes I have ever seen in an anime with the last episode's ending, and is just a fantastic story all the way through. If you are looking for a heartfelt slice of life that has a fantastic array of characters, interesting story and helps you learn more about Manga and how it is constructed, this show is the perfect one for you (all 3 seasons).
It literally has set the mark in what slice of life Manga about being a Mangaka have to top. Nothing since has come close to the all round completeness the show has in capturing your attention but also delivering an amazing story which educates the reader at the same time. The mix of emotions and the fantastic way it still feels real is just wonderful.
Read at the sourceFyrebirdi
After binge watching both season 1 & 2 I wanted to write my thoughts on season 2, even though it aired a decade ago.
** warning slight spoilers**
While the overall growth of Ashirogi as a professional manga team progressed over the course of the season, I felt early Mashiro was depicted as too fanatical and immature. His hospital arc was irresponsible and almost made me drop the series. A 'work yourself to death' mentality is not one I subscribe to. The only reason I continued was because I felt Fukuda was doing major heavy lifting.
That being said, I'm glad I gritted through what become a bump in the road for an overall enjoyable season. It was more informative about the manga industry and how their decision making process works. Awesome depictions of rivalry and friendship between char…
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Bakuman, the manga series written by Tsugumi Ohba and draw by Takeshi Obata, the same creator of Death Note, has the metalanguage as the central idea, in other words, the mangá talking about mangá, the cinema talking about cinema, the language talking about language. The main discussion that can been about this (and the positivest too) is it's not resume only in a autoavaliation like art work, with discussions about composition and narrative like citations in mangá, but a autoavaliation like media product in a big mass cultural industry (japonese editorial market, in this case), that work in a hierarquic and hard system positions and excessive quality control in all work maded. The metalanguage in Bakuman, knowing the anime serie has mangá like main theme and central approach, is caracteri…
Read at the sourceUneducated_Revs
In season two of Bakuman, we still follow our boys Moritaka and Takagi as they’re now serialized in Shonen Jack with their successful ‘Detective Trap’ manga, but things don’t go as smoothly as we wanted to.
One of the biggest problems of the first season is the relationship between Mashiro and Miho Azuki, most prominently Azuki’s involvement in the plot as she always appeared out of nowhere to forward the plot, however, in this season she has a more prominent role at least within the first half of the run, it isn’t perfect but it has a more natural impact than before. This development comes with a cost though, as in the first half we don’t see much of the usual chemistry between our main protagonists. Also, this first half comes with some problematic social views, particularly with the gl…
Read at the sourceKameluka
Sexist. The writers do not know how to write female characters. All of the female characters have serious problems with them and they are certainly not treated as equals. The female lead asks her boyfriend's permission regarding her career. Miyoshi is mistreated by Tagaki soooo many times yet she does everything she can for them, i.e., cooking, cleaning, looking after them, etc.
There is a constant sexist tone throughout the whole series that ruins the show for me. For example, the "women cannot understand a man's dreams" line from season one. All of the female characters are either unreasonable or obedient to a male character, except Azuki's mother which is probably because she did not have screentime.
The story itself is nice, a bit repetitive but doesn't bore you. I would enjoy the…
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[This is some extra thought to my already-written Bakuman S1 review. ]
As I said, this anime's central plot about the lives of mangakas is really good. EVEN BETTER THIS SEASON, I'd say! However, some elements haven't improved, rather I feel like I should bring them up again with emphasis. Oh yes, the romance between Miho and Mashiro is less creepy and whacky now that they're talking on the phone. Anyhow.
Writing female characters is Ohba's Achilles heel.
1. The show is obsessed with Miho's "purity".
2. Aiko - that could've been an amazing character, was written to be snobby, uptight, and prideful. Not only that. Her entire story could've been about being a mangaka like the other important side characters. But nope, she's female. She HAD to be involved in SOME sort of romantic setting.…
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I binged this season and the first season super fast, stayed up way later then I should have on work days. But I just couldn't stop, the way the characters interact is fantastic Miyoshi is super kawaii. Seeing some Mangaka fall others rise, and still more stabilize is great and is cool to see how the rise and fall of others effect the dynamics among the characters. The sound track is kinda meh overall it is very well used in hyped moments so you always know when something baller is happening or a gag is happening because of the soundtrack
10/10 Fastest bing I have done in years.
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*This review covers Season 2 with Minor Spoilers of Season 1 & 2
After getting their First Serialization in Shounen Jack, both Mashiro Moritaka and Takagi Akito were excited to continue their work with their Editor Hattori Akira until they found about their editor change. The Second Season of Bakuman continues the Story of Mashiro and Takagi and their struggle to continue their Serialized Manga.
Story: 8.5
It’s hard to see Sequel these days continue with the same pace without declining its quality from the Prequel. But in terms of Bakuman, I would just say the Story got even better. After Mashiro and Takagi’s editor got changed, it was quite hard for them to understand each other as their editor was new and inexperienced and they were even more inexperienced. Which brought clashes between…
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Bakuman is a super realistic lens into the life of mangakas, and considering the fact that the people who made Bakuman is also an artist/author pair -just like the main protagonists-, I wouldn't be surprised if this anime was a remixed story about their life after making Death Note, which is hinted at in season 3. With 3 seasons and 75 episodes, Bakuman is obviously pretty long for a realistic work, and if I were to rank them from best to worst: 3, 2, 1.
Although I believe season 2 was better than season 1, season 2 had its own faults. The problems I had with season 1 is that I felt that the story was too realistically slow and that they wasted a lot of good story premises. To be frank, I didn't think any of the future story premises -except the last one- were any better than the ones fr…
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I had watched the first season along with a few episodes of the second season a while ago, but I had to stop for some reason I can't remember. So, I decided to go back and start the second season from the beginning. Bad idea...
Now I know why I decided not to stick to watching the second season. Even as I'm typing this, I still can't grasp the stark difference between my thoughts on the show vs the majority's opinion. I felt betrayed by the score, so I thought I'll throw in a different perspective regarding the anime.
The first season felt like an inoffensive story that was just okay to watch (from what little I remember), but this second season was a trudge to go through. I had to force myself to watch another episode with the idea that it'd get better eventually, but unfortunately it g…
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3 Seasons Combined Review
At first i thought that i should watch all seasons and then write a combined review but after it was all done it was too much to write so instead i will do a (Pro/Con) list for the main elements of the show
Story (8/10):
Pros:
- A good take on the Manga industry although i am sure that the real thing is more complicated than this it was good to have some sort of insight (Simplified as it was)
- A good amount of Drama. The whole thing moved to high gear halfway through the second season and it was going up after that. The Romance idea was extremely far fetched but was still great to watch as the lack of day to day interaction actually made it better and less cliché imo
- Good comedy
Cons:
- Some stuff get a little repetitive
- It was kind of predictable, so the…
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It's been a long time since I've hated a character that's supposed to be "good" this much and I don't even remember if it has ruined a show as much as this one before. I absolutely loathed President Laura Roslin from Battlestar Galactica, but the show actually made something out of her even though she's a terrible human being.
Miura however might be the worst character in Anime. He's the villain of the second season, but everyone acts like he's a perfectly nice guy. He's incredibly selfish, he's not in touch with his authors will or strengths at all and everything he touches turns to shit but he and everyone else just keeps saying that he should be trusted. He alone brings my score of this season down by like 2 points, which is quite a feat.
In fact, now that I think about it, the char…
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And so, the daily lives and struggles of becoming the Number 1# Shounen Jack mangaka goes on...with harsher trials and tribulations for Ashirogi Muto!
LA will say it here and now just to get this out of the way, Bakuman. 2nd Season had exceeded LA's expectations as well as raze LA's worries and problems that Bakuman had in it's first season and THEN SOME, it's amazing...and "near masterpiece" of anime about a duo trying to be the best in the mangaka industry.
LA would at the very least start with their trials and tribulations that Ashirogi Muto goes through, from changing editors, tenser rivalry, getting sick, complacency and honing their skills. Ashirogi Muto goes through A LOT of trials, but not just in the manga field, Mashiro and Takagi BOTH goes through some romantic high and lows a…
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Bakuman 2 has proven to be an excellent story demonstrating the Tsugumi/Takeshi pair capability to handle another genre of manga/anime. Someone who hasn't done there background look on the creators may not have even noticed it was the same team that brought us the masterpiece, Death Note. The art is very bright and while some mangaka's style can be evidently recognised in all of their work (eg. Mitsuru Adachi), this team's art in Bakuman is much different from the previously produced Death Note.
The story was adequately paced, not too fast or too slow and keeps the reader's interest. Sometimes, however, because it is not the traditional type of shounen anime, there is this feeling like they wanted to still create the tension of a battle in the plot. The battle between mangkas. At times t…
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Normally, the second season always sucks or it's not as interesting as the first one but...
They did it! nope, not what the characters did but what the Bakuman's author did. You'll have to find out.
This anime is so amazing, it left me speechless. The art is the same as the first season but the story, enjoyment... IT'S A MASTERPIECE! Yaass! it truly deserves a 10/10 because it was perfect! I can honestly say I enjoyed every episode. You can ask my sister how much I laughed (and chocked T_T) but seriously! I can't believe a single person disagreeing with me.
Throughout the whole story, the goal is the same. If you watched the first season you'll know what I mean. It made me even want to watch/read the manga they created e.e
That's all. Shortest review ever! .-. it's so good. Its got…
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