I’ve always felt that the true situation on Bakuman at any given time could be read on Mashiro’s face.  That’s why it’s so hard to watch now, because every time he appears in close-up it looks like he’s dying inside. Is this really the same series whose “slow pace” everyone […] Read more

Tanto was serialized?  That’s the most depressing “good news” ever. It’s looking inevitable that the crap gag manga (well, it is making me gag) is going to swallow up the rest of this season and deprive us of any coolness or GAR from Ashirogi Muto.  No good manga from the […] Read more

Pretty much everything in Bakuman is going to hell in a handbasket at the moment.  I’m pissed off at pretty much everyone and everything in it – but in the end, I guess that’s much better than not caring at all. At the moment, maybe the one I feel most […] Read more

Bakuman managed to fit pretty much every annoying character in the roster into the episode for major roles this week, a real accomplishment. I’m still not enjoying this arc nearly as much as the first couple of arcs this season, which were the best the anime adaptation has offered up […] Read more

I like Takagi and he’s a nice guy and all, but I’m not at all sure he deserves a wife like Miyoshi. Considering that almost the entire episode was focused on romantic entanglements and what little that focused on manga was bad news, I liked this episode a lot more […] Read more

As we go further and further into Bakuman, I’m becoming more convinced every week that Niizuma Eiji is the smartest guy in the room. This series has been on an incredibly strong run for most of this season, but it seems to be in a bit of a trough at […] Read more

This has been an excellent season on Bakuman, but I’m not at all sure I like the direction this is headed.    I liked the first season of this series, but I certainly acknowledge the flaws that caused others to dismiss it – I just didn’t find them to be […] Read more

This week’s Bakuman is officially the first anime episode of the season that had me yelling at the screen… I hate to keep harping on this, but Miura is a bad editor.  He’s not only a man of poor taste, but he’s immature and completely unprofessional.  And I’m now supposed […] Read more