I’m about to say something deep about Bakuman. Ready? You’ll either like it or you won’t. OP:”Dream of Life” by Shouhei Itou What’s this, a sequel without any extra punctuation marks or exclamation points? Indeed, it’s just “Season 2” and while I debated whether to call this episode 26 or […] Read more
I believe I’d be hard-pressed to find a lot of series that improved as much from start to finish as this one did. Was that the case in the manga as well? I can’t answer, but I do know this – even though I enjoyed the first ep a lot […] Read more
Again, apologies for the belated nature of this review and wrap-up. I finally have a hotel with wi-fi now, but I’m still in Japan for 5 more days and I’m not going to be able to really catch up (Infinite Stratos, Gosick, loads of First Impressions – uguu…) until I […] Read more
At this point it’s become pretty clear where the cliffhanger for the end of season one is going to be. It’s obviously going to be the serialization meeting, but will it end with the results of the meeting – or just before the results? I suspect viewers will be pretty […] Read more
In a strange way, it’s often easier to write about mediocre or flawed episodes of an anime than it is about really good ones. Flaws are easy to pick apart, but when it’s all good – sometimes that’s all you have to say. My blog about this week’s Bakuman could […] Read more
Well, that little confrontation at Jack headquarters went just about as I expected. “Team Fukuda” blew off a little steam, and the editors told them to grow a pair and deal with it. It was Masahiro who ended up spelling things out, but the logic of it was inescapable – […] Read more
This was certainly one of the most “shounen” of all the Bakuman episodes so far – a reminder that this is indeed a shounen manga in spite of it’s somewhat unorthodox storyline. For one week this was a battle series – all about the fighting spirit and the coming struggle […] Read more
That was certainly an eventful episode. Not only did about six months seem to go by, but we had Death Note references, marriage proposals and the arrival of one of the most popular characters from the manga. Though there’s another full season on the way, the anime has started to […] Read more
The shortest breakup in manga writing history is over in one episode. To be fair, it did span about two months of RL time – but really, can anyone be remotely surprised to see Takagi and Masahiro back together? I know everyone is going to jump on Hattori’s bandwagon again […] Read more
Bakuman has settled into a nice groove, and this week definitely continues the strongest run of episodes the series has strung together. After a likable but slow start the intensity level has picked up nicely on both the professional and romance fronts and the last couple of episodes have been […] Read more