Moritaka Mashiro has an obvious gift for drawing. He is secretly in love with Miho Azuki. Akito Takagi, the best student in his class, writes scripts and hopes that Mashiro will translate them into manga. The slow ascent to achieve the best manga ever published begins!
Manga
2008
Comedy
Drama
Romance
Shōnen
Slice of life
Bakuman
バクマン。
- Tsugumi Ohba Writer
- Takeshi Obata Artist
Details
- Type
- Manga
- Release
- 2008-08-08 — 2012
- Original title
- バクマン。
- Countries
- JP
- Original language
- Japanese
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama, Romance, Shōnen, Slice of life
- Volumes
- 20
- Status
- Completed
- Information verified on
- 8 octobre 2026
Synopsis
Bakuman
Volumes
Volumes (20)
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Volume 1 — Dream and reality
Moritaka Mashiro has an obvious gift for drawing. He is secretly in love with Miho Azuki. Akito Takagi, the best student in his class, writes scripts and hopes that Mashiro will translate them into manga. The slow ascent to achieve the best manga ever published begins!
Volume 2 — Chocolates and Akamaru
Mashiro and Takagi have finished their first story in manga and they are rather anxious because they will show it to the editor of the famous magazine Jump! Hattori, the publisher who receives them, quickly travels their manga. Is that a good sign? What does he think and what will he tell them?!
Volume 3 — Beginnings and impatience
After finishing 3rd in the Akamura rankings, Mashiro and Takagi are not discouraged and work hard on a new story. Going against the advice of their publisher, Hattori, the two high school students decide to attack a classic manga of combat. Will they, this time, get to beat their opponent and friend in becoming, the famous high schooler Niizuma?
Volume 4 — Telephone and evening watch
During the summer holidays, Saiko becomes Niizuma's assistant, hoping to learn more about his rival's technique, while Shûjin takes advantage of his free time to perfect his nemus. But at the end of the holidays, Saiko decides to continue solo because Shûjin has not finished the nemus that were planned. Our duo splits up! Yet, without knowing it, Saikô and Shûjin will work each side on a police story....Their editorial manager, Mr Hattori, will manage to reform the group?
Volume 5 — Anthology and album
Moritaka Mashiro is in the third year of the college and has an obvious gift for drawing. He is secretly in love with Miho Azuki but dares not reveal this love until his friend, Akito Takagi, forces destiny. Takagi is the best student in his class, he also writes scripts and hopes that Mashiro will translate them into manga. The slow ascent to achieve the best manga ever published begins!
Volume 6 — Temperature and absurdity
The last chapter released in the Jump is third in the ranking: "Trap" is ex-equo with "Crown". Making the cover of the magazine is no longer an unrealizable dream. The release of volume 1 of the manga is scheduled for the month of July, this is not the time to rest on its laurels, there is still a lot of work to get to the top. Unfortunately, overwork is not good for health, Mashiro is found unconscious in his office.
Volume 7 — Gags and serious
End of the editorial meeting!! What series will stop...?! Saiko and Shûjin are in complete doubt as to the direction to be taken in their next manga. While they had decided to embark on a serious manga, their editorial manager insists that they make a gag manga!?
Volume 8 — Panties in close view and messie
Saiko and Shûjin are actively working on their short comic story, which must lead to a series. They need to make a good result in order to achieve their goal, but what will it really be?! At the same time, the accidental reunion with Iwase disturbs the relationship between Shûjin and Miyoshi!!
Volume 9 — Talent and pride
The new manga signed by the two authors of Death Note!! Moritaka Mashiro has an obvious gift for drawing. He is secretly in love with Miho Azuki. Akito Takagi, the best student in his class, writes scripts and hopes that Mashiro will translate them into manga. The slow ascent to achieve the best manga ever published begins!
Volume 10 — Expression and Imagination
Saikô and Shûjin, who dream of becoming great manga writers, have set themselves at the foot of the wall. Not knowing that their first editorial manager, Mr Hattori, is pulling the strings in hiding, they are preparing their new series by following scrupulously the guidelines of Mr Miura, their current manager. What great manga will they achieve?!
Volume 11 — Title and Design Character
Saikô and Shûjin ended up getting a new series, but when they learn that it was played with a hair, they decided to continue their work in order to achieve, before the start of the publication, the best story they had ever made. Finally, their manga begins, and the judgment of the readers falls!!
Volume 12 — Painter and Mangaka
If they want the publication of "PCP" to continue, Saiko and Shûjin have six months to make it a title capable of competing with the Eiji manga! Despite this very severe condition, the two friends decide to make a story in five episodes!! Do they play their mangaka future on this series?
Volume 13 — Fan and lightning player
The "Super Leaders Festa" is preparing, and Saiko announces to Shûjin that he is determined to make this story all by himself. Shûjin gives him his consent and, for his part, he devotes himself to his manga with Shiratori. This new step in their collaboration was supposed to make them each progress on their side, but not everything happens as planned, and their relationship goes through a difficult passage!?
Volume 14 — Psychological duel and shock phrase
Toru Nanamine is a surprising young cartoonist who took Muto Ashirogi as a model to become mangaka. However, seeing that Nanamine is ready to do anything to get success, Saikô and Shûjin, with the benevolence of the elders, put the will and their honour in front of him, but...!?
Volume 15 — Encouragement and sentiments
Seeing its popularity fall in free fall, Nanamine tries everything for the whole and presents a conditional challenge to Saiko and Shûjin!! What will be the result of it...?! This ordeal barely ended, our two heroes face the greatest danger that could threaten them when they learn terrible information on television...
Volume 16 — Beginners and Veterans
He will end a manga he hates if he ranks first in popularity surveys for ten consecutive weeks. Eiji blows a wind of panic by announcing it to the editor! Saiko and Shûjin also learned it and they are working to counter the genius's plan! But what is the manga that Eiji wants to stop?!
Volume 17 — Everything for the whole story
The young authors of the Jump begin to worry by seeing a band of veteran cartoonists arrive. On the other hand, Azuma is disturbed by the similarities he sees between Saiko and his uncle, Tarô Kawaguchi. It is at this precise moment that Muto Ashirogi receives a phone call that will trigger the wanled-down fight !!
Volume 18 — Aisance and Hell
Eiji Niizuma put elements of marginal history in his classic bassoon manga. Muto Ashirogi did the opposite: he put classical elements in a marginal bassoon manga. The two rivals, who have been watching each other for a long time, will face each other in the pages of the Jump with a complete story!! Classic versus classic! These mangakas represent the future of manga! Who will come out winner of the duel?!
Volume 19 — Decision and enchantment
Muto Ashirogi is leading the new series duel that opposes him to Eiji! Yet, surprisingly, the sales figures of linked books are very clearly to the advantage of Eiji. This does not discourage the duo of authors who continue to believe in him and in his manga... His ardentness will finally pay !!
Volume 20 — Dream and reality
Our young people have always gone straight ahead, in pursuit of their dream. They believed in them, in their aspiration, and they went through the stages one by one. Finally, ten years have passed. What remains of the promise that they had made at the time?!A last volume full of emotion, dedicated to all those who loved this manga!!