Bakuman. 3 discussion thread

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Episode 13:

Two plots got finished up very quickly in this episode and it felt a bit awkward. On the upside, one of them was goddamned horrible human scum Nakai, so that's out of the way! And without the show trying to pair him and Aoki up. Seems like Hiramari/Aoki is pretty legit now, thank goodness.

As for the copycats, that was addressed waaaaaaaaay too easily, but since it wasn't a great plot anyway I guess that's fine. This stuff going on with Eiji is much more interesting.

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Episode 14:

Heh, how did I miss the obvious? Eiji wanted to end Crow. Well this is a simplistic plot, but it should be pretty fun. Everyone is racing against the clock t beat Eiji before he can cancel it.

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Episode 15:

This is one of the better arcs this season. Sometimes keeping it simple really is best. Interested in seeing what the trick of the color page is.

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Things are getting very intense between Crow and PCP.
I like how they showed us PCP manga chapter.
That's always interesting to watch.
Everyone was doing their best to come closer to Crow.
In the end no one was good enough to beat Niizuma.
Niizuma is a manga machine! He's just amazing.
Always manages to surprise me.

[ookamigirl]

Iwase going through a crisis of her own..
An intervention was badly needed.
Luckily others teamed up and led her towards the right path.
Seems like there were some changes in the editorial department as well.
Flashbacks were nice.
Looks like both Niizuma and Ashirogi Muto are starting new manga.
The interesting thing is they're having similar ideas. Both going for something different.

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Episode 16:

- Eiji is still awesome.
- Huh, so Bakuman is currently taking place in July 2016 going by the calendar in Takahama's room.
- Even with their big trick, they only managed a tie for second. I had a feeling they wouldn't win but I didn't think they'd only tie Giri.
- Hahah, Eiji has 30 volumes worth of manga written off to the side never sent for serialization.
- And uh thats just the tip of the iceberg.

That was pretty great. Way way way better than any Nakai or Nanamine stuff. Eiji is such a good character.

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Episode 17:

- Uh, wow, that was a really cheerful-sounding brutal put-down Miura. Not that I have any sympathy left for Iwase.
- No, Iwase, do not go crying to Takagi. Just call up Aoki, she's one of the few people who can tolerate your crap.
- Oh she did. Bad timing though.
- I hope this is a short arc. Iwase isn't as bad as Nakai but she's still a pretty bad person.
- And it seems to be over already, yay.

- On to, what, new chief editor?
- Yeah. His farewell tour was pretty good.
- New manga time! So uh, Eiji is drawing reverse Sankarea and Ashirogi are drawing Death Note?
- Okay Ashirogi goes back to standard battle manga by doing two nonstandard battle manga in one.

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Ashirogi's Revesi battle manga vs Niizuma's Zombie Gun.
Those two/three always have to compete.
Yet, they never manged to beat Niizuma...
Maybe it's time for that to change.
Finally, a manga that surpassed Niizuma.
Looks like things will become really interesting!
Awesome episode!!!!

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Episode 18:

- So get Miho got a major seiyuu role. "Who the heck is Miho?", you ask? Yeah I dunno either. Some kind of character in this show, but obviously not anyone important.
- A parallel serialization in a monthly magazine. That makes sense, and doesn't require four slots in Jack to be taken up by just two authors.
- Oh and a new editor for Reversi too. Also makes sense.
- lol drunken Hattori.
- Ahhhhh nice, just switch it around to keep things flowing. Hattori gets to edit Reversi in Weekly Jack, while PCP moves to Hisshou. That lets the old manga fade into the background while Reverse gets the focus.

Good stuff. I look forward to this next arc.

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Mashiro planed everything nicely.
Hope Ogawa will be able to manage the assistants.
PCP moving on to middle school and Reversi coming out soon.
Looks like Mashiro overestimated the time needed to finish everything in time.
Luckily Ogawa rescued them all by adding more assistants.
They got first place again and again, cool! ^-^
Niizuma is not a fool, he knows how to get more readers.
His tactics are amazing.
They'll have to make Reversi the best it can be no matter how long or short it will be.