Bakuman, Volume 17

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By the creators of Death Note! The mystery behind manga-making revealed!

Average student Moritaka Mashiro enjoys drawing for fun. When his classmate and aspiring writer Akito Takagi discovers his talent, he begs Moritaka to team up with him as a manga-creating duo. But what exactly does it take to make it in the manga-publishing world?

As the veteran manga artists start taking over Weekly Shonen Jump, the younger artists feel the pressure. But ...

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Overview

By the creators of Death Note! The mystery behind manga-making revealed!

Average student Moritaka Mashiro enjoys drawing for fun. When his classmate and aspiring writer Akito Takagi discovers his talent, he begs Moritaka to team up with him as a manga-creating duo. But what exactly does it take to make it in the manga-publishing world?

As the veteran manga artists start taking over Weekly Shonen Jump, the younger artists feel the pressure. But what is behind this sudden surge of older artists making a comeback in the magazine? And what is the connection between Azuma and Moritaka’s late uncle?

Reads R to L (Japanese Style) for teen audiences.

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781421542935
  • Publisher: VIZ Media LLC
  • Publication date: 12/4/2012
  • Series: Bakuman Series , #17
  • Edition description: Original
  • Pages: 192
  • Sales rank: 133,908
  • Product dimensions: 5.18 (w) x 7.36 (h) x 0.62 (d)

Meet the Author

Born in Tokyo, Tsugumi Ohba is the author of the hit series Death Note. His current series Bakuman? is serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump.

Takeshi Obata was born in 1969 in Niigata, Japan, and is the artist of the wildly popular SHONEN JUMP title Hikaru no Go, which won the 2003 Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize: Shinsei "New Hope" award and the 2000 Shogakukan Manga award. Obata is also the artist of Arabian Majin Bokentan Lamp Lamp, Ayatsuri Sakon, Cyborg Jichan G., and the smash hit manga Death Note. His current series Bakuman? is serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 28, 2012

    Great Volume

    This installment sees the return of Nanamine and features a plot centered around that conflict. The art is stellar as always, of course.

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