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Bakuman

2010–2013 · 3 seasons

A warm, earnest look at creative ambition and partnership, where small victories feel huge and the romance is sweetly chaste.

Created by: Yuta Maruyama, Mitsutoshi Sato
Genres: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Starring: Atsushi Abe, Satoshi Hino, Saori Hayami

Overview: Moritaka Mashiro and Akito Takagi are pretty much foils of each other. Mashiro, an average 9th grade student but talented artist, and Takagi, an overall advanced 9th grader and aspiring writer. After great convincing, Takagi convinces Mashiro to join him in becoming the greatest mangakas Japan has ever seen. Takagi, with his gift of writing, hopes to become a successful mangaka, and Mashiro, with his gift of art, hopes to marry the girl of his dreams, Azuki Miho.

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Created by: Yuta Maruyama, Mitsutoshi Sato
Genres: Animation, Comedy, Drama
Starring: Atsushi Abe, Satoshi Hino, Saori Hayami

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Tone: earneststrength 3 of 3
warmstrength 2 of 3
upliftingstrength 2 of 3
romanticstrength 2 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: ambition
friendship
love
work
coming-of-age
Places: big city
workplace
school
Era: contemporary
Audience: teen
Form: serialised
animated
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence none
Sex mild

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Action	1
Horror	0
Humour	5
Realism	7
Romance	5
Tension	4
Darkness	1
Complexity	4
Emotional weight	6

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Genres: animation, comedy, drama
Created by: Yuta Maruyama, Mitsutoshi Sato, Seimei Kidokoro, Kiyoshi Fukumoto, Shoichi Hirokawa, Noriaki Akitaya
Written by: Yuniko Ayana, Tsutomu Kamishiro, Reiko Yoshida
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Music: Audio Highs
Cinematography: Kazuya Iwai
Length: 3 seasons, 75 episodes, 25 min each
Network: NHK Educational TV
Country: Japan
Languages: Japanese

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