Read Bakuman, Volume 2: Chocolate And Akamaru (2009)

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Author

Tsugumi Ohba

Genre

Romance

Series

Bakuman

Rating

4.29 of 5 Votes: 2

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ISBN

1421535149 (ISBN13: 9781421535142)

Language

English

Publisher

VIZ Media

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Bakuman, Volume 2: Chocolate And Akamaru (2009) - Plot & Excerpts

I am reading a few of these volumes because I just finished the five volumes of I'll Give It My All Tomorrow, the sweet wannabe mangaka story of someone who is trying to figure himself out at 42. I like that series a lot. This is 20 volumes (more?) and for a somewhat younger audience, maybe, but it also focuses on the real struggles with manga-making, the business, editors, the competition, philosophical decisions about mainstream or edgy styles, and in this one, which is the two artists just graduating from middle school and already on the edge of fame (? in middle school?!), the struggle about girls and school work is also present and interesting. I like it a lot and its useful for background in making comics, as I also teach this stuff... I think this book improved from the first one, but this still isn't great for me. The art was again, very good. I found I liked the characters a lot more in this one, I thought they were more funny, and I think I know them better now. I'm still not a fan of the relationship, and it still has a lot of explaining. I may continue this series, but I want to start some others that seem more like my cup of tea.