by Tsugumi Ohba (Author), Takeshi Obata (Artist)
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?
With Aiko Iwase teaming up with Eiji to get a series in
Shonen Jump, Moritaka and Akito have another major rival to contend with. Can the duo get their series serialized and succeed in
Jump this time? And when Akito has to ask for permission to marry Kaya, he'll have to face her father, a master in Karate!
Author Biography
Born in Tokyo, Tsugumi Ohba is the author of the hit series Death Note, Bakuman and Platinum End..
Takeshi Obata was born in 1969 in Niigata, Japan, and first achieved international recognition as 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. He went on to illustrate the smash hit
Death Note as well as the hugely successful manga
Bakuman, All You Need Is Kill, and
Platinum End.
Number of Pages: 192
Dimensions: 0.63 x 7.51 x 5.03 IN
Illustrated: Yes
Publication Date: February 07, 2012