Bakuman, Volume 4

by Tsugumi Ohba, Takeshi Obata (Artist)

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?

When Akito is unable to come up with a storyboard within the time frame he promised, Moritaka decides to break up their partnership! As they go their separate ways to create manga, it may turn out that they're actually headed in the same direction...

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781421537931
Publisher:	VIZ Media LLC
Publication date:	04/19/2011
Series:	Bakuman Series , #4
Edition description:	Original
Pages:	200
Sales rank:	421,313
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.50(h) x 0.80(d)
Age Range:	14 - 17 Years

About the Author

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.