#Azuki Miho

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223 Nendoroid Miho Azuki

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Hello there Miho Azuki fans.

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GAME MECHANICS UPDATE

The Photo Studio has been updated withnew poses and locations! These new additions require exchanging “Star Pieces” to obtain them, and are :

[STAGE] Undead Dance-Rock

[POSE] Yuka 2

[POSE] Miho 2

[POSE] Frederica 2

[POSE] Sae 2

[POSE] Azuki 2

[POSE] Nana 2

[POSE] Nao 2

[POSE] Karen 2

[POSE] Honoka 2

[POSE] Syuko 2

[POSE] Natsuki 2

[POSE] Tomoka 2

※ STAGES require 5 pieces to exchange, while POSES require 3.

Yuubae Harmony has also been added into the Photo Studio. Watch any idol dance to the choreography (with 360 vision), and maybe learn it for yourself!

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Bakuman, Obata Takeshi (Art) & Ohba Tsugumi (Story)

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I forgot I hadn’t posted these yet. This is Azuki Miho (top) and Azuki Toru (bottom), Azuki Ben and Hiyomura Megumi’s kids. Note: The pairing is for an AU on deviantArt, so I’m not sure if Megumi does end up having kids when she’s older in the actual Beyblade Burst timeline (like... 10 years later or sth). 

Characters, art (c) Kris/Kae

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Regarding the writer for Death Note, Bakuman, and Platinum End.

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Bakuman., episode 12: “Feast and Graduation” (2010)

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Shallow Dive: Bakuman (Manga)

I am a firm believer in the “Sausage Principle” something that was brought up by ‘Last Week Tonight’s John Oliver a few years back. The idea is simple: If you love something, don’t find out how it’s made.

I love anime and manga, and I feel I love it even more because I do not know what actually goes into creating it. I have a faint idea, and if you are around the internet long enough you get a basic outline of how anime and manga are created, and while that is a whole other discussion that involves serious issues, I want to instead talk about a manga that quite possibly is the best glimpse into the industry we have.

Let’s face it, anyone who is a fan of the industry has had those youthful dreams of packing up your bags, flying to Japan and hitting it big as a mangaka (manga artists). Don’t deny it, you’ve had the idea, I’ve had the idea, everyone has had the idea. It’s the joyful dreams of youth and it’s wonderful, but during those dreams did we really have an idea of just how that industry works, and the time commitment it takes?

One such series does, and after the cut let’s take a shallow dive into the manga version of Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata’s Bakuman.

Ohba and Obata’s names should be familiar to anyone who has been in the Shonen world for some time, as they are the writer and artist responsible for Death Note, long considered to be one of the best “gateway series” for people looking to get into the genre. Death Note’s impact on the Western fandom is significant and so it was a welcome surprise to see that both Obata and Ohba would be returning for new, very different series.

Bakuman is quite simply, a manga about making a manga, and it represents probably the most honest, open and revealing look into how Japanese manga is created, published and maintained. The story follows aspiring creators Moritaka Mashiro and Akito Tagaki as they navigate the cut-throat and work intensive life of creating a popular shonen manga series. Furthermore, Moritaka has promised his longtime crush, Miho Azuki that they will get married once his work becomes an anime, and she becomes the voice actress for the main heroine.

It’s a simple story, but it is also an incredibly interesting one, as again this is probably the only real look thousands of fans have gotten into an industry that is unknown to many outside of Japan. Instead of life or death villains, Mashiro and Takagi deal with things like meeting deadlines, difficult editors, creative differences, rival authors and balancing the intense pressure of being a serialized author. While there is a hint of a larger than life view of the manga industry being painted, and now and again the story feels it needs to create a “bad guy” for the sake of wrapping up a plot point, Bakuman is very much about the path of an artist, the dreams of youth and how you achieve them, and it’s very grounded look helps the series be as successful as it is. So your reception to the series is based very much in how interested you find a behind the scenes look into the manga writing world. This isn’t like Food Wars where the story doesn’t have enough confidence in just being a story about going to a cooking school and has to keep upping the ante. Bakuman is comfortable being exactly what it is.

However, the one major flaw (in my view) of the series that I feel I need to mention is that the overall storyline of the Mashiro and Miho romance. The start of the series paints them as innocent youths, who want to achieve their dreams and make a pledge to be together once they do. However as Bakuman takes places over years, chronicling their days in high school to their mid-late twenties, their plotline becomes more and more unbelievable as it goes on. The romance is pretty much forgotten for vast swaths of the story and only comes back right at the end of the series to wrap everything up. While that conclusion is fitting for the story, Bakuman very much falls into the same trap that other series have suffered from: The longer your story goes on, the stupider some of your plot ideas become. I had a very hard time suspending my disbelief that Mashiro and Miho would voluntarily choose to remain apart even after both of them achieve reasonable levels of success and that they are holding themselves to a promise made when they were kids. Is it a dealbreaker? Absolutely not, but during my time reading the series weekly, I found myself getting more and more frustrated and it remains a sore sticking point in what is otherwise an excellent piece of work.

Is Bakuman a 100% legit look into how the manga industry works? Probably not, but it IS the best attempt yet to show readers and fans just how manga is made, maintained and how the life of a mangaka is. The stakes are grounded, the characters are believable and the drama is focused on the art itself. Much like Black Cat before it, Bakuman shows up, says everything it has to say and then has the grace to exit the stage. Despite some hiccups involving the main romance, it remains one of the best short manga series produced in Jump, and something I would recommend to anyone who wants to see what life is like behind the writer’s desk. If you loved Death Note and wanted more from the authors, you should give this series a look and you might find yourself engrossed in its wonderful world.

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Bakuman - OP1 (BD clean version)

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“Bakuman”

Ending 1 - “Bakurock” by YA-KYIM

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