
The two make friends with Shinta Fukuda, Kazuya Hiramaru, and Takuro Nakai, three manga creators who also entered the competition. Mashiro and Takagi successfully pitch a manga to Weekly Shōnen Jump, the biggest manga magazine in Japan, which wins second place at the Tezuka Awards. Moritaka desires to impress his crush, Miho Azuki, with whom he makes a promise to have voice a character in the anime adaptation of one of his works and marry once he has a successful manga. High school classmates Moritaka Mashiro and Akito Takagi, one an illustrator, the other a writer, decide to team up to create a successful manga series. It also earned Ōne Best Director at the 35th Japanese Movie Critics Awards and Yasuyuki Ōzeki the Japan Academy Prize for Best Film Editing. It was nominated for several awards, winning Best Picture at the 25th Japanese Professional Movie Awards. The film stars Takeru Satoh, Ryūnosuke Kamiki, Shota Sometani, Nana Komatsu, Kenta Kiritani, and Hirofumi Arai.īakuman opened at number one at the Japanese box office on October 3, 2015, and has grossed over $13 million. Bakuman was produced by Minami Ichikawa, with music by the band Sakanaction, and distributed by Toho. It tells the story of two Japanese high school students who attempt to break into the competitive world of manga. Bakuman ( Japanese: バクマン。) is a 2015 Japanese film written and directed by Hitoshi Ōne, based on the manga of the same name by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata.
