Karakter & Staf

Moritaka Mashiro

Utama

Male · Umur 14-24 · Gol. darah B

Horoscope: Aquarius Height: 171 cm Mashiro is a 14-year-old boy who doesn't know what to do with his life. One day his classmate Takagi finds out about his amazing drawing skills and asks him to help create a manga. He initially declines but changes his mind when Takagi helps him to ​get engaged with his crush, Azuki Miho. He and Takagi create manga for Shonen Jump under the pen-name Ashirogi Muto. Mashiro is very talented in drawing although he is very dissatisfied with his style. He specializes in drawing fairly dark characters. His favorite manga is Ashita no Joe.

Atsushi Abe

Akito Takagi

Utama

Male · Umur 14-24 · Gol. darah B

Height: 175cm (5'8.9") Akito is a young 14-year-old who gets some of the best grades in the country and is an award-winning writer. With these brains and writing skills,​ you would think he would have a stable and bright future, but no, this boy has dreams of becoming a mangaka and he is determined to make his dream come true at any cost. Takagi persuades Mashiro into creating a manga with him after he finds out about his amazing drawing abilities. The two work under the pen-name Ashirogi Muto. Takagi specializes in serious and realistic story lines. His favorite manga is Dragon Ball.

Satoshi Hino

Miho Azuki

Pendukung

Female · Umur 14-24 · Gol. darah B

Height: 162 cm Azuki is Mashiro's classmate. Her dream is to be a voice actor. She agreed to marry Mashiro when both of their dreams come true. However, she also told him that in the mean time, they should not have any distractions so they will contact each other only through emails. Her best friend is Kaya Miyoshi. Although her outer image is shy, she is a very mysterious girl. It is sometimes hard to know what she is thinking about.

Saori Hayami

Nobuhiro Mashiro

Pendukung

Male · Umur 35

Moritaka's uncle. He died due to overwork, but Moritaka thought he committed suicide until he saw his work. He uses his pen name Taro Kawaguchi for his works. He liked Miho's mother, but was too late to confess to her. (Source: Wikipedia)

Kenji Hamada

Eiji Niizuma

Pendukung

Male · Umur 15-26

Eiji Nizuma is a high school genius mangaka who has been drawing ever since he was young. Moritaka Mashiro and Akito Takagi consider him their rival. He was supposed to serialize a manga called Yellow Hit but he wanted to draw a different manga, Crow, which appeared in Akamaru Jump instead. His assisants were initially Nakai and Fukuda (Mashiro also worked for him temporarily before Detective Trap was serialized). His editor is Hattori Yujiro. He once demanded to be allowed to end one series he hated if he ever made it as the most popular author in Jump. Niizuma is slightly naive, but can also be serious and calculating when he wants to. Eiji tends to act conceited because he is hailed as a genius; however, after working on Crow for quite a long time, he grew more humble, even claiming to not be "good enough of a Mangaka to be judging other people's work" when asked by his editor to judge for the Golden Future Cup. (He judges anyway, but is not very helpful, only expressing his interest in Ashirogi and Ryu Shizuka). He tends to make noises and sound effects when drawing or writing his manga. Eiji is constantly chastised by his editor, and at first seems to be rather oblivious towards his rivals' feelings towards him, even expressing great excitement when he meets Ashirogi Muto and saying he is their fan. He is a great lover of manga and his opinion are valued by everyone at Jump, including his rivals. He refers to himself as an "Eternal Boy" and that is why he writes Shonen manga. He has only ever had a crush on one girl, back in elementary school, which paired with his naivet'e most likely explains his lack of success in the Super Leaders' Love Fest.

Nobuhiko Okamoto

Kaya Miyoshi

Pendukung

Female · Umur 15-25

Height: 165 cm (5'5") Miho's best friend, who is in 9th year, class 2 in the same school as Miho and Mashiro. Though being her best friend, she doesn't know that Miho likes Mashiro. She confronts Takagi about having asked Miho about her dream, given that she had told him, which results into Takagi making her believe that he likes her. This surprises her, given that she likes him and she tells him she'll have to think about it. She and Takagi eventually begin going out. Miyoshi plans to go to Yakusa North High, the same high school Moritaka Mashiro and Tagaki are planning to go to and eventually does so.

Sayuri Yahagi

Akira Hattori

Pendukung

Male · Umur 28-38

One of the editors of the Weekly Shōnen Jump. He is a thin, odd-looking man with a wide-eyed gaze and distinctive lips. Hattori Akira was Akito Takagi's and Moritaka Mashiro's editor. He helped them with their names and eventually got them serialized for Detective Trap. Once they got serialized, however, Hattori had to hand them over to Miura due to conflicting responsibilities. Hattori is often portrayed as one of the calmer and more calculated editors in the series. He comes across as a very wise and experienced editor which leaves him raising his voice only when he sees it absolutely necessary to do so. He is very fond of Takagi and Mashiro and continues to be interested in their progression as mangakas, offering off-hand advice to Miura when he can. Hattori is editing One Piece. Hattori's face (especially his lips and eyes) resemble the character Ryuk from the manga Death Note which is drawn by Takeshi Obata. The character was inspired by Jean-Baptiste Akira Hattori, a real life editor who worked with One Piece

Kentarou Tone

Shinta Fukuda

Pendukung

Male · Umur 19-28

Fukuda is a main supporting character in Bakuman and the founder of Team Fukuda. He left home after high school and worked as an assistant to Eiji Niizuma for Crow, along with Mashiro. Fukuda had already won an honorable mention when he tried for the Tezuka Award and also got seventh place in the same issue of Akamaru Jump in which where Ashirogi's Money and Intelligence ran and got third place. Later, Fukuda competed with Ashirogi and Nakai in the Golden Future cup with his original manga, Kiyoshi Knight. Later, Fukuda successfully serializes Kiyoshi Knight, quits his job as Niizuma's assistant, and gains a new assistant named Yasuoka. His editor is Yujiro. With the serialization of Kiyoshi Knight, Fukuda became an aspiring rival to Ashirogi, Eiji, and Nakai. Among these three, he is considered to have the worst drawings, though they apparently match his stories. His drawings often border on grotesque. Fukuda is rash and often seems fueled by his emotional swings. He's very competitive and enjoys the competition between him, Ashirogi, Eiji, and Nakai. Along with all of this, he's also rather conceited, but at the end of the day is a very good friend (and rival).

Junichi Suwabe

Kazuya Hiramaru

Pendukung

Male · Umur 26-32

Birthplace: Kanagawa-ken, Japan Hiramaru was a salaryman​ that hated working. On hearing Takagi and Mashiro talking about drawing manga on the subway and finding an abandoned copy of Jack, he quit his job to be a mangaka because he thought it would be less work for him. He is a different kind of genius compared to Eiji because he is talented even though he just started to write manga more in of a spur of the moment. After teaching himself to draw manga in a very short amount of time, his manga, Otters 11 is serialized. He is hailed as a genius by Koji Yoshida who pushed for his serialization saying that Hiramaru had no real motivation to continue as a mangaka and failure would just make him quit. Hiramaru is extremely lazy and immediately regrets getting serialized due to the amount of work to keep up a weekly series. He has said that he doesn't know why people have to work for a living and that he wants to sleep when he's tired and to eat when he's hungry. Due to his laziness, his editor, Koji Yoshida, often schemes to manipulate Hiramaru into working. Hiramura often tries to escape Yoshida to avoid working. His attempts to escape Yoshida is a long-running gag in the manga. He is also a chronic hypochondriac and often makes incredible claims of illness. However, he is always proven healthy by the doctors. It's mostly believed that his "illnesses" are not only a product of his own fears, but also serves as an excuse to avoid work. Hiramaru has a huge crush on Aoki Yuriko. Yoshida bribes him into doing work by giving him weekly facts about Aoki. Yoshida also often depicts dramatic scenarios of Aoki rejecting him due to his laziness or inability to produce names to energize him to work hard. Because he can't stand the idea of losing Aoki in his life, a combination of his own anxiety and Hiramaru's end-game scenarios, he works feverishly in hopes his work will earn Aoki's heart.

Masakazu Morita

Gorou Miura

Pendukung

Male · Umur 23-31

Miura is the second editor for Ashirogi Muto. He is very enthusiastic and excited, and sometimes not a hard enough editor for the boys.

Daisuke Kirii

Koji Makaino

Pendukung

Koogy is a musician and a fashion designer.

Shoutarou Morikubo

Yuriko Aoki

Pendukung

Female · Umur 20-28

Pen name: Ko Aoki (蒼樹紅) Aoki is a manga creator who used to work for a shoujo magazine called Margaret Magazine​ until she was advised to switch over to a shounen magazine. Over at Shounen Jump, she worked with Nakai on her series Hideout Door. She usually bears a tough exterior and can come off as having a cold personality. Aoki attended To-Oh University with Iwase, the same fictional and prestigious university that L and Light from Death Note attend together.

Ayako Kawasumi

Takuro Nakai

Pendukung

Male · Umur 33

Nakai is an assistant for Niizuma. He won a monthly award ten years ago and has been determined to get serialized since. He is good with backgrounds and angles.

Tomoyuki Shimura

Yujiro Hattori

Pendukung

Male · Umur 27-36

Yujiro is one of the youngest editors at Shounen Jump and editor of Eiji Nizuma's successful manga Crow as well as Fukuda's, Kiyoshi Knight and later Road Racer Giri. Yujiro has difficulty keeping Eiji in line but prides himself on finding such a talented Mangaka. Due to his success, he later becomes a team leader. While initially arrogant towards Hattori Akira, Yujiro eventually warms up to him to the point where they meet regularly and exchange ideas as editors. (Source: Bakuman Wikia)

Hirofumi Nojima

Natsumi Katou

Pendukung

Female · Umur 33

She is one of Ashirogi Muto's assistants, along with Takahama and Ogawa. She is their only female assistant. She has one year of experience with shounen and one year of experience with shoujo. She gains experience throughout the series as she becomes an assistant for Takahama's Business Boy Kenichi, Aoki Kou's A Time of Green Leaves, and then later back to being assistant for Ashirogi Muto's PCP after one of their assistants gets serialized.

Youko Honda

Aiko Iwase

Pendukung

Female · Umur 15-25

Birthplace: Saitama-ken, Japan Iwase is an intelligent girl who was a classmate of Mashiro and Takagi during Junior High. Iwase is an academic achiever in school. She's difficult to get along with due to her strict and high-standard nature. She leads a rather lonely life however, this doesn't bother her as she's always focused on her studies. In her world, she only respects people that rivals her ranking in school.

Ayumi Fujimura

Miyuki Azuki

Pendukung

Female · Umur 42-52

Miyuki Haruno is Miho's mother and the woman Mashiro Nobuhiro loved. She also loved Nobuhiro but could never say it. She later married someone else. She would watch Superhero Legend with Miho when she was younger. Nobuhiro's hero, in Superhero Legend, is based on their relationship. It is about a hero, Masculine Fantasy, who falls in love with a princess and wants to be the best hero ever. The princess confesses her love to him, he yells at her, then she slaps him and leaves. She wants Mashiro and Takagi to be a successful mangaka. Haruno looks very young despite her age and wears her hair in ringlets. She bears a strong resemblance to her eldest daughter, Miho, especially when Haruno was younger, looking almost exactly like Miho. (Source: Bakuman Wikia)

Kikuko Inoue

Shoyo Takahama

Pendukung

Male · Umur 19 (debut)

Takahama was one of Ashirogi Muto's assistants, along with Ogawa and Kato, for Detective Trap. He did the figures, both sketches, and inks. Miura said he was the best artist of the new assistants he was in charge of. Originally, Takahama seemed very unsocial and didn't talk much at all. However, after coming to respect Mashiro's work ethic as a mangaka, he reveals his ambition to work at Disney and spends several nights discussing manga with Mashiro and Takagi. He seems to be very enthusiastic about his manga, and grows frustrated with Miura after he feels that he is not letting him make the manga he wants. He respects people for their ambition and work ethic, as shown when he states that he has little in common with Ogawa and Kato because they are just happy with being assistants. (Source: Bakuman Wikia)

Hiroki Shimowada

Hisashi Sasaki

Pendukung

Male · Umur 45-55

Editor-in-Chief of Weekly Jump. He tends to behave indifferently or even coldly but it's all for Jump's authors and editors to regain their spirits. He has a good eye for manga and believes it's most important for a manga to be interesting. He's not afraid to make a gamble in order to make the magazine better, but will not put authors' lives at risk. He knew Saikou's uncle, Kawaguchi Taro, since he was the Assistant Editor-in-Chief at the time Kawaguchi Taro had to quit.

Kenyuu Horiuchi

Yoshihisa Heishi

Pendukung

Male · Umur 50 (debut), 60 (end)

The Assistant Editor-in-Chief at Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump.

Shinji Kawada

Ichiriki Orihara

Pendukung

Male · Umur 19

Orihara is a young assistant who worked with Ashirogi Muto on "Run, Daihatsu Tanto!". He is a very energetic and cheerful character that tends to get loud due to his excitement, may it be about work or something else.

Kazuyuki Okitsu

Kayoko Mashiro

Pendukung

Moritaka's mother.

Kumiko Higa

Mina Azuki

Pendukung

Mina is Miho's younger sister. She has black hair in pigtails. Not unlike her family, she has a beautiful face, as noted by Takagi. (Source: Bakuman Wikia)

Rina Hidaka

Hidemitsu Ishizawa

Pendukung

Male · Umur 15-25

Ishizawa attends the same Junior High as Takagi and Mashiro. Ishizawa draws ecchi headshots of girls and brags about it. He later insults Mashiro's drawings. He is a large nuisance to the duo. (Source: Bakuman Wikia)

Kouki Miyata

Kouji Yoshida

Pendukung

Male · Umur 38

Yoshida is Hiramaru Kazuya's editor. He tells the chief-editor in the meeting about his genius, which led to Hiramaru's serialization. He is able to ignore Hiramaru's personality. He is also a Captain, meaning he gets to sit in the serialization meetings and lead the other editors in his team, like Yamahisa. Yoshida is perhaps the most manipulative of the editors shown. When he realizes that forcing Hiramaru to work isn't applicable to an efficient and/or long-running series, he bribes him with rich items or information about Aoki Ko in order to get him back to work and pay off the debts he owes for buying such items. Yoshida is able to keep this running for an extended period of time (throughout the 200 chapters of Otters 11), even threatening Hiramaru with disassociation with Shueisha if he does not get serialized again after Otters 11 gets canceled. Yoshida's reason and rationality are even more key to his character. He is able to deduce that Niizuma Eiji was responsible for +Natural's artwork and worries that Hiramaru's manga will take a dive if he asks Aoki Ko out and gets rejected, knowing that Hiramaru most probably will get rejected. This reasoning has its limits, however, as Yoshida was greatly surprised that Aoki accepted Hiramaru's proposal, though it would later scratch away most of Hiramaru's negativity and cause a dive in his manga quality.

Takehito Koyasu