A review by luminesse
Bakuman., Band 1: Traum und Realität by Takeshi Obata, Tsugumi Ohba

4.0

Holy crap, it's adorable! Not exactly getting off to a slow start on this one, are we? Clearly Obata is 3 for 3 - the more I look into other manga the more I appreciate his clarity and expressiveness. Way to get off to a good start, create a lot of room for the story to open up and deepen. The story gets sluggish when we get manga-making lessons, but that's still interesting too. Characters are great, sense of humor and drama and emotional impact are great, nice to have some romantic treatment, too. Looking forward to following up on this one.