Bakuman, volume 10, paperback/tsugumi ohba

By the creators of Death Note The mystery behind manga-making revealed Reads R to L (Japanese Style), for audiences T.

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? Moritaka and Akito will need to come up with an amazing new manga idea if they ever hope to get back into Weekly Jump magazine, and they only have six months to do it But with Hattori, their former editor, helping behind the scenes, the duo might have everything in place to create the perfect story.

About the Author: Born in Tokyo, Tsugumi Ohba is the author of the hit series Death Note.

His current series Bakuman? is serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump.