Is Bakuman An Apology For Death Note?
Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata's Bakuman is not just a manga about drawing manga - it is a retrospective on their previous series, Death Note.
Chapters
0:00 Introduction
1:30 Preliminaries on Death Note
7:27 Bakuman referencing Death Note
15:12 Cult hit vs mainstream
19:29 Reversi: fixing Death Note
29:33 How to end a manga
34:02 Artistic Evolutions
36:36 Classroom of Truth: capturing Death Note's appeal
41:33 Tanto and Dr. Slump
47:15 PCP and Crow, Dragon Ball and Slam Dunk
48:55 Super Hero Legends and Tottemo! Luckyman
53:53 The Manga Murder
Sources:
Shounen Jump ranking statistics: https://www.jajanken.net/
Interview with Torishima: https://www.forbes.com/sites/olliebar...
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