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Bakuman

Bakuman (バクマン。; stylized as BAKUMAN。) is a Japanese manga series written by Tsugumi Ohba and illustrated by Takeshi Obata, the same creative team responsible for Death Note. It was serialized in Shueisha's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump from August 2008 to April 2012, with its 176 chapters collected into 20 tankōbon volumes. The story follows…

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Genre
Comedy · Coming-of-age · Slice of life · Visual novel, Puzzle game
Publisher
Namco Bandai Games
Developer
Namco Bandai Games
Directed by
Kenichi Kasai · Noriaki Akitaya
English magazine
NA: Weekly Shonen Jump Alpha
English publisher
AUS: Madman Entertainment · NA: Viz Media

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Bakuman

Nodes75
Edges74
Triples188
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.026667
Components1

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Bakuman

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related to Manga · 39
Bakuman → Age, April, At San Diego Comic-Con, August, Canada, December, English, French, German, In, It, January, Japan, Japanese, July, Jumpland's, Kazuya Hiramaru, Mashiro, May, Obata
related to Anime · 31
Bakuman → After Media Blasters, April, Blu-ray, DVD, English-language, Europe, Fall, February, In August, In December, In November, It, June, Kazé, Manga Entertainment, March, Media Blasters, NA, NHK, North America
related to Reception · 29
Bakuman → Allegra Frank, Although, Anime News Network, August, By April, Carlo Santos, Death Note, Despite, During, He, In, It, Japan, Jason Thompson, Kono Manga, Manga Graphic Books, Manga Taishō, May, Obata's, Ohba
related to Live-action · 21
Bakuman → Akito Takagi, Bakuman The Stage, Hiroki Suzuki, Hitoshi, Japanese, March, Mashiro, Moritaka Mashiro, Moteki, Motion Music, October, Osaka, Ryunosuke Kamiki, Sakanaction, Shin Takarajima, Takagi, Takeru Satoh, Tokyo, Worry Kinoshita, Written
related to Other media · 17
Bakuman → Becoming, December, Japan, Jun Fukuyama, June, Manga Artist, Mangaka, Mashiro, Michi, Namco Bandai Games, Nintendo DS, Sakiyomi Jum-Bang, Shinnosuke Tachibana, Takagi, The Road, TV, Vomic
related to Production · 13
Bakuman → Because, But, He, It, Obata, Ohba, Otter No, Takeshi Obata, The, The Classroom, Truth, Tsugumi Ohba, When
related to External links · 6
Bakuman → Anime News Network's, IMDb Bakuman, Japanese, Manga Plus, NHK, Viz Media
Genre · 4
Bakuman → Comedy, Coming-of-age, Slice of life, Visual novel, Puzzle game
Licensed by · 3
Bakuman → AUS: Madman Entertainment, NA: Viz Media, UK: Kaze UK
Written by · 3
Bakuman → Reiko Yoshida, Sei Hatsuno, Tsugumi Ohba

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manga series jump weekly released 2012 shōnen anime mashiro first october ohba obata media takagi adaptation 2010 film two published

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
BakumanDeveloperNamco Bandai Games1.00infobox
BakumanDirected byKenichi Kasai1.00infobox
BakumanDirected byNoriaki Akitaya1.00infobox
BakumanEnglish magazineNA: Weekly Shonen Jump Alpha1.00infobox
BakumanEnglish publisherAUS: Madman Entertainment1.00infobox
BakumanEnglish publisherNA: Viz Media1.00infobox
BakumanEpisodes75 (List of episodes)1.00infobox
BakumanGenreComedy1.00infobox
BakumanGenreComing-of-age1.00infobox
BakumanGenreSlice of life1.00infobox
BakumanGenreVisual novel, Puzzle game1.00infobox
BakumanIllustrated byTakeshi Obata1.00infobox
BakumanImprintJump Comics1.00infobox
BakumanImprintJump J-Books1.00infobox
BakumanLicensed byAUS: Madman Entertainment1.00infobox
BakumanLicensed byNA: Viz Media1.00infobox
BakumanLicensed byUK: Kaze UK1.00infobox
BakumanMagazineWeekly Shōnen Jump1.00infobox
BakumanMusic byAudio Highs1.00infobox
BakumanOriginal networkNHK Educational TV1.00infobox
BakumanOriginal runAugust 11, 2008 – April 23, 20121.00infobox
BakumanOriginal runOctober 2, 2010 – March 30, 20131.00infobox
BakumanPlatformNintendo DS1.00infobox
BakumanPublishedOctober 2, 20151.00infobox
BakumanPublished byShueisha1.00infobox
BakumanPublisherNamco Bandai Games1.00infobox
BakumanReleasedJP: December 15, 20111.00infobox
BakumanStudioJ.C.Staff1.00infobox
BakumanVolumes20 (List of volumes)1.00infobox
BakumanWritten byTsugumi Ohba1.00infobox

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