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OtakuModeEngage
It is more than implied, throughout Bakuman: we can judge by the polls and volume sales how they are improving in customers view, because PCP monopolize 3rd and 4th place and Reversi 1st and 2nd place; we can judge from other mangaka's facial expressions, actions, and commentary that they are improving; we can tell by the art and story fragments from each of their mangas that they are improving; and we can tell from how Mashiro and Tagaki describe their manga, that they are improving. But let me list some improvements over the course of Bakuman:
Money and Intelligence: established their talent for non-mainstream, serious dark stories.
Between Money and Intelligence and Detective trap: they tried mainstream battle manga, and learned that it was no good.
Detective Trap; prior to this developing this mystery manga, nothing they wrote was good enough to be serialized, and they worked hard with Hattori until their art and story were up to publishing standards.
Tanto; while not up to the quality of Detective Trap, they were able to learn about their weakness in comedy, and by working to their limits within that weakness, they managed to increase Mashiro's artistic styles and Tagaki's writing abilities.
Period of Manga between Tanto and PCP: They learned of serious comedy, deepened their connection to non-mainstream, and experimented in various forms of mainstream.
PCP; the combination Serious Comedy and their non-mainstream style, they were able to hold third and fourth place, 90% of the time directly under Eiji, but they could not compete with him because they had no mainstream elements in their story. Eiji taught Mashiro that his art was lacking by drawing chapters without words, and Ashigori adopted the + Natural style of creating manga.
Reversi: using everything they've learned up to this point, they created the Mainstream/non-mainstream story, and for the first time they could compete with Eiji. They learned about their weakness and overcame it by focusing on quality over length, thus surpassing Eiji.
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Its not like they weren't using all their skills and pushing their abilities to the edge, that's why we saw 1s place bounce back and forth between Zombie Gun and Reversi, and why there was an ocean between 2nd and 3rd place. O&O just neglected to show us the scenes of Ashigori and Eiji working hard and to inform of us the techniques they imployed; this being because the focus was on Reversi's anime, but none-the-less we can be assured by the poll results, that such a battle did go down. If your only problem is that they did not display enough details of that battle, then I will reiterate that the focus was on Reversi getting an anime and Azuki obtaining the part, which is the driving factor of Bakuman. They couldn't hold the Battle with Eiji after Azuki got the part, because Reversi would be over then, requiring them to write a new manga, which would be odd timing as Bakuman would be wrapping up by then; and as battles with Eiji serve as rising action, it would be counter productive, making Bakuman end on an odd note.
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Regardless, I have very much enjoyed the last five chapters.
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As for doing something deep/amazing to show they deserved/earned the victory, lets put it this way: one of the 'Godly' stunts Eiji used to back up his 'godliness', was when he held first place for 20 weeks in a row to end Crow uncontested. This is absolutely brilliant because it is so impossible to do.
However, what is more amazing is that Ashigori not only copied this stunt, but left a gaping hole between first and 2nd place, ending as the completely uncontested #1; Eiji may have kept first place till the end, but he did not leave such a gap, nor receive such a response from readers/mangaka on the last chapter. Eiji may have had an amazing victory, but Ashigori had a slaughter.
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