Bakuman 31

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Bakuman Page 31 Tuesday and Friday

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August 9th Monday
“Jump” Double Issue 37 and 38
Jump Golden Future Cup Entry Number 1
“Kiyoshi Knight”
Fukuda Shinta’s publication

Kiyoshi: What’s a high school kid doing with a knife… / Even Yakuza don’t pull them out that easily these days… // AND it’s still stuck in me

Guy: Kiyoshi! Your bleedin’ like crazy! Shit!
K: Blood is fine but I’d look so lame if my intestines came out
Text: Soooo uncool

Guy: It’s no time to be crackin’ jokes! You’re gunna die!!
K: Haaaa even if I die, I know Shoko is safe so it’s alright. I can die for Shoko.
Guy: You idiot! Who do you think would mourn the most if you died Kiyoshi!?
K: Uhhm / my mommy?

Guy: It’s Shoko-chan without a doubt
K: She didn’t give me chocolate on valentines…

Guy: Don’t speak anymore
K: I guess there’s no use in doing thousands of sit ups everyday if I’m going to get stabbed and turn out this way

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Miyoshi: How is it?
Takagi: It’s so gooooood…
Saiko: There’s a greater effect now that he uses brush pens and diagonals lines a lot more than before

T: Can we win?
S: We have to

T: Haaaa we submitted ours so now all we can do it wait / We’ll be in Issue 39 and Nakai-san in Issue 40 and KOOGY in Issue 41. It’s going to be while before the results come out

T: But buy tomorrow Fukuda-san will get the early reports and the real thing on Friday
S: Yeah

T: Do you think Hattori-san will tell us?
S: I bet if we ask he will / but I don’t think Hattori-san would go out of his way to tell us Fukuda-san’s survey results if we don’t ask

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S: If our results are out too and are better than Fukuda-san he might tell us
T: So if he doesn’t tell us “yours is better than Fukuda-san” that means we did worse
S: Not necessarily, let’s avoid asking the results of other mangas / All we should focus on now is to get good results and be number 1. Let’s make the best series name ever by believing that.
T: Okay fine but I can’t help thinking about it~~ / I want to be number 1…

Fukuda: The early reports come in tomorrow… / Mine is good right Niizuma-sensei?
Niizuma: KIYOSHI is very cool!
Nakai: It’s good and his drawing skills have improved

Editor: KOOGY-san / You are aware that your draft is due on Monday in two weeks right?
KOOGY: I know but I’ve got so many media requests so I might be a little late // but thanks to that I’m getting a chance to tell all my fans about it so they’ll all send in their surveys for me

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August 10th Tuesday

Yuujiro: The early reports!

Y: Yes!

Y: Holy shit if Fukuda Shinta gets a series and becomes popular like Niizuma Eiji, I’ll definitely be the next group captain! // but I probably won’t be able to manage 3 series by myself so I’d have to pass 1 to someone else…

Y: But I can’t put my guard down yet since I don’t know how the real reports will say or how the other 3 manga will do… // especially Ashirogi Muto…and I have no idea how Makaino Koji will do…

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August 13th Friday

F: Here it is the real report!
N: Pi

F: Are you serious? So I can start making the series names for “KIYOSHI Knight”?
Y: Yeah
F: Remember to submit it in the series meeting right after the Golden Future Cup!
N: Ooohh you did it congratulations

Nakai: Series name… that means the results were pretty damn good… // so that means Fukuda-kun is my number 1 rival…

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August 23rd Monday
“Jump” Issue 39
Jump Golden Future Cup entry Number 2
“Suspicious Detective TRAP”
Ashirogi Muto’s publication

Criminal: Damn you… // That evidence video from the security camera showing the switch between the stolen painting that you had advised me to do…and the me shown in that video… / is all your doing!!?

Detective: I don’t know who it is // but the fact that you had the stole painting is the solid evidence!

D: If there is no evidence, just make evidence!!

Girl: It was a painting my artist father cared about very much…Thank you very much / about the $10,000 investigation fee…
D: I just received it

Girl: Eh?
D: Your smile, Saori-san is worth much more than $10,000

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M: It’s good / You’ll beat “Kiyosh this Night”
T: Not “this Night”, “Knight” // wowww we’re on weekly shounen jump

T: Saiko- why do you look so down? / you’re the one that said not to worry about it
S: No

S: Seeing our work on WJ makes me realize how bad my drawing skills are
M: Eh? Your drawings are good Mashiro, at least better than Kinta’s
T: Shinta, not Kinta
S: Not only are the drawings high quality since the first story in both “ONE PIECE” and “NARUTO” but they’re unique. Don’t you think they’re very much only Oda-sensei and Kishimoto-sensei’s art that is defined by them?
T: Hmmm well if you put it that way. But you’re comparing yourself to…

M: It’s Miho isn’t it? “Congratulations on your publication”
S: Shut up

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Mail from Azuki: It’s a little embarrassing to buy Jump (lol) “Suspicious Detective TRAP” was very good! I sent the survey out (lol)

S: Azuki says it’s good! / I have confidence we can be Number 1 now!
M: You haven’t changed
T: No I think we’ll be number 1 too. Azuki wouldn’t say it’s good if she didn’t think so

F: Hmmmmmm it’s good… / the main character is a lot more like shounen-style than the one in the name version
N: Ashirogi-sensei doesn’t fail to impress! The story is good and the drawings match very much

F: Is it better than mine?
N: Mmmmm it’s a tie

Nakai: Eh...! when we all got together last time
Niizuma: I’ve decided on which one is 3rd place, but 1st place is a tie
Nakai: Was he talking about Fukuda-kun and Mashiro-kun...? Then that means…. // No it’ll be okay, I put everything I had into that…

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August 24th Tuesday
Y: Did you see the early report?
Editor: Yeah this year’s Future Cup is exciting!

Hattori: Takagi-kun

T: It’s only the early report but he said we should start making the series names for “TRAP”!
M: YEAH!

Editor: KOOGY-san did you read “KIYOSHI Knight” and “Suspicious Detective TRAP”?
K: There’s no need to read it since we know I’m gunna win

Editor: I’m taking your drafts now…

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August 27th Friday

H: “TRAP’s” real results… / please…

H: No wait but this is… // where did I put the survey results for “KIYOSHI Knight” from Double Issue 37 and 38?

H: Cigarettes

T: No change in the real results!
M: YEAAAAAH!

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S: Did he say if “KIYOSHI Knight” was better than us?
T: He didn’t say!

T: But if he didn’t say anything about it and he’s telling us to draw the series name, we must have been better right?
S: I hope so, we did decide that we wouldn’t ask

F: I want to know the results for “TRAP”… / I’m pretty sure I was better but…

F: I can’t! I can’t help it I gotta call Yuujiro and ask

F: About the same? What’s this “about the same”? Tell me more specifically!
Y: No really
F: What you still can’t tell me?
Nakai: Maybe almost the same means Ashirogi-kun was better…is Aoki-san’s and my manga going to be alright…?

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August 30th Monday
“JUMP” Issue 40
Jump Golden Future Cup Entry Number 3
“hideout door”
Written by Aoki Ko Artwork by Nakai Takuro publication

Boy: A fairy!? // I don’t believe it!
Fairy: You’re the one that opened the door and came in but you can’t believe it?

Fairy: There are only two choices, to obtain a fairy’s power and join or become food for the fairies…
Boy: Eh!?

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T: What the…this is amazing…he drew the background with dots and everything! It’s impossible even for Nakai-san to keep this up in a weekly series…
M: Wow the drawings are pretty!
S: Nakai-san said he was devoting his life to it but still… / even every single leaf is detailed…

T: He might get a lot of surveys just from the drawings
M: Yeah I like this one too
S: This is looking bad…

S: Either way we were told to make series names so let’s not get too caught up in this. We have to do our own thing
T: But I still want to be number 1!

August 31st Tuesday
Editors: The early report // wow…

Editor: Okay we should call Nakai and Aoki

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Nakai: Real…Really!?

Nakai: Ye…yes… // together with Aoki-san…

Editor: Nakai-kun are you listening?
Nakai: oh yes!

Nakai: Thank you thank you
Niizuma: Ooohh good job, you worked hard for it Nakai-san

F: Did I by any chance lose to team Aoki and Nakai…? // but Nakai-san’s is still a early report…

F: Nakai-san what place are you?
Nakai: eh? It’s still the early report and if you want to know ask your own editor

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September 3rd Friday

F: Don’t be so depressed // I also went down in the real results compared to the early reports / your editor also told you to move towards a series with Aoki-san too, like in my case

F: Now it’s just a series meeting battle
N: Yeah…I guess so…

N: I’m not depressed… // I’m just relieved

N: I’m just so happy…

N: I’m happy to be able to compete on the same level as you and Ashirogi-kun // thanks Niizuma-sensei and Fukuda-kun // it’s all thanks to you guys…I…

F: Nakai-san stop it / cry after you get the series, and we still have KOOGY’s manga left
N: Yeah you’re right sorry

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September 6th Monday
“Jump” Issue 41
Jump Golden Future Cup Entry Number 4
“Colorfusical”
Makaino Koji publication

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T: We can definitely beat this, the level has declined since the one-shot and I’ve got no idea what’s going on. But how will the fans move…
M: He’s too full of himself that it’s not getting anything across to the reader
S: Oh Miyoshi, you know what you’re talking about

F: KOOGY’s taking us for granted! / Even if the fans vote for him if “JUMP” is the sort of publication that makes this a series, I don’t want to be involved with them
Niizuma: You’re so cool Fukuda-sensei! / if that happens I’ll quit too

Nakai: Uh I don’t think you have to do that sensei
Niizuma: Oh really…I guess so

T: Which issue are the results going to be posted in?
S: I think around November but the results will be ready at the end of September… // there will be a series meeting in December so we should focus on the series names without worrying about the results
T: Got it

Nakai: I heard that 5000 or 10,000 surveys will be collected again after the real results so that will decide who’s number 1
F: I see…

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September 10th Friday
K: Heh
Editor: Those are the results I’ve gathered from all four entries in the Future Golden Cup

K: heh…

K: I can’t end like this

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September 20th Monday

Editors: What are we going to do with this… // it would have made things easier if those that voted approved for the ones they voted for and not approved them if they didn’t vote at aall // we don’t need the “approve/don’t approve” system // we might just need the chief to make a decision himself…

“KIYOSHI Knight” 1312 votes 3rd place 79% approval
“Suspicious TRAP” 1321 votes 3rd place 76% approval
“hideout door” 1103 votes 3rd pace 73% approval
“colorfusical” 482 votes 14th place 53% approval

Bakuman Chapter 31 End