Bakuman 25

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Bakuman 25

Pg. 1

Frame 1:
Mashiro:
I quit as Nizuma Eiji's assistant in only two days.

Eiji:
The Crow was a character I drew back in elementary school too

Frame 2:
Page 25: Jealousy and Love

Note: each chapter is referred to as a page in this manga

*slanted text*
To find that character he drew wholeheartedly!!

Mashiro:
I also admired Uncle. Back in those six years of elementary school, as long as I had time, I drew manga in that notebook.

Frame 3:
Mashiro:
Character's I loved around that time... they're there! Ones I'll have Shujin flesh out!

Why didn't I realize until now? It's thanks to Eiji and Fukuda-san...

Pg. 2

Frame 2:
Shujin:
Is it really alright to enter?

Miyoshi:
Yep, parents are both out working and my little brother has club activities

Frame 3:
Miyoshi:
My room's on the third floor // Quick quick

Frame 4:
Shujin:
Dang... haven't entered a girl's room since like kindergarten... it's more girlish than I thought

Frame 5:
Miyoshi:
Take a look! I've already heard from two companies that have taken a look at my cellphone novels.

Ah, you need a chair too

Pg. 3

Frame 1:
Shujin:
The one who mostly wrote "My Cellphone Novel" was me but... damn...
Note: damn in the impressed tone, and My Cellphone Novel, the my is the female-term

Miyoshi:
We have seen Miyoshi-sama's work, "A Love You Won't Meet", and are looking forward to its continuation. After we publish it on our company's homepage, depending on the popularity, we'd like to distribute-----

Frame 2:
Miyoshi:
So, great isn't it?

Shujin:
It's because I'm the one who wrote it.

Frame 3:
Miyoshi:
Please continue, Takagi-sensei

Frame 4:
Shujin:
Give me a break... I have to write my own names. Besides, this is Miyoshi's dream, right? If I write it, won't there be no point? // Besides, if you wanted to show me this e-mail, couldn't you have just forwarded it to me.

Frame 5:
Miyoshi:
But I wanted to surprise you, I wanted for us to be happy together. // That and...

Frame 6:
Miyoshi:
I wanted to see you... If I didn't use an excuse, would you have come?

Pg. 4

Frame 1:
Shujin:
Then you could've come by my place. I told you I was working on a name.

Miyoshi:
But, didn't you say your brother was there?

Shujin:
It's summer vacation and he's free from work, so yeah.

Frame 2:
Miyoshi:
Being alone together's best

Frame 3:
Shujin:
We-Well, I'm thankful that because of the cellphone novels, I understand it's better to write the draft and come up with the scenarios of the name by computer instead of in a notebook.

Frame 4:
Shujin:
So if I don't go home and continue // even if I didn't have to, battles are hard to write and I'm struggling // Sorry, but if it was just helping out a little, that'd be fine, but having me write it all is not going to happen. I write manga!

Miyoshi:
...Understood...

Frame 5:
Miyoshi:
It'd be alright if you use my computer and write the scenarios here, // right?

Frame 7:
Miyoshi:
Takagi, you don't like being with me?

*little text*
*leer*
Note: it means to steadily approach or close in

Pg. 5

Frame 1:
Shujin:
I want to be with you but...

Miyoshi:
Then it's fine, work here!

Frame 2:
Shujin:
In spite of that, for two companies to reply to just someone who wrote accordingly, cellphone novels might be pretty easy.

Miyoshi:
Well, I did write it accordingly.

Frame 3:
Shujin:
No, well... with Saiko and Azuki as a model, just letting the words pour out was for the better.

Frame 4:
Miyoshi:
So, please write your manga scenarios here // Until my parents get back is fine.

Shujin:
Al-Alright already

Frame 5:
Shujin:
I'm closing the e-mail window...

Miyoshi:
Okay

Pg. 6

Frame 1:
Shujin:
Hm?

Frame 2:
Website:
Cellphone Novels Dot i

Already, over fifty works are being sent through the cellphone

At last, over 6000 novels!

The No. 1 decided by you

Free works available here --> Read

We'd also like to gather your cellphone novels!

How to enter

1. Post your works on a free homepage.

2. Register your site on the following registration form.

3. Confirm with our company's staff

4. By our company's staff, have the cellphone novels--

[Registration form] Title:
Category: Romance

Explanation of the work (400 word limit)

Miyoshi:
Ah, that's the homepage they said it'd be ok to post on.

Frame 3:
Shujin:
Category...

Frame 4:
Shujin:
They're accepting this many various genres.

Frame 5:
Miyoshi:
Of course!

Pg. 7

Frame 1:
Mashiro:
I'm home-----

Mom:
Welcome back

Frame 2:
Mashiro:
I got a little bit money of again, so pass it to Grandpa for me.

Frame 3:
Mashiro:
Soon enough, I'll put it all together and start paying for the rent.

Frame 7:
Mom:
Moritaka--- // What do you want for dinner?

Mashiro:
Eh? Anything works, why all of a sudden? Thaaaannks

Pg. 8

Frame 1:
Mashiro:
I think it was in the back of this closet...

Frame 2:
Mashiro:
Elementary school textbooks... It probably looks the same

Frame 3:
Mashiro:
Got it! Wow, so many!

Frame 4:
Mashiro:
Uwaa-- these are really bad

Frame 5:
Mashiro:
Lame---

Manga:
New Serialization Chapter 1
Super Confident Hero
Full of Confidence!!

By: Mashiro Moritaka

Written on the uniform:
Full of Eagerness

On the cape:
Brimming with

At the bottom:
Confidence

Pg. 9

Frame 1:
Mashiro:
Oh this

World's No. 1
Cheating Bastard
By: Mashiro Moritaka

World's No. 1
Cheating Bastard Manga

World's No. 1
Cheating Bastard Author's Work

Frame 2:
Mashiro:
It was with this lameness that I started thinking of climbing to number 1.

Frame 4:
Mashiro:
No, it wasn't this // ...I became interested in detective work with this and started drawing in another notebook.

Frame 5:
Mashiro:
Found it!

Pg. 10

Frame 1:
Sagishi Tanten Hikake
T/L Note: The Conman Detective Hikake

Frame 2:
Mashiro:
A conman who tricks criminals without incriminating evidence into revealing theirselves.

It's the character I liked the best. I knew that people would see it was just a story made up by a elementary schooler, so I asked Uncle to take a look at it. I really thought of asking if he could draw it in Jump...

Frame 3:
I'm not a detective, I'm a conman. For a single job, I charge a million dollars.

Without fail, I will trick the perpetrator into revealing the truth of the incident.

Frame 4:
Mashiro:
Although all I concerned myself with was battle mangas, it's just there's no major hit in Jump that's a detective manga, but within shounen magazines, the main of the mainstream, swindlers are the fad right now.

When I went to Shujin's place, the bookshelf mostly had mystery novels. I'll change the character design and then have Shujin write a story for it...

Frame 5:
Mashiro:
Shujin should be able to do it, in fact, he should be good at it! He's said before he wanted to write these kinds of stories. Better to strike while the iron's hot.

Pg. 11

Frame 1:
kachi kachi kachi

Frame 2:
Shujin:
Oh, it's from Saiko

Miyoshi:
Let me talk with him too! I want to tell him how I'm getting closer to my dream too.

Shujin:
It's fine, I'll tell him.

Frame 3:
Mashiro:
!, Miyoshi's voice

Frame 4:
Shujin:
Saiko, Miyoshi's cellphone novel got replies from two companies, asking to continue writing.

It's crazy isn't it? It's all thanks to Saiko and Azuki too.

kachi kachi

Frame 5:
Mashiro:
Miyoshi's cellphone novel...

Frame 6:
Shujin:
That and although she's not on the front page, Azuki's getting really popular. An explosion of popularity's might only be a matter of time.

kachi kachi

Mashiro:
...Azuki's popular...

More importantly, Shujin's been typing away at the keyboard the whole time we're talking... Is he writing Miyoshi's cellphone novel...?

Pg. 12

Frame 1:
Mashiro:
Shujin, where are you right now?

Shujin:
Ah, I'm at Miyoshi's

Frame 2:
Mashiro:
You're alone with her there?

Shujin:
Mmmm...
Note: in agreement if I didn't make that clear

kachi kachi

Miyoshi:
Ah, Takagi, that lines good

Frame 3:
Mashiro:
Shujin, what about the name?

Shujin:
Ah, I'm working on it. I told you I'd be writing it over the break didn't I?

kachi kachi

Mashiro:
...Does Shujin really care anymore...?

No, but Shujin did say as soon as summer break started he would be working on it the whole time...

Kachi kachi

Shujin:
Hm? What's wrong?

Frame 4:
Mashiro:
If I trust Shujin, then I should wait... First I suggested we switch from cult to mainstream battle manga, and now suggesting I want to do the detective genre would be too selfish of me.

Frame 5:
Shujin:
What's wrong Saiko?
kachi kachi

Pg. 13

Frame 1:
Mashiro:
You've really been working on it all break, right

Shujin:
Ah, sorry, wait a little bit longer

Mashiro:
Aight, I understand, I'll wait

Shujin:
Mhm, well I'm busy right now, so I'll tell you when I finish

*beep*

Frame 3:
Mashiro:
I'll try trusting in Shujin

Only if the battle manga Shujin writes isn't enough, then it'll be fine if I propose changing to the detective genre.

Frame 4:
Mashiro:
Like that, I thought of how I want to write a detective manga with Shujin. So I continued practicing drawing battle manga while fleshing out how to propose it.

While I waited for Shujin to finish the name, I continued to draw for four weeks.

Frame 6:
Mashiro:
There's only three days left of break... and Shujin hasn't contacted me at all...

Should I check up on him? He's probably isn't with Miyoshi at this time of night.

*beep*

Pg. 14

Frame 1:
Mashiro:
Yo--

Shujin:
Yo // Saiko, just a minute

Frame 2:
Shujin:
I'm at a netcafe with Miyoshi right now, so I need to go outside to talk

Miyoshi:
Takagi-sensei, here's more tea- ah, a call?

Frame 3:
Mashiro:
They're working together on the cellphone novel at a time like this?

Frame 4:
Shujin:
Sorry, what's up?

Frame 5:
Mashiro:
Hey, I was wondering what was going on with the name, if you need help, just tell me.

Shujin:
Ah, sorry, I'll finish it on my own, just wait a little bit longer

Frame 6:
Mashiro:
...a little bit longer...? Even though break's almost over already?

Is he really working on it? I don't think he really is.

Pg. 15

Frame 1:
Mashiro:
Shujin, I didn't want to ask this, but...

Shujin:
...Eh? What?

Frame 2:
Mashiro:
Why are you with Miyoshi so much?

Shujin:
You ask why...?

Frame 3:
Shujin:
Naturally, it's because I like her.

Mashiro:
...but you shouldn't neglect the name because of that

Frame 4:
Shujin:
What do you mean by "neglecting"! I'm working as hard as I can too!

Mashiro:
With Miyoshi at her house or at netcafes?

Frame 5:
Shujin:
Yeah

Frame 6:
Shujin:
If Saiko's going to go that far, then I have something to say too // Wanting to be with someone you like is natural. Saiko and Azuki just aren't normal, it's strange.

If you like each other, then being with each other as much as possible is normal.

Pg. 16

Frame 1:
Mashiro:
Azuki and I aren't normal? We're strange?

Frame 2:
Mashiro:
Ahhh, that may be true, but there's only three days of break left you know?

Shujin:
I know

Frame 4:
Mashiro:
Azuki and I are strange. If we like each other, then wanting to be together should be normal.

Frame 5:
Mashiro:
It's not like I don't want to be with Azuki too.

But...

Frame 6:
Mashiro:
...Azuki...

Pg. 17

Frame 2:
To: Azuki Miho
Sub: A Question...

Azuki-san, please don't be mad.
I'd like you to tell me, why are you alright with not seeing me?

Frame 3:
*beep*

Frame 5:
Azuki:
Mashiro-kun...

Frame 7:
Azuki:
"alright with not seeing me?"...

Pg. 18

Frame 1:
Mashiro:
Azuki, who usually replies immediately, didn't reply that night.

I went and asked something stupid again...

No, it's just she's become popular and is too busy, or maybe she had to wake up early and was already asleep...

Frame 2:
Mashiro:
I felt that Azuki was gradually pulling away, and Shujin was going more to Miyoshi's side.

Frame 3:
Azuki:
I want to see you too... I want it to be like Kaya's, I think dating would be fun too

Frame 4:
Azuki:
If Mashiro-kun wished, I'd go see him everyday. I'd talk to my dad and move back to Yakusa. Should I tell him that?

But, if I word it like that...

Mashiro-kun would probably apologize...

And would we keep on going back and forth like that?

Frame 6:
Mashiro:
The next day, I woke up to Azuki's mail.

Pg. 19

Frame 1:
From: Azuki Miho

Sub: Re: Good morning

I'm treasuring my promise with Mashiro-kun to fulfill our dreams, so I think that seeing each other after our dreams come true will be filled with more joy and love.

- Miho -

Menu Reply

Frame 2:
Mashiro:
"Love"...?

Frame 3:
Mashiro:
For Azuki to go as far as using "love"...

Frame 4:
Mashiro:
...If Shujin doesn't finish the name in two more days

I'll draw the manga alone! For Azuki too!

*slanted text*
It couldn't be... a tragic decision?!

Frame 5:
Shujin:
Miyoshi, don't say a word to either Azuki or Saiko that I'm writing a mystery manga, not a battle manga.
Absolutely don't.

Kachi // kachi

Kachi

Miyoshi:
Why?

Kachi

Shujin:
Saiko's been all about battle manga, but I want to show him a mystery manga so awesome that will make even that stubborn Saiko will give in. No, he'll definitely submit to it, my best doesn't show in battle manga!

If I can just finish it in two more days...