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Bakuman. 2 (TV)

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Alternative title:
バクマン。2 (Japanese)
Genres: comedy, drama
Themes: manga, Mangaká
Objectionable content: None
Plot Summary: Mashiro and Takagi start working with a new editor, Gorou Miura, as Hattori is assigned to another author. They must adapt quickly to his approach as well as drawing together with assistants since they must perform well on the Shonen Jack polls in order to not be discarded by the publication. Now that their work is being serialized, they must work even harder as they must satisfy an extremely demanding audience while competing with other talented authors.
User Ratings: 710 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 115 votes (sub:100, dub:7, ?:1, others:7
2 Portuguese subtitled
1 French subtitled
1 Spanish subtitled
1 Arabic subtitled
1 Russian subtitled
1 Russian dubbed
)
 Excellent: 245 votes (sub:218, dub:11, others:16
6 Spanish subtitled
4 Russian subtitled
2 Portuguese subtitled
1 Italian dubbed
1 Arabic subtitled
1 Italian subtitled
1 French subtitled
)
 Very good: 230 votes (sub:203, dub:10, raw:1, others:16
6 Spanish subtitled
3 Portuguese subtitled
2 Russian dubbed
2 Italian subtitled
1 French subtitled
1 French dubbed
1 Polish subtitled
)
 Good: 76 votes (sub:73, dub:3)
 Decent: 29 votes (sub:25, dub:2, others:2
1 French dubbed
1 Spanish dubbed
)
 So-so: 8 votes (sub:6, dub:2)
 Not really good: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Weak: 4 votes (sub:3, others:1
1 French subtitled
)
 Bad: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Awful: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Worst ever: -
Seen in part or in whole by 1286 users, rank: #934 (of 9777)
Median rating: Very good
Arithmetic mean: 8.394 (Very good+), std. dev.: 1.2216, rank: #244 (of 9919)
Weighted mean: 8.325 (Very good+), rank: #261 (of 9919) (seen all: 8.35 / seen some: 7.70 / won't finish: 5.00)
Bayesian estimate: 8.310 (Very good+), rank: #147 (of 7496)
Running time: half hour per episode
Number of episodes: 25
Episode titles: We have 25
Vintage: 2011-10-01 to 2012-03-24
Opening Theme:
#1: "Dream of Life" by Shouhei Itou (eps 1-)
Ending Theme:
#1: "monochrome rainbow" by Tommy heavenly6 (eps 1-)
#2: "Parallel= (パラレル=)" by Fumiya Sashida (eps 17-)
Insert song:
"Crow's Sky" by Shuhei Kita (ep 9)
Links: We have 1
Trivia: We have 1
News: Show:
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Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Series Composition: Reiko Yoshida
Script:
Keiichirō Ōchi (9 episodes
eps 4-5, 8, 10, 13, 16, 19, 22, 24
)

Michihiro Tsuchiya (5 episodes
eps 12, 15, 17, 20, 23
)

Reiko Yoshida (11 episodes
eps 1-3, 6-7, 9, 11, 14, 18, 21, 25
)

Storyboard:
Hikaru Sato (ep 10)
Hiroyuki Hashimoto (ep 4)
Kenichi Kasai (ep 6)
Kenji Takahashi (ep 12)
Kouichi Takada (eps 7, 11)
Noriaki Akitaya (eps 2-3, 5, 9)
Episode Director:
Hikaru Sato (eps 6, 10)
Hiroyuki Hashimoto (ep 4)
Kenji Takahashi (ep 12)
Makoto Noriza (eps 2, 7)
Mitsutoshi Satō (eps 3, 9)
Yoshinobu Tokumoto (eps 5, 11)
Yuta Maruyama (ep 1)
Music: Audio Highs
Original creator:
Takeshi Obata (art)
Tsugumi Ohba (story)
Character Design: Tomoyuki Shitaya
Art Director: Chikako Shibata
Animation Director:
Atsushi Kasano (ep 6)
Atsushi Komori (ep 1)
Jōji Matsuoka (ep 6)
Keiko Ichihara (ep 12)
Kentarō Sugimoto (ep 10)
Koji Haneda (eps 10, 12)
Mai Matsuura (eps 1, 4, 10)
Mika Takazawa (ep 12)
Ryōsuke Tanigawa (eps 6, 10)
Sachiko Kotani (eps 6, 12)
Yoko Kojo (eps 3, 9)
Yumi Nakayama (eps 2, 7)
Sound Director: Jun Watanabe
Director of Photography: Kazuya Iwai
Color design: Mayumi Tanahashi
Editing: Masahiro Gotō
In-Between Animation:
Ayako Igakawa (ep 6)
Haruka Okutani (eps 2, 10)
Mika Takahashi (高橋みか ep 6,7)
Sana Komatsu (eps 4, 10)
Sayuri Horiuchi (eps 4, 10)
Shihomi Taguchi (eps 2, 10)
Shū Honma (ep 9)
Takamitsu Satō (eps 1, 6)
Yoshiyuki Nogami (eps 2, 4)
Yuri Sakai (ep 7)
Yūta Azuma (ep 9)
In-Between Check:
Akane Hirota (ep 7)
Ayako Igakawa (ep 7)
Eri Uchiyama (eps 1, 4, 12)
Haruka Sano (ep 7)
Hiroki Okamoto (ep 4)
Kaori Hashimoto (ep 11)
Masayuki Nonaka (ep 1)
Nana Mori (eps 1, 6, 12)
Takako Kōno (ep 4)
Tetsuya Sakamoto (ep 6)
Key Animation:
Akiko Kawashima (ep 9)
Akio Kitahara (eps 10, 12)
Aya Maeda (ep 9)
Ayako Tauchi (ep 2)
Chie Saito (eps 1, 6)
Daisuke Tsumagari (eps 1, 6, 12)
Ena Nishikawa (ep 10)
Hayaka Ikeda (ep 9)
Hideo Maru (ep 5)
Hiroko Yoshida (eps 1, 6)
Hiroyuki Haruhii (eps 1, 6, 12)
Jōji Matsuoka (ep 1)
Kana Tamiya (ep 10)
Kaori Akimoto (ep 9)
Katsuya Shigehara (eps 7, 12)
Katsuyuki Sato (ep 11)
Kayano Tomizawa (ep 6)
Kayo Nomichi (eps 1, 6)
Kazuma Kikuchi (ep 4)
Kazumi Ono (ep 12)
Kazunori Kozawa (ep 3)
Keiko Ichihara (eps 2, 4)
Keiko Ijima (ep 1)
Kenta Taniguchi (ep 4)
Kōichi Hayami (ep 7)
Koichi Morishima (ep 5)
Kumiko Haruhi (eps 3, 9)
Mai Takehara (ep 9)
Maiko Ochiai (ep 10)
Makiko Kamimura (eps 1, 6, 12)
Makiko Shinohara (ep 6)
Mari Shirakawa (ep 9)
Mayuko Kato (ep 2)
Mie Ōishi (eps 2, 7, 12)
Mika Takazawa (eps 2, 11)
Misato Takasaki (ep 3)
Mitsuo Tano (ep 5)
Miyuki Kobayashi (eps 1, 6)
Miyuki Oshiro (eps 6, 12)
Mizue Ogawa (ep 9)
Noriaki Kobayashi (4 episodes
eps 2, 7, 10, 12
)

Odahiro Watabe (eps 2, 4)
Ryōsuke Tanigawa (ep 1)
Seiji Masuda (ep 4)
Shigeki Satō (eps 5, 11)
Shinichi Iimura (ep 4)
Shinya Kōno (ep 9)
Shinya Yamada (ep 5)
Taeko Oda (ep 5)
Takashi Otsuka (ep 9)
Tetsuya Sunaga (ep 9)
Tomoe Nishio (ep 9)
Tomoko Fukunaga (eps 2, 4)
Tomoko Hamanaka (ep 7)
Tomoko Kameyama (eps 7, 10, 12)
Tomoko Shimizu (eps 5, 11)
Tomoyuki Kitamura (ep 4)
Toshiaki Satō (ep 12)
Yōko Itō (5 episodes
eps 2, 4, 7, 10, 12
)

Yosuke Kobayashi (ep 6)
Youko Kuboyama (ep 10)
Yuichi Hirano (ep 4)
Yūji Shibata (ep 10)
Yukari Miyagawa (ep 9)
Yumi Nakayama (eps 1, 12)
Yuuko Kamiyama (eps 2, 4, 7, 10)
Photography:
Hidenori Manaka
Kazuya Iwai
Minori Kimura
Yūki Etō (12 episodes
eps 2-8 even, 9-10, 12-22 even
)

Recording: Ayumi Andou
Sound Effects: Kaori Yamada
Theme Song Arrangement:
Aki Hishikawa (OP #1)
Mark and John (ED #1)
Yoshihiro Kusano (INS)
Theme Song Composition:
Koji Ueda (INS)
Mark and John (ED #1)
Shōhei Itō (OP #1)
Theme Song Lyrics:
Shōhei Itō (OP #1)
Tommy heavenly6 (ED #1)
Yohei Matsui (INS)
Yuki Kawamura (OP #1)
Theme Song Performance:
Shōhei Itō (OP #1)
Shuhei Kita (INS)
Tommy heavenly6
Atsushi Abe as Moritaka Mashiro
Satoshi Hino as Akito Takagi

Ayako Kawasumi as Kō Aoki
Ayumi Fujimura as Aiko Iwase
Daisuke Kirii as Gorou Miura
Hirofumi Nojima as Yūjirō Hattori
Junichi Suwabe as Shinta Fukuda
Kenji Hamada as Tarō Kawaguchi
Kentarō Tone as Akira Hattori
Kenyuu Horiuchi as Chief Editor Sasaki
Masakazu Morita as Kazuya Hiramaru
Nobuhiko Okamoto as Eiji Niizuma
Saori Hayami as Miho Azuki
Sayuri Yahagi as Kaya Miyoshi
Shinji Kawada as Assistant Chief Editor Heishi
Takehito Koyasu as Yoshida Kouji
Tomoyuki Shimura as Takurō Nakai
Youto Kazama as Souichi Aida

Chinatsu Akasaki as Assistant (ep 18)
Hidetoshi Nakamura as Torishima, from the Board of Directors
Hiroki Shimowada as Shouyou Takahama
Hiroyuki Yoshino as Bossun
Junichi Suwabe as Otter No. 11
Kan Tanaka as Deputy Editor Yahagi
Kazuyuki Okitsu as
Clerk (ep 1)
Ichiriki Oriwara
Office Worker (ep 2)
Sunggyu Kim
Young Man (ep 3)
Kenji Hamada as Nobuhiro Mashiro
Kenta Miyake as Shinzou
Kikuko Inoue as Miyuki Azuki
Kōji Ōishi as himself (ep 1)
Kōki Miyata as Hidemitsu Ishizawa
Kumiko Higa as
Kayoko Mashiro
Yama-chan (ep 6)
Manabu Sakamaki as
Announcement (ep 2)
Doctor (eps 6, 8)
Hiroyuki Nakano
Masakazu Yamahisa
Takanori Arai
Mitsuhiro Sakamaki as Shuuichi Moriya (ep 25)
Nobuaki Kanemitsu as Kyotaro Hibiki
Rie Yamaguchi as Highschool Girl (ep 2)
Ryōko Shiraishi as Himeko
Satowa Tanaka as Highschool Girl (ep 2)
Sayuri Hara as Assistant (ep 18)
Shouto Kashii as Yosshi Miyoshi
Showtaro Morikubo as Koji Makaino
Shukuko Tsugawa as Akane Miyoshi
Takuma Suzuki as Kouhei Oonishi
Takuya Eguchi as Young Man (ep 3)
Takuya Kuriyama as Young Man (ep 3)
Tomohisa Asō as Chief Editor Ibaraki
Tomokazu Sugita as Switch
Yoshihisa Kawahara as
Driver (ep 1)
Hiromi Yasuoka
Office President (ep 2)
Taiki Uchida
Yoshimitsu Shimoyama as Naoto Ogawa
Youko Honda as Natsumi Katou
Yūichi Iguchi as Shun Shiratori (ep 25)
Japanese companies
Animation Production: J.C. Staff
Broadcaster: NHK
English companies
English staff
(none)
Distributor:
AnimeWorks
Viz Media
Internet Streaming:
Hulu
Peacock
Tubi TV
Licensed by:
Madman Entertainment
Media Blasters (Unreleased; Expired)
English cast
(none)
French staff
French cast
ADR Director: Frédéric Souterelle

Adaptation: Virginie Stobinsky
Adrien Solis as Moritaka Mashiro
Grégory Laisné as Akito Takagi

Antoine Tome as le pére de kaya
Bastien Bourlé as Taiki Uchida
Bernard Jung as Sasaki
Bruno Meyere as
Kazuya Hiramaru
Souichi Aida
Camille Donda as Aiko Iwase
Christophe Seugnet as Akira Hattori
Cyril Aubin as Yujirô Hattori
Emma Darmon as Miho Azuki
Frédéric Souterelle as Yoshihisa Heishi
Gwen Lebret as
Goro Miura
Koji Makaino
Ingrid Donnadieu as Yuriko Aoki
Isabelle Volpe as Kaya Miyoshi
Jean-Pierre Leblan as Shinta Fukuda
Jochen Haegele as Naoto Ogawa
Lucas Bleger as Takuro Nakai
Nathalie Karsenty as Miyuki Azuki
Nicolas Beaucaire as Eiji Niizuma
Nikie Gay Lescot as Kayoko Mashiro
Philippe Namann as Shoyo Takahama
Philippe Siboulet as Kōji Yoshida
Vincent De Bouard as Orihara

French companies
Broadcaster:
J-One
Mangas (from 6 November 2013)
Distributor: KAZÉ
Dubbing: WanTake
Tagalog staff
Tagalog companies
(none)
Tagalog cast
Anthony Steven San Juan as Akito Takagi

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