CATDOLL: Full of immersive feeling! "Bakuman" movie releases "alternative" stills

The official website of the movie "Bakuman" (click to view the movie poster and cast), which will be released on October 3, has released a set of movie stills. Unlike the usual movie stills, this set of stills is a little different because none of the actors appear in the stills, but the camera focuses on the scenes of the cartoonist's studio and the editorial department of "Weekly Shonen Jump". In fact, those who have read the original comics can feel that this set of seemingly random scene photos is actually quite carefully restored. Although no characters appear, we seem to have seen the protagonists fighting hard in the smokeless battlefield of "comics" in order to pursue their dreams.

Left: Mashiro Takashi (played by Takeru Sato) Right: Akito Takagi (played by Ryunosuke Kamiki)

Bakuman is a collaboration between Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata after Death Note. It was serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump magazine from 2008 to 2012. The protagonist is a boy who aims to be a manga artist. At the end of the first serialized issue, Ohba commented that he wanted to make simpler content. The protagonist Mashiro is a junior high school student. Like most people, he just wants to live his life as it comes. He has a talent for painting and has a crush on Azuki, who is in the same class. Takagi made a condition to Mashiro not to reveal his secret: I will write the script, you will paint, let's become manga artists together. For the sake of their dreams, the two embarked on the road to becoming manga artists.

The latest stills from the live-action movie of Bakuman: