Books by Tsugumi Ohba
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review 1: We learn about the politics and controversies of the life of a mangaka, including dealing with rivalries, publishing contests, how to fit in relationships. The twists in this one involve the two friends separating for a time, and one working as an assistant for their crazy genius...
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review 1: In this volume our intrepid mangakas Mashiro and Takagi are entering manga competitions, have their own Shonen Jump editor and are trying to write a mainstream manga. The story tries to show the amount of work needed to get a manga published (let alone accepted) which I think is ...
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review 1: The plot of Death Note never ceases to impress me. The mixture of crime, psychological battles of wits, and supernatural themes creates this gloriously complex plot line that captures my mind and never lets go. Even though I know what's going to happen next (I watched the anime...
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review 1: Wikipedia references a critic who called the first volume of this series sexist. I mulled over it and realized that the critic may have unwittingly criticized Japanese culture when he thought he was just criticizing a comic.Volume 19 has a plot thread involving the scandal of a v...
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review 1: ini adalah buku pertama yang Hana beli setelah selama sebulan (bulan agustus dilarang beli buku sama umi):Dbeli pakai gaji pertama hana juga :Dalhamdulillahyang paling hana suka pas baca buku ini adalah mengingatkan hana bahwa jalan menuju mimpi tidak semudah yang dibayangkanSai...
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review 1: Nakai, just... go. Just leave. Hiramaru, you're a great guy, but don't encourage him. Let him go.I was worried about Takagi there, for a bit! He wasn't himself, and it was badly affecting the whole team. I'm glad to see how he shone in the face of adversity, though! Atta boy!Also...
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review 1: In SummaryBakuman reaches its conclusion! Unlike Ashirogi’s Reversi, the Bakuman series did feel like it went on a bit too long. Even in this last volume, Akito’s “wedding present” to Moritaka seemed an unnecessary extra hurdle to be overcome. However, the manga does an excellent...
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review 1: This volume continues the story of out Mangakas but with their relationship shaky, Mashiro becomes an assistant for Nizuma, meeting Fukuda. Mashiro and Fukuda discuss all the problems with Shonen Jump and how they think it can be improved, which is obviously a proxy for Ohba and ...
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review 1: Awesome series that forces readers to ask a few central questions about what is right and what is wrong. Full of twists and turns, Death Note takes readers to a new level of terror (What if you had the power to kill someone at any time by simply knowing their face and name? What ...
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review 1: I really liked the back and forth between Saiko, Shujin and their editor. They all have very strong opinions on what will work. It is also good to see the Ashirogi team being open to trying something new, once the latter half of the book starts up. Seeing the amount of work th...
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review 1: Ladieeeeeees. \o/ The women of this manga are great, why do we even spend time with other people. Kaya the friend making machine! The secret adorable squishy center of Miss Aoki! The steely idealistic moral core to Azuki! Iwase's inability to talk to a dude she likes without comi...
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review 1: Perjuangan Ashirogi Muto ( Mashiro & Takagi) terus berlanjut, kini mereka harus berjuang dalam Golden Future Cup guna mengejar impian mereka, serialisasi Manga. Mereka yang sebelumnya bersitegang gegara kegalauan Takagi terhadap Mashiro akan ia menerima idenya tentang Komik detek...
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review 1: I gushed over the first volume of Bakuman for its depiction of how the creative spirit can really grab hold of you when you’re a teen, and I stand by that - I think it’s an absolutely brilliant first volume. But I think that’s all that needed to be said about the series. It almos...
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review 1: This volume was even better than the first! We are seriously starting to delve into the world of shonen manga publishing, and it is absolutely fascinating! The "big reveal" moments had me flipping pages faster than you can say "Bakuman", and the characters were fantastic in that ...
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review 1: Ups the ante from the first couple of volumes, and then some. All the intelligence and suspense of the Death Note series is here.And so is the sexism, this time most powerfully embodied in a new female character, who plays an important plot role. As with volumes 1 and 2, if you c...
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review 1: September 2013: 5 StarsThe plot thickens! Although the introduction of a new villain is an old trick in the manga world, Misa is so different a villain that we can't help but wonder about her. And her relationship with Rem is bizarrely intimate compared to the bond between Light ...
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review 1: There was ample opportunity for the Takagi/Kaya storyline could have really gone places here but the authors chickened out (bwooooooork book book book). Takagi helps another Mangaka and stays at his house (yeah I am leaving the obvious) so now Kaya-san things he has left her (but...
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review 1: The lack of action with Mashiro and Miho is becoming a bit tired so something should have been done about that. The 'will they? Won't they?' type literary device is fast becoming the 'Do I really care enough?' And no, I don't. Manga generally, not just this one, always seem to ha...
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review 1: When Nanamine is ashes... He'll have my permission to die.I hate him. I really do. And I'm not saying I don't like his character; he's brilliant! He's the villain I love to hate, is what I mean. I feel like he and Iwase would get along well, although I think she has a little more...
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review 1: Loved this as a kid, still own the complete manga, including 13th volume, prequel and sequel. I was drawn to it because of the beautiful are, Takeshi Obata has talent, and has inspired me to learn how to draw pretty decently, using the series as a good reference for realistic-an...
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review 1: Everyone who is viewing the box set page are people whom I assume have already read the manga itself, or at least know a great deal about it, so I would rather focus on the actual box set collection itself. That being said, this is an absolutely fucking fantastic set that is well...
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review 1: I've read the first 5 volumes back to back, and I must say, so far this has been one of the most exhilarating series I've encountered. At times I've been so excited that I've forgotten to breath, which, obviously, is not a wise move in the long run. Anyway, I've noticed that my i...
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review 1: The ongoing story of our two favourite manga creators was starting to get a little thin by this volume. The ongoing scenes of Muto Ashirogi coming up with a new idea, then waiting for the results of the readers' polls from their editor was beginning to feel a bit samey. Fortunate...
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review 1: This was definitely an interesting installment with a lot of stuff going on.There was a lot of the fall-out of the cliche misunderstanding between a boyfriend and girlfriend, but Shujin and Miyoshi got it all figured out. The change in Nakai's character seemed... well, it did se...
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review 1: Mashiro and Takagi are now making a new manga which can beat Iwase and Nizuma in Jump. They didn't like Tanto so they decided to quite it and work on a new story. They first tried a revised version of The world is all about Money and Intelligence, but that didn't make it. After t...
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review 1: So I still kind of hate the main characters, Mashiro and Takagi. Their shonen-like "WE CAN DO IT!" attitude is really stupid, because this is the REAL WORLD...yeah you should be confident and do what you can to achieve your dream, but their emotions are really...cliche and watere...
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review 1: First of all: congrats to Ashirogi for being true rivals of Eiji's for the first time. Wow! And can I just say that Reversi sounds good??Secondly, I'm so happy for Hiramaru and Aoki! She was so good about his proposal, and I was truly touched by Yoshida's desire to help Hiramaru ...