From: bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com   
      
   On 11/05/2014 02:54 PM, newt@dont-email.me wrote:   
   > Anyone here read any of this? After watching the anime I'm curious   
   > how it stacks up to the source material.   
   >   
      
   	I have read all 20 volumes of Bakuman and found it adequately amusing   
   and interesting.  I have not seen the anime so cannot compare.   
   It is an attempt to create a battle manga without bloodshed or fights.   
   The story recounts the struggle of a group of young manga-ka to   
   create the best stories and to get their manga turned into anime.   
   In the manga we have a great variety of characters who sometimes   
   are quite flamboyant in pursuing their arts.   
      
   	But I believe that there are superior manga on the same themes   
   such as G-Senjou Heaven's Door which is very strong but of course   
   overpowered by the reality shown in A Drifting Life which covers   
   the life of a manga-ka from the late 1940s when the author is   
   winning postcard competition for manga publications and meets   
   Osamu Tezuka as well as a host of contemporary manga-ka until well   
   after the death of Tezuka.   
      
   	Now I guess I will have to try to find and watch the   
   Bakuman anime.   
      
   	bliss   
      
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