Bakuman

Note:
25-episodes anime adaptation of the popular ongoing manga series written by Tsugumi Ohba and drawn by Takeshi Obata (the Death Note team), serialised in Weekly Shonen Jump since August, 2008.

Synopsis:
Moritaka Mashiro, a junior high student, leaves his notebook containing a drawing of his crush and classmate Azuki Miho in class. When he notices and returns to the classroom after school, his classmate Akito Takagi is waiting for him with the notebook and tries to persuade Mashiro to become a mangaka

and draw the stories Takagi writes. However, Mashiro is reluctant due to disillusion with modern society and the fate of his uncle, a formerly serialized mangaka who died from overwork trying to regain that status.

Staff:
Original Story: Tsugumi Ohba, Takeshi Obata
Director: Ken'ichi Kasai, Noriaki Akitaya
Series Composition: Reiko Yoshida
Screenplay: Reiko Yoshida, Seishi Minakami, Tsutomu Kamishiro, Yuniko Ayana
Character Design: Tomoyuki Shitaya
Animation Production: J.C.Staff
Production: NHK Enterprise, NHK, Shogakukan-Shueisha Production

Cast:
Moritaka Mashiro: Atsushi Abe
Akito Takagi: Satoshi Hino
Miho Azuki: Saori Hayami
Kaya Miyoshi: Sayuri Yahagi
Eiji Nizuma: Nobuhiko Okamoto