num_pages: 189
description: By the creators of Death Note! The mystery behind manga-making revealed!Average student Moritaka Mashiro enjoys drawing for fun. When his classmate and aspiring writer Akito Takagi discovers his talent he begs Moritaka to team up with him as a manga-creating duo. But what exactly does it take to make it in the manga-publishing world?With Aiko Iwase teaming up with Eiji to get a series in Shonen Jump  Moritaka and Akito have another major rival to contend with. Can the duo get their series serialized and succeed in Jump this time? And when Akito has to ask for permission to marry Kaya hell have to face her father a master in Karate!
language: English
title: Bakuman, Volume 9: Talent and Pride
publisher: VIZ Media LLC