Bakuman Chapter 131 Baku-man 食梦者

It's not easy to become and live as a mangaka, as Mashiro knows from his late uncle. At his 9th grade, while trying to keep up with reality, school and then normal job, he left his notebook with a sketch of Azuki, a girl he likes. Tamaki, a first rate student found it and trying to convince Mashiro to draw a manga with his story. Mashiro doesn't like the idea and tries to decline. Tamaki, however, tries to stick to dream and found out that Azuki also wants to be a voice actress and already got a good reply from a production company. Tamaki, then, brought Mashiro to her house and telling her his dream.... Mashiro then tells her that he will write a manga with Tamaki and will ask Azuki to voice their anime. Out of confusion, Mashiro asks her if the dreams become reality, will she marry him? She says yes, only if their dreams become true, and not otherwise!! Now, lives of wannabe mangakas begin!!!


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This volume contains the 13th (and final) installment of the CGI puppet omake Gun Sword-san which, it must be said, is much funnier in English. Also included is a collection of four more clean versions of the ever-changing opening, and a few pieces of promotional artwork. Most interesting of all is an unusual curiosity: the custom-order GUNxSWORD trailer that David Vincent used to propose to his girlfriend.

There's still plenty here that's dull, and just as much that is patently ridiculous (of which the Claw's technobabble-based Birthday System takes the cake). Like precious jewels embedded in a firmament of dullest concrete, GUNxSWORD's exceptional moments, more so than lending luster to their surroundings, make one want to pluck them out and mount them in an artwork befitting their beauty. Here in the final volume though, they're close enough together and bright enough to make one a little more inclined to leave them where they lay. Not great by any stretch, but often pretty darned good.