I used to do Shotokan Karate. When blocking, they taught me to wait for the last possible moment and then block. You do this so your opponent can’t react and change their attack. The block is meant to be both defense and a counter. Knocking away the incoming punch/kick, and ideally doing some damage as [...]
Once we get past the boring and slightly depressing Mashiro mope-fest and the crappy support from his mute future lover, the episode ends pretty nicely with Takagi’s love triangle coming to a head. Wait. What love triangle? Yep, you got that right.
The shipping battle lines are drawn. Even though most of the initial skirmishes have been polite, a greater battle brews…
Definitely a solid rebound from the disaster that was the last episode.
Sadly, it’s become readily apparent to me that Bakuman is a flawed series that will be weighed down the whole way through by its utterly banal romance angle. Why is that?
This was the best episode of Bakuman since the first episode. Why is that? No wasted time on the romance (and what was, was pretty funny), and a lot more focus on Mashiro and Takagi submitting their first draft to the Shounen Jack editor for review.
Apparently it’s NaNoWriMo this month. WHO WANTS TO WRITE A MANGA!?
Anime International Company, the studio that has been innovating fanservice and otaku-pandering since 1982, including such hits like…
SisCaly. Are you kidding me?
But you know what’s really hard? Animating a manga. You think the animators were sitting around watching this and thinking "bah! manga artists are wusses!"
