Yuriko Aoki

Moritaka Mashiro

Mashiro is a 14-year-old boy who doesn't know what to do with his life. One day his classmate Takagi finds out about his amazing drawing skills and asks him to help create a manga.

Akito Takagi

Akito is a young 14-year-old who gets some of the best grades in the country and is an award-winning writer. With these brains and writing skills,​ you would think he would have a

Aiko Iwase

Iwase is an intelligent girl who was a classmate of Mashiro and Takagi during Junior High. Iwase is an academic achiever in school. She's difficult to get along with due to her str

Taiki Uchida

Koogy's editor.

Ichiriki Orihara

Orihara is a young assistant who worked with Ashirogi Muto on "Run, Daihatsu Tanto!". He is a very energetic and cheerful character that tends to get loud due to his excitement, ma

Takanori Arai

Arai is a mangaka who is serialized in Jump. His manga debuted in the issue of Jump before Detective Trap. It is called Cheese Okaki. He used to work as an assistant for Mikihiko A

Shinta Fukuda

Fukuda is a main supporting character in Bakuman and the founder of Team Fukuda. He left home after high school and worked as an assistant to Eiji Niizuma for Crow, along with Mash

Hisashi Sasaki

Editor-in-Chief of Weekly Jump. He tends to behave indifferently or even coldly but it's all for Jump's authors and editors to regain their spirits. He has a good eye for manga and

Hiromi Yasuoka

Yasuoka is Fukuda Shinta's assistant for his series Kiyoshi Knight. He helps Fukuda come up with ideas, and for every good idea he comes up with Fukuda says he will pay Yasuoka 300

Yosshi Miyoshi

Yosshi Miyoshi is Kaya Miyoshi's father. He is a real estate agent and a karate teacher. In 1st, 2nd, 5th, 6th grade, and most of Jr. high and high school, he was in the same class

Songyuu Kim

An editor at Shueisha's Weekly Shounen Jump.

Shuuichi Moriya

Gorou Miura

Miura is the second editor for Ashirogi Muto. He is very enthusiastic and excited, and sometimes not a hard enough editor for the boys.

Eiji Niizuma

Eiji Nizuma is a high school genius mangaka who has been drawing ever since he was young. Moritaka Mashiro and Akito Takagi consider him their rival. He was supposed to serialize a

Yoshihisa Heishi

The Assistant Editor-in-Chief at Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump.

Takuro Nakai

Nakai is an assistant for Niizuma. He won a monthly award ten years ago and has been determined to get serialized since. He is good with backgrounds and angles.

Kyoutarou Hibiki

The mangaka of Great Thief Cheater.

Kouji Yoshida

Yoshida is Hiramaru Kazuya's editor. He tells the chief-editor in the meeting about his genius, which led to Hiramaru's serialization. He is able to ignore Hiramaru's personality.