Characters — Browse every character across the manga and anime catalogue
SUPPORTINGAiko Iwase
Bakuman。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
SUPPORTINGAkane Miyoshi
Bakuman。Kaya Miyoshi's mother. Anime debut: Bakuman 2 episode 19 (Fate and Star)
SUPPORTINGAkira Hattori
Bakuman。One of the editors of the Weekly Shōnen Jump. He is a thin, odd-looking man with a wide-eyed gaze and distinctive lips. Hattori Akira was Akito Takagi's and Moritaka Mashiro's edit
MAINAkito Takagi
Bakuman。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
SUPPORTINGEiji Niizuma
Bakuman。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
SUPPORTINGFumi Mashiro
Bakuman。Moritaka's grandfather and the father of Masahiro Mashiro and Nobuhiro Mashiro. He is the one who gives Moritaka Nobuhiro's studio key.
SUPPORTINGGorou Miura
Bakuman。Miura is the second editor for Ashirogi Muto. He is very enthusiastic and excited, and sometimes not a hard enough editor for the boys.
SUPPORTINGHidemitsu Ishizawa
Bakuman。Ishizawa attends the same Junior High as Takagi and Mashiro. Ishizawa draws ecchi headshots of girls and brags about it. He later insults Mashiro's drawings. He is a large nuisance
SUPPORTINGHiromi Yasuoka
Bakuman。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
SUPPORTINGHisashi Sasaki
Bakuman。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
SUPPORTINGHYDE
Bakuman。Japanese rock musician, HYDE, makes his voice acting debut playing himself. He is the producer for an artist named Koogy.
SUPPORTINGIchiriki Orihara
Bakuman。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
SUPPORTINGKaya Miyoshi
Bakuman。Miho's best friend, who is in 9th year, class 2 in the same school as Miho and Mashiro. Though being her best friend, she doesn't know that Miho likes Mashiro. She confronts Takagi
SUPPORTINGKazuya Hiramaru
Bakuman。Hiramaru was a salaryman that hated working. On hearing Takagi and Mashiro talking about drawing manga on the subway and finding an abandoned copy of Jack, he quit his job to be a
SUPPORTINGKouji Yoshida
Bakuman。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.
SUPPORTINGMasahiro Mashiro
Bakuman。Masahiro Mashiro is the father of Moritaka Mashiro. He is the older brother of Nobuhiro Mashiro.
SUPPORTINGMasakazu Yamahisa
Bakuman。Masakazu Yamahisa is Ryu Shizuka and later, Ko Aoki's editor. He works with Ryo to get mis manga more Weekly Shōnen Jump friendly and offers Aoki to work on a manga with romance in






