Bakuman

The film follows two teens who swap dreams for spreadsheets and weekends for drawing boards. Moritaka Mashiro and Akito Takagi trade office fantasies for manga ambitions after a girl sets the bar high. It merely proves teenage plans age worse than cheap photocopies.

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Hitoshi One directed Bakuman in 2015. See Hitoshi One's full filmography, where to start with Hitoshi One, or where to go after you've seen everything by Hitoshi One.

Bakuman was released in 2015 (JA original-language production), with a runtime of 119 minutes.