Imagination and Presentation is the name of the 49th episode of the Bakuman anime. It first aired on March 17, 2012.
Overview
Editor Oonishi, changes his vote to be positive, stating it's ridiculous to let Ashirogi Muto go because of this voting. The vice chief editor also changes his vote, stating they should leave it up to the readers to decide this matter. In the end the manga gets serialized. Mashiro, Takagi and Miyoshi receive the good news and eat home made cake from Azuki. They find an USB in the cake and listen to her special recorded Christmas carol. Mashiro and Takagi's editor changes again but it turns out to be Hattori, while Miura becomes the editor for +Natural. Hattori tells them about the initial voting result, triggering a brainstorm session where they discuss what they should change to make the manga even better. Hattori thinks it's Niizuma's 'expressiveness' that makes his manga so good but Mashiro changes it to 'imagination'. Mashiro decides to, just like Niizuma, draw the manga based on only Takagi's script (instead of his storyboards), giving him more freedom to draw the panels as he wants. Both of them start to rewrite the storyboard. Meanwhile Fukuda tells his editor he's working on an one shot, saying he doesn't want to lose against Niizuma and Ashigoto Muto.
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Differences from the Manga
Characters in Order of Appearance
- Hisashi Sasaki
- Yoshihisa Heishi
- Soichi Aida
- Koji Yoshida
- Akito Takagi
- Moritaka Mashiro
- Kaya Miyoshi
- Goro Miura
- Akira Hattori
- Shinta Fukuda
- Eiji Niizuma
- Miho Azuki
- Mina Azuki
- Miyuki Haruno
- Yujiro Hattori
- Kazuya Hiramaru
- Yuriko Aoki
- Aiko Iwase