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Look, the women in the story aren't getting anything done. At some point the authors have to notice that their manga is sexist. CrowningMomentOfAwesome ensues, in which the women will save the men from a desperate situation. Or there will be a women VS men manga battle situation, and the men will be overwhelmingly defeated and [[MadeASlave forced to become slaves]]. Or something.

** It has apparently been revealed that he's a dead ringer for what {{Toriko}}'s mangaka looks like.

Seriously, one of the characters has two voices: [[OuranHighSchoolHostClub "ditzy, shouty ham"]] and [[Manga/DeathNote "cold, calculating scorn."]] I can't think of any other seiyuu who fills those two roles so neatly.

He's the kind of guy who would realise that Mashiro needs an anime to get married. As it is, PCP seems to be a series that will go on a long time. He's probably realised that Mashiro is trying for a second series, but he doesn't feel that the quality would be that good. By cancelling PCP he'd give them a blank slate to create an anime worthy manga. Alternatively, being ridiculously GenreSavvy having recognised that Mashiro has the eyes of a hero, he has cast himself as the villian and will act accordingly.

[[WMG:Eiji Niizuma is the reincarnation of Kilgore Trout.]]

The constant references to AshitaNoJoe, including it being Mashiro's favorite series, are foreshadowing his eventual fate. Mashiro already overworked himself into the hospital. He will continue to push himself to improve both PCP and Reversi. Reversi will get popular enough to get an anime and Azuki will voice the female lead. Having achieved their dreams, Mashiro and Azuki will get married.

[[WMG: ZombiePowder does not exist in this universe.]]
Going with the AlternateHistory theory that Manga/OnePiece, Manga/{{Naruto}} and Manga/{{Bleach}} all ended by the start of this series because they started earlier, it follows that Tite Kubo never wrote ZombiePowder, or at least was rejected early on. One Piece and Naruto both had pilots with a significant gap between running the pilot and the start of the series, but BLEACH's pilot was shortly before the series started. If, on the other hand, there was no Zombie Powder, BLEACH could conceivably have been written much sooner.

** {{Eat-Man}}?

Going with the AlternateHistory theory that Manga/OnePiece, {{Naruto}} and Manga/{{Bleach}} all ended by the start of this series because they started earlier, it follows that Tite Kubo never wrote ZombiePowder, or at least was rejected early on. One Piece and Naruto both had pilots with a significant gap between running the pilot and the start of the series, but BLEACH's pilot was shortly before the series started. If, on the other hand, there was no Zombie Powder, BLEACH could conceivably have been written much sooner.

There is some wierd guy who is an inspiration for Nizuma nad L, woman who looks like Iwase and Takada and some MagnificentBastard who was inspiration of Light and Nanamine. There was also some {{Gonk}} with bizarre hair that was source of inspiration for Hattori and Ryuk.

* Hiramaru = Creator/TiteKubo, the only reason he is successful is because his manga is [[PureAwesomeness inherently awesome]].

* Original poster here. A couple of days ago, I reread the first volumes of ''Manga/DeathNote'' and ''Manga/{{Bakuman}}''[[hottip:*: (Man, given [[ParanoiaFuel the right]] [[AuthorExistenceFailure frame of mind]], the breezy self-insert romp is about twelve times as depressing as the morally questionable killfest will ever be.)]], and it turns out that ten weeks is the absolute ''minimum'' for a series' cancellation. So I change my theory to the one immediately below...

* Nizuma = EiichiroOda, being very popular mangakas with CrazyAwesome tendencies.

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A friend pointed out how similar they look in [[http://www.mangareader.net/219-58595-2/bakuman/chapter-109.html this panel]] and I [[NightmareFuel cannot unsee]]. Also worth noting: Mashiro - S, A and R = Miho.

Going with the AlternateHistory theory that Manga/OnePiece, {{Naruto}} and {{Bleach}} all ended by the start of this series because they started earlier, it follows that Tite Kubo never wrote ZombiePowder, or at least was rejected early on. One Piece and Naruto both had pilots with a significant gap between running the pilot and the start of the series, but BLEACH's pilot was shortly before the series started. If, on the other hand, there was no Zombie Powder, BLEACH could conceivably have been written much sooner.

* Hiramaru = TiteKubo, the only reason he is successful is because his manga is [[PureAwesomeness inherently awesome]].

[[WMG: The final manga that gains Ashirogi Muto an Anime will be a {{poorly disguised pilot}} for the manga author's next manga]]

Well, in both there's supernatural beings who went to humans world following their own interests. What inspired me was definitely [[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/bakuman/c158/10.html this page]]. This troper will bite his ear if it isn't Ryuk standing behind Schwarz...

[[WMG: Nanamine will be the {{Big Bad}} of the series. Muto Ashirogi will write a new manga to challenge him, and after they score higher than him in the rankings, their series will get an anime and Bakuman will end. ]]

{{Rule of drama}}

* [[spoiler:Jossed, Rabuta and Peace already got cancelled.]]

Yeah, it seems a bit soon for me too. I want to kick this guy around for a while. But a) his scheme is already showing cracks worthy of the early fourth act of ''{{Macbeth}}''; b) the TO team is working overtime to rehabilitate November's image; and c) even given the above points, making the cancellation a nice birthday present for Azuki is ''still'' too soon.

[[WMG: Nakai and/or Nanamine will {{Heel Face Turn}} at the end of this arc]]

* Even in universe people notice he is strange and has problems. Although it does not really help that his editor likes playing with his soul to get him to write manga.

* Well, there's no evidence of it since that time (current chapter is 158), and her disease turned to be a bad case of cold or something, so... Keep your hopes up to later chapters, troper.

Eccentric-yet-undeniably brilliant artists with little regard for social etiquette? Check. Seemingly clairvoyant abilities to predict human nature and/or manga popularity? Check. Lifelong compulsion to simply '''produce''' work, with little importance to its actual popularity/social consequences? Check. Affinity for birds? Check, check, check.

* Interestingly, their talents are sort of opposite. Trout produced commercially unsuccessful, badly written short stories brought up only by their penetrating insights of human nature and society - almost all of which were published in pornographic magazines. Eiji, on the other hand, is a wildly successful mangaka who uses his mastery of sequential art to draw exhilarating, but completely shallow battle manga.

* This can be explained by Trout's disillusionment with society. Committing suicide (at one point, Vonnegut kept changing his mind) in the early 90's, around the time Eiji would have been born, Trout would have '''not reacted well''' to life beyond death, and choose to spend the next life as the what he couldn't have been in the previous... a wildly successful manchild.

** You make it sound like the manga's following some enormous amount of {{mangaka}}. Off the top of my head, it's only following Ashirogi, Eiji, Iwase, Fukuda, Hiramaru, Aoki, Takahama, Shizuka, Shiratori and Nakai ''([[YourMileageMayVary if he even still counts]])''. That's 9-10 mangaka, JUMP has space for 20. Most of them have styles that are completely different from each other as well, so it's not really much of a stretch.

Going with the AlternateHistory theory that OnePiece, {{Naruto}} and {{Bleach}} all ended by the start of this series because they started earlier, it follows that Tite Kubo never wrote ZombiePowder, or at least was rejected early on. One Piece and Naruto both had pilots with a significant gap between running the pilot and the start of the series, but BLEACH's pilot was shortly before the series started. If, on the other hand, there was no Zombie Powder, BLEACH could conceivably have been written much sooner.

* Original poster here. A couple of days ago, I reread the first volumes of ''Manga/DeathNote'' and ''{{Bakuman}}''[[hottip:*: (Man, given [[ParanoiaFuel the right]] [[AuthorExistenceFailure frame of mind]], the breezy self-insert romp is about twelve times as depressing as the morally questionable killfest will ever be.)]], and it turns out that ten weeks is the absolute ''minimum'' for a series' cancellation. So I change my theory to the one immediately below...

* PCP will not get an anime adaptation until Jump decides to [[CutShort cancel]] Bakuman. The authors will then [[CosmicDeadline rush]] and make a [[GrandFinale grand finale]] using PCP. Until that day, they will [[LabouringThePoint keep doing]] [[{{Padding}} countless]] [[{{Filler}} side arcs]], like they have been doing since chapter 100.

* Seriously, people, stop playing armchair psychologist to fictional characters. Can't they just have character traits?
** Even in universe people notice he is strange and has problems. Although it does not really help that his editor likes playing with his soul to get him to write manga.

Bear with me here. I was reading the OnePiece wiki's page on the Baku Baku no Mi, the devil fruit that the character Wapol ate. Apparently, Baku is the sound of chomping. If Baku means chomp, Bakuman could mean Chomp Man. Maybe.

** Real life manga appear to be running in Jump, too (Oda exists here, and given that OnePiece is set to last for about 10 years, it'll probably still be running), although I'm not sure how many will be at the date at this point in the story, and there are a few other minor fictitious mangaka, such as Arai (whose series got canceled in the most recent meeting).

* Will be a ContinuityCavlecade

[[WMG: The current manga chapters are based on the Mangaka's experiences with [[DeathNote their last series]] ]]

Seriously, one of the characters has two voices: [[OuranHighSchoolHostClub "ditzy, shouty ham"]] and [[DeathNote "cold, calculating scorn."]] I can't think of any other seiyuu who fills those two roles so neatly.

[[WMG: All characters who are [[{{Expy}} Expies]] of DeathNote characters are based on the same people]]

Appearance-wise, he seems like an {{Expy}} of [[DeathNote Light Yagami]], especially in his more smug and devious moments, and he seems [[PrideBeforeAFall quite full of himself]] [[SmugSnake and his way of doing things]]. Given that Mashiro warned him that his tactics would eventually backfire, and given that the story suggests that editors and writers cooperating on a series is ideal, he will ultimately meet his downfall, and thus lash out at one or more of the following:

* Original poster here. A couple of days ago, I reread the first volumes of ''DeathNote'' and ''{{Bakuman}}''[[hottip:*: (Man, given [[ParanoiaFuel the right]] [[AuthorExistenceFailure frame of mind]], the breezy self-insert romp is about twelve times as depressing as the morally questionable killfest will ever be.)]], and it turns out that ten weeks is the absolute ''minimum'' for a series' cancellation. So I change my theory to the one immediately below...

* The closest this series has gotten to BreakingTheFourthWall is making a couple references to ''DeathNote''. It's one heck of a meta series, but not in such an ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' way.