Bakuman 98

Chapter 98 by kewl0210

Page 1: [The Cover]
Left Text (Black and Yellow): The trajectory of these two
is racing to their dreams!!
Lower Left: Bakuman. [Title]
Opening Color!! [Black text under title]
Celebrate! Commemorating breaking through 2 years of serialization!! [Large yellow text. First sentence is orange]
& a popularity contest is being held!! [This is smaller below the large yellow text. The & is gray]
Right Yellow Starburst: The premier date for the "Bakuman" anime is finally decided!!
Burst on Cover: Celebrate!! 2nd Serialization Anniversary!!

Page 2-3:
Top Right Yellow/Purple: ☆Jump Comics "Bakuman"'s newest, Volume 9 is now on sale with great popularity!!
☆The TV Anime "Bakuman" broadcast day is finally decided!!
Starting October 2nd (Saturday)!! For details, go to Page 6!!
Lower Right White/Red: Cancellation!? Continuation!? There's only a little left until the fated day!!
For the vicissitudes of breaking past the second anniversary, an opening color!!
Title: Bakuman.
Page 98 Handshake and Adjustment
Original Author Ooba Tsugumi
Manga Obata Takeshi
Big Center Text Yellow/Orange: Fiction
---encroaches on reality!!
Top Left Big Text: Congratulations!! Breaking past the 2nd anniversary of serialization!! [2nd Anniversary is bigger than the rest]
Ashirogi Muto: PERFECT CRIME PARTY
Eiji: CROW
Azuki: Aoba no Koro (Season of Fresh Leaves)
Iwase: + NATURAL
Fukuda: Road Racer Giri
Hiramaru: Rakko 11-Gou (Otter #11)
Shizuka: True human
Bottom Left Box: A "Bakuman" Character Popularity Contest is being held!! [Title above box]
Details are on the page after the manga ends!!
For those who vote, there will be a raffle and 100 people will be given a Rakko 11-Gou plush toy strap present!! ["100 people" is yellow and "Rakko 11-Gou plush toy strap" is yellow]
Bottom Left Red: manga continue on Page 15

Page 4:
Box: 8 years ago
Sign: Tanikusa City
Akehi Middle[cut off. Would've said "Middle School"]
Girl: Aiko-san, your results from the academic aptitude test are posted. You're number 2.
I'm number 11... [I may be, in fact, an otter.]
Iwase: Is Jinbou-kun 1st...?
!
Sign: First Year Academic Aptitude Test Results [Edge is cut off]
Top 20 Scorers
1 Takagi Akito 496 Points
2 Iwase Aiko 48[cut off]
3 Jinbou Seiji
4 Abe Bi[cut off]
5 Ai[cut off. I'm basically just guessing that that kanji is 相]
Insert Text: Aiko Age 12
Sign: First Year Academic Aptitude Test Results [Almost all of this is cur off except the bottom]
Top 20 Scorers [Only see the beginning]
1 Takagi Akito [cut off mid-way in "Akito"]
2 Iwase Aiko [cut off mid-way in "Aiko"]
11th Place Girl: Takagi Akito-kun, I heard he's in class 1. I heard he's from Meisou elementary. [Oh yeah. Remember? He went to his elementary school in the last chapter? I got the kanji reading right...]
Guy: Shinbou, even with all that studying you got 3rd, huh?
Shinbou: I do not, I do not. I don't study at all.
Guy: Liar. You spend 4 hours with a private tutor, everyday.
And, all day on Saturdays and Sundays. Your parents are doctors, must be tough.
Shinbou: I ain't be coming a doctor, or anything like that. That's why I go to a public school.
Guy: I know you dropped out of private, too!
11th Place Girl: I hate those types that say they don't study when they do.
Iwase: .......
Bottom Insert: ☆Commemorative Opening Color for breaking past 2 years of serialization!!
"Bakuman"

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Somebody: Awesome, Shuuto! You got first place in the whole school! First!
Somebody: Woah, and you didn't even go to cram school...
Sign: Year 1 Class 1
Insert Text: The days when Shuujin is still Shuuto...
Somebody: It's because you were a kid whose head the god of studying's been forcing it into.
That'd be your mom, right?
Hey, Shuuto, I heard you snapped and hit her.
Shuujin: I did not...
Anyhow, I don't like middle schools that post aptitude test rankings.
Somebody: But, you got first. Shouldn't it be okay, then?
Even though you're always just reading manga.
I guess you get some studying in, too, eh...?
Shuujin: Good high school, good college...... Rather than stuff like that, I've got dreams.----
Somebody: What kinda dreams?
Shuujin: I'm still looking~~~
Somebody: What, you still don't have any...?
Iwase: Rather than stuff like a good high school and a good college...?

Page 6:
[All of the papers say the same thing. Even all the people and the order. But parts are cut off on every one.]
First Year First Period Final Exam
Top 20 Scorers
1. Takagi Akito
2. Iwase Aiko
3. Jinbou Seiji
4. Aida Sukiji
5. Abe Bibi
Iwase: He doesn't even study much, and yet...
This isn't just the spirit of rivalry......
I'm Iwase Aiko.
Shuujin: Eh?
Um...
Iwase: I was 2nd place for the end of term....... Iwase Aiko.
Shuujin: Ah, right.........
Iwase: .........
Shuujin: ?
Iwase: Let's do our best to encourage each other.
Shuujin: Yeah...... Let's do our best.
Aiko: I really got a crush on him.
And, I also wanted to win.
Against Takagi Akito at his best.............

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Miura: Akina-kun, did you hear me?
Iwase: Eh?
......Yes.
Miura: "PCP" is taking us on with a story arc.
この号といい入稿済みの次回を見る限り4話以上のシリーズ
This issue's good. And, from what I saw from the next issue that was sent to press, it's at least a 4 chapter long arc.
Iwase: I think it must be a story Takagi-kun thought of and polished using all he had.
Miura: Yeah, probably. The continuance of his serialization depends on it.............
.........?
What's with that smirk you've had on your face?
If we lose focus, we'll be overtaken. We need to have more serious meetings.
............You don't want to lose against Takagi-kun no matter what, right?
Iwase: Of course.
Without a doubt, Iwase Aiko's original story will win against Takagi Akito's work when he's giving his all.

Page 8:
Box: July 11th. The real deal results for the first chapter of "PCP"'s Akechi arc.
Yuujirou: Oh, all right! "CROW" is 2nd!
Hattori: "NATURAL" 4th...
"PCP" 5th... If we can keep this up and get above them with the end of the arc, it'd be fine, but..........
Takagi: 2nd
4th
5th [Well, all followed by those pictures.]
He said.
Saikou: "CROW"'s doing awesome.
Shuujin: Well, we're doing all we can.
I'm finally getting to making the last chapter of the arc.
Saikou: Ooh, do your bestl!
Box: 1 week later
Hattori: !... "PCP" is 6th......
"Racer" got above us, and right below is "human" and "Seigi no Mikata"... I wonder how much it'll hold with next week's chapter, the 3rd in the arc..........
But, results are results. I can only tell them the way it's going.

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Shuujin: 6th place, huh? We're okay, right?
Hattori: .........Honestly, it might go down one or two ranks next week, too.
This is where doing arcs is hard.
For now, all we can do is speculate, but with the with the 4th of the 5 chapter arc, it'll be going into the final decisive battle, so it should go up.
Then, we'll see what goes with the last chapter......
By the way, is the original script for that last chapter up?
Shuujin: Ah, yeah, just a little more. I'll call you when I finish.
Hattori: Got it.
Shuujin: ........Is this all right? He said we got overtaken by "Racer", with "human" and "Seigi no Mikata" right below us..............
Saikou: It's all right!
This last chapter you showed me before is cool, just like in the meeting. There's no problem.
With this, we'll definitely get above "Racer" and "NATURAL".
Shuujin: You think so?
Saikou: !? What, don't you have any self-confidence?

Page 10:
Shuujin: Of course I do.
Saikou, do you like the Akechi character?
Saikou: !? Obviously. Even an enemy character needs to have charm. And Akechi has charm, so I think we can do it.
Shuujin: Yeah, I guess.............
.............
Shuujin: A... Anyway, I've finished, so how about I show it to Hattori-san?
Phone: *pi*
*pi*
Shuujin: It's Takagi. I'd like you to take a look at the text original story for the last chapter of the arc.
Hattori: What, you finished?
Um, today...... I'm free from 4PM to 6PM, but in case I end up not having time to go over and see it, why don't you fax it to me?
Shuujin: No, in that case, I'll go over there at 4 o'clock.
I want to talk about the development past here, so if I head out now, I'll get there by 4.
Hattori: Okay, see you at 4.
Shuujin: I'm heading over to Shueisha.
Saikou: ..........Okay.
..........

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Hattori: Just like we had discussed in the meeting, you did great. You can give this to Mashiro-kun to make into a name.
Shuujin: Mashiro said so, too..............
Hattori: ? What is it? Do you not like it, Takagi-kun?
Shuujin: ............
It's just that............
"We beat Akechi!" Do you think it's okay to end it with just that................? [The quotation is big/bold]
Hattori: Well we can't have PCP lose, can we? Hahaha.
Shuujin: .........
Hattori: Well, there's still some time before Mashiro-kun makes it into a name. So, you can think about it right up to the end.
The most important thing is to make it the way you think is good. If you adjust it, show it to me again.
Shuujin: Okay, thank you very much. I'll try thinking about it a little more.
5 o'clock, huh.......?
I haven't come here in a while. Why don't I look around a secondhand bookstore, for a change of pace?
Miura: OOOOOH, Takagi-kun!

Page 12:
Shuujin: H...... Hello...
A meeting?
I just finished one with Hattori-san, too.
Miura: Is that so? We just finished ours, too.
Oh, but what it was about's a secret. Right now, Takagi-kun, you're Akina-sensei's biggest rival, after all.
Shuujin: ..........
Iwase: ?
Shuujin: Iwase, could I talk with you alone for a minute?
Iwase: Eh?

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Miura: Ah... Huh? Am I in the way? Well, I think I'll take my leave...
Shuujin: Ah, sorry.
Iwase: Do you want to just talk standing here?
Shuujin: Yeah, that's fine.
Iwase: .............
I heard about the condition for "PCP"'s continued serialization.
And be that as it may, I won't let you surpass "+NATURAL".
Shuujin: Well, you make that plenty clear with that "CROW" collaboration. I'm okay with being canceled if we don't overtake you.
But, I'll never give up on manga...
Iwase: .........I'm definitely not going to lose. So if you lose, you're ending your serialization......
裸で逆立ちして集英社のまわり一周してもいい
Okay, then... If I lose, then how about I stand on my head naked and take a lap around Shueisha?
Shuujin: ............So you can joke, too, Iwase.
Iwase: I'm not joking. That's how sure I am I'm not going to lose this.
Shuujin: .........

Page 14:
Shuujin: Um... Why are you always so stiff around me?
Iwase: !
.........
Why? Well.......
Shuujin: When we were in middle school, you and Kaya... Miyoshi, came to my house. You said it then, right?
Iwase: Wh... Why would you bring up something like that now......
Shuujin: That feeling, even now, is mutual......... I don't hate you as a person.
And also, that you've become my biggest rival as an original author, I'm thankful.
While we're rivals, I think we're comrades in that we have the same will in "Jump".
This time, I'll say it to you.

Page 15:
Shuujin: Let's do our best to encourage each other.
Iwase: Takagi-kun......
Shuujin: See ya. There's no way I'm gonna lose, though.
Iwase: .............
And there's no way I'll lose, either!

Page 16:
Shuujin: I got it, Saikou!
Saikou: What is it!? You jbarely came in the door.
Shuujin: Akechi and PCP are mutually recognized rivals!
It's this.
Saikou: NGA!?
Shuujin: Rivals are good, they raise each other up!
Saikou: ..........
W-Well...... Eiji, Fukuda-san, Takahama-san... All of the authors in Jump are our rivals, but...
Shuujin: If people like Eiji and Iwase weren't around, it'd be boring and we wouldn't have progressed this far!!
Saikou: I guess that's true.
Shuujin: Right now, we're truly battling those rivals!
How can we not make use of it in this work!!?
You know!?

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Shuujin: RIGHT!?
Saikou: Uh, I don't really get it, but I don't doubt that face. Let's go with it!
Shuujin: Okay!
Hang on a bit.
I'm gonna rewrite the end of the last chapter!
Box: And so, Shuujin rewrote the last chapter a bit.
Shuujin: Um... It doesn't end here,
and after this, the three of them are...
Box: And on August 4th that last chapter appeared in combined issue 39-40 magazine which went on sale.
Saikou: You were right to fix it! Akechi's character got a whole lot better!
Kaya: Yeah! And Mashiro, your pictures are the best they've ever been, too!
Shuujin: Right!?
Box: Our goal for right now is to get above "NATURAL".
Since Akechi entered the series, "PCP" was 5th, 6th, 7th, and then 6th, while "NATURAL" stayed fixed at 4th.

Page 18:
SFX: Shuh...
SFX: Hyuuuu
SFX: Pan papan
SFX: DOOON DODON PAPA PAA
[I figured it's worth putting these SFX in even though I usually skip them in this manga.]

Page 19:
Akechi: ........."If we launch them at the sandbox"........
To this kind of childish trick password, I...
I've completely lost...
! I mean, since the watermelon showed up in the school lunch, they had it planned out this far...
Phone: Untitled [Top in the black]
Advanced crime notice, I'll feel I have won emotionally.
Suika Purin Ikura[These are the romanizations of the words written in the middle with the big spacing.]
(Watermelon, Pudding, Salmon Roe)
Akechi-kun, surely you really want to stop and expose us this time? [Just copy this whole thing from how it was arranged in the last chapter]
Akechi: Dammit.....
!
Phone: *Bubububu*
Akechi: A text... It's him...!
Phone: Untitled [top]
We are the 3 person team, PCP. We had fun battling you. In your case, we don't mind revealing ourselves.
We're standing
right behind you.
If you want to know who we really are,
turn around. [I dunno why they're ending lines in places like that, but I'm just trying to format it similarly]
Akechi: .........
!

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Akechi: I... I'll expose your identities myself........
For certain, I will........

Page 21:
Akechi: Could you tell me one thing, though?
"We are the 3 person team, PCP." I think I know up to "Perfect Crime"...
But, what's the last "P"?
Can: Voice Change [Like, written on the can.]
Sound: Shu... [The sound coming out of it.]
Makoto: PARTY!!
It's PERFECT CRIME PARTY!!
SFX: DODOON
Akechi: PARTY, huh?
Thank you.
SFX: PAA DON
Insert Text: Along with the sounds of fireworks... The spirit of rivalry blazes!!
Bottom: PXP
...CRIME 24
/ End

Page 22:
Miura: ..........
This last scene's cool... Their pride as rivals clash... And Akechi doesn't turn around.
Yoshida: Doing five chapters to raise it to this high a climax at the end, I knew I understood the way Ashirogi-kun made things.
Miura: Okay, I think I'll try having Takahama-kun make a bit longer arc, too.
Yuujirou: But the big question here is whether it can surpass the Niizuma works.
No way it'll happen with CROW.
Miura: .............Because they were in 6th last week, right...? What I'm worried about is "NATURAL" being overtaken...
Yuujirou: Maybe you should be worried about "Racer", and how it was in 5th last week, that same race is about to come to its climax.
Miura: Don't forget that on average, "Seigi" is higher than "Racer".
Yuujirou: What was that!? You'd better overtake "CROW", first.......
Miura: I will overtake it. With "NATURAL".
Yoshida: Well, don't get too heated. It's good for young authors to fiercely compete with other in the high ranks, isn't it?
Yuujirou: Well, I guess that's true.........
Somebody: A work in those high ranks getting canceled or anything like that is unheard of.
...........

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Box: Friday, August 8th
Shuujin: It's the fated day... I wonder if we'll get ahead of "NATURAL", or not.
Saikou: .........
Shuujin.
Shuujin: Hm?
Saikou: If we can do it this time, it means we really made it.
Shuujin: Yeah, but if we don't make it here, I won't have any regrets.
Saikou: ......Yeah.
Shuujin: If it's no good, and we get canceled, then we just write the next one.
!
It's here! The decision!
Insert Text: Is the ring of the phone the fanfare of victory!? Or the requiem of failure!?
Bottom: Bakuman
...Page 98 / End