Bakuman｡/Heartwarming

""Aoki-san, you can still talk with Takagi. In exchange, please be friends with me.""
 * Also in that chapter is when.
 * The Official Couple Mashiro and Azuki take this trope Up to Eleven in terms of romantic heartwarmingness, especially when  With this ship, you will never be short of squee.
 * Even stronger when you realize we're lead to believe that it was Mashiro who liked her first.
 * The exchange between Aoki and Kaya in chapter 66 became one of these (after the misunderstandings were over):
 * The exchange between Aoki and Kaya in chapter 66 became one of these (after the misunderstandings were over):


 * In a recent chapter Mashiro and Tagaki replace Kaya's birthday present to Miho with their own, so when Miho opens the box, instead of Kaya's present, there is Mashiro's present instead, which is a beautifully drawn portrait of Miho. It leaves Miho speechless and Kaya confused as hell.
 * And then Miho prepares a counter-surprise to Mashiro!
 * Chapter 91, so unexpectedly:
 * After Eiji's editor calls him saying Ashirogi's Eiji jumps out of his chair cheering. Then he calls Mashiro to congratulate them and says that he's happy he can consider Ashirogi both a rival and friend.
 * Another fantastic one with Chapter 114. Hiramaru has taken the initiative and
 * There's another really good one with that couple in Chapter 123 that doubles as a Crowning Moment of Funny.
 * In Chapter 20, after Angel Days completely fails, Mashiro and Takagi go to the office to meet with Hattori, and read the comments they received. While many of them criticize the work, they mention that they want the main characters to get serialized, which comforts them.
 * Azuma, an older, burnt-out mangaka and former assistant to Kawaguchi Taro is encouraged to make a one-shot by Hattori after his attempt at using Nanamine's scheme fails. He gets third place in rankings, much higher than anything else he has ever printed out, and along with getting even with Nanamine he says he can now face Taro's grave with pride.
 * Hell, anything involving Kawaguchi Taro qualifies, for some reason. Apart from the two cases mentioned above (Moritaka bringing the graph to the graveyard and Azuma finally being able to let go), the scene where Editor-in-Chief Sasaki pays Ashirogi a visit in Chapter 150, his first reaction when stepping in was to think "it's been twenty years..." It's somewhat YMMV, I guess, but when one thinks of Sasaki having worked with Kawaguchi back then, and him struggling to be impartial when dealing with Ashirogi...one can't help but feel happy for him, especially when he says that he feels he's done all he had to do at Weekly.
 * Chapter 156: Mashiro is falling behind schedule trying to finish both the new chapter of PCP and the first chapter of Reversi. He vows to forgoe sleep until both are complete. Later that night, Ogawa, who has been rehired to work on Reversi, gets up to leave and expects the other asisstants to follow. They don't. They've all decided to keep working for as long as Mashiro does, even if they also have to go without sleep.
 * Chapter 165: After Ashirogi Mashiro texts Azuki with the news. The look on her face is heart-meltingly happy, and instead of texting him back,  Its perhaps the strongest reinforcement of their promise since
 * Chapter 172: Doubling as a Crowning Moment of Awesome,
 * The entirety of chapter 175 feels like this, but the most pivotal moment being
 * Wow, almost a week since the release of the chapter and nobody bothers to mention the final chapter? Chapter 176:
 * And of course, you have the cover (at least in SJ Alpha) for that volume -  It's a cover made of squee and win.


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