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An average student in his third year of middle school. Mashiro decides to become a mangaka alongside his classmate Takagi following his proposal to his love interest, Miho, under the team pen name Ashirogi Muto.

 

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Tropes associated with Moritaka:

== Akito Takagi ==

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Mashiro's classmate and the smartest student in their class. Takagi comes up with the idea to become a mangaka with Mashiro in order to do something more interesting with his life.

 

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Tropes associated with Akito:

== Miho Azuki ==

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Mashiro's love interest and fellow classmate, who aspires to become a voice actress, specifically for Mashiro and Takagi's anime. Miho agrees to marry Mashiro once they both achieve their dreams.

 

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Tropes associated with Miho:

* [[Hime Cut]]: With a curved fringe instead of a straight one, as is usually the case.

* [[Hollywood Tone Deaf]]: She ''can't'' sing, despite the insistence of talent recruiting agencies for her to do so. [[Irony as She Is Cast|Ironically]], [[Saori Hayami]] is praised as one of the best singers of her generation of voice actors.

** She gets better, later on, and sends Mashiro some of her songs on a disk.

* [[In-Series Nickname]]: "Azukyun" {{spoiler|and later "Abazureyun"- "Abazure" means "bitch" in Japanese- to people [[Yoko Oh No|angered by her relationship]] with Mashiro}}

== Kaya Miyoshi{{spoiler|/Takagi}} ==

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Miho's best friend and Takagi's eventual girlfriend. {{spoiler|Now his wife.}}

 

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Tropes associated with Kaya:

* [[First-Name Basis]]: With Miho, and later with with Takagi after {{spoiler|getting married to him}}. Around the time she {{spoiler|gets married, and takes on Takagi's family name}}, Mashiro starts calling her by her first name, too.

* [[Gag Boobs]]

'''Takagi''': Yeah, it's hard to look away from your boobs bouncing like that. }}

* [[Genki Girl]]

* [[Inelegant Blubbering]]: Very prone to this.

* [[Love At First Punch]]: With Takagi.

'''Takagi''': Just shut up and hit me!!! ''(she does so)'' }}

* [[The Pollyanna]]: In comparison to Mashiro and Takagi, at least. She's always the one with the best-case scenario in mind, and gets upset whenever Mashiro enters [[The Eeyore|Eeyore]] mode.

'''Takagi''': That's the way he is. }}

* [[The Promise]]: Takagi and Miyoshi will only get married once Mashiro's and Takagi's manga becomes serialized.

== Nobuhiro "Kawaguchi Taro" Mashiro ==

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Moritaka's deceased uncle, who, like Moritaka, had hoped to marry his childhood love interest after becoming successful himself, but by the time he felt secure in his career, she was already married. After his first series ended, he was unable to follow up with another, and died from overworking himself while deep in debt. This caused Moritaka to abandon his desire to become a mangaka until he met Takagi, confessed to Miho and learned how hard his uncle had worked.

 

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Tropes associated with Nobuhiro:

* [[Nerd Glasses]]

* [[One Degree of Separation]]: Most editors who have been in the manga industry for at least 10 years prior to the start of the story have met him, and virtually everyone else has heard of him. When you consider that the main character is his nephew, it's quite easy to link people to him.

* [[Personal Effects Reveal]]: He told Moritaka about his relationship with his crush, but going through his office reveals that the person he was in love with was Miho's mother.

* [[Posthumous Character]]

The author of Crow {{spoiler|and now Zombie Gun. He is also the artist for Natural}}. He sees Ashirogi Muto as his primary rivals. Unlike Takagi, who plans what he writes based on what he can do and what is popular, Eiji writes whatever comes to mind.

 

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Tropes associated with Eiji:

* [[Country Mouse]]: Well, Aomori (the city in Hokkaido where he comes from) isn't exactly a small town, but it's pretty "country" compared to Tokyo - he even admitted to getting a bit off-put with the bustle of the big city (to the point he's actually afraid of taking the subway).

* [[The Cuckoolander Was Right]]: Whenever he's asked to give an analysis on other manga, he's pretty spot-on, as when he predicted the result of the Golden Future Cup in Volume 4 (the one where Mashiro/Takagi, Fukuda and Aoki/Nakai competed together).

* [[Curtains Match the Window]]

* [[Gratuitous English]]: Another part of his speech.

* [[Insufferable Genius]]: Quite arrogant at first, but becomes somewhat humbler and better at interacting with other people over time.

* [[Mangaka]]

== Aiko "Aiko Akina" Iwase ==

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The second smartest student in Mashiro's and Takagi's class. Iwase has an initial one-sided rivalry with Takagi that eventually develops into feelings for him. She eventually becomes a mangaka and writes Natural+.

 

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Tropes associated with Aiko:

* [[The Only One Allowed to Defeat You]]: In regards to Takagi.

* [[Serious Business]]: ''Everything'' she takes an interest in becomes like a competition to her, especially where Takagi is concerned.

* [[Tall, Dark and Bishoujo]]

* [[Teen Genius]]

The author of Otters 11 and later, You Can't Reach Me, who got started as a mangaka after picking up an issue of Shonen Jump and quitting his job to do manga. He realizes that being a mangaka is more work than he thought, but his editor manages to manipulate him into keeping motivated.

 

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Tropes associated with Kazuya:

== Takuro Nakai ==

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An assistant who has considerable experience drawing, but has been unable to get serialized for years. He also has the goal of getting a girlfriend, and is attracted to Aoki. {{spoiler|He ultimately alienates Aoki by offering to draw for her if she will be his girlfriend, turns Kato, another girl whom he's interested in, away from him after that comes to light, and loses his position as assistant after Takahama's series gets canceled. He ultimately decides to return home to Akita. However, he later comes back as Nanamine's new "super-assistant," until he was fired for accidentally driving away what remained of Nanamine's online correspondents. He is now Hiramaru's asisstant}}.

 

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Tropes associated with Takuro:

* [[Mangaka]]

* [[Oh Crap]]: Gets this when things go wrong, particularly when {{spoiler|he sees Aoki [[Pinky Swear]] with Hiramaru}}.

* {{spoiler|[[Put on a Bus]]}}: {{spoiler|Returns home and decides to quit manga forever, but could return, since he's not exactly happy with his new life.}}

** {{spoiler|[[The Bus Came Back]]}}: {{spoiler|On chapter 123.}}

* [[Spanner in the Works]]: {{spoiler|Goes to Nanamine's assistants and tries to tell them the truth about the rankings in an attempt to prevent the series from being canceled, but ends up alienating the few who remain}}.

* [[Yank the Dog's Chain]]: {{spoiler|In Chapter 128, a young girl offers to be a model for his portraits and allows him to take her home...only for it to be revealed that it was a bet between her friends to see if he was desperate enough to follow her.}}

 

The author of Hideout Door, and later, The Time of Green Leaves and The Gift God Gave Me. She initially appears quite cold, and is largely distrusting of men, but after opening up, reveals herself to be a kind person.

 

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Tropes associated with Yuriko:

== Shinta Fukuda ==

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Initially one of Nizuma's assistants, he writes Kiyoshi Knight and later, Road Racer Giri. He sets out to change Jump, and forms "Team Fukuda".

 

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Tropes associated with Shinta:

* [[Nice Hat]]

* [[No Indoor Voice]]: Sometimes.

* [[The Promise]]: His goal is to change Jump, particularly the voting system and how the rankings affect placement in the magazine.

* [[White-Haired Pretty Boy]]

== Akira Hattori ==

 

 

The main characters’ first editor, who helps them with their first submissions. He gets replaced by Miura after Detective Trap is first serialized, then returns to being their editor after Perfect Crime Party is serialized. After {{spoiler|PCP moves to Hissou Jump}}, Hattori becomes their editor for their manga Reversi.

 

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Tropes associated with Akira:

* [[Trickster Mentor]]

* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: In the middle of the series, he was the Blue to Miura's Red.

* {{spoiler|[[Shipper on Deck]]: After knowing the situation of Mashiro's engagement with Miho, decides to cheer him on.}}

* [[Verbal Tic]] / [[Signature Laugh]]: "Ha ha ha." He only has it in the first volume he appears (2); the first few pages of volume 3 tone it down until it's completely dropped in the same issue.

 

== Goro Miura ==

 

Mashiro and Takagi’s editor for Detective Trap and Tanto, and also Takahama’s editor. {{spoiler|He later becomes Iwase’s editor}}. Has an affinity for gag manga.

* [[It's All My Fault]]: He believes that he failed to notice Mashiro’s declining health, and is to blame for his hospitalization {{spoiler|and Trap’s cancellation}}.

* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: Red oni to Hattori, as he shows a broad spectrum of emotion, from excitement to anger to depression.

 

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== Editor In Chief Sasaki ==

 

The current editor in chief of Shonen Jump and was Kawaguchi Taro's editor when he was alive. {{spoiler|Becomes Editor-in-Chief of Hissou Jump in Chapter 150.}}

* [[Vitriolic Best Buds]]: Happens to be his relationship with Hiramaru in the end.