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Whenever someone shouts 'Takeshi Obata!' at you, you'll scream 'Hikaru no Go!' at him, whenever someone screams 'Ohba!', you'll scream 'Death note' and ofcourse, you'll tell him about Bakuman, a great manga from the same artists who made famous manga like the one I told you before.

Bakuman is a great manga, I'll tell you 'bout the story, art, characters and my personal enjoyment:

Story
Bakuman tells the story about two boys(Moritaka 'Saiko' Mashiro & Akito 'Shujin' Takagi) who wish to be mangaka. Where Takagi is a award winning student as wel as a beginning novelist there is Mashiro who's just 'an ordinary kid' who always wanted to ... be mangaka, and luckily his uncle was one...
In class Mashiro forgot his notebook, as soon as he notices he walks back to school, where he finds Takagi, with his notebook in his hand, Takagi noticed Mashiro's drawings, and asks him to become mangaka together.

+ Great storyline
- A little to fast pased


Art
I didn't expect anything else from Obata, The art isn't perfect, but it made progress which I didn't expect as soon as the second chapter came out. And the colour pages shouldn't be forgotten...

+ Obata's stylish character designs


Characters
2 Boy's who follow their dreams, is there any bad thing about that? Yeah, there is, only one thing in my opinion: Mashiro(The drawing artist) is a little bit shallow, but that's only his 'waiting for his dream to come out before his marriage' part

+Nice developping characters


Enjoyment
Bakuman is a fun manga for almost everybody, it got some humor, many jokes on other anime/manga in it. And a splendid storyline. A manga where one week isn't hard waiting for.

+ Fitted for almost everyone

.Hack//Sign is a single part in the Project .Hack franchise, one that combines novels, manga, TV anime and OVA's to form one grand narrative with characters and events happening not only chronologically, but simultaneously as well. The review below is written from the franchise point of view, and as an standalone anime.

The general consensus of Hack//Sign is that the story's boring, there is almost no action and it doesn't make fast progress. While some of these points are quite true, the story is one of character development and interaction. The viewer learn more about every side character through their interaction with the rest of the ... cast, their surroundings and gradually helps move the plot. The plot is one of clashing and matching personalities, driven by mysteries.

.Hack//Sign, The story:
+ It's detailed
- It does feel slow at times

Then, we have the art, fun scenery's and great character designs do give you the feel of an online game world that was actually thought out (see the games .hack//IMOQ and .hack//Frägment). The animation however, is quite sloppy and the characters themselves aren't drawn very detailed.

+ The art does create the illusion of an actual MMORPG
+ Great and original character designs

Then we have the Sound, if there was an option to give it more then a ten out of ten, then I would choose it. The compositions by Yuki Kajiura, are in my opinion, what lifts the anime up from a meagre 7 to a 10. With an enormous array of songs and tunes, Yuki adds depth to the art and the story, giving it time when the characters need time and hypes the viewer when it's going down.

+ Yuki Kajiura's music is truly a work of art

The characters of .Hack//Sign are gamers, and thus some try to act online like someone they aren't. Some take their offline situations into the game and some try to forget them instead.
Complex emotions and double personalities are just some of the things you can find here.

+ Character actually have character progress without it being important to the main storyline