Bakuman is Death Note’s creators’ new manga, and it was released yesterday in the Weekly Shonen Jump magazine.

Yesterday was released the English scanlation for this first chapter too by Sleepy Fans Scanlations.

This manga tells the story of Mashiro Moritaka a boy who has a great artistic talent for drawing, and has an uncle who used to be a not very successful mangaka, maybe because of that and the fact that being able of make a live of her artist skills is that he doesn’t want to become a mangaka, instead of it he plans to live a normal life with an office job. In fact, he doesn’t know what he will do with his live.

One day, a class mate named Takagi Akito who has the best grades in the school and the country notices the Mashiro’s talent and ask him to make a manga together but Mashiro refuses. Takagi is very confident in his writing skills and dream with becoming a Mangaka, but the young draftsman cares a lot about the few chances of becoming a successful mangaka.

The plot is completely different to Death Note, and they even mention Death Note manga at least twice in this chapter. The writer/drawer combination looked to me like a the Ohba/Obata one, the ones who write and draw this and Death Note mangas.

I’ll be waiting for the nest chapter that hopefully become available next week.