Moritaka Mashiro
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The main protagonist of the series. He follows in the footsteps of his late, manga artist uncle, who loved a classmate (the mother of Azuki Miho) from afar, but never got the chance to tell her so and later died from overwork. He is fond of his classmate Azuki Miho, who wishes to become a voice actor. To avoid becoming like his uncle, Mashiro accidentally proposes to Miho. She accepts, stating she will marry him after they achieve their dreams. However, they must not see each other until then. Mashiro then decides to team up with another classmate, a talented writer named Akito Takagi, and try to get published and have an anime adaption of the series. He is a talented artist, but is highly dissatisfied with his drawings. He is often called Saikō (サイコー ?) by Takagi, whom he calls Shujin as they are alternate ways of reading their names.
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[edit] Appearance
He is medium sized and pretty slender. He has blue hair and is often times found sitting like the character L Lawliet of "Death Note", the author and artists other manga series.
[edit] Personality
[edit] Working With Takagi
[edit] Akarmaru Jump
He and Takagi made Money and Intelligence for Akamaru Jump, which eventually published it. It was their first manga to be published. They got first place in the early results, but they only got third place in the final (real deal) results.
After the drop in the ranking for the manga, Mashiro and Takegi decided to make a manga that was more mainstream, as opposed to going for a cult hit.
[edit] Editing Crow Chapter 5
[edit] Breaking Up
[edit] Golden Future Cup
[edit] New Years Party
[edit] Detective Trap's Serialization
Moritaka has been working extremely hards while Detective Trap is being serialized. He has been getting less and less sleep and he finally collapsed. He was taken to the hospital after that. He is diagnosed with a liver infection which requires surgery. Mashiro wants to keep working while he is in the hospital so that the Trap won't have to go on hiatus, whereas everyone else believes that his first priority should be to get better. Mashiro tries to convince Takagi to bring him his materials, but Takagi decides to call Azuki to see if she can convince him to stop working. Azuki goes to the hospital the next day and begins talking to Mashiro from outside his room.
[edit] Manga
Originally, Mashiro and Takagi work on cult manga; they then decide to make a battle manga instead. Afterwards, they begin work on a detective manga. Detective Trap was first submitted for the Golden Cup competition in Weekly Shōnen Jump and tied for first with Kyoshi Knight. Later it is chosen in the first serialization meeting after the competition for Weekly Shōnen Jump. Its first chapter got third place, its second place got 8th place, and its third chapter got 9th place, but after that it started getting better results.
