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Bakuman. Manga's TV Anime Confirmed for Fall 2010 (Update 3)
posted on by Egan Loo
2010's second issue of Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine is confirming on Monday that a television anime adaptation of Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata's Bakuman. manga has been green-lit for fall of 2010. It will run on the NHK-Educational channel. More details will be provided in future issues of the magazine.
Source: News Paradise
Update: Kenichi Kasai (Honey and Clover, Nodame Cantabile, Sweet Blue Flowers) and Noriaki Akitaya (episode director on Nodame Cantabile, Honey and Clover II, Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion) are directing the animators at J.C. Staff. Reiko Yoshida (Kaikan Phrase, Maria Watches Over Us, The Story of Saiunkoku) is supervising the scripts. Source: Mainichi Shimbun's Mantan Web
Update 2:Mainichi Shimbun's Mantan Web reports that the anime will be 25 episodes long.
Update 3: NHK Anime World's website has opened a page for Bakuman.
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