Age: 15 (debut), 25 (end) Birthday: June 25, 1993 Miho's best friend, who is in 9th year, class 2 in the same school as Miho and Mashiro. Though being her best friend, she doesn't know that Miho likes Mashiro. She confronts Takagi about having asked Miho about her dream, given that she had told him, which results into Takagi making her believe that he likes her. This surprises her, given that she likes him and she tells him she'll have to think about it. She and Takagi eventually begin going out. Miyoshi plans to go to Yakusa North High, the same high school Moritaka and Tagaki are planning to go to and eventually does so. She marries Takagi.
Age: 33 at start, currently around 40 Nakai is an assistant for Niizuma. He won a monthly award ten years ago, and has been determined to get serialized since. He is good with backgrounds and angles. Takurou Nakai was an assistant-for-Niizuma-turned manga artist. He won a monthly award ten years ago, and has been determined to get serialized since. He was the artist of Hideout Door, and worked with Aoki Yuriko. After Hideout Door is canceled, Nakai leaves because he is sick of himself and how he used manga for his own personal gain. He returns to manga after Nanamine requests for his assistance. Nanamine's series was eventually canceled and Nakai becomes Hiramaru's assistant.
Age: 31 (currently) Birthday: April 11, 1987 Masakazu Yamahisa is Ryu Shizuka and later, Ko Aoki's editor. He works with Ryo to get mis manga more Weekly Shounen Jump friendly and offers Aoki to work on a manga with romance in it suitable for the magazine. (Source: Bakuman Wikia)
A scientist working for the Gogol Empire, who pursues Dandy for unknown reasons. He resembles a gorilla and wears a G-shaped eye piece over his right eye similar to team Galactic from Pokemon. He also has the belt buckle in reference to Kamen Rider Black. His shoulder contains a shield in reference to the springs from Sonic the Hedgehog. His ship has a ball gagged head of the Statue of Liberty on it. (Source: Wkipedia)
Age: 21 Affiliation: KISS The efficient commander of KISS's front lines. She respects and trusts Vilajulio.
Age: 27 (debut), 36 (end) Birthdate: April 3, 1982 Yuujirou is one of the youngest editors at Shounen Jump and editor of Eiji Nizuma's succesful manga Crow as well as Fukuda's, Kiyoshi Knight and later Road Racer Giri. Yuujirou has difficulty keeping Eiji in line, but prides himself on finding such a talented Mangaka. Due to his success, he later becomes a team leader. While initially arrogant towards Hattori Akira, Yuujirou eventually warms up to him to the point where they meet regularly and exchange ideas as editors. (Source: Bakuman Wikia)
Age: 26 (debut), 34 (end) Birthday: June 18, 1984 Birthplace: Kanagawa-ken, Japan Hiramaru was a salary man that hated working. On hearing Takagi and Mashiro talking about drawing manga on the subway and finding an abandoned copy of Jack, he quit his job to be a mangaka because he thought it would be less work for him. He is a different kind of genius compared to Eiji because he is talented even though he just started to write manga more in of a spur of the moment. After teaching himself to draw manga in a very short amount of time, his manga, Otters 11 is serialized. He is hailed as a genius by Koji Yoshida who pushed for his serialization saying that Hiramaru had no real motivation to continue as a mangaka and failure would just make him quit. Hiramaru is extremely lazy and immediately regrets getting serialized due to the amount of work to keep up a weekly series. He has said that he doesn't know why people have to work for a living and that he wants to sleep when he's tired and to eat when he's hungry. Due to his laziness, his editor, Koji Yoshida, often schemes to manipulate Hiramaru into working. Hiramura often tries to escape Yoshida to avoid working. His attempts to escape Yoshida is a long-running gag in the manga. He is also a chronic hypochondriac and often makes incredible claims of illness. However, he is always proven healthy by the doctors. It's mostly believed that his "illnesses" are not only a product of his own fears, but also serves as an excuse to avoid work. Hiramaru has a huge crush on Aoki Yuriko. Yoshida bribes him into doing work by giving him weekly facts about Aoki. Yoshida also often depicts dramatic scenarios of Aoki rejecting him due to his laziness or inability to produce names to energize him to work hard. Because he can't stand the idea of losing Aoki in his life, a combination of his own anxiety and Hiramaru's end-game scenarios, he works feverishly in hopes his work will earn Aoki's heart. Eventually, he gets engaged to her in Chapter 160.