Age: 24 (currently) Birthday: June 9, 1994 He is an assistant to Ashirogi Muto when they publish Perfect Crime Party. He is a year younger than Mashiro and Takagi. After he became a finalist in the Tezuka Award he decided to drop out of design school and concentrate on manga. Moriya seems polite but it is revealed in his thoughts he has a very negative view on others. He can be quite snippy at times. Moriya believes manga should be about the art and creativity, and you shouldn't worry about popularity because you won't get anywhere if you do. (Source: Bakuman Wikia)
Nakai and Aoki Ko's editor. He is also a Captain, meaning he gets to sit in on the serialization meetings.
Age: 42 (debut) Miyuki Haruno is Miho's mother and the woman Mashiro Nobuhiro loved. She also loved Nobuhiro but could never say it. She later married someone else. She would watch Superhero Legend with Miho when she was younger. Nobuhiro's hero, in Superhero Legend, is based on their relationship. It is about a hero, Masculine Fantasy, who falls in love with a princess and wants to be the best hero ever. The princess confesses her love to him, he yells at her, then she slaps him and leaves. She wants Mashiro and Takagi to be successful mangaka. Haruno looks very young despite her age and wears her hair in ringlets. She bears a strong resemblance to her eldest daughter, Miho, especially when Haruno was younger, looking almost exactly like Miho. (Source: Bakuman Wikia)
Age: 19 (debut) Takahama was one of Ashirogi Muto's assistants, along with Ogawa and Kato, for Detective Trap. He did the figures, both sketches, and inks. Miura said he was the best artist of the new assistants he was in charge of. Originally, Takahama seemed very unsocial and didn't talk much at all. However, after coming to respect Mashiro's work ethic as a mangaka, he reveals his ambition to work at Disney and spends several nights discussing manga with Mashiro and Takagi. He seems to be very enthusiastic about his manga, and grows frustrated with Miura after he feels that he is not letting him make the manga he wants. He respects people for their ambition and work ethic, as shown when he states that he has little in common with Ogawa and Kato because they are just happy with being assistants. Later on, he get his own manga, "Business Boy Kenichi" (Seigi no Mikata), which centers around solving legal cases. He eventually makes his way to the single-digit rankings, garnering only a few votes below or above of Ashirogi Muto several times over the course of his manga career and becoming a major character in the series. Eventually, he, too, joins Team Fukuda. When Niizuma announced his intentions to end Crow, Takahama is among the mangaka to oppose him. Takahama tries to prevent Niizuma from ending Crow by writing a captivating court case in his manga where a close friend of the main character is placed under false charges and the main character must prove his innocence. Takahama only manages to land second place, however, but expresses optimism at getting second place for the first time. (Source: Bakuman Wikia)
Yasuoka is Fukuda Shinta's assistant for his series Kiyoshi Knight. He helps Fukuda come up with ideas, and for every good idea he comes up with Fukuda says he will pay Yasuoka 3000 yen. He and Fukuda get along well. He is a young man with a red mohawk and ear peircings. He is very excitable and motivated, and is constantly moving. (Source: Bakuman Wikia)
Tokimi is one of three beings known as Chousin - higher-level dimensional beings, the other two are her sisters Tsunami and Washu. All three sisters had wrestled for countless millennia over one question - was it possible that a being more powerful than themselves can be created. While Tsunami and Washu took separate paths to find out that question, Tokimi had remained in the Chousin's home dimension. With the assistance of the guardians of other dimensions, D3 being one of them, she manipulated random subspace fields to find out if doing that was possible. She had also enlisted others in her quest, like Dr. Clay. One of those manipulations had produced promising results: during a space battle, the being known as Z had gained immense power, which included the Lighthawk wings. In order to study him more closely, Tokimi had taken Z as her servant. However, she had found that Z was erratic and hot-headed; most likely he would destroy the universe is left unchecked. So she continued her quest until a message from Dr. Clay had led her back to her departed sisters... and someone they were watching, someone else who also had the power of the Lighthawk wings - Tenchi Masaki. Intrigued, she ordered Z to observe Tenchi but not to interfere. Z, however, saw Tenchi as a threat to him, and initiated steps to have the boy killed, but made it appear to look like someone else had did it. He had altered a message Mihoshi had sent to her family, which her grandfather Minami had sent her brother Misao to kill Tenchi. But when that plan failed, Z took matters into his own hands, the end results having Earth nearly destroyed and Z fighting Tenchi near Saturn. It was just as Z was about to strike a fatal blow when Tokimi finally intervened. However, Z was also prepared. He had enlisted the aid of a being known as 'The Counter-Actor', which had two forms - a red ring which had surrounded Tenchi, preventing Tokimi from offering aid to him. Later, when the rest of the Chousin sisters were called upon to contain Tenchi's out-of-control energies, the Counter-Actor took a different form - a demonic version of Empress Misaki, and in this form, the Counter-Actor strangled Tokimi. However, Tenchi was able to regain control of his power and calmed the Counter-Actor before Tokimi was killed. Later, when Misao and Minami Kuramitsu and Mashisu were called by Mikami Kuramitsu for their part in trying to kill Tenchi that Tokimi showed another form... that of a small child. Tokimi had to leave in order to set right abnormalities in the universe, but returned to the Masaki home just in time for the wedding of Nobuyuki and Rea Masaki. Tokimi also used her powers when it was discovered that some of Noike's cells were tampered with... they all had the logo of Dr. Clay on them. The source of this was that within Noike was the little girl that had haunted her dreams. Tokimi had removed the girl from Noike and Washu removed Dr. Clay's tampering. It also turned out that the little girl was actually the discarded female half of Kagato. After it was done, Tokimi returned her to Noike. It is uncertain if Tokimi will remain with the Masaki clan. (source: Absolute Anime)