Overview
Mashiro changes the character design while Takagi struggles with naming the 3 characters and a possible new title. Orihara comes back as assistant + 2 new ones: Moriya and Shiratori. Those 2 argue if sales or treating it like an art is better for a manga. Mashiro tells them he and Takagi draw with sales in their minds, because they're not yet good enough to draw something that has true cultural value, saying that everyone should draw the way they want to. Takagi decides on the title; "Perfect Crime Party", aka "PCP". Meanwhile Fukuda is working on Road Racer Buchigiri. Everyone is curious how the votes will be with PCP as a story based manga against the intense and flashy Road Racer. In the end "Perfect Crime Party" gets 1st place and gets a total of 422 votes, amazing the editors because CROW "only" got 401 and +Natural 310 votes on their first chapter. The achievement is especially good since CROW didn't have a one shot like Road Racer to compete with at the time. Fukuda's Road Racer gets serialized too. Hearing +Natural dropped to the 8th place, Iwase gets fired up, as does Niizuma. At the end Mashiro, Takagi and Hattori visit Mashiro uncle's grave. Mashiro tells him he finally got 1st place and we see his uncle 'answering' that it should be a given and that when he truly becomes number one, he should come back again, but he smiles proudly.
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2 - 1Silence and Party October 01, 2011 -
2 - 2Anthology and Photobook October 08, 2011 -
2 - 3Window and Snow October 15, 2011 -
2 - 4Support and Patience October 22, 2011 -
2 - 5Comedy and News October 29, 2011 -
2 - 6Disease and Drive November 05, 2011 -
2 - 7Life-and-Death and Standstill November 12, 2011 -
2 - 8Recall and Call November 19, 2011 -
2 - 9Resumption and Low Rank November 26, 2011 -
2 - 10Gags and Serious December 03, 2011 -
2 - 11Manga and Youth December 10, 2011 -
2 - 12Experience and Data December 17, 2011 -
2 - 13Alliance and Classmates December 24, 2011 -
2 - 14Unfaithfulness and Trust January 07, 2012 -
2 - 15Monkeys and Marriage January 14, 2012 -
2 - 16King and Savior January 21, 2012 -
2 - 17Special Relationship and Hometown January 28, 2012 -
2 - 18Complaint and Roar February 04, 2012 -
2 - 19Fate and Star February 11, 2012 -
2 - 20Love and Rejection February 18, 2012 -
2 - 21Selfishness and Advice February 25, 2012 -
2 - 22Hint and Best March 03, 2012 -
2 - 23Winning and Losing March 10, 2012 -
2 - 24Imagination and Presentation March 17, 2012 -
2 - 25Votes and Charts March 24, 2012