Bakuman Season 3 Episode 7 2012
Yoshida wants Hiramaru to aim his manga, Never Reaching You, which placed 2nd in the Super Leaders Fest for a serialization. Hiramaru reluctantly agrees so long as he can go on a tea date with Aoki. Suspecting that Yoshida may be pulling the strings behind the scene, Hiramaru and Aoki to turn off their phones so they can't be disturbed. When Yoshida realizes this, he goes after them but is sent on a wild goose chase through the city. Takagi, Mashiro and Fukada deduce that Hiramaru went to the tea shop he wrote about in his manga. They chase him and Aoki to a pedestrian bridge where Yoshida tries to convince him to keep drawing because he is a true genius that comes around every 2-3 years. Hiramaru goes to confess to Aoki, but Yoshida tries to talk him out of it because he will be crushed if he is turned down. However he goes ahead with support from Mashiro, Takagi, Miyoshi and Fukada, to which Aoki accepts.
- Released: 2012-11-17
- Runtime: 25 minutes
- Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama
- Stars: Saori Hayami, Ayako Kawasumi, Ayumi Fujimura, Nobuhiko Okamoto, Satoshi Hino
- Director: Tsugumi Ohba, Takeshi Obata, Kaori Yamada
- Source: Layarstar
