Team Fukuda In Bakuman

Team Fukuda is an unofficial group of Mangaka in Bakuman anime spawned by Shinta Fukuda. He is refered to as defacto leader since he brought the group together. The team consists of the following members:

Eiji Niizuma 

Eiji Niizuma is a manga creator prodigy who won the Tezuka Award at age 15. He moves from Aomori to Tokyo to work on the serialization of his manga Crow on the condition that he gets the right to cancel any series in Weekly Shonen Jump after becoming the magazine's most popular author. Nizuma is eccentric and has a variety of odd quirks, like constantly pronouncing sound effects while he draws and speaks, working to the sound of very loud music, and appearing most of the time with drawing quills tucked into the back of his shirt's collar, resembling small wings. Despite this, he has a keen eye for truly talented manga artists just by analyzing their work, and is a good judge of character. He works under the direction of the Weekly Shonen Jump editor Yujiro Hattori. His favorite manga is Doraemon.

Ashirogi Muto 

Ashirogi Muto is a pen name used by Moritaka Mashiro and Akito Takagi. It was created by Kaya and was originally created so that no one at their high school would know they were creating manga. The name comes from combining the Japanese characters for "dream" and "come true"(Muto) along with Azuki (A), Mashiro (Shiro), and Takagi's (Gi) names. It means that their dreams are going to come true (Mashiro and Takagi getting an anime and Azuki voicing the main female character in the anime). After their dreams come true Mashiro and Azuki will get married.

Shinta Fukuda 

Fukuda first appears as an assistant for Eiji Nizuma. He received an honorable mention when he tried for the Tezuka Award. He becomes friends with Mashiro and also competes with Ashirogi in the Gold Future Cup with his original manga Kiyoshi Knight. Fukuda then gets serialized and is an aspiring rival to Ashirogi, Nizuma, and Nakai, going on to achieve considerable popularity with his following series, the motorcycle racing-themed Road Racer Giri. Among them, he is considered to have the worst drawings, though that they often border on grotesque apparently matches his stories. His favorite manga include romantic comedies To Love-Ru, Strawberry 100%, and I"s.

Takuro Nakai 

Nakai is a former assistant of Eiji Nizuma's. As a manga artist, he won a monthly award ten years before his introduction in the story, and has since been determined to get serialized and find a girlfriend. He is good with drawing backgrounds and angles. He originally started as an assistant for Eiji Nizuma and then turned into an assistant for Ko Aoki, whom he was attracted to, for Hideout Door. Once the serialization ended, he confessed his love for Ko but was rejected. He is later employed as Hiramaru's assistant, being manipulated by Mr. Yoshida. His favorite manga is Kimagure Orange Road.

Ko Aoki 

Aoki is an aspiring female manga artist who joins Jump to work on a fantasy shonen manga. Prior to her new genre, she worked for Margaret magazine in shojo manga. Her real name is Yuriko Aoki and she is a graduate student studying literature at the same university as Aiko Iwase. After Hideout Door is cancelled, Aoki resolves to return to shojo, although she is later convinced to stay on working for Shonen Jump. She works on the serialized series The Time of Green Leaves, and she does her own drawings with assistance from Fukuda. She and Hiramaru gradually develop a relationship, which eventually leads to them getting engaged. Her favorite manga is Kimi ni Todoke.

Kazuya Hiramaru 

Hiramaru is introduced as a 26-year-old manga artist who quit his office job to draw manga after he picked up Shonen Jump one day for the first time in his life and decided that drawing manga would be far less troublesome than office work. Hiramaru is easily overwhelmed and finds it hard to deal with the stress of writing manga, having initially believed that being a manga artist would be an easy job. He sometimes hides in the other manga artists' studios. His editor manages to persuade him to continue by offering to help him get closer to Ko Aoki. Due to his success, he has been called a manga genius possibly on the level of Eiji Nizuma, especially considering his inexperience and relative lack of interest in writing manga.

Aiko Iwase 

Iwase is a former classmate of Mashiro and Takagi's during junior high school. She assumes she and Takagi are a couple because he took her hand and accepted her statement of inspiring each other, although Takagi assumed she meant as academic rivals. She reappears as a student at To-Oh University along with Ko Aoki. Under the pen name Aiko Akina, she writes her first novel while in University, which she expects will impress Takagi. However, Takagi's refusal to say that novels are better than manga angers Iwase, who decides to write a manga for Shonen Jack to prove her superiority. Her writing and plot are praised as very well made and she is the writer of +Natural. Her favorite manga is Adolf ni Tsugu.