Bakuman｡/Fridge


 * In Bakuman｡, the first few chapters go heavily into detail about how hard it is getting into manga. How difficult it is to even make a first manuscript, which requires the artist mangaka to draw the characters, backgrounds, effects, tones, sfx, and speech balloons all by themselves. They need at LEAST 3 first chapter manuscripts to even get in the door. If they get serialized, the mangaka gets assistants who help greatly by doing just about everything except the characters and concepts. Why is this so amazing? When you look at how much damn detail is in just the first three chapters. The whole studio from chapter 3 alone pretty much is like Scenery Porn. The brilliance? That the artist had to do all of that by himself. And he sure would know what a good manga studio would look like, being the amazing Takeshi Obata.
 * In Chapter 114,
 * The revelation that Azuki is going to an all girls' school (influenced by her interest in voice acting) falls into a sort of Fridge Horror when you consider that if Mashiro and Azuki had graduated without confessing to each other (or even setting up correspondence like Nobuhiro and Miyuki did), they would never have heard from each other again, losing their last chance to get together, and Mashiro would have lost his greatest inspiration to succeed in the manga world. It's thus quite fortunate that Takagi spoke to Mashiro when he did, midway through their last year of middle school and close to when Mashiro and Azuki would have otherwise parted ways.
 * Fridge Brilliance: In Chapter 149,