Episode 3: Parent and Child

At the apartment, Mashiro presents Takagi with his uncle’s manuscripts and storyboards, then recognizes how relentlessly his uncle worked and resolves to show equal determination. Letters exchanged with a childhood friend end before the uncle’s successful manga begins serialization; a yearbook photograph reveals that the friend is Azuki’s mother, whom he loved. They visit her, learn the feeling was mutual until she fell for someone else, and Mashiro asks her to keep that past from Azuki before beginning his own manga.

Aired Oct 16, 2010