Full-time cartoonist

Two weeks later.

On the cover of "Weekly Shōnen Jump", there is a boy with messy red hair, tall and burly body, as arrogant as a delinquent, wearing a basketball uniform.

His name is Sakuragi Hanamichi.

The title of this book, which won the title page for the first chapter, is "Slam Dunk".

Yamamura-Arai Studio.

On Friday last week, Morimichi Yamamura handed over the plot of the next chapter of "The Sun Murder Incident" to Mr. Arai in writing.

I am retreating to conceive the plot of my next comic book.

Yes, he also has plans to prepare a new series.

Because of the reader base, this time it is still a mystery comic.

Having learned the lessons from the last serialization, this time the new comic is written more in line with the style of the comic serialization, and the story direction is also closer to young readers.

On this basis, 5 unique props were set to add a sense of mystery and expand the scope of the frame.

In short, he is confident.

Yamamura is preparing to compete with "Slam Dunk" in half a year.

On Monday morning, he went to a nearby convenience store and saw a lot of people queuing up. He thought they were buying breakfast. He continued walking, only to find out that they were buying "Weekly Shōnen Jump".

"Eh? What's going on?" Yamamura was confused.

"The jumps on the shelves are sold out," the waiter next to him told him. "The store manager has gone to the warehouse to get them. Please wait a moment."

"Thank you." Yamamura nodded and moved to the end of the queue in confusion.

He felt very strange, "You have to queue up to buy jump..."

In front of him, a high school student turned around and said, "Because everyone wants to see Mr. Tori Akino's new work as soon as possible."

Yamamura's expression became serious.

He lowered his head, his eyes flickering.

"Tori Akino...is he already so popular?"

Thinking about my own "Sun Murder", which is still ranked 5 to 9, I feel like time is running out for me in the mountain village.

Clenching his fists, "I want to serialize it quickly too!"

Not long after, the store manager came back. After Shancun bought the jump, he went home.

"The first chapter is the front page. The editorial department really values ​​him."

Yamamura couldn't wait to turn to "Slam Dunk" and started reading.

…

The protagonist of "Slam Dunk" is Hanamichi Sakuragi, a freshman at Shohoku High School, a man who has confessed to him fifty times but failed.

Sakuragi is a delinquent boy who formed the Sakuragi Legion with his four bad friends Mito Yohei, Ohkusu Yuji, Noma Chuichiro and Takamiya Nozomi.

The girl who recently confessed that he likes Oda, a member of the basketball club, made Sakuragi hate basketball so much.

At this time, a cute girl named Akagi Haruko appeared. Because Sakuragi is tall, he mistakenly thought he played basketball.

Because of the appearance of Haruko, Sakuragi began to yearn for basketball, or wanted to contact Haruko through basketball.

Later, Sakuragi learned that Haruko liked a boy named Rukawa Kaede, who was very handsome.

Due to some misunderstandings, Haruko mistakenly thought that Sakuragi was fighting with Rukawa Kaede, so she blamed Sakuragi.

The misunderstanding was resolved, and before Haruko was about to apologize to Sakuragi, Sakuragi was hit too hard and clashed with Takenori Akagi, the captain of the Shohoku basketball team, and a basketball duel started between the two.

…

"Tori Akino has changed his previous style," Yamamura thought, holding his chin with his hands after reading.

"The protagonist has become a bad boy, irritable, irritable, and loves to fight. The story also has funny elements added to it."

"Will this be popular?"

It is difficult for Yamamura Morimichi to predict the results of "Slam Dunk", which is not his type.

"I thought it would be a movie about a protagonist who dreams of playing professional basketball and works hard."

He shook his head and decided to continue observing.

…

Tokai University, Japan.

Kyoko Akagi went to the basketball gym.

Sure enough, I saw Hua Chao practicing shooting.

"Damn it! This bastard Hua Chao!"

As his name suggests, Mr. Ba Chang has a long face. He has never been in love since he was a child and has never been popular with girls. He is extremely envious of Hua Chao for having a beautiful girlfriend.

"Your girlfriend is here," he said unhappily from the side: "Why don't you go and spend some time with her?"

"Why do you want to accompany her?" Hua Chao said with a strange expression, "It's obviously time to practice basketball now."

The horse field kept silent.

Could it be that I was too attentive to girls in the past? So they don't cherish it. Maybe it will be much better if they change the way.

He decided not to lick the first-grade Li Zi, the second-grade Ayou, the third-grade Haru Fei, and the three senior students in the fourth grade.

Half an hour later, Hua Chao's whole body was covered in sweat. He panted rapidly and walked aside to rest.

Akagi Kyoko quickly took out a towel and mineral water and walked over and handed them to him.

"Thank you, Xiangzi."

After Hua Chao said that, he drank all the mineral water in one breath.

"It's okay." Xiangzi's eyes narrowed when he smiled. After seeing that he was almost rested, he said, "Have you read Tori Akino's new comic? It's the "Slam Dunk"."

"Well," Hua Chao nodded, and when he heard Tori Akino, he became interested, "Higashiya's new comic, just like he said, is about basketball."

"I should be the prototype of Sakuragi Hanamichi and Rukawa Kaede."

"Tall, red-haired, and not good at talking."

"Akagi Haruko's prototype is Xiangzi Zhen, and the painting is exactly the same."

Akagi Xiangzi was stunned. Are you not good at talking?

"Akagi Haruko and I are different, she is a nymphomaniac, I just like you as a person." Akagi Kyoko said flatly.

She is just a beauty-controller, definitely not a nymphomaniac.

"Xiangzi," Hua Chao's big hand stroked her head, making Akagi Xiangzi close her eyes happily.

At the horse farm nearby, the envious teeth are almost broken.

"Will the results of "Slam Dunk" be very good?" Hua Chao asked, with confusion and fear on his expression, "I don't read comics and I don't understand comics. If Dongye's results are not good because of me, then... I’m so sorry for him.”

They met in the gym that day. He hadn't seen Hibiki for a long time. He was so happy that he asked Hibiki to draw a basketball cartoon.

Now, Hibiki Higashino actually drew a basketball cartoon, which made Hanasa uneasy.

"If it's Tori Akino-sensei, it will be fine." Kyoko Akagi comforted him, "I couldn't stop laughing when I read this comic. It will definitely be liked by many people."

"Are you talking about "Slam Dunk"?" Bacha came over and said: "There were no basketball-themed comics on Jump before, because there were too few people who liked basketball. So..."

He hesitated and said: "Even Tori Akino might make a mistake..."

As he spoke, Baba saw Akagi Kyoko glaring at him and immediately understood that he had said the wrong thing.

"Ah ~ another 50 baskets!"

He played dumb and ran to the basket.

…

On Friday, Sasaki arrived at the teachers' dormitory.

"Of course Xiaozheng ranks first," he said.

A new work by a popular author, with overwhelming publicity and front page, there is no reason why it would not win first place.

"The age and gender ratios are very normal, and they are average on Jump."

"Anyway, it's not clear yet whether it's popular or not. It'll take some time."

Dong Yexiang nodded, "Yes."

In "Slam Dunk", he consciously increased the tempo in the early stage, and the plot developed faster.

Some of the bad fights have been reduced, and some of the funny plots have been reduced.

So there are also some unclear feedbacks.

Afterwards, Higashino Hibiki handed the manuscript of the third episode to Sasaki.

"Please find me another assistant."

The working hours of "Slam Dunk" are much longer than those of "Soul of Chess".

Let’s not talk about the body lines, let’s just talk about the background, which is enough to tire Oda.

Basketball games are indispensable without spectators, and there are still a lot of spectators.

At a glance, they are all heads.

Sometimes I have to zoom in and draw four or five people.

These take a long time to conceive and draw.

The two assistants with art skills were fine, but Oda was a little unable to keep up with the progress.

"Oda has lost two pounds due to fatigue. It's so pitiful." Hibiki Higashino continued.

"Yes." Sasaki nodded, "I will contact you right away."