Full-time cartoonist

At night, when the time came to 11 o'clock in the evening, Takasugi Kazuya's parents went to bed early. He quietly opened the living room door and sat down in front of the TV.

Kazuya Takasugi suddenly felt a sense of excitement about doing bad things that he had never felt before.

Looking at the empty living room, his eyes became brighter and brighter.

"It turns out that the living room looks like this late at night. It's really fresh!"

The corners of his mouth turned upward.

With nervousness and excitement, Takasugi Kazuya carefully turned on the TV, turned down the volume, and dialed TV Asahi.

At this time, the TV station is in commercial time, and there are still 10 minutes left before "Comic Comic Hiyori" will start.

"What do I need to prepare?"

He remembered Hijikata's words, of course instant noodles should be used with instant noodles.

So he carefully went to the kitchen and closed the door tightly.

The sound of the kettle boiling water became louder and louder, and the steam made the lid of the kettle bang.

Takasugi Kazuya felt more and more uneasy, and the thought that his mother would rush forward kept popping up.

He had a sense of precarious danger.

Fortunately, after 2 minutes, the hot water was boiled.

He took out the instant noodles from the cupboard and carefully soaked them. When I came to the living room, there were still three minutes before the animation started, which was exactly the time to wait for instant noodles.

"It turns out that Tokyo is also so brightly lit at 11 o'clock."

Looking out the window, Takasugi Kazuya couldn't help but be stunned.

This was a scenery he had never known before.

As his mother's good boy, he goes to bed at ten o'clock at the latest.

There were still many people busy at eleven o'clock in the evening, which he had not expected.

"Tori Akino-sensei must be working too." Takasugi Kazuya sighed as the evening breeze blew.

Three minutes passed and he suddenly woke up. He returned to the sofa and sat down. He had just waited for the instant noodles and the animation started.

As the opening song that he couldn't understand played, Takasugi Kazuya was speechless, "This kind of art is still too advanced..."

Thirty seconds later, he saw the name of the animation script, and it was indeed "Tori Akino Mirai".

"It's really Tori Akino-sensei's work..." Kazuya Takasugi was stunned.

Because Tori Akino Mirai appeared, he thought about it carefully. He seemed to have an impression of the names of the supervisor and original animator he saw before, and they were members of Musashino Animation Club.

"I see," Takasugi Kazuya suddenly realized, "No wonder Tori Akino-sensei would help."

He understood this work as social practice.

The name of this episode of "Comic Manga Hiyori" is "Oku no Hosomichi".

Kazuya Takasugi also knows a lot about the "Oku no Hosido".

After all, it is a running script written by the famous Japanese haiku comedian Matsuo Basho.

"It turns out to be an animation commemorating this work."

Sitting cross-legged on the sofa, Takasugi Kazuya became interested.

Akino Tori likes to add poetic elements to his works, such as "Man'yoshu Raijin Tanka" in "The Garden of Words".

This can add a sense of weight to the work, which Takasugi Kazuya doesn’t dislike.

"How will Tori Akino-sensei deal with Master Matsuo Basho? He must be a highly respected wise man."

He thought as he picked up the instant noodles, blew on them twice, and started eating them with a slurp.

"It really tastes better."

He simply picked up the instant noodles, watched TV, and picked up another chopstick of noodles.

"In the second year of Genroku, the famous haiku artist Matsuo Basho took his disciple Zeng Liang to the north and entered the "Occult Thin Path" journey..."

"Pfft! Cough cough cough!"

Takasugi Kazuya choked on the noodles, and then coughed violently. He put down the instant noodles and covered his mouth with his hand to reduce the noise.

But because of this, noodles spurted out of his nostrils.

"Ahem!" His nose felt so hot that it hurt.

Enduring the pain, Takasugi Kazuya blew out the noodles and felt better.

"It turns out he is the type of prankster..." He gained experience.

Looking at the scene that appeared with the narration in the animation, Matsuo Basho was scratching the ground with his hands, about to fall into the cliff, with tears hanging from the corners of his eyes, showing no dignity at all.

His disciple Zeng Liang was playing with the birds at this time. I don't care about the teacher's situation at all.

Takasugi Kazuya looked at the instant noodles and fell into deep thought.

In the end I didn’t dare to eat anymore.

Matsuo Basho made an appointment with his disciple Zeng Liang, but after waiting for three hours, Zeng Liang arrived late.

Because I went for a walk.

Their status was immediately revealed.

Zeng Liang entered the entrance hall and said he smelled a strange smell.

Basho defended himself in every possible way, and Zeng Liangcai followed him into the living room.

"Ah, ah, it's true, it's a funny animation. But the contrast is still quite interesting."

Zeng Liang came to the master's house and wanted to leave impatiently. Basho sighed that he was afraid of young people and went to make tea for him. When he returned to the living room, Zeng Liang was already lying down and reading a book.

"Wow, this is Nobi Nobita's action of reading a comic magazine, right?"

Although he already understood the style of the work, Kazuya Takasugi still exclaimed in surprise at the unconventional and unconventional plot.

Basho told Zeng Liang to show him something "embarrassing" before leaving him.

So I took out the treasure that my parents had never seen - his umbilical cord.

"Then what do you have to say? Basho-san!" Zeng Liang had no expression on his face, closed the box, and hit Matsuo Basho's umbilical cord away with all his strength.

He seemed calm.

The shy Matsuo Basho exclaimed.

"Wow!"

Then he explained, "Actually, I came to you this time to invite Zeng Liangjun to travel with me..."

At the same time, the box where Basho kept his umbilical cord kept rebounding, and finally hit him in the forehead.

Matsuo Basho's defense was broken.

"But let's forget it..."

Covering his bleeding forehead with a handkerchief, Basho had tears in his eyes and felt extremely aggrieved.

"Looking at how reluctant you are to come today and slap open Master's umbilical cord with an expressionless face, I'm sure you won't agree..."

Zeng Liang said seriously: "How would you know if you didn't ask? Please don't make your own decisions for me!"

Basho instantly became excited, "Then...you want to go with me?"

"That's out of the question."

Zeng Liang drank tea and said coldly.

"Pfft hahaha!" Takasugi Kazuya couldn't help laughing.

It seemed particularly noisy in the empty living room.

He immediately covered his mouth and finally lost himself in the story.

He didn't notice the sound of turning on the light in his parents' bedroom.

"Beast!" Basho was angry.

He shed tears: "That's fine. I'm going to the Northeast this time. I have no one to rely on. The journey is difficult and there are many hardships. Maybe it's the right thing not to go..."

"Eh? What did you say?" Zeng Liang was stunned, "How many hardships have you endured?"

In his mind, Basho was hit by a shuriken, stepped into a trap, had his head bitten by a crocodile... and other tragic scenes, so Zeng Liang said: "I'd better go with you."

Takasugi Kazuya was relieved. Although he kept saying bad words, Zeng Liang still cared about his master Matsuo Basho.

But……

"There are some things I want to witness with my own eyes." Zeng Liang said.

"Well, that's it." Kazuya Takasugi said expressionlessly, "So you want to see Basho's miserable situation live! Are you so sinister, Zeng Liang!"

He picked up the bucket of instant noodles and ate it in big mouthfuls.

Before the animation ended, the instant noodles had not been touched much.

"This work is really interesting. It's called "Comic Comic Hiyori". I haven't seen such a funny cartoon in a long time."

Takasugi Kazuya thought.

Moreover, watching cartoons secretly at night was really exciting, and he couldn't help but want to do it a few more times.

"Suck, suck, suck, suck." The sound of him sucking instant noodles filled the living room.

At this moment, the lights suddenly came on in the dark living room.

The instant noodles were still hanging on his lips like a beard. Takasugi Kazuya looked up blankly, trying to force out a smile, "Mom."

"Quiet! And, go to bed!"

Mrs. Takasugi's scolding caused the sensor lights in the building opposite to light up.

Suddenly, the silent night became lively.

…

In the morning, Higashikata came to the classroom after morning exercise.

As soon as he put down the book, he was startled by Takasugi Kazuya behind him.

"What are you?" Dong Yexiang asked hesitantly: "You went to steal someone at night?"

The other person's eyes were bloodshot and had dark circles, and he looked like he hadn't slept all night.

"Of course not," Takasugi Kazuya shook his head firmly.

"Higashino-san," he asked excitedly: "Is "Comic Comic Hiyori" your work?"

"You know?" Higashino raised his eyebrows, and then replied, "I did participate."

"It's really interesting! I watched the episode "Oku no Hosomichi" and it was very...well, unconventional. But it’s very fresh! Takasugi Kazuya gave a thumbs up, "If you release DVDs in the future, please be sure to sign them for me!" "

"Of course there is no problem," Higashino Hibiki replied. He carefully looked at the dark circles under Takasugi Kazuya's eyes, "So you have insomnia because of "Hiyori"...?"

"...There are factors in this regard..." Kazuya Takasugi smiled sarcastically.

…

Musashino Animation Company.

President Yuko Asahina sat in the main seat with an expressionless face, and the members of "Mirai Club" sat on both sides, waiting seriously for her to speak.

On the left of Asahina is Chiharu Minami, and on the right is Hibiki Ozawa.

The two of them held the reports and looked like elite members of society.

"As the popularity of 'Hiyori' spreads, more and more viewers know about 'Hiyori'," Minami Chiharu said, "so the ratings have increased. "

She drew a table on the blackboard, and with the swishing sound, the lines rose based on the 0.1% rating.

"It can be clearly seen that the ratings of each episode are higher than the previous episode. In the episode "Oku no Hosomichi", it exceeded 11%, which can be said to be a significant effect. "

After she finished speaking, there was thunderous applause.

"It went really well."

"I thought it was going to be an ordeal."

"It just happened naturally and it became a hit!"

the staff cheered.

"But now there is a problem." Ozawa raised his index finger, "We lack employees responsible for administrative responsibilities."

He glanced at Amano, Gao Xueji and others. In the animation club, everyone is a technical talent, but there is no manager for negotiation.

"A DVD publisher contacted us," Ozawa said, "to cooperate in the distribution of the CD of "Comic Manga Hiyori". Who thought he could handle the negotiation work?"

Suddenly, everyone in the room looked at each other and became cold.

Ozawa thought as expected.

He was the one who handled the original cooperation with the Agricultural Cooperative. No one in the animation club could help him, and it ended up being a mess.

This cannot be allowed to happen again.

He looked at Minami Chiharu, "What did Tori Akino-sensei say?"

Minami Chiharu spread her hands, "Higashino-kun said to leave it to us..."

"But," she gritted her teeth, "I will find a manager! I have the right person here."

Ozawa breathed a sigh of relief. Finally, he was not the only one struggling.

After the matter was settled, Asahina slapped the table and stood up. Under the expectant eyes of everyone, she said:

"Meeting dismissed."

…

"It turns out that "Comic Manga Hiyori" is the work of Tori Akino-sensei." Banri Tada exclaimed, "This is my favorite cartoon in a while."

The conversation between Higashino Hibiki and Kazuya Takasugi attracted the attention of others.

""Hiyori"? It's that very funny animation, right? I've been watching it recently too! It's so funny that I can't stand it."

"Tori Akino-sensei's work? I will definitely read it!"

Many people gathered around Higashikata Hibiki.

Dong Yexiang became distressed.

Today's class was finally over. Hibiki Higashino and Akimiya Akemi walked side by side towards the teachers' dormitory.

"It's been really hard lately," Akimiya Akemi rubbed her shoulders.

Not only do I need to deal with the work of "Slam Dunk", but now I also need to be responsible for "Go Revolution".

In her spare time, she also creates comic storyboards.

One person can't wait to divide it into two people to use.

Dong Yexiang raised his hands and looked around. There were too many people around him.

Suppressing his desire to rub her shoulders, Higashino put down his hands.

After returning to the dormitory, the assistants had not arrived yet.

When Higashino Hibiki was in class, they finally managed to take a break, and Hibiki didn't rush them.

He walked to the balcony, looked out the window at the students and teachers in twos and threes, and closed the curtains.

After Akimiya Akemi took off her shoes, she sat on the sofa and smelled her feet, and immediately turned away in disgust.

"Wearing stockings affects breathability," she lamented.

At this time, he noticed that Higashino Hibiki had closed the curtains. Akimiya Akemi complained: "The sun is perfect today, why are you closing the curtains? And you have to work soon."

Higashikata walked up to her and pressed her shoulders with both hands, "Don't worry about work. I'll give you a massage. You've been working hard for a while."

"Thank you," Akimiya Akemi closed her eyes and felt Higashino Hibiki's strong hands.

"Well, this is it, ah~ it's so comfortable."

Higashino Hibiki has never learned massage, but the effect is surprisingly good.

Akimiya Akemi felt that her stiff shoulders relaxed, and her whole body was so soft that she was about to collapse on the sofa.

Sudden……

"Snapped."

She hit Hibiki Hibiki's hands with her right hand.

"Are your hands pointing too far down?"

"I'm sorry," Hibiki Higashino replied, "Because the dream is there and I really can't help it."

Then he became honest.

Five minutes later, Higashikata opened the curtains.

…

At four o'clock on Friday afternoon, Sasaki called.

"Xiao Zheng ranked first in "The Great Go Revolution"."

As a follow-up work to "Soul of Chess", this result is normal.

But Higashikata breathed a sigh of relief.

He was really worried about the unpopularity of his work. After all, this is the first time he has created content himself.

Although drawing on what will happen in the future.

After hanging up the phone, Hibiki found Oda a little distracted.

There is nothing wrong with the work under his hands, but his eyes are dull and he is just working mechanically.

"Oda-san?" Hibiki called out, "Are you not taking any rest? The work has been too hard recently, I'm sorry."

"Sorry," Oda came back to his senses, "It's my own business."

He smiled bitterly and nervously took out a brown paper bag from behind.

"The short comic I created was finally drawn..."

The results of what I learned in Hibiki Higashino's studio will be seen soon.

That's why he was so absent-minded.

Even if you are confident about Oda, it is understandable that he would be like this at this stage.

"Please! Teacher Tori Akino!" Oda bowed and handed out the brown paper bag with both hands, "Please take a look and give me some inspiration."

"……good……"

Higashikata took it solemnly.

Is this short story... the beginning of "One Piece"?

He suddenly felt like he was about to face a legend.

Oda's light can no longer be hidden, he will shine and create his own era.

Sitting down on his seat, Hibiki carefully took out the manuscript.

The name of this short comic is "Romance Down", which means the beginning of romance.

The hero of the story is Luffy.

He took over the Devil Fruit worth 5 billion berry and his grandfather's straw hat from the great pirate grandfather, inherited his grandfather's will, and became a pirate.

Hibiki's expression became strange, and he kept complaining in his mind, "It turns out that Garp is a big pirate..."

It feels extremely inconsistent.

Oda looked at Higashino Hibiki's distorted face, and his heart became even more uneasy.

After a while, Hibiki Higashino finished reading "Romance Down".

This short story must be the prototype of "One Piece".

It features many characters from "One Piece". Although the heroine has a different name, she looks like Nami.

Sanji, Kirby and others all appeared.

With a sigh, Higashino looked up and saw Oda's crying face.

"What's your expression?" Higashikata asked subconsciously.

"What's the result? Teacher Tori Akino?" Oda asked.

Dong Yexiang pondered.

"Interesting." He finally nodded.

"Long live!" Oda jumped up!

He gave up his studies in his first year of college and chose to enter the comics industry.

He was also worried about becoming a gambler, but now he feels more confident when faced with this evaluation.

"Elaborate." Oda looked at Hibiki Hibiki expectantly.

"Ahem," Dong Yexiang coughed and pulled his throat.

"Oh! I know." Oda ran quickly to the kitchen, and after a while, he stumbled back with mineral water.

Higashino Hibiki put the mineral water aside, "I want to drink hot water now."

"Understood." Oda nodded and ran to the kitchen again.

Akimiya Akemi shook her head, she rolled her eyes at Hibiki Hibiki, "You're going too far, why are you torturing Oda-kun like this?"

Higashikata sighed with emotion: "If we don't use him anymore, we will have no chance in the future."

"Ah?" Akimiya Akemi was surprised. She looked at "Romance Down" and asked, "Is this short story exciting?"

"Yeah," Higashikata nodded.

Not long after, Oda came back. He diluted the water with mineral water until it was warm enough to go into his throat.

Dong Yexiang took the water glass, took a sip, and put it aside.

Oda didn't care, just like an Akita dog, circling anxiously next to Higashino Hibiki.

"Is there anything else? Please tell me."

"Okay." Dongye cleared his throat.

"Devil fruits, pirates, dreams, partners, treasures..." he listed them all. "All the settings combined make it a really wonderful comic."

The core of "One Piece" is here, and Luffy is setting sail.

Dongye Xiang glanced over and could only sigh.

"It will pass the serialization meeting," he assured, "I have no doubt about it."

"Okay!" Oda cheered!

Hisashi Yoshiiyama and Tanaka congratulated Oda. Today, Tori Akino Studio is still peaceful.

…

The gears of the times are turning, and Hibiki Higashino is looking forward to the arrival of another era.

Oda has already started. I wonder how Kishimoto and the others are progressing now?

Kyushu Sangyo University.

Masashi Kishimoto is about to graduate.

""Rurouni Kenshin" is still very interesting." He read the manga leisurely without any sense of urgency.

"Such an interesting samurai manga really hit me in the heart of wanting to create samurai themes. No matter what, I can't surpass this work."

He believes that "Rurouni Kenshin" has reached the limit of its subject matter.

"The game setting of this issue of "Yu-Gi-Oh!" is very boring." He sighed again.

Kishimoto actually doesn’t understand why Takahashi Kazuki often switches game content.

I just got into it, and it’s an unfamiliar game again.

In this way, the threshold is very high.

After all, understanding how to play the game also requires working the brain.

Comic readers sometimes just want to find a way to relax.

"It would be nice to specialize in one game, but in this case, the core settings of "Yu-Gi-Oh!" will be lost. It's really hard to make a choice."

Kishimoto admires this brain-burning creative method, but it is also a bit thankless.

"Next is..." He opened the comic, ""The Soul of Chess"."

At this moment, the phone rang and Kishimoto answered it.

Finally, I learned about Oda’s creation of “Romance Down”.

On the phone, the other party proudly expressed Tori Akino's opinion on Mirai, thinking it was a work that could be serialized.

At this moment, it was handed over to the editor. The editor thought that it could be published in "Akamaru Jump" for a try.

If the effect is good, I will draw the storyboards for the first three episodes of the series, and then there will be the series meeting.

It can be said that although he is still far away from serialization, he has already taken a solid first step.

Kishimoto congratulated him repeatedly, and he was very envious in his heart.

After hanging up the phone, he looked at the comic magazine in his hand, feeling a little uninterested.

"Serialized."

He had no hope at all.

"Robot" won the Comics Award, which also allowed him to see his limits.

With his current ability, he simply cannot serialize works on Jump.

It still takes some time to practice.

As for this period of time, Kishimoto couldn't see how long it would take.

"Alas." He closed the comic magazine and sighed.

…

On Monday, Morimichi Yamamura looked at a comic magazine.

Naturally, he couldn't let go of the follow-up content of "Soul of Chess".

The previous short story "The Soul of Chess" moved him for a long time.

""Go Revolution" has a lot of freshness in the style of the original work." Yamamura sighed. He had just climbed out of the bottom of the valley and saw Tori Akino's new creation in the future.

But instead of feeling the blow, he became even more motivated.

The content of this episode is naturally the online chess game between "Master" and "Shindo Hikaru".

With chess players from all over the world watching, the game began.

In the layout stage, Kondo Hikari used the improved Shusaku-ryu.

Behind him, Zuo Wei appeared out of thin air. With the selection of his fingertips, Zuo Wei's folding fan also landed on the same position on the chessboard.

"Is that you? Zuo Wei."

Kondo Hikari looked at the "Master"'s moves with bright eyes.

The "Master" piece falls on the upper right side of the chessboard.

"Point three-three!"

"Eh? Just click three-three at the beginning?" Xiaoguang was stunned. Then fell down.

He understood that "Master" could not be Zuo Wei.

This weird way of playing does not belong to the past or current style, so it cannot be Zuo Wei.

He began to get down listlessly.

The opponent's moves are placed up and down from the challenger's perspective.

Because the starting point three and three is a coward's move. It only occupies one corner and gives up the wider world.

"This is "Master"? "Taya Liang also stood up, and the result of this chess game was already obvious.

But as the layout deepened, Shindo Hikaru's expression became more and more serious.

The idea he was starting to think was wrong.

"Master" shows off his edge.

After the layout was completed, Shindo Hikaru discovered that the opponent in front of him was simply watertight. Although he was walking on thin ice, he moved very steadily.

The opponent's calculation speed and derivation ability were simply superior to his.

Like a robot, no fluctuations.

And due to the advantage of 1.33 at the beginning, "Master" is more efficient than him.

At the final stage, Shindo Hikaru calculated for a moment, and he lost...

So I pressed the admit defeat button.

At this moment, he is so similar to Taya Yuhiro!

Many years ago, Taya Yukihiro lost to "sai" online, and now, he also lost to "Master".

Shindo Hikaru was not depressed. He breathed a sigh of relief and saw a broader future behind Go.

…

"The protagonist loses at the beginning?"

As the intense chess game ended, Yamamura became unhappy.

Just like in "Dragon Ball", when Sun Wukong became invincible on earth, the Saiyans arrived.

Shindo Hikaru also lost to the others at the beginning.

What Yamamura wants to see more is the story of Shindo Hikaru being invincible in the world.

Although this style of wanting to promote before suppressing is understandable, it makes Shancun's Taoism feel like it's stuck in his throat, which is very unpleasant to watch.

"The 30-year-old Shindo Hikaru should be at the peak of his life."

A thirty-year-old chess player who is a core chess player in Japan

There are countless people who are in their 50s and 60s.

Therefore, Hibiki Higashikata's peak Shindo Hikari is highly recognized by Yamamura.

"Big change?" Yamamura was stunned. He suddenly thought of the title of the short story.

"Is this weird way of playing a major revolution in Go?"

So it is understandable that Shindo Hikaru, who was the pinnacle of Go before the revolution, lost.

"But just like that, can you call it a big change? There must be more to it!"

However, the manga has only entered the second chapter, and no more details have been revealed.

Yamamura began to look forward to it, "If this change is not big enough, don't blame me for spraying you, Tori Akino."

Meanwhile, countless readers thought the same thing.

What medicine is being sold in Tori Akino's gourd?

Thanks to the QAQ800 point reward for the account of Haoohmiao.

After reading a reader's comment, the animation ratings were too high. I did some research and found that there was indeed a problem.

The information I checked before was for 11 o'clock, so the ratings were generally around 10. By 1 o'clock, it's usually 1 to 2.

I'll adjust it and change the time to play at 11 o'clock.