Full-time cartoonist

At the end of June 1997, "Slam Dunk" serialized the plot that readers had been waiting for for a long time - Hainan vs. Xiangbei.

Takehiko Orimo of the Toyota Basketball Team bought the magazine early during morning practice, but he was not like other readers who couldn't buy it and jumped around anxiously.

Because of the Japan Basketball League in April, he has not read "Slam Dunk" for a while.

In fact, it has something to do with his work.

Professional basketball players always lack the shocking effect when watching high school level games.

Except for the words about Mitsui Shou's resurrection from the ashes, he didn't feel any excitement.

What the Xiangbei basketball team pursued was to enter the national competition, and he easily achieved it that year. He even led the scoring in his senior year.

Orimo Takehiko University made up for the regrets of high school and won the national championship.

Therefore, this book "Slam Dunk", apart from the fact that it promoted the development of Japanese basketball, made him very happy, and rarely gave him big emotional ups and downs.

However, being able to reminisce about the past made him miss the years when he was exposed to basketball, so he didn't give it up.

Looking at Sakuragi Hanamichi who was dunking on the cover of Jump, he opened the magazine and saw that Jump's first comic was "Slam Dunk".

…

Kiyota Nobunaga, a newcomer from Hainan, is a Sakuragi Hanamichi-like character.

Full of self-confidence, he carelessly calls himself the number one rookie in Kanagawa. He has good jumping ability and abundant physical strength.

And like Sakuragi Hanamichi, he regards Rukawa Kaede as a competitor and often plays tricks.

The comic didn't wait long before the competition officially started.

It started with a jump ball. Takenori Akagi, who is 197 centimeters tall, had an advantage and easily hit the basketball racket to Miyagi Ryota.

At the same time, Rukawa Kaede occupied a favorable position before the Hainan basketball team could react.

Miyagi quickly passed the long ball, the basketball passed through the crowd, and with a "pop" sound, it happened to be in the hands of Rukawa Kaede!

This is Xiangbei's fast break, so fast from the beginning.

"Oh, the transmission is so beautiful." Takehiko Orimo nodded. Judging from the level of a high school student, it was quite remarkable.

With no one to defend him, Kaede Rukawa quickly sprinted toward the Hainan basket with the ball. He jumped high and wanted to dunk when he was still far away from the basket.

"Slam dunk!"

The audience shouted excitedly!

But at this moment, Mu Shen jumped up and blocked Rukawa Kaede's slam dunk.

At some point, he ran to the basket to defend.

Seeing that Shohoku's attack failed, Rukawa Kaede quickly passed the ball backwards, which happened to be where Mitsui Hisashi was.

With Mitsui's strength, he is very likely to hit a three-pointer!

However, Ichiro Shen of the Hainan basketball team intercepted the ball in time, and they began to counterattack!

The momentum begins to reverse, and the Hainan Basketball Team has the ball! Xiangbei quickly returns to defense!

Their basket was empty, and Kiyota Nobunaga was the closest person. Kamizou Ichiro shot the ball fiercely!

Nobunaga Kiyota ran towards the Shohoku basket, chasing the basketball.

Seeing this scene, Sakuragi Hanamichi's eyes were about to burst.

"Damn it! Don't run away, you wild monkey!"

As he said that, he also chased after him.

In the astonished eyes of countless people, Sakuragi Hanamichi, who was far away from the basketball, was shortening the distance step by step by virtue of his height and physical strength.

When the crisis at the basket was extremely high, Sakuragi Hanamichi raised his head high and actually held the basketball in his arms!

"What!"

"too exaggerated!"

This speed and jumping ability are really terrifying.

Coach Gao Tou of the Hainan basketball team stood up in shock.

Yingmuhua got a lot of limelight, although it was a violation to walk with the ball next.

The king Hainan, which has been winning for 16 years, faced the dark horse Xiangbei. The audience thought it was a one-sided game, but they did not expect it to be a battle between the dragon and the tiger, with twists and turns.

Neither side gave in to the other, and the competition was fierce.

The stadium is like the eye of a typhoon, attracting the attention of the audience.

The game has just begun, but the atmosphere in the audience is completely on fire!

Such a wonderful game is something you only encounter but cannot ask for!

Readers are attracted by the competition, and the fast-paced and dazzling content makes them unable to stop.

"What a great painting!" Orimo Takehiko's eyes widened.

Unlike those readers, he was impressed by Hibiki Hibiki's painting skills.

I didn't think about it in detail at all, I just followed it and the scene just now was in my mind, as if I had really watched a basketball game!

This is too difficult to do.

Just like a battle scene, some cartoonists can only draw a stream of consciousness, but the audience doesn't see it. How on earth is the fight going on? Suddenly there were results.

In some works, all the important shots are drawn, and the connections are smooth step by step, so that the readers can also take part in it, and their minds are filled with thrilling fights while breathing rapidly.

Using comics to bring readers movie-level enjoyment is something only a few cartoonists can achieve.

"Tori Akino-sensei is really amazing!" Takehiko Orimo was impressed.

The reason why Hibiki Higashino is able to do this is related to his realistic painting style and being an assistant at Akira Toriyama's studio.

Akira Toriyama is a true master in this aspect, a person who can be encountered but cannot be sought.

so……

"Stop bothering me!" Akira Toriyama said painfully: "I have said everything I need to say, and I have no reservations!"

"Thank you, Mr. Toriyama," Hibiki nodded and said, "I just don't understand one thing. How to draw the muscle lines of the feet more realistically? How to use the blank space in comics after several intense rounds of battles? ? And when breathing violently, how thick should the auxiliary lines of the body shake be drawn?"

"Hey! Toriyama-sensei! Hey!"

Toriyama Akira quickly hung up the phone, speechless.

"It seems that in the new plot, Tori Akino is under a lot of pressure."

I had never bothered him like this before.

"Is it because we have reached a critical point? Or is it because of my new work?" Akira Toriyama thought.

He picked up Jump and slowly and carefully watched "Slam Dunk".

Every line was spared and it was not over until five minutes later.

"Isn't this great?"

Akira Toriyama smiled.

…

The phone sounded busy, Dong Yexiang slapped his mouth and hung up the phone.

"This Toriyama-sensei, it's true." He shook his head and sat back at the work table.

The updated content of "Slam Dunk" consumed a lot of his energy.

It is very difficult to draw a hearty and exciting game, and every frame must be thought of.

Background, characters, rhythm, blank space...

Everywhere has its use.

Which frame is the key point, how many scenes should be used to describe this place, his head is going to explode thinking about it.

Comics are not only about memorizing plots, but drawing is also a very important part.

In the match between Shobei and Hainan, Higashino Hibiki strived for excellence and suffered a lot.

Asking Akira Toriyama was part of it, and part of it was to vent my emotions.

"It's so hard for me."

…

In the studio.

Unable to pass the serialization meeting, Oda is still serving as Hibiki Hibiki's assistant.

Now he looked at Hibiki Hibiki's storyboard and was speechless. Is this a storyboard?

He was ashamed.

The spatial perspective and the characters' expressions are all exquisitely drawn.

It gave him a feeling that even if it was just a storyboard, it would still be interesting to watch.

That's outrageous.

"No wonder I can't serialize comics..." Oda said with emotion, "Is this line so complicated?"

Watching Hibiki Higashi enter the studio, Oda raised his hand and said, "Teacher, why don't you just hand in the storyboards directly. I don't think there's any need to draw the original manuscript!"

"What nonsense are you talking about?" Akimiya Akemi couldn't help but said: "How could you use storyboards as the original manuscript? This is so unambitious."

"Teacher Akimiya is right." Yoshii Sanjiu nodded.

Oda sighed, "I still have to work."

Hibiki Higashino said: "You are complaining to me, but once the series actually starts, you will work harder than me. You only sleep two or three hours a day, and you might spend the rest of the time drawing comics."

"That's really a longing and scary future." Oda shook his head.

After finishing the gossip and assigning the work, the living room quickly became quiet, except for the "swish" sound of the pen.

This is their normal routine.

…

The time has come to Friday, and it has also entered July.

Summer vacation has begun at Musashino Art University.

Because the content of "Slam Dunk" returned to a basketball game, it needed to draw the audience background, which caused endless work for Tori Akino Studio, but now it is easier.

Tanakai marveled, "At this point, I feel that the teacher is still a student."

Jump's most popular cartoonist is just a college student, now 21 years old.

When he was twenty-one years old, he was still too afraid to see people.

Next to Musashino Art University, there is a high school, Enuhiko High School, Higashino Hibiki's alma mater, who has not graduated yet.

Yanyan High School Auditorium.

In the general department area, students were whispering and complaining.

"Don't you have a day off today?"

"Why aren't you on holiday yet?"

"Does the principal want to speak? Why don't you hurry up?"

"I also want to watch the Japan Basketball League."

Gradually, the quiet chatter turned into a loud noise, and it seemed that order could no longer be maintained.

When the grade director Shinto saw this scene, he walked up to the podium with a bamboo sword and knocked hard.

"Quiet!"

Suddenly, the entire auditorium fell silent.

After getting off the podium, Shindo looked at his watch. There were still ten minutes left before the appointed time. He should be arriving soon, right?

…

Higashino Hibiki walked to the school gate and looked at this scene with nostalgia. This was his youth.

The principal was beside him, looking at him with a smile.

"Higashino-kun, it's rare that you can take the time to return to Yanyan."

"I'm really sorry, I'm too busy." Higashikata bowed.

Oda once accepted Higashino Hibiki's request and went to Enuhiko High School to collect materials and use them as the prototype of Ryonan.

But then he went to Kamakura High School, which was obviously more suitable, so he gave up Yan Yan High School.

Because of this, he had to accept the principal's request and return to his alma mater to give a speech.

"You misunderstood, that's not what I meant," the principal said with a smile, "I just know that cartoonists do have a hard time."

He recalled: "More than ten years ago, I met the manga artist Toriyama Akira at an exhibition of student paintings at an elementary school in Meguro District. During the chat, he said that he only slept three or four hours a day. Yawning all the time.”

The principal looked at Hibiki Hibiki with kind eyes, "As a student, you must be working even harder and it must be very uncomfortable."

Dong Yexiang looked at him blankly, and then nodded after a while.

…

hall.

"I heard that a famous alumni is coming."

Student council members whispered gossip.

"Famous alumni? Who is it?"

"I don't understand."

"He must be a successful person. Damn it, let me know who is wasting my time. I must give him a good scolding."

"Well, curse him behind his back!"

Hibiki Higashino was completely unaware of the students' grievances. He came to the backstage, looked in the mirror and found nothing wrong, and nodded to the principal.

So the event officially started.

It only took about ten minutes for the principal and teacher to finish speaking.

The students were still surprised. In the past, Hibiki Higashino appeared on the stage when the performance was not over for half an hour.

He was wearing a black suit with an outsider's badge on his chest. He straightened his back and came to the microphone with a smile on his face.

"Hello everyone, my name is Hibiki Higashino. I was invited to attend Yanyan High School's speech. I'm really scared. I'm really sorry that it affects everyone's rest."

After the opening remarks, the teachers took the lead in applauding.

"So young?"

"Only about twenty-five years old, right?"

The students whispered.

"Is it possible to become famous at such a young age?"

They don't understand.

"Higashi no Hibiki..." Someone chewed on these three words, "What a familiar name."

"I feel like I heard it there too!"

"Hibiki Higashino..." After some thinking, someone suddenly realized, "Isn't this the name of future teacher Tori Akino!"

"That's right! Tori Akino-sensei is our senior!"

So, someone looked at Higashikata Hibiki with burning eyes.

High school students happen to be the audience of Jump. Under Aiwu Jiwu, a large number of students are readers of Hibiki Higashino.

Even if they don't watch "Slam Dunk", Hibiki Higashino is their pride.

"Higashino-san! Are you Tori Akino-sensei!"

In the third grade of high school, a very lively student said loudly!

"Well, it's me." Hibiki Higashi nodded, "I'm Tori Akino, the manga artist."

The whole audience was shocked!

Hibiki Higashino rarely received such treatment. Except for two autograph sessions, he basically did not participate in activities. This kind of eager look made him a little uncomfortable.

"Tori Akino-sensei, I also want to be a manga artist! What is the secret of your success?"

One student asked excitedly.

Dongye swore that he was definitely not looking for excuses.

"That's a good question." Higashikata agreed.

Let him connect to what he wants to say.

"Becoming a cartoonist can't be achieved with empty words." Standing in front of the microphone, Hibiki Higashikata said with a serious expression, "I received a good education at Yanyan High School, so my drawing skills are much better than ordinary people. This is success. one of the foundations.”

The students nodded thoughtfully.

They also know these truths, and when successful people say them, they easily hear them in their hearts.

"The second point is the persistence to the end."

He thought of Akimiya Akemi and more people.

"Cartoonists are gamblers, and only one in 10,000 people can succeed."

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