Full-time cartoonist

"Short comic contest! I'm really looking forward to it!"

"The participating writers are all my favorite writers."

"Arito Akino-sensei! And Nobuhiro Watsuki-sensei!"

"Will there be a spin-off to the serial work? I want to know how Sakuragi Hanamichi failed to confess his love 50 times!"

"I want to see Jotaro take action in Jojo5! Which one is better, Time Deletion or Time Stop?"

Readers are all looking forward to it, and the time has quickly come to April.

At the beginning of the school year, Hibiki Higashi was promoted to fourth grade.

The cherry blossom tree with only dead branches is blooming with gorgeous pink petals at this moment. When the wind blows, the petals will flutter.

"Everything is good in spring, except hay fever is unbearable..."

Higashikata muttered.

Akimiya Akemi handed him a mask and asked him to put it on.

After arriving at the school, the graduate representatives gave a graduation speech in the auditorium.

The old senior said it sincerely, and the students below shed tears. From time to time, juniors and seniors who knew each other were waving goodbye.

Hibiki Higashikata didn't know when they all had seniors they knew? And so deeply emotional.

He originally just wanted to go through the process, but now he is on pins and needles.

At this moment, someone waved to him with a smile.

Hibiki Higashikata had some impressions, and his brain was working very fast. Fortunately, he had a very strong memory and recognized this person whom he had only met once.

The name is Kitamura Tatsu, a member of "Mirai Club".

When we first met, he was still a third-year student, and he was about to graduate now.

Time flies really fast.

Now that he is full of enthusiasm, he should be ready to show off his talents after graduation.

Higashikata waved to him and said hello.

…

After the graduation ceremony, Hibiki Higashino was about to leave, but several seniors stopped him.

"Excuse me, are you Tori Akino-sensei?"

"I am Mirai Tori Akino who drew "Slam Dunk"."

"Please!" They took out their signature pads and bowed, looking up at Hibiki Hibiki longingly.

"Of course." Hibiki nodded, took the signature pads one by one, and wrote "Tori Akino Mirai".

This was the first time he had met these people in the three years since he entered the university, and he did not expect them to be his readers.

Before leaving, the leader felt something.

They are members of the basketball club and love Slam Dunk.

But what they like is happy basketball. They are simply playing basketball without thinking about participating in the competition.

So I spent three days fishing and two days drying nets, so I was leisurely and contented.

After watching "Slam Dunk", the desire of the Shohoku basketball team or other teams to win the national championship put the members of the Musashino basketball team to shame.

Effort, struggle, struggle, and progress are nothing compared to them.

Especially in the game between Shohoku and Hainan, in Takenori Akagi's past, those Shohoku players who were not enterprising were synonymous with them.

So he didn't dare to come to see Dongye Xiang.

When it was finally time to graduate, considering that this was the last chance, he gritted his teeth and came to Higashino Hibiki.

"Thank you," Hibiki Higashino said with a smile, "I'm really honored to be able to like "Slam Dunk" so much."

…

After Minami Chiharu delivered the newspaper, she bought a jump.

This issue has a short comic by his favorite author, Yamamura Morimichi.

When she was in high school, she saw Yamamura shirtless from the waist down and lost all her favorable impressions of the author, but she still read his manga Minami Chiharu.

"The Mysterious Detective Agency is much more interesting than The Sun."

After reading the latest episode of "The Bizarre Detective Agency", Minami Chiharu sighed.

Who would have thought that the "strange circles" in the vegetable garden were caused by the spacing of the irrigation nozzles, which caused some vegetables to wither without water.

The first part of the comic was full of suspense. She had been thinking about what caused this?

Could it be that "crop circles" were created by aliens? Or it may be a trick used by the farm owner to attract attention.

I didn’t expect it to be so simple and reasonable.

It’s really dumbfounding.

"Teacher Yamamura is very talented, it would be nice if he wasn't so "perverted". "

Minami Chiharu, who was thinking this way, read a short story about Yamamura.

The name is "Basketball Baby".

…

"So that's it," Higashi Hibiki nodded, "No wonder you need my authorization."

The Yamamura manga depicts the process of him and Hidemi Kikuchi getting to know each other and falling in love.

So "Slam Dunk" is essential.

"He actually wrote his love story into the comics."

During the New Year's party, Higashino Hibiki also saw that Yamamura was envious of Yoshihiro Togashi, but he didn't expect to imitate him.

"The painting is really good." Akimiya Akemi covered her mouth and said with a smile, "They are very happy."

This short story is very heart-warming overall. It only depicts a small thing, but the author's intention can be felt in every frame of the comic.

Just like a confession letter, with sincerity and outpouring.

At the same time, in Yamamura Morimichi's studio, decorated with roses and balloons, Yamamura Morichi proposed, and Kikuchi Hidemi agreed to him.

By Friday, the number of readers' surveys for "Basketball Baby" was 135.

"The results are very poor, but I think Yamamura doesn't care about this. His goal has been achieved." Hibiki Higashino said.

…

The second short story is from Nobuhiro Watsuki, and the short story is called "Comet Impact".

The protagonist is a 13 or 14-year-old boy with a special physique, a modern science fiction story that will be affected by meteorites.

There is nothing much to say about this short story, Hibiki Higashino simply read it.

It was a work that I took some time out of my busy schedule, but it is also very delicate.

It's an ordinary type.

On Friday, "Comet Impact" received 353 votes, which is a very good result.

According to the practice of previous competitions, he is a strong contender for the top three.

…

The third and fourth articles are both extremely ordinary works, with votes of around two hundred, and are not worthy of Hibiki Higashino's attention.

A month after the Comic Short Competition began, the truly challenging work emerged.

This is "The Confession Room" by Hirohiko Araki.

At this moment, Hirohiko Araki stood at the window with a smile on his face, looking into the distance.

"I was planning to publish this work in the second half of last year. After I heard about the short story competition, I decided to use "Confession Room" to participate in this competition."

"In other words, I spent a long time conceiving this short story, and it is my proud work."

"Toriakino-kun, try to see if you can surpass my "Confession Room"."

Picking up the milk, he saluted far into the distance, placed it elegantly on his lips, and took a sip.

"Teacher, you must have rested for too long. Come to work quickly." Assistant Hiroyuki Onikawa shouted loudly.

"Sorry, I'm here." Araki said awkwardly.

…

"It's really unexpected."

"Slam Dunk" skipped the game between Xiangbei and Buri in one episode and focused on the game between Hainan and Lingnan.

"Coach Gao Tou and Coach Tian Gang are actually old rivals."

"Coach Taoka claims that he is an immortal, and his leader is Rukawa Kaede. This is the relationship between the two people."

"Hahaha, there's something wrong with the face. He's so ugly, but he actually thinks it's Xiandao and Rukawa Kaede. He has no self-awareness at all."

But because of this, the two teams had sparks flying from the start.

Hainan wants to maintain the honor of winning all the time, and Lingnan's goal is to directly compete in the national competition, and it must defeat the Hainan in front of it.

The two teams were at odds with each other, and they made frequent plans from the start.

"Sendou is now the point guard!"

Kanagawa's point guards are all great players.

Shobei's Miyagi Ryota, Shoyo's Kenji Fujima, Hainan's Shinichi Mu, and now Lingnan's point guard is also played by Sendao.

It was simply a fight between gods.

"Is this a strategy that Taoka came up with to defend Mu Shinichi?" Araki thought while looking at the comic.

"But by doing this, Xiandao abandoned his own strengths and used an unfamiliar point guard position to defend Mu Shenyi. Isn't it just using his own shortcomings to attack the opponent's strengths? It's like a stupid move."

However, in the subsequent comics, Xiandao's advantage of 190 cm height allows him to see the situation all over the place. Coupled with his strong passing ability and control of the situation, he simply connects Lingnan together and organizes a powerful and effective team. attack.

"It's terrible. Such a team."

The game lasted ten minutes, and coach Gao Tou chose to pause.

Now, Hainan is already 11 points behind.

"The situation is one-sided. I didn't expect Lingnan to be so fierce in the face of the powerful Hainan."

The game that Araki originally thought would have no suspense has now become interesting and intense.

"How terrible, Tori Akino Mirai."

…

"It's so scary, Mr. Araki."

Hibiki's eyes widened as he looked at the short comic in front of him.

"Could a work like "The Confession" be conceived so quickly?"

It was just a short story competition, and he came up with such an interesting cartoon, which made him feel a bit like an anti-aircraft gun swatting mosquitoes.

"A thrilling adventure story featuring Rohan Kishibe, the supporting character in Jojo's fourth installment: Diamonds Are Forever."

The story begins in a confessional in a church in Venice.

In order to draw material for the manga, Kishibe Rohan secretly entered the confession room.

At this time, the person who was deeply disturbed came to confess.

He claimed to be a sinful man.

Kishibe Rohan didn't panic, and was full of interest in her heart.

The visitor told a story about the past. He was a porter and worked very hard every day.

One day when he was working, a homeless man in ragged clothes and a sallow complexion came to him and asked him for some food, claiming that he had not eaten for five days.

He couldn't suppress the anger in his heart when he thought that he needed to work hard and the other person could live by begging.

So he put a big bag of food on the homeless man, and if he worked well, he would give the homeless man food.

As he ate the bread, he admired the tramp's difficult work.

The other party was crushed by the packed grain bags. He thought he was pretending to be injured to gain sympathy, and he was filled with anger.

At this moment, someone grabbed his leg under his feet!

The eyes were red and the mouth was filled with fangs, making him look like a demon.

It's that tramp!

The tramp cursed:

"I am in despair that is deeper than the Dark Sea, the despair that comes from you! I will never forget, never forget your face! I must let you repay this debt! I will come back!"

"When you are extremely happy, you will definitely do it! Remember it for me!"

The tramp is dead.

Afterwards, those who come to confess will have good luck.

He soon became a rich man, with a beautiful wife and lovely daughter.

This is the happiest moment in his life.

But at this moment, his daughter grabbed his neck, and her hair was flying in the wind, as if it was alive.

The daughter's tongue was sticking out, and it had the facial features of the tramp. The other party was here for revenge!

He possessed his daughter.

Just like the curse back then.

Will fate allow him to take revenge? The Tramp chooses to play a game.

Throw the popcorn high, over the street lights in the square, and catch it with your mouth after falling. Do this three times. If he fails once, the tramp will kill him and chop off his head.

The first time he threw it, the sun was so dazzling that the popcorn disappeared from his sight.

Fortunately, his tongue was nimble and he was able to stick to the popcorn that hit the corner of his mouth and swallow it into his stomach.

Success the first time.

The second time it was thrown up, the dark clouds blocked the sun, and he was finally not disturbed by the sun.

But when the popcorn fell, the pigeons in the square swarmed in, and danger came again.

He was so blessed that he tore open the whole bag of popcorn and threw it on the ground, finally making the pigeons abandon the one he threw up.

The popcorn fell steadily into his mouth.

Now it's the third one. As long as it succeeds this time, it can escape the fate of death.

But when he looked around, a large number of pigeons appeared around him due to the throwing of popcorn, and they surrounded him.

At this time, the popcorn on the ground was also eaten.

All the pigeons were looking at him, presumably as soon as the popcorn was thrown up, it would be picked up by the pigeons in the air.

At this time, the homeless ghost was also constantly urging him.

No time!

The third popcorn is thrown up and it bursts into flames!

The penitent man set his hands and popcorn on fire with a lighter.

As long as the popcorn is burning with flames, the pigeons won't eat it.

The popcorn fell beyond the streetlight, and his eyes were filled with joy.

Finally it's all coming to an end.

But at this moment, the sun came out!

The sun was so dazzling that in an instant, the popcorn disappeared from sight, leaving only bright white!

"Where! Where! Where!"

His mouth opened wide!

"Pfft..."

The flames of popcorn lit his shoulders.

He lost.

…

"But why can this person come to confess?"

"Isn't he dead yet?"

Akimiya Akemi suddenly asked in Hibiki's ear.

"Yeah!" Hibiki Higashi was startled. He was so immersed in the comics that he almost fell down.

"Hurry up and turn the page and continue reading!" Akimiya Akemi pushed Higashino Hibiki's arm.

"Yes Yes."

…

"That bum turned me into a rich man who got whatever I wanted."

"It's easy to find a completely obedient servant."

He continued to tell.

At this moment, Kishibe Rohan heard a voice of fear.

"Master! Come out! Master!"

"No matter how much you repent, my resentment will never disappear!"

The person who came was a corpse crawling on the ground, his head disappeared.