Full-time cartoonist

"So Mingmei, you really have a boyfriend?" Mr. Akimiya felt very complicated.

In his heart, Akimiya Akemi was still a child, and it was just a routine question, but he didn't expect this result.

"Yeah," Akimiya Akemi nodded. Looking at Mr. Akimiya's troubled expression, she felt a little happy inside. She burst out laughing with a "puff".

Mr. Akimiya didn't know why, "What's wrong?"

"No," Akimiya Mingmei smiled and waved her hand. She moved her calves as she knelt down, moved to Mr. Akimiya's side, and hit his shoulder, "So Dad, you don't need to worry."

"Yes." Mr. Akimiya pursed his lips and nodded. After a while, he made up his mind, "You can arrange for him to meet me."

Now Akimiya Akemi is in a dilemma. After all, Hibiki is still just a student. It would be bad if his father misunderstood her.

I don't have any weird sexual fetishes.

So she said, "Please give us some more time."

At least until Hibiya Hibiki graduates.

Mr. Akimiya frowned, "Are you worried?"

"Well..." Akimiya Mingmei rolled her eyes, "He is currently in the development stage of his career and is very busy during this period. When he is free, I will come to see you with him."

The corners of Mr. Akimiya's mouth drooped downwards, feeling very unhappy.

In her daughter's heart, her boyfriend is more important than herself, and she simply wants to kill him.

No matter what he said, Akimiya Minmei would not allow it, and in the end she closed her mouth and remained silent.

She left home early the next morning.

"Musashino is on summer vacation, why are you in such a hurry to go back to school?"

On the balcony on the second floor of the villa, Mr. Akimiya frowned as he watched Akimiya Akemi drive away.

…

After Akimiya Akemi bought assorted sandwiches in the supermarket, she hurriedly returned to Hibiki Hibiki's dormitory, wanting to communicate with Hibiki Hibiki as soon as possible.

But the moment she saw Hibiki Higashikata, she burst out laughing.

"The dark circles under your eyes look like giant panda Ling Ling."

Hibiki Higashikata was drawing comics, and after a moment of sluggishness, he raised his head and glanced at her.

"Hmm." He nodded vaguely, having no energy left.

"Didn't you sleep at night?" Qiugong Mingmei was helpless. She just went home and something went wrong.

Higashikata patted his cheek and woke up a little, "Because I'm always very inspired and I really can't fall asleep."

Akimiya Akemi came behind Higashino Hibiki, touched Higashino Hibiki's temples with her cold fingertips, and started massaging them.

Hibiki's body tensed up in excitement, and then relaxed under Akimiya Akemi's gentle massage.

The tense nerves were also relieved, and fatigue followed.

A few minutes later, Higashikata closed his eyes, his head sank uncontrollably, and then he suddenly woke up.

Akimiya Minmei said distressedly: "You should go to sleep first and leave the work to me."

"Sorry to trouble you," Dongye thanked him loudly, ate his sandwich, and dragged his heavy body towards the bedroom.

"Higashino was obviously very calm before," Akimiya Akemi wondered.

Now Higashino Hibiki is not as mature as before. He has become more childish and does not know how to take care of himself.

"You really can't live without me." She sighed with emotion.

It didn't take long for the two assistants to arrive, an hour earlier than usual.

Their breathing was rapid and their clothes were rumpled.

"Where's the teacher?" Tanaka looked at the empty main seat and was stunned.

Akimiya Akemi replied, "He went to sleep."

"It's true," Yoshii Sanjiu said helplessly, "I said I was going to have a big fight, but I'm still sleeping..."

Akimiya Akemi took out the manuscript that Hibiki Higashino had drawn and handed it to him, smiling without saying a word.

"Is this?" Yoshii Sanjiu was stunned for a moment, "Did the storyboards be redrawn?"

When the storyboard is changed, the original manuscript will naturally need to be redrawn.

"It was inspired," Akimiya Akemi said, "Probably because he was more satisfied with the current storyboard, so he discarded the previous one. When I came over in the morning, he was still working."

Yoshii Sanjiu was speechless, "So he redrawn the five original drawings he drew at yesterday's work in one night?"

Tanakai came over to take a look, "It does feel like the current lens is smoother."

They both said in unison: "That's so willful."

…

Two weeks later, Weekly Shōnen Jump was sold.

Kuraki Riko bought the jump early, and she has been watching it very enthusiastically recently. After all, it is the game between Lingnan and Shohoku.

In the first half, Lingnan defeated Xiangbei, with the score exceeding six points. Other readers didn't care, she enjoyed watching it.

However, this time, Rukawa Kaede began to show his strength in the second half.

Because of his personal physical strength, he was unable to maintain high-efficiency output and could often only play half a game. This time he saved his physical strength for the second half to compete with Xiandao.

"Bang bang bang!"

Rukawa Kaede exerted force on his wrist, and the basketball hit the floor with a rapid and violent sound. He changed the speed of dribbling.

The immortal guarding him also noticed this, with his eyes like a torch, he stared at the movement of Rukawa Kaede's right hand, ready to respond at any time.

Sure enough, Rukawa Kaede dribbled even faster, leaned down, and quickly broke through from the right side of Xiandao.

Xiandao also followed and retreated towards the basket, looking for a defensive position.

But at this moment, Rukawa Kaede stopped urgently. Amid the exclamations of the audience, he jumped high and directly shot and scored!

In the subsequent plot, due to Rukawa Kaede's outburst, Shohoku's score continued to rise.

As soon as he got the ball, he hurriedly took a shot and scored when everyone thought it was impossible to make the shot.

From passing to shooting, he is fast and accurate. This first-year freshman has since become an ace that is not inferior to Xiandao.

"Damn Rukawa Kaede!" Kuraki Riko clenched her fist hard.

Because of Rukawa Kaede's performance, Shohoku caught up.

In the comic, Coach Tianoka recalled uncomfortable past events.

"What! Are you going to Shohoku? Why? Because of Coach Anzai?"

He invited Rukawa Kaede to join Lingnan but was rejected. He thought of Mitsui and Miyagi, both of whom rejected him because of coach Anzai.

"Because it's close to home."

Thinking of Rukawa Kaede's answer, he got angry and scolded Xiandao, asking him to take action.

Xiandao is Lingnan's trump card. If he falls into decline, the whole of Lingnan will be uneasy.

Sendō received the pass from his teammate and while dribbling, he said to Rukawa Kaede: "That practice match was three months ago."

"You have made so much progress in just three months."

"You seem to be the ace of high school basketball now, Rukawa. At that time, you were as young as a junior high school student."

"Asshole." Rukawa Feng's eyes were cold.

The two people are facing each other, and the war is about to break out.

…

"Eh! No more?" Cang Mulizi was stunned.

"I only read a few pages and it's gone? It's so short, Mr. Tori Akino."

Obviously the exciting plot is just about to begin.

"30 seconds? Or one minute?" Riko Kuraki calculated. She had just picked up the comic and it was over in a short time.

"Did Tori Akino-sensei only draw 10 pages of the manuscript?"

She looked at the time and was stunned, "Three minutes have passed!"

While reading the comic, the wall clock rang exactly on the hour, and now the minute hand ran three spaces.

“Time flies so fast, I feel like I haven’t watched it for long!”

She was amazed.

…

Oda looked at "Slam Dunk" and his eyes widened.

"Did Mr. Tori Akino use his true skills after I left?"

The previous "Slam Dunk" had equally wonderful shots, allowing readers to clearly feel the game process that the author wanted to depict.

It's like watching a movie in the brain, very smooth, dribbling, passing, and dunking, just like a well-connected cartoon, full of dynamics.

Important shots will even be arranged in different positions, front, 45°, top view, etc.

It's already quite good. Among sports comics, it can be called the strongest.

But what Oda saw now was even better.

As good as Akira Toriyama who painted "Dragon Ball", he has become a master of lens application.

Learn from Akira Toriyama, understand Akira Toriyama, and stand side by side with Akira Toriyama.

"'Slam Dunk' is even more immersive. The character's expressions, thoughts, and actions he will take next can actually be shown through the details of the comics. It's really scary."

It has been officially serialized for almost a year, and Eiichiro Oda has achieved very strong results and can be regarded as the strongest newcomer in recent years.

In the competition with "Slam Dunk", "One Piece" has surpassed Xiaozheng several times and achieved results that its predecessors have not achieved, and it is inevitable to feel proud.

Before he started serializing, he thought he would draw popular works and become a very popular cartoonist.

So he became floating.

But now, being taught by his former teacher one after another, Oda has to become humble.

"I'm still far away."

…

Akira Toriyama hasn’t watched Jump in a long time.

Since I started drawing "COWA!" "After that, he was no longer very interested in the works on Jump.

The children around him were saying "One Piece" was very interesting, the big secret treasure, the rubber fruit and so on, but he couldn't understand it.

He didn't want to understand either.

But when the child was watching Jump, he caught a glimpse of the cover of Jump. It was a scene of Mitsui Lifespan's three-pointer under the lights in the stadium.

His sweat glistened in the light.

He jumped in the air, held his head high, and narrowed his eyes slightly, enjoying the moment.

For a moment, Akira Toriyama became interested.

After the child finished reading, he threw the jump on the sofa and ran out to play. Then he picked up the jump and looked at it with interest.

After a while, he smiled happily.

"It has been nearly five years of drawing comics. In terms of storyboards, Tori Akino, you finally have your own style. Congratulations."

…

"Slam Dunk" seems to have become magical. Once you pick it up, you can't put it down.

And the recent plot is also particularly exciting. Faced with Rukawa Kaede's naked "I want to defeat you" provocation, Sendao finally smiled and entered the state.

First, when Rukawa Kaede was defending, Xiandao broke through from the right side with a fake move. When Rukawa Kaede retreated to defend, he stopped urgently and scored a three-pointer.

Rukawa Kaede's actions were the same as before.

His perfect revenge came back.

After that, the game between the two sides became a tug-of-war. Lingnan, which lost points due to mistakes, is currently only leading by one point.

Due to Futian's offensive fouls, Lingnan frequently missed offensive opportunities.

However, with the two-meter-tall fish pillar as the center of defense, Xiangbei had no chance to score.

In this way, the two sides reached a stalemate.

Sakuragi Hanamichi's performance was very poor at this time, and he was very unfocused. He often missed the basketball thrown by his teammates, and was repeatedly broken through by Ryoji Ikegami. If it wasn't for Akagi Kangen, Lingnan would definitely get the chance.

After three minutes, neither team scored.

At this time, the trump card's ability is tested. The first one to respond is Xiandao.

He made the shot.

Afterwards, Sendō was surrounded by Akagi and Rukawa Kaede, jumped up slowly, and changed hands to break through Akagi's armpit for a layup.

Just like the winning goal before the end of the friendly match.

Rukawa Kaede quickly returned the favor and hit a three-pointer.

Both of these two aces performed extremely well, and neither of them gave up even though they were betting on each other.

Only Sakuragi Hanamichi was out of form and his results were very poor.

…

"The latest "Slam Dunk" was really fun to watch."

"Yes, I read it in one go. It was so enjoyable, as if I was putting on new underwear in the New Year."

“Shouldn’t it be a frozen Coke in the summer?”

"Of course new underwear is even better!"

In the summer evening, the sun has finally put away its power, and the people who are no longer shining are burning.

Friends met up to hang out, and they talked about the recent "Slam Dunk".

The "Slam Dunk" animation has also been broadcast in the preliminary rounds of high school leagues.

It was Shohoku versus Miuradai.

Therefore, the topic of "Slam Dunk" is particularly hot.

Like the sun over Tokyo in August.

"The nearby shrine is holding a fireworks display, let's go there together."

"Well, it's agreed."

They passed a nearby park where a basketball court had been built.

In the "Slam Dunk" comic, Fukuda, who had no way to play basketball except for the campus basketball club, had accumulated a lot of desires, and vented them all in the stadium game, killing everyone.

Reality is no longer the same, and many communities have installed basketball hoops in empty sports fields thanks to the comic's influence.

Watching several high school students sweating profusely while playing basketball, one person said: "If you are a future reader, will you think "Slam Dunk" is a lie?"

"What's the meaning?"

"It is said in the comics that there are no basketball courts on the streets of Japan, but look, isn't this a basketball court? In a few years, there will definitely be more and more basketball courts. New readers who have witnessed the current situation will definitely question Mr. Tori Akino's content .”

"Hahaha, what you said is really possible."

“Because the impact of the work is so amazing, you may think that something goes against reality.”

They talked and laughed and strolled on the riverbed to the vicinity of the shrine.

The stalls of the vendors here are all set up, red lanterns are hung in the sky, there are many pedestrians, and it looks very lively.

"It's a shot, it's a shot!"

This is a new project with a small basket two meters away. If the shot is successful, you can get a gift.

There is a beautiful woman next to the guy who is trying to shoot the ball.

"What a beautiful person," they exclaimed.

Her hair was tied together with a tassel hairpin dangling, and she was wearing a cherry blossom-colored kimono. Her delicate face had an expectant expression, and she was looking at the shooter intently.