Full-time cartoonist

On March 7th, Hibiki Higashino left his alma mater, Musashino Art University.

Asahina and the others had left long ago. Among the graduates, Hibiki Higashi was the last group to leave. The school also became empty, without the bustle and bustle of the past.

The next time I come, it will be the graduation ceremony.

Dong Yexiang turned around and left.

The furniture in the dormitory has been moved to a new home, near Musashino University in Nerima Ward and around Akimiya's house.

It was a 200-square-meter high-end apartment owned by the Qiugong family. It had been decorated long ago and had been vacant.

It can be lived in immediately, this time for emergency use.

Wait until a year later before moving back to Hongfeng Villa.

Dong Yexiang walked and walked until he came to a park.

Near the park, there is a basketball court.

Teachers’ families in Musashino and some boys from the accommodation area three kilometers away would come to play basketball.

Today too.

It's still very cold in early spring, and the wake of hibernation has just passed.

But these people were wearing short-sleeved shirts and fighting enthusiastically in a climate of 8 degrees Celsius above zero.

"Teacher Tori Akino!" Someone recognized Hibiki Hibiki, the child of a middle-aged female teacher in the teacher's dormitory.

"Is this Tori Akino Mirai-sensei!"

The others put down the basketball in unison and ran to Hibiki Higashikata. Their bodies were steaming and their hair was covered with sweat.

His eyes were full of youthful light, excitement and excitement.

"Hello." Dong Yexiang waved.

"Teacher is about to graduate. What a pity." The child lowered his head.

Hibiki touched his head and felt wet, "Well, after all, I'm not a student anymore."

"I joined the basketball team of Yanyan Middle School and I will definitely enter the national competition!"

Dong Yexiang left, he raised his head, his eyes were firm, and he waved confidently and said loudly.

Higashikata didn't look back, he raised his hand above his head and gave him a thumbs up.

"Come on!"

…

Keep moving forward.

Hibiki Higashino comes to this park to run in the early morning on weekdays, and during the Musashino School Festival night, he and Akimiya Akemi come to dance.

With nostalgia in mind, Higashikata came to the park gate.

A young man stood there, holding a document bag, with an expression of embarrassment and nervousness.

Higashino Hibiki was delayed by the children and came a little late. He quickly picked up the pace and walked over.

"It's Kishimoto-kun, I'm Tori Akino Mirai. I'm sorry I'm late."

This person is Masashi Kishimoto. He is two years older than Hibiki Hibiki, but because of his round baby face, he looks younger than Hibiki Hibiki.

Kishimoto panicked and said repeatedly: "It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter, I arrived early."

After finishing speaking, Kishimoto Masashi bowed deeply: "Toriakino-sensei, I am here to cause you trouble."

Dong Yexiang waved his hand and said kindly: "You came at the right time, you are really helpful."

After walking for less than ten minutes, we arrived at our new home.

Masashi Kishimoto is very talkative. After getting to know each other, he talked a lot about his current situation.

He is perfecting Naruto and hopes to serialize it himself.

When they were almost home, Masashi Kishimoto couldn't help it anymore and asked about Akira Toriyama.

He is a loyal reader of Akira Toriyama, and he drew comics because of Akira Toriyama's influence.

Hibiki Higashikata was speechless. Could it be that this assistant also came here because of Teacher Toriyama?

With helplessness, he could only tell Kishimoto about Akira Toriyama's current situation, saying that Akira Toriyama was planning to draw a short comic or something like that.

When we arrived at the community, we passed the security guard box at the gate, passed by the lush vegetation, and arrived at the downstairs of the apartment.

"That's amazing." Kishimoto looked up at the apartment. "Tori Akino-sensei is really amazing. He can afford an apartment in a high-end community."

Higashikata smiled: "Oh ho ho ho, I didn't buy this, it's my wife's family property."

Kishimoto looked at Hibiki Hibiki with envy and hatred.

The apartment has six floors in total. Higashino-Akimiya's family is on the fifth floor. There are two apartments on each floor. The door number opposite Hibiki is Nakajima. He hasn't had time to visit yet.

He entered the fifth floor from the elevator, opened the door, and led Kishimoto into the house.

"Oh, how spectacular!"

What Kishimoto is talking about is not the wide view in the room, the abundant light, the exquisite decoration, or the valuable furniture.

Instead, when you walk out of the entrance and into the lobby, you can see the five work tables.

It was filled with tools and some trinkets.

The desktop is covered with manuscript paper.

"Hello, I'm Tanakai." Tanakai, who was drawing comics, nodded and greeted, his bangs covering his eyes, making it difficult to see the embarrassment.

"I am Masashi Kishimoto. Hello, senior. Please call me Kishimoto." Kishimoto bowed.

"Kishimoto-kun, you can just call me Tanaka."

"Okay, Tanaka-san!"

"I am Akimiya Akemi, hello Kishimoto-kun."

"Hello, Miss Akimiya!"

After getting to know each other, Higashino Hibiki had a detailed understanding of Kishimoto Masashi's abilities. He smiled and said: "Sure enough, Kishimoto-kun is here to help."

"Where there."

He could draw comics now, and Higashino Hibiki was not polite. He took out the manuscript paper and asked him to draw the background of the latest chapter, which was also the beginning of the national competition.

"Oh! The national competition has begun!"

Kishimoto looked at the storyboard, his eyes showing excitement, "When I was in college, my classmates said that my comics were very boring and they were created just to please themselves. They were not as good as "Ghost". After that, I started Studying the teacher’s comics.”

"Sure enough, "Soul of Chess" is so interesting!"

“‘Slam Dunk’ is great too!”

"I learned a lot about the plot's foreshadowing and rhythm, and how to keep readers interested."

"Just like the previous content of "Slam Dunk", Shohoku, which lacked Hanamichi Sakuragi, achieved a 1:1 tie in the practice match with Changcheng High School, one of the top eight in the country!"

"And Sakuragi, who has conducted 20,000 mid-range shooting training, his strength must be completely transformed."

"So, the strength of the Xiangbei basketball team is above the top eight in the country."

"Tori Akino-sensei has this piece of content, which cleverly allows readers to understand Shohoku's strength and look forward to Shohoku's performance in the national competition!"

Masashi Kishimoto said a lot of things excitedly.

Tanaka and Akimiya Akemi looked at each other. Is there another Oda?

"Quiet, Kishimoto-kun," Higashino Hibiki patted Kishimoto's shoulder, "You understand very well, but please be quiet."

"Yes, it's teacher," Kishimoto breathed a sigh of relief and calmed himself down.

Then he sat at his workstation near the door.

…

The perspective at the beginning of the storyboard is on Mito Yohei.

This character has always been very popular. He appears in very few pages and is outside the basketball framework. However, he is always in the top five on the popularity list.

Masashi Kishimoto also likes Mito Yohei very much and believes that this character has the potential to become a protagonist.

During the holiday, Sakuragi and the others took the train to the game. The gymnasium was empty, and Mito Yohei was trying to shoot, but he always missed.

Haruko was very grateful to Yohei and others for training Sakuragi.

When she first met Sakuragi, Haruko thought Sakuragi was a genius in basketball.

Sakuragi entrusted Haruko with her dream of playing basketball on the train heading to Hiroshima.

The competition schedule for Xiangbei is out.

The first game is Toyotama High School, an opponent that should not be underestimated.

But this is nothing, the second game is heavyweight.

Sanno Industrial High School in Akita.

This school has been the top school in the country for three consecutive years!

"Eh? Is this such a strong opponent in the second game?"

Kishimoto was stunned.

"Shouldn't this be the opponent in the final? Or the semi-final."

"That's weird."

"Having hit first place so early, is it possible that Tori Akino-sensei is planning to have Shohoku retire early and wait for next year's competition?" Kishimoto muttered as he flipped through the storyboard.

"If I win, there will be no suspense in the rest of the game. I lack the passion to climb to the top."

If they can defeat Sanno, Shohoku's opponent in the third round will be Aiwa High School.

Aihe High School is also a strong team. It has a player that Mu Shenyi pays attention to, Morohoshida, and it was the semi-finals last year.

This is simply the group of death.

The people in Shohoku who were paying attention to Sanno and Aiwa made one person very unhappy, and that was Toyotama's commander-in-chief, Kishimoto.

Kishimoto...

"Eh!" Masashi Kishimoto was shocked. He looked at "Kishimoto" in the comics who was like a gangster who wanted to be beaten and came to provoke Shohoku, and he was stunned for a moment.

"It must be a coincidence, it's a coincidence."

"Tori Akino-sensei is so kind, it's not because he doesn't like me."

He comforted himself softly and looked at the manuscript.

"After all, although there are not many people named Kishimoto, there are some."

Kishimoto was unhappy, and it was also related to the team's evaluation.

Toyotama is A-level, Shohoku is only C-level, and the only famous player is Takenori Akagi.

This undoubtedly made the four Sakuragis very angry. They were already full of momentum even before they started playing the game.

After the storyboarding ended, Kishimoto said with emotion, "Although there are some things I don't understand, it's still so interesting."

He then began to work.

What Kishimoto needs to draw today is the background on pages 10 to 14 of the storyboard, which is a very easy job.

And the plot only takes place on the tram, so there is nothing difficult to draw.

Kishimoto started arriving at Tori Akino's studio at 10 o'clock in the morning and worked until 7 o'clock in the afternoon before he was finished.

Tanakai had already left after Kishimoto declined help.

It's just that Kishimoto is a little strange. After the beautiful Miss Akimiya finished her work, she still stayed and was busy in the kitchen.

"Huh, it's really hard."

Having been drawing comics all the time and catching up on weekly serialization is a very hard thing. Kishimoto felt it when he became an assistant for the first time.

"The future serialization will be even harder, so you have to work hard." Hibiki Higashino came to him, holding two cups of coffee and encouraging with a smile.

He placed a cup in front of Kishimoto.

Kishimoto took a sip and became more energetic, "My dream was to play baseball. When I was in middle school, I joined the school's baseball team. Unfortunately, I didn't have the baseball talent of Uesugi Tatsuya. I only had enthusiasm, so I gave up on baseball after all. "

"Then I remembered my childhood dream. At that time, I loved "Dragon Ball" and wanted to be a cartoonist. So I picked up my original intention and started working hard to draw comics, and I also drew a lot of unrecognized graffiti. "

"So teacher, I will not be defeated by hard work, I will only enjoy it."

His gaze was unwavering.

Higashikata nodded in approval.

"My former assistant Oda, after serializing "One Piece", now only sleeps two to three hours a day. He is the same as you and loves comics."

"Two to three hours?" Kishimoto's face suddenly turned pale, "Is it so hard?"

"You said you'd be happy with it, so it's okay, right?"

"Hmm...yeah." Kishimoto nodded blankly.

Dongye Xiang couldn't help but smile.

After drinking coffee, he sat next to Kishimoto and said, "I see you have a folder with you. Is it the setting draft of "Naruto"? Can you let me take a look?"

"Please...please!" This is exactly what Kishimoto wanted to do. He just didn't find the opportunity. Unexpectedly, Hibiki Higashino brought it up first.

He respectfully handed the document bag to Hibiki Higashino.

Inside are storyboards for eight episodes, as well as a rough setting of future content.

Dong Yexiang looked up.

There are many differences from the animation content he has watched before.

"It's very interesting," Hibiki Higashino pointed at Kakashi after watching it and said, "Is this a reference to the character set by Fierce Daito in "The Inhabitant of the Infinite"?"

The same eyes and covering the lower half of the face, but Kakashi does not have the fierce figure and flamboyant hairstyle.

"That's right!" Kishimoto nodded excitedly, "Ah, I like "The Infinite Dweller" very much. Teacher Hiroaki Samura's paintings are so amazing, it's something I can't do!"

"Well, Teacher Hiroaki Samura's level of painting skills has reached another level."

Higashikata Higashikata is also ashamed of himself.

"Ms. Tori Akino's painting skills are also very strong. His skillful use of speed lines and concise painting style perfectly express the movement and confrontation of the characters. This is the skill I want to learn most."

Kishimoto has a clear positioning as a ninja theme, so there will definitely be a lot of battle scenes, and there will also be many fancy fighting methods.

Stones, shurikens, kyu, steel ropes, etc.

In order to express the sense of "motion" in comics and make it easy for readers to read, he must learn these two unique skills of Mirai Tori Akino.

In Japan, there is no manga artist who uses speed lines better than Tori Akino, who drew "Slam Dunk".

Kishimoto would like to call him the strongest.

Toriyama Mirai also studied under Akira Toriyama, and learned the simple and clear painting style from Akira Toriyama, which is even more unique.

It can be said that he is the most suitable cartoonist to learn by himself.

So he came here.

"I can teach you everything, it's nothing." Hibiki looked at the comics and marveled.

At the beginning, Haruno Sakura still had a personality, but he almost forgot about this setting.

"Why do we need to set up a personality for the heroine?" Hibiki Higashino asked.

If you delete it later, it will be very abrupt.

"Isn't this cute?" Masashi Kishimoto sucked his fingers with a proud expression on his face.

"Do you think Haruno Sakura's different personalities are cute?"

"Definitely. If "Naruto" is serialized, readers will definitely like this character! It's super popular!" Masashi Kishimoto gave a thumbs up. He has full confidence in the heroine Haruno Sakura he created.

"Ah, yes, yes."

Higashino Hibiki actually likes Haruno Sakura, because when he watched Naruto, he didn't pay attention to the double standards of this character, thinking that Haruno Sakura was a very cute girl with a love mind.

During the Chunin Exam, I cut off my favorite long hair in order to escape the enemy. This decision was not bad.

But most readers of "Naruto" hate Haruno Sakura, who was once the most hated heroine in Japanese comics.

This character is not likable.

"What about this character?" Hibiki pointed at Kakashi again.

"No one should like Kakashi." Kishimoto scratched his head, "A character with only one eye exposed will definitely not be popular."

Higashino pursed his lips and patted Kishimoto on the shoulder, "It seems that you still have a lot of room for improvement in character creation, plot control, and market research."

"Eh?" Kishimoto was confused, "Are you complimenting me?"

"That's what you think."

Kishimoto left with a smile and 10,000 yen for an assistant.

After arriving downstairs, he looked at Higashino Hibiki's house on the fifth floor and felt that he had benefited a lot from today. He couldn't help but want to create.

only……

"Is that Miss Akimiya still at Mr. Tori Akino's house?"

"Why is this?"

Thanks to the Railgun for the reward of Hanabi Qingyin.