Full-time cartoonist

"A very strange comic." Omori wanted to say this.

But facing the unfamiliar Hibiki Higashikata, he nodded in admiration, "The painting is really great."

He can also draw to this level, but he didn't need to work so hard before.

This is a weekly serialization thing. Occasionally there are mistakes, but they are all omitted when possible, and mistakes are made in the wrong way.

In just one week, there is no time for the author to revise, let alone draw a full-scale comic like "Millennium Actress".

He didn't expect that Higashino Hibiki, who was already successful and famous, was still so serious.

Hibiki Higashino saw that he had finished reading and told him about the manga style.

Today is the running-in period, as long as the styles can be consistent with each other.

"I will work hard." Omori said to Hibiki Hibiki.

…

While working, Omori asked Hibiki Hibiki from time to time. He was constantly thinking about "Millennium Actress" and it was more and more consistent with Hibiki Higashino's paintings.

"Omori-san's painting skills are really great." Hibiki sighed as he looked at his paintings.

When Sasaki recommended Omori to Hibiki Higashino, he also said that Omori's painters were among the best in Jump. As an assistant, he contributed to the development of Jump and was an indispensable cornerstone.

If the plot wasn't so bad, he would have serialized it long ago.

This experience sounds familiar, but it is the norm for most people, and it is also the sad part of this industry.

"That's it." Higashikata Higashi said.

"receive."

So, in the living room, there was only the sound of the pen tip rubbing against the paper, and everyone started working hard.

Hibiki also painted "Millennium Actress". As for "Slam Dunk", that is tomorrow's work.

The more he painted "Millennium Actress", the more he felt that director Satoshi Kon's talent had been elevated from animation to art.

The only Japanese work that can rival "Millennium Actress" is Hayao Miyazaki's animation. However, the depth of Miyazaki's animation is not as good as "Millennium Actress".

The more Hibiki painted Higashino, the more trembling he became. He could only draw what he understood. If he didn't pay attention, he might ruin the work.

So he became extra serious.

Time passed minute by minute and it soon came to twelve o'clock.

After Omori finished drawing a page of comics, he looked up and found that the three people present were all immersed in drawing.

As a newcomer, he could only pick up the next page of drawings.

Omori became more and more hungry, and the time gradually came to one o'clock.

Dong Yexiang suddenly raised his head.

"Excuse me."

As he spoke, he made a call on his mobile phone. It's the phone number of a nearby hotel where you can order food.

Tanaka didn't even look up, "Tonkotsu ramen."

"Thick-cut Wagyu rib-eye steak," Akemi Akimiya said.

"Where is Mr. Omori?" Higashino asked Omori, who had been silent.

"I...I want steak too."

He licked his lips and spoke boldly.

"Yeah," Dongye responded, and he said into the phone: "Add another steak, and the rest is as usual."

Half an hour passed and lunch was delivered.

Higashino Hibiki went to get lunch, and when Omori took a bite, the aroma of beef fat overflowed his mouth and nose.

The quality of this beef was even more amazing than he thought.

There may be an A5 price.

"I'm so happy here, Tori Akino-sensei!"

Omori cheered in his heart.

…

Three months have passed since "Slam Dunk" entered the national competition.

The game between Shohoku and Toyotama comes to an end.

A-level Toyotama is indeed very powerful. He scored nine points in the first minute of the game.

Their run-and-gun tactics are to disrupt the opponent's rhythm in a fast attack.

Pay attention to offense, keep grabbing points, and keep running.

Toyotama's average score in previous games was 130.5, and every one of their players is very good.

No wonder that in last year's competition, Toyotama defeated Kanagawa's Shoyo and won the quarterfinals of the national competition.

If it is an average team, it will collapse quickly.

Coupled with the low quality of Nan Retsu, Kishimoto, Itakura Daijiro and others, they constantly provoked everyone in Shobei, making them even more angry and unable to display their abilities.

Kiyota Nobunaga couldn't help complaining in the audience: "Why do they always start so poorly!"

If they don't show their strength, Xiangbei will only be able to make it to the first round.

Itakura is provoking Miyagi, and Kishimoto is also provoking Sakuragi, belittling Sakuragi to be worthless.

Sakuragi Hanamichi was angry and asked Miyagi Ryota to pass the ball to him. He was about to witness the results of his week's special training.

This is an exercise for 20,000 mid-range shots!

Sakuragi Hanamichi was full of confidence, others in Shohoku were looking forward to it, and the Hainan players in the audience looked at this scene in surprise.

From such a long distance, can Sakuragi Hanamichi make the shot?

Sakuragi Hanamichi's shooting posture was very beautiful. At this moment, past practice integrated into his muscles, the basketball flew high, and he could already foresee success.

Until the basketball passed the basket and flew straight into the audience...

Kiyota Nobunaga was puzzled, "It's people like this who have plunged Lingnan into a bitter battle..."

"Hahaha! What on earth is he doing!"

"You did a great job on the 10th!"

Sakuragi brought laughter to the audience, but what he received was the speechless expressions of Akagi and others.

Is this the result of his special training?

Sakuragi Hanamichi was replaced by coach Anzai, and the person who came on was an unexpected player.

He is Yasuda Yasharu who rarely appears.

Height 165cm, weight 57kg.

Yasuda is small in stature, but very courageous and determined.

When the gangster Mitsui Hisashi started provoking a fight at the Shohoku Gymnasium, it was Yasuda who took the lead.

It’s just that I was taught a lesson by Mitsui Hisashi afterwards...

At this time, Yasuharu Yasuda, who will not be booed by the Toyota cheerleaders or provoked by the players, is the most suitable candidate.

Coach Anzai also gave him instructions, which was to slow down the pace of the game and let Akagi and the others find their own rhythm.

After Yasuda Yashun came on the court, Akagi grabbed the rebound and Miyagi Ryota organized the attack, but he wanted to respond because of Itakura's provocation.

He fell into Itakura's rhythm again.

At this time, Yasuda stopped Miyagi and asked him to pass the ball to him.

After Yasuda got the ball, he followed Coach Anzai's order and started taking his time.

Compared with Toyotama, Shohoku's advantage is that it has the top center Akagi.

Shohoku does not need to play fast break with Toyotama, and can also play traditional half-court offense and defense.

Make full use of time when attacking, focus the attack on Akagi, and decide the outcome in the middle.

Coach Anzai's tactics were successful. After Yasuda Yasharu came on the court, Akagi dunked one after another. Toyotama's center Shiota was no match for Akagi.

The time came 10 minutes after the start of the game, the score was 14:15, and Xiangbei was only one point behind.

"As expected of Coach Anxi, a respected coach."

Looking at the latest issue of Jump, and remembering the previous content, Yoshida Koji sighed.

"In the first game, Coach Anzai just let Akagi and the others enjoy basketball and did not arrange tactics at all, so Shohoku played very hard."

"It wasn't until he felt Akagi's passion for basketball and stepped out of Tanizawa's shadow."

"Instructing Rukawa Kaede, training Sakuragi Hanamichi, and arranging the formation. Shohoku is now completely transformed, and it is indispensable without the efforts of coach Anzai."

"But now, Coach Anxi's pre-game arrangements and on-the-spot responses are all right."

"It's really awesome!"

What Akino Tori said when he met Mirai that day was all true, and it was also true that he liked "Slam Dunk".

He had been watching "Slam Dunk" since it was serialized, and followed it from high school to college.

The dream of becoming an editor also has a reason for "Slam Dunk".

What a blessing it is to be able to work with a cartoonist to create such a classic work!

Every time he sees "Slam Dunk", he can think of "I really want to say I love you loudly." Under the excitement of the song, his mood becomes more and more exciting.

"Yoshida, you are reading comics again, can you take a break?" said the friend.

"Sorry," Yoshida shook his head, "Don't disturb me."

"It's really strange." The friend looked at his middle hair and his jeans, "I thought you were a trendy person before, but I didn't expect you liked comics so much."

He said a few words and then disappeared.

"I always say that after watching "Slam Dunk" you understand the rhythm of comics."

"Foreshadowing, climax, and how to drive readers' emotions. The moment when the characters try to break out of the predicament is so wonderful."

"That's why I need to watch more "Slam Dunk". Learn from Tori Akino-sensei's storyboards."

This is preparation in advance for his dream job. He is working very hard, okay?

Yoshida Koji quibbled until he raised his head. Only to find out that my friend has left.

"cut."

…

In the national competition, Akagi shined.

But he was sighing in his heart. The center in the national competition was no match for Yuzhu.

It is a pity that Lingnan failed to enter the national competition.

Koji Yoshida agrees on this point.

He has a good impression of Lingnan. The team that played in the beginning of this comic, Xiandao, Yuzhu, and even coach Tian Gang are very interesting.

Their dream was also to enter the national competition, but they failed in the last summer.

Toyotama chose three players to defend Akagi, but missed Rukawa Kaede. Rukawa Kaede scored and exceeded the score.

Sakuragi did not shout in the audience, he was lost in thought.

After practicing 20,000 basketballs, he understood the power of Rukawa Kaede's shot.

Maybe he thought that this was the shooting posture he dreamed of.

After that, Rukawa Kaede faced Nanlie's defense and made three fake moves to score a jump shot.

On the stage of the national competition, Rukawa Kaede also made his voice heard.

He has improved a lot compared to a month ago.

Became the well-deserved trump card of Xiangbei.

Sakuragi Hanamichi finally realized the gap between himself and Rukawa Kaede.

He needed to practice three times as much before he could catch up with Rukawa Kaede's experience before graduating from high school.

In the following game, Nan Lie's title of "Ace Killer" appeared. He deliberately hit Rukawa Kaede in the eye with an elbow, hoping to use this method to kill Shohoku's ace.

In last year's national competition, facing Fujima who scored 20 points in 10 minutes, Nan Lie did the same thing and won the game despicably.

After Rukawa Kaede went off the field with a concussion, Toyotama did not restrain himself and repeatedly fouled Akagi and Miyagi Ryota, causing the two sides to almost fight.

At the end of the first half, Xiangbei trailed by 6 points.

…

Toyotama's team has always been hated by readers.

In "Slam Dunk", except for Mu Shenyi's possibly accidental stepping in, there has never been such a despicable act.

High school basketball is supposed to be about fun and the joy of playing sports.

So it should be pure and beautiful.

In order to win the game, secretly using tricks to play, doesn't this become Korean sports?

We have been here all along. In order to win, it reflects the fighting spirit of the players. They use their past sweat to work hard on the court. This is the most exciting part of "Slam Dunk".

Fengyu is out of place in it, like a jade with slight flaws. Under the strong contrast, readers hate this team even more.

From the perspective of an editor, Yoshida vaguely sensed Tori Akino's future thoughts from the grass snake gray lines in the foreshadowing of "Toyotama Battle".

Why do Toyotama players ignore their coach so much?

Why do they insist on using run-and-gun tactics?

Just to show their badness and stubbornness?

There is a reason for all this.

During the halftime break, Toyotama's coach Jinping thought that the score difference had reached 6 points and Shohoku's ace could not play, so he should start to defend.

Regardless of coach Jin Ping's objection, Nam Yeol insisted on using run and gun and scored 60 points in the second half.

"We don't know how many years we have only been able to reach the quarterfinals because of this tactic. In Mr. Kitano's era, it has been proven that this tactic cannot win the championship!"

After Jin Ping said this, Nan Lie was furious and grabbed Jin Ping's throat.

Kitano is a former coach who is very respected by Toyotama players. He is a very good person.

Because there are only three years in high school, and three years cannot allow players to fully understand basketball, Kitano arranged Toyotama's training to be 80% offensive and 20% defensive.

Some people have criticized Kitano because of this tactic.

Kitano didn't care, he also understood the limitations of run-and-gun tactics.

But this tactic can make players like basketball, and that's enough.

This is also the original intention of high school basketball.

But capital doesn’t think so.

Under Kitano's leadership, Toyotama won the Osaka championship, and then the national top eight, which already created enough buzz.

The school is greedy. They hope Kitano can lead Toyotama's basketball team to win the national championship.

But the limit of run-and-gun tactics is the top eight.

Not wanting to affect the players' love for basketball, Kitano was dismissed.

So the Toyotama basketball team had an obsession, which was to use run-and-gun tactics to win the national championship, proving that Kitano's tactics were right.

Under this obsession, they became more and more unscrupulous.

"That's why I hate the newly appointed coach Jin Ping and ignore the tactics he arranges."

In the minds of Nan Lie and others, Jin Ping is just the beneficiary of the dove's occupying the magpie's nest.

This team has deviated from their original intentions in their extremes. Even if they are very strong, people will not like them.

Except for Toyotama's cheerleading team, the entire audience was cheering for Shohoku.

Akagi and the others, who were enlightened by the words of Coach Anzai and Rukawa Kaede, finally broke away from Toyotama's rhythm and began a wonderful performance of fast break against fast break.