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Sakuragi Hanamichi injured his back, and his face was wrinkled in pain. He was no longer as energetic as before, but he still went to the technical stage and told the referee that he was going to play and finish the game with Sanno.

Caiko kept yelling at Sakuragi, and she understood that Sakuragi was betting his future on the competition.

Coach Anzai also confessed to Sakuragi: "Sakuragi-san... Frankly speaking, your changes have attracted me deeply. Therefore, I have never let you leave, and I don't want you to leave..."

"Because I really want to continue to watch you...continuously improve."

"I am an unqualified coach. I only missed a few steps and made a big mistake that I will regret for the rest of my life..."

Sakuragi is a genius beyond Tanizawa, and he doesn't want Sakuragi to lose his future like Tanizawa.

He no longer wanted to experience the pain of a genius dying young.

At this time, the game was still going on, and the cheers on the scene were endless. Sakuragi listened to all this, and was extremely sure of his choice.

"Old man, when was your most glorious moment?"

"Are you going to fight on behalf of Japan?"

"And me? Only now!"

In the last minute of the game, Sakuragi Hanamichi appeared.

…

"Wow, it's so hot!"

Countless readers are excited.

I am intoxicated by the charm of "Slam Dunk" and can't extricate myself.

"Even ten or twenty years later, I will still think of my feelings at this moment."

Takasugi Kazuya looked out the window. It was clearly winter, but he clearly felt that he was in summer, in a passionate summer.

…

Torishima Kazuhiko looked up and asked in disbelief: "736 votes?"

The reader questionnaire draws 1,000 letters from each week's letters, and since each letter can cast 3 votes, the total is 3,000 votes.

Among these 3,000 votes, "Slam Dunk" alone received 736 votes, almost a quarter.

"Weekly Shonen Jump" usually has twenty works serialized.

Of the remaining nineteen works, only three-quarters of the votes can be competed.

This is an extremely terrible result.

It's almost like touching the record of jump Xiao Zheng's data.

Today is different from the past. At that time, excellent works were rare, but now we are in an era where cartoons are one after another.

Winning the undisputed first place among the powerful players is enough to illustrate the current glory of "Slam Dunk".

"Tori Akino," Torishima Kazuhiko said, recalling Hanamichi Sakuragi's lines, "I hope your most glorious moment will not be now."

…

Another two weeks later.

jump updated.

Saito Takuya looked at the crowded cashier and wondered which cashier would be so unlucky? I woke up early on Monday morning and had to deal with so many customers.

"Oh, it turns out to be me."

He looked at the excited-looking junior high school students and sighed in his heart.

"Please get in line."

Soon, the team was pushing and shoving to restore order.

"Is this the "Weekly Shonen Jump" you bought?" Saito asked.

"Yeah!" The first junior high school student nodded expectantly.

"Total 230 yen."

The junior high school student lined up five coins and put them on the cashier.

"Thank you for your patronage. Please go slowly."

In this way, copies of "Weekly Shōnen Jump" were sold, and customers left one after another. At nine o'clock, Saito finally had a little bit of free time.

He raised his head and looked at the world outside the window. There were people coming and going, including anxious office workers and beautiful female college students.

There are undesirable groups who dress strangely, and there are also police officers who maintain order.

"When will there be a place for me in such a big Tokyo?" He sighed.

Saito is a native of Gunma Prefecture. When he was in junior high school, he watched "Weekly Shonen Jump" and was fascinated by "Ghost".

Then the dream of becoming a cartoonist came into being.

In high school, he worked hard at painting and neglected his studies. After graduation, he chose to come to Tokyo to continue pursuing his dream.

However, Saito submitted jump submissions several times but failed.

He is now working as a cartoonist's assistant and spending the rest of his time doing odd jobs to support himself.

"I don't know when I will become someone like Mr. Tori Akino."

He lowered his head and stroked the jump in his hand. On the cover, Sakuragi Hanamichi was shining brightly in the stadium.

…

After Hanamichi Sakuragi came on the court, he blocked Mikio Kawada's throw.

Miyagi Ryota took the ball to the Sanno basket and passed the ball to Hisashi Mitsui on the outside.

Mitsui jumped subconsciously, and Sanno's Matsumoto collapsed. He rushed over, mistakenly thinking that Mitsui's throw was a fake move, and the two collided.

However, the three-pointer had already been shot, the ball passed through the air and successfully entered the basket.

Matsumoto fouled and added a free throw.

At this time, the score between Shohoku and Sanno was 74:76, and Mitsui naturally made the shot.

Xiangbei added 1 point.

With only 49 seconds left, Mitsui got the only 3+1 in "Slam Dunk" and made great contributions to Shohoku.

In the final moments, wonderful shots kept appearing.

Sakuragi Hanamichi, who was seriously injured, intercepted Sawabita Eiji's dunk.

Sakuragi Hanamichi's performance in the second half was really outstanding.

In the last 30 seconds, Shohoku's ace Rukawa Kaede passed the defending Wada through his crotch, ignored Fukatsu who was blocking the shot, and jumped for a layup.

Unfortunately, at this time, Wada shot Rukawa Kaede's inevitable goal.

"You're done!" Wada vented his emotions.

Despair enveloped the Shohoku main force, but it was Sakuragi Hanamichi again, and he rushed towards the ball.

…

"Sakuragi Hanamichi is so outstanding. It's hard to imagine that he was still the same Sakuragi Hanamichi who was full of loopholes."

Sanno counted everyone in Xiangbei, and Mitsui of the Nervous Knife paid special attention to it. However, Sakuragi Huamichi and the others did not understand him very well, and regarded Sakuragi as a layman.

What they didn't expect was that it was Sakuragi Hanamichi who became someone beyond calculation, broke the Sanno's control, and ignited the hope of victory for Shohoku.

Saito thought as he watched this week's "Slam Dunk".

"The results should come out." He thought.

"I will learn a lot from Slam Dunk."

With the idea of ​​learning storyboarding, he opened the Jump comic.

Immediately, Saito's eyes opened wide and could no longer be closed.

"This is……"

The two pages of "Slam Dunk" he could see didn't even have a single line!

In silence, the next plot was drawn.

Sakuragi Hanamichi threw himself at the basketball, and his hands gradually touched the basketball. Then he turned back and looked at Rukawa Kaede, whose pupils were constricted and shocked.

He exerted his body strength, twisted into the air, and threw the ball to Rukawa Kaede. Then he lost his balance and fell to the ground.

"Such lines..."

Saito was stunned.

Just painting, he can completely think of the thoughts of everyone present.

The audience cheers.

It seemed that he could also hear the sound of basketball soles scraping against the floor.

Rukawa Kaede received the pass and jumped like the wind for a layup. He lived up to Sakuragi's efforts and the ball went in.

The score of Xiangbei finally surpassed Sanno!

Rukawa Kaede and Sakuragi Hanamichi panted violently. When there were no lines or narration, Saito Takuya seemed to be in a silent space, and could only hear their rapid heartbeats.

Afterwards, the entire audience was shocked, Haruko Akagi cried with joy, the Shohoku basketball team was excited, and Sanno Industries felt desperate and confused.

It is clearly reflected in the picture.

Saito quickly flipped the jump, dizzy.

He didn't want to miss any detail, but he also wanted to see the next scene quickly. He was in a state of excitement and anxiety.

It wasn't until he turned to the last page of this chapter that he ended this state.

"There are obviously no lines, but I became more involved. Such comics are really terrible."

In this episode of "Slam Dunk", there is no dialogue or onomatopoeia, and the original manuscript looks particularly clean.

This allowed Saito to watch the details of the movements and the expressions of the characters more attentively.

"It is precisely because of his incomparable self-confidence that Tori Akino-sensei dared to draw like this."

This also tests the ability of lens language. Without the assistance of narration, readers can clearly see every move of the characters.

How did Sakuragi Hanamichi save the ball? How did he pass it on to Rukawa Kaede? How did Rukawa Kaede make a layup?

Feedback from the audience, feedback from the players, feedback from the Mountain King.

There are countless details that readers can form a coherent picture in their minds even if they glance at them in a hurry.

"This is already art, the art of Japanese comics."

Saito read it twice more and felt very excited. He had something to learn from this.

…

Nobuhiko Horie watched the dialogue-less "Slam Dunk" and was immersed in shock.

"Did Akino Tori draw this?"

This episode of "Slam Dunk" confirms Nobuhiko Horie's belief.

Sometimes dialogue limits expression, and there are some things that dialogue cannot explain clearly.

Use paintings to express the plot and complete the transmission of information to the audience in motion.

"The expressiveness of this statement is amazing."

Now as a reader, Nobuhiko Horie can guess the lines of every dialogue box in Mobai's "Slam Dunk" comics.

At this point, it is no longer necessary to fill or not fill in the dialogue.

"This guy is a genius, an unparalleled genius."

“There are only a few cartoonists who can do this.”

Making comics is not difficult and many people can do it.

But like "Slam Dunk", it is very difficult to show the advantages of Mobai comics in silence, so that readers have no sense of violation and feel excited.

…

When Hibiki Higashino used to watch animation, there would often be an episode where the characters had no lines and used body language and facial expressions to advance the plot.

For example, an episode from "Saiki Kusuo's Disaster".

Hibiki Higashino was particularly bored to watch. In order to express the plot silently, he would exaggerate the actions of the characters.

This would be too inconsistent.

The plot serves a silent purpose, a dance in chains.

He was still complaining when he was watching it, but now that he is serializing "Slam Dunk", he finally understands the difficulty.

He spent all his brain cells and effort in painting this sentence.

"Slam Dunk" is still a sports comic. Without the coordination of lines, the design of the storyboard is too important.

The characters' movements must be connected and their emotions must be expressed.

Speed ​​lines should be used to the extreme to give the characters a sense of power.

But fortunately, he did it.

"I'm really shocked that a 24-year-old can actually draw this."

Akira Toriyama's immediate call verified Hibiki Hibiki's success.

"This is all taught by Akira Toriyama." Hibiki Higashino thanked him.

Akira Toriyama is particularly good at drawing battle scenes, and playing basketball is also a dynamic analysis of the human body. Hibiki Higashino often reads the stand-alone books of "Dragon Ball" and learns Akira Toriyama's storyboards.

"Stop hating me." Even though Akira Toriyama said this, he still sounded cheerful.

"By the way," he asked, "I heard that in seven days, it will be the time for the "Shogakukan Manga Award" to be awarded. Is this true? "

"Well," Higashikata nodded, his eyes distant, "it will be seven days later."

…

Another week later.

With only 20 seconds left in the game, Sanno did not give up. 10 seconds later, Zebei suddenly stopped and made a jump shot, and the ball went into the basket.

The Mountain King completed the overtake.

The game ends with 8.2 seconds left. Is Xiangbei really going to lose?

Here are a few more paintings without narration.

Sakuragi Hanamichi rushed toward his own basket immediately.

This scene, Takasugi Kazuya couldn't help but think of the first game of "Slam Dunk", which was the practice match between Shohoku and Lingnan.

In the last few seconds, when Sakuragi Hanamichi was elated, Lingnan, who did not give up, scored a goal quickly and turned the defeat into victory.

"Sakura has really grown a lot. Now, he looks very much like the immortal he was before." Kazuya Takasugi sighed with emotion.

He watched Rukawa Kaede counterattack and break through to the Sanno basket.

He looked at Rukawa Kaede looking back under Zebei's block and noticed Sakuragi Hanamichi stretching out his hands to catch the ball.

"Just hold it gently with your left hand..."

He saw Kaede Rukawa passing the ball to Hanamichi Sakuragi.

He saw Sakuragi Hanamichi jump up and throw the ball. In the eyes of everyone in the audience, it drew an arc and fell into the basket.

The ball went in!

competition is over!

Xiangbei defeated Sanwang 79:78!

Takasugi Kazuya was so angry that he didn't dare to breathe. Even now, he still can't believe it. Did Shohoku win?

Rukawa Kaede's eyes widened, Sakuragi Hanamichi's face was expressionless. He passed through the Sanno players and came to Rukawa Kaede, and met his eyes.

The two people raised their hands in unison and high-fived!

While gasping for breath, they were sweating and integrating the joy of scoring and winning into this high-five of the century!

The tacit cooperation of the two people brought victory to Xiangbei!

After the emotion passed, they "hum" and returned to their usual state of not dealing with it.

…

"Ah, Xiangbei won."

Takasugi Kazuya woke up as if from a dream.

Unknowingly, he shed tears.

The five people from Xiangbei celebrated without emotion. They hugged each other and cheered for their hard-won victory.

Other players hugged him with emotion and tears. Coach Anxi raised his hands in the air and couldn't help himself.

The whole audience is cheering for Xiangbei!

"It's amazing!"

…

The competition that lasted for more than a year finally came to an end.

While Yamamura Shoudao was sighing, he looked at Jump with some doubts in his heart.

"Why does Tori Akino work so hard? It seems that he wants to draw out the character's growth and moving parts."

"What about the future? What will you draw in the future?"

Just like the death of Zhang Beihai, such a useful character was killed by Liu Cixin.

He may not have thought that the story of "The Three-Body Problem" would continue.

"Without content to draw, wouldn't the subsequent chapters of "Slam Dunk" be lackluster?"

Takenori Akagi strengthened his will, Ryota Miyagi connected the team, and Hisashi Mitsui reached the pinnacle of his basketball career.

Rukawa Kaede integrates into the team and grows into a real ace.

Sakuragi Hanamichi performed like never before. The Sanno battle was his most glorious moment. Facing the Sanno led by Zebei, he was still the rebounding leader. How will he grow in the future?

When the Five Tigers of Northern Hunan are kneaded together, they are already a complete body.

Without the ability to grow, how can sports comics express the thrill of not knowing the outcome of a competitive match until the end?

"Mirai Tori Akino, what on earth is he thinking?"