Full-time cartoonist - #137 - Chapter 136 Rebounds and Assistants

The game between Xiangbei and Lingnan in “Slam Dunk” has twists and turns. Xiangbei has been chasing Lingnan’s score and is very tight.

In the last five minutes, due to Sakuragi’s unique performance, the score was shortened to three points, and surpassing Lingnan was just around the corner.

But in the next chapter of the comic, the gap widens again.

The difference here is the height difference between the players of the two teams.

The fish pillar is 202 centimeters tall, the fairy tree is 190 centimeters tall, and the tallest cherry tree in northern Hunan is only 188 centimeters tall. There is a huge height difference. When Akagi failed to play, Shohoku couldn’t get rebounds at all.

Not being able to rebound means less control of the ball, which means fewer chances to score.

Because of this, the point difference widened to 5 points.

In the last five minutes, the most important thing is rebounding.

If you can’t get a rebound, you lose.

Only by grabbing more rebounds can the situation be controlled. Whether you grab the rebound or not is the key to victory or defeat!

At this critical moment, Lingnan’s shooting hit the ground running.

“Backboard!” Caizi couldn’t help shouting.

Yuzhu, Xiandao and Rukawa Kaede all jumped up.

Sakuragi Hanamichi, who was wearing No. 10 jersey, also ran forward and took off. At this moment of great attention, with his powerful jumping ability, he grabbed the rebound from Yuzhu and Sendao!

The air was silent for a moment.

Sendō and Uohashi watched Hanamichi Sakuragi hold the basketball in his arms and couldn’t believe it!

When he saw the scene in the comic freeze at that moment, Hua Chao felt his blood boil. This scene was simply the finishing touch, reviving all the previous foreshadowing.

At the critical moment, Sakuragi Hanamichi took action and restored the declining situation!

Xiangbei and Lingnan still have to fight.

Rukawa Kaede was exhausted throughout the entire game. His jumping height was one head lower than the fish pillar, and he was unable to get the rebound at all.

At this moment, there is only Sakuragi Hanamichi!

“That jump just now was really amazing!”

“What a strong jumping ability!”

Lingnan’s substitute players couldn’t help but marvel.

Sakuragi Hanamichi’s true talent was finally revealed at a glance.

He is a man who could become the rebounding champion.

However, Coach Tianoka discovered his problem, which was that he had too little experience.

Tian Gang asked Yuzhu to teach Sakuragi a lesson and know what playing basketball is.

Relying solely on physical talent is too much to underestimate basketball.

Sakuragi’s speed and jumping ability are amazing, and his foundation is very good.

But Sakuragi only relied on his jumping ability to grab rebounds, and he didn’t even know basic movements.

Sure enough, in the competition inside, the fish pillar got stuck, firmly occupying a favorable position for the basketball to fall, and controlled Sakuragi on the outside.

Sakuragi could only watch anxiously as the basketball was snatched away by the fish pillar, feeling overwhelmed and powerless.

Sakuragi, who had high hopes, lost to Yuzhu twice. The score widened again and the situation became critical again.

There are only 4 minutes left, and Xiangbei is 7 points behind!

…

The comic plot of “Slam Dunk” is getting more and more tense. Countless people are looking forward to the next development.

There are still 4 minutes left in the friendly match between Lingnan and Xiangbei. How many more words will it take to end?

At this moment, Hibiki Ozawa of the Musashino Animation Department was rejected from the animation project by the Japan Agricultural Cooperative.

“Sorry, the director thinks you still have room for improvement. I’m really sorry.”

An employee of the Agricultural Cooperative said to Ozawa Hibiki.

“No, it’s okay,” Ozawa lowered his head and clenched his fists.

He is in fourth grade and about to graduate.

Ozawa put all his energy into the production of the agricultural cooperative project, hoping that there would be output, telling himself that by maintaining the status quo, he could also support himself and his companions.

After graduation, you can still make money by producing animations with members of the animation department.

But……

Ozawa walked out of the Agricultural Cooperative Building, looked up at the clouds in the sky, and breathed a sigh of relief.

“It has ended.”

It’s June, and the remaining time has to be left to the fourth-year students to study as trainees. They have no way to make animations.

And he didn’t know what to do.

“After graduation, let’s work at Ghibli first.”

With this in mind, he passed by the park and found that there were several high school students playing basketball here.

In Tokyo in June, the air is muggy.

It rained just now and the sun came out brightly, as if I had entered a steamer.

Ozawa Hibiki felt that his back was soaked with sweat.

However, these students were still playing basketball happily, regardless of the weather, and laughed happily.

These high school students’ basketball skills are not very good. They just shoot around with basketball rackets and can’t make any shots. They are complete beginners. But he is also experiencing the joy of basketball.

“As expected, I was most comfortable in high school.”

Now he is worried. As long as he learned his lessons well in high school, he could play for a long time even with a stick, without having to think about the future or the way out.

Thinking of the daily life of a male high school student in his memories, he stopped and watched with envy.

“Want to come and play together? We happen to be missing one person.”

A high school student raised his hand and said to Ozawa Hibiki.

Ozawa Hibiki shook his head.

“Forget it.” The high school student didn’t care.

“Look at my gorilla dunk!”

He grabbed the basketball and jumped up. He was still dozens of centimeters away from the basket. In the end, he had no choice but to shoot.

The rim was not hit.

“Pfft.” Ozawa Hibiki laughed, feeling much more relaxed.

…

A year later, the mold returned in large quantities.

Hibiki Higashi has been using a dehumidifier for a while, and feels like he has another trouble.

The noise is too much.

It feels like there is an Allen in my ear, always saying Tata is on.

It’s unbearable.

However, in order to preserve the precious manuscript, Higashino Hibiki had no choice but to endure hardships for himself and his assistants and wear earplugs.

So after work today, when Tanaka spoke in his ear, Hibiki Higashikata couldn’t hear it.

He was immersed in reading the single volume of “Baseball Heroes”. It wasn’t until Yoshii Sankyu poked him that Hibiki raised his head and saw Tanaka who was embarrassed.

“Is there a problem?”

“I… I drew a manga… ah no, I don’t know if it can be called a manga… I would like to ask Tori Akino-sensei to take a look at it for me.”

Higashino Hibiki raised his hand and said to Tanaka, “If it’s too much trouble, forget it…”, “Where’s the work?”

Tanaka was relieved and handed the 40-page manuscript he had written to Hibiki Hibiki respectfully with both hands.

Seeing him standing there quietly, Higashino Hibiki said, “Please wait for me for a while. Tanaka-san can sit aside and rest first.”

“Yes.” Tanaka nodded, walked aside, and looked at Hibiki Hibiki’s expression nervously.

Tanaka worked as an assistant in his studio during the early days of the serialization of “Slam Dunk”. More than four months have passed since then.

I didn’t expect him to come up with a work so quickly.

Even Oda, who has seniority, is still laying the foundation and preparing for new works.

As for Yoshii Akihisa, Hibiki Higashino feels that his goal is not to draw comics at all.

Higashino Hibiki read Tanaka’s comic book, the name is “The Sojourner”, which has some weird names.

The heroine gets up in the morning as always, cooks as always, and goes out to work as always. After going out, the scene focuses on men’s slippers.

A rather bland beginning.

However, as the comic progresses, without the protagonist noticing, the readers have discovered changes in the room layout, strange extra men’s toothbrushes, and men’s clothes that occasionally appear on the balcony.

There seems to be another person in this room.

There are rapids lurking beneath the calm surface of the lake.

The heroine did not realize that the crisis was getting closer and closer.

Tanaka’s dark style of painting gives the comic a strange sense, which will bring readers worry and nervousness to the next level.

After reading this short story, the ending is very simple. The heroine lives alone and is afraid of being found by thieves, so she shows that there is a male master in the house.

It gave Hibiki a feeling of laughter.

Not bad, Hibiki nodded.

It’s just that there are some problems with the rhythm of the story and my comic skills, so it’s a bit difficult to bring it into the story. Moreover, it’s not suitable for the jump platform, so it’s still too early to serialize it.

“There is great potential, keep working hard.”

“yes!”

Tanaka nodded excitedly!

Just such a comment is enough to make him happy.

Hibiki Higashino continued: “When Mr. Sasaki comes, you can let him take a look and judge whether he can participate in the Manga Awards.”

“Comic Awards!” Tanaka stood up in disbelief, “Can I do it too?”

He just had nothing to do after get off work, so he returned to where he lived and continued drawing comics. He never expected to win a comic award.

“Maybe.” Higashikata shrugged.

“That’s great! I have to tell my mother!”

Tanaka went out excitedly to report the good news.

He needs the approval of others too much.

After reading Tanaka’s comics, Higashino Hibiki quickly put on his earplugs. He walked to the dehumidifier, took out the water container from the bottom, poured the 5 liters of water formed by the condensed water droplets into the kitchen sewer.

“That’s so much water in three hours…” Higashikata took a breath.

He had lived in the north before, and finally felt the horror of the rainy season in the south.

He felt like his bones were about to get wet.

…

The rain had been falling intermittently for two weeks, and the sun came out occasionally. Higashino felt that the sun was so kind.

It’s almost July.

Tanaka’s manga Sasaki approved it, and he had a similar idea to Hibiki Hibiki and thought it might be possible.

You can see the results in July’s Comic Awards.

He also saw Oda’s character design, and Sasaki was a little surprised by Oda’s style.

It can be seen that there are aspects of learning from Akira Toriyama. It is concise, clear, and has outstanding characteristics. It is a type that can be easily drawn.

But it also has its own characteristics. The characters are different and have outstanding characteristics, which can leave an impression on readers.

As an assistant, Oda is very talented.