Full-time cartoonist - #153 - Chapter 152 Anxious Sasaki and Torishima Kazuhiko

Sasaki heard about Higashino Hibiki’s whimsical things.

He notified Torishima Kazuhiko as soon as possible, then he put down what he was doing, took nothing with him, and drove downstairs in a hurry. Only 20 minutes passed before he arrived at Higashino Hibiki’s downstairs.

The serialization of “Slam Dunk” is in full swing, how can Hibiki put his mind on other places?

Without enough time to knock on the door to say hello, Sasaki pushed the door open and entered.

“Kick! Kick! Kick!” Walking quickly to the living room, Sasaki found Hibiki Hibiki and his assistants looking at him in surprise.

Under his hand is the unfinished manuscript of “Slam Dunk”.

It’s still the same as usual, with such a peaceful look.

Sasaki breathed a sigh of relief.

“Mr. Sasaki, what’s wrong with you?” Hibiki asked him.

“Mr. Endo informed me that you are consulting him about setting up an animation company?” Sasaki took a breath and regained his composure, “Is this true?”

Dong Yexiang nodded, “It’s almost solved.”

Now the studio is in the animation club. I will graduate half a year after my fourth grade. I am renting a commercial building and recruiting new talents. I am not in a hurry and can proceed slowly.

“So it’s true?” He was just about to continue asking when another person pushed the door open behind him and entered, just like he did just now, “”Thump thump! ” walked into the living room and shouted: “”Slam Dunk” has just officially started, you are not allowed to give me the pick! “

It was Torishima Kazuhiko. He was really worried that Hibiki Higashino couldn’t figure it out and wanted to finish “Slam Dunk”.

Higashikata put down his brush and sighed, “Let’s talk in the study.”

…

“So why start an animation company?”

Jump has a requirement. During the serialization period, cartoonists cannot submit works to other magazines. This is to tie up the talents and to allow them to focus all their efforts on the comic serialization.

But he forgot that a cartoonist would still do things like this and set up an animation company. It’s a shame he could think of it.

“Alas,” Higashikata sighed and told her about her dissatisfied sister.

Toriyama Kazuhiko’s expression was distorted. He asked Hibiki Higashino in disbelief: “It’s such a small thing? Do you have to set up an animation company?”

If he had known that this was happening, he would have directly contacted the leaders of animation companies such as Toei Animation Production, Clown Club, and Sunshine Club.

Why bother with a mere voice actor matter?

It’s okay to let Hibiki Hibiki’s sister choose the main protagonist of the anime that is about to be decided.

“Slam Dunk” is being animated, and it will be no problem for Tori Akino’s future sister to voice Haruko Akagi.

“It won’t take much time,” Hibiki Higashino explained. “I can finish the script for a 12-episode season in a few hours. There will be a dedicated person in charge of other matters.”

Torishima Kazuhiko questioned, “12 episodes? How is that possible!”

“I forgot to mention,” Hibiki Higashino reacted, “the first animation to be produced is actually an instant noodle show, and each episode only has 5 minutes of content. If the scripts for 12 episodes are added together, there are only 3 normal animations. It’s just the content of the collection.”

Torishima Kazuhiko breathed a sigh of relief.

Sasaki said: “Can you let me take a look at the comics you drew this week?”

Higashikata replied: “Of course.”

He walked to the living room, took out the 15-page manuscript from the drawer, returned to the study, and handed it to Sasaki.

Sasaki took it with both hands and looked at it with a serious expression.

The content of this episode is very simple. It is the first basketball game in Shohoku, against Miuradai.

There is nothing noteworthy about Miuradai. It is said that they lost to the strong team from Hainan High School, but in fact, their strength is very average compared to Xiangbei.

If it weren’t for the problem children fighting and being banned from the game by coach Anzai, and only Takenori Akagi struggling to support him, then Miuradai would not be an opponent at all.

What’s worth paying attention to are the three people off the court.

Coming to watch the game was Mu Shenyi, captain of the Hainan basketball team that has been winning for seventeen years.

There are also Hainan’s main players, first-year Nobunaga Kiyota and second-year Kamizou Ichiro.

Two minutes later, Sasaki glanced at Torishima Kazuhiko and nodded silently.

Torishima Kazuhiko’s expression relaxed.

Now that the matter has come to this, there is nothing he can do.

Higashino Hibiki has also become a problem child, which makes him very distressed, but he can only comfort himself. It is good news that his level has not declined now.

“So finally,” Jump’s editor-in-chief said, “is there anything I can do to help?”

At this point, what can be done is to save this guy’s energy and let him focus on comics.

“Hmm…” Hibiki Higashino thought about it, and after a while he made a very outrageous request, “Can the animation to be produced be serialized on Jump in the form of comics?”

Torishima Kazuhiko looked at him amusedly, “You’re advertising on Jump? You really dare to say that.”

As expected, it didn’t work, Higashikata nodded.

He just said it casually.

After all, this is “Weekly Shonen Jump”.

Torishima Kazuhiko couldn’t agree, not only because of the advertisement, but also the double opening.

There is no such thing as serializing two works at the same time on Jump.

And it’s easy for them all to fall apart, and the last two works to be finished.

Jump is now a very fragile period, and he can’t help Tori Akino messing around in the future.

Higashikata waved his hand, “Forget it then.”

He made his second request, “My expectation is that “Comic Manga Hiyori” will start appearing on the TV station in January next year. Please Mr. Torishima, please help me introduce the animation director of the TV station.”

It can save some advertising costs.

After getting an in-depth understanding of Japan’s animation industry, Hibiki Higashino learned that for animation to appear on TV stations, animation producers need to pay, which is equivalent to advertising.

Income comes from DVD discs, copyright sales, music discs, etc.

Only now did he realize that the organizers of the animation festival had put in a lot of effort to get “Hey – Come Out” on the TV station.

But they also made a profit because of “Hey-Come Out”.

Such an educational animation has obviously made housewives have a better impression of animation, and the animation festival has gained a good reputation, making it a successful start.

It is the result of mutual benefit.

Later, there was even more peripheral income, so part of the cost was paid to Hibiki Higashino, the producer of Asahina.

Torishima Kazuhiko and Sasaki looked at each other, and they both smiled in unison.

“You still don’t understand your own weight.”

“As the author of Slam Dunk, they will come to you instead.”

Unlike popular works such as “Slam Dunk”, you can already understand his significant profits before it even appears on TV.

“Dragon Ball” has been unable to be completed due to resistance from Fuji TV.

A work that can bring great benefits, just a few minutes of instant noodles is not worth it at all.