Full-time cartoonist - #36 - Chapter 36

After signing the contract, Higashino Hibiki returned to the dormitory.

He wanted to continue drawing comics, but Sasaki asked him to stop and observe the readers’ feedback.

Moreover, I can take a break during the Chinese New Year, and I will still be busy after that.

So he had no choice but to go home again and enjoy reading.

I didn’t return to the dormitory until school started on the 10th.

Before leaving, Dong Yexi called him aside, covered his face and said something shyly.

“That…that…”

“Please tell me directly.” Dong Yexiang wanted to laugh.

“Well,” Higashino squinted his eyes in embarrassment, “The creator of “Tokyo Love Story” is your colleague, right? Can you get me an autograph? I like this TV series very much.”

“It’s a magazine owned by a different company…” Hibiki Higashino originally wanted to say this, but looking at his mother’s expectant look, he nodded.

“Yes, I will. Teacher Chai Menwen, I have long wanted to visit you.”

…

January 15th, not long after the New Year.

In the first issue of “Weekly Shōnen Jump”, “The Soul of the Game” began to be serialized.

It is the first new comic to be published after the serialization conference on December 25th.

It can be seen that the editorial department attaches great importance to “Soul of Chess”.

Others were still immersed in the joy of the New Year, and some people couldn’t wait to buy “Weekly Shonen Jump”.

“A masterpiece of high school student serials!”

“The Tezuka Award-selected work “Spirit of the Game” makes its debut!”

“A rare and talented cartoonist that comes only in ten years, Tori Akino Mirai!”

Starting from October 25th, jump began to accumulate strength.

Newspapers and media were all promoting it, making the name “Chess Soul” suddenly popular.

It would be a waste not to use the title of a high school student serial cartoonist.

After visiting the temple, Nishimura had been curious about “The Soul of Chess” for a long time, so he bought a copy and started reading it with great anticipation.

Shinto Hikaru and his childhood sweetheart Akira Fujisaki came to the attic of their grandfather’s house. There was a chessboard there, which seemed quite valuable.

It was here that Shindo Hikaru saw blood stains on the Go board, but Fujisaki Akira didn’t notice anything.

The soul attached to the chessboard is moved to tears.

He was a shogi player from the Heian period, a thousand years ago.

In order to pursue the hand of God, he has always existed in the world.

Yearning for someone to see him and let him continue playing chess.

The person in the past was Hidesaku Honinbo from Innoshima, and the person in modern times is Hikaru Shindo, a sixth grader with a fleshy face!

“O omnipotent God, I am extremely grateful. I…I…I am now back in this world again!”

Nishimura watched Fujiwara Sawei appear. He was draped in a cloth, holding a folding fan in his hand, with a gentle and compassionate look on his face, and couldn’t help but be touched.

“So handsome. No, I shouldn’t call him handsome, but gentle and elegant.”

He murmured to himself: “No wonder Tori Akino-sensei can serialize it, his drawings are so good.”

Being moved by a painting was something he never expected.

I haven’t felt this way for a long time. As I read more comics, my threshold continues to increase.

“You’re also a high school student, you’re too strong!” He couldn’t help but be speechless.

…

At the same time, in the chess court, Shinoda was reading comics.

It was the Chinese New Year, and it was rare for the students in the academy to have time to rest. In the entire chess academy, he was the only one who still couldn’t bear to leave here.

Occasionally I look at the chess records.

But this time, the comic he had been curious about for a long time was finally serialized, so he read the comic.

If you want to know the effect of comics on promoting Go, you have to read it yourself.

It would be great if even myself, who doesn’t usually read comics, became obsessed with “Soul of the Chess”.

He had never read comics before, so he was a little uncomfortable with it.

I don’t know the word order of the sentences, and I am overwhelmed by the complicated information in the comics, and I don’t know where to start.

Fortunately, “The Soul of Chess” doesn’t have many lines, which makes his reading threshold lower.

He watched Shindo Hikari enter a Go club. It looked familiar, similar to the one he often went to.

Most of the people in this club are middle-aged and elderly people, which is the same as the actual situation.

However, there is one thing that reality does not have.

In this club, there is a middle-aged child, who is also in sixth grade, but looks very mature.

With a delicate and cute face, Shinoda has always been elusive. Is the child named Taya Ryo a boy or a girl?

But this is not important, what is important is the subsequent chess game.

Shindo Hikaru and Taya Ryo started playing chess.

He picked up a chess piece and saw tears falling.

That was Fujiwara Sawei. 140 years after Torajiro passed away, he finally played chess again.

Seeing Fujiwara Hiding his face and sobbing, Shinoda felt sad.

Although I was disgusted by the sight of Go for a while, if I were to prevent him from playing Go for a long time, it would be better to kill him decisively.

Go is already life to him, or to Fujiwara Sawei.

Without Go, Shinoda would not be what he is now.

“It’s a very touching comic,” he sighed.

The game plot that I was most worried about before is the most exciting part of the whole story.

The content should obviously be boring, but in the switching of the camera and the description of the inner language, it seems so passionate and exciting that it makes people’s blood boil.

Readers will be moved by Ta Yaliang and Zuo Wei’s obsession with Go, right?

I wish I could play a game myself and enjoy the joy of being addicted to Go.

“There is no exaggeration, everything is very real, and it can be performed so interestingly and vividly. Is this a comic?”

He suddenly became serious and respectful.

“If there is no problem, there must be no problem.”

Even he, a middle-aged man who has lost his passion, was moved. Can children also feel the romance of Go?

…

Koharu, Yamamura Morimichi, Kitamoto, Yoshii Sanhisu, Minami Chiharu…

Everyone who knows Hibiki Higashino, knows or does not know his identity, all saw this new work on the powerful platform of “Weekly Shōnen Jump”.

The name is a bit strange, it describes the game “Soul of Go”.

At 3:40 pm on Monday, Higashino Hibiki returned to the dormitory.

The president of Yanyan High School’s Go club heard that he was learning Go and invited him to join the Go club, which he took the trouble to do.

After more than a dozen pulls, Hibiki Higashi’s firm attitude finally disappointed the president.

“There are only three members in the Go club. In more than two months, I will graduate, and the Go club will also be abolished…”

His last lost words.

“I have always liked Go, but now it is a declining sport…”

Even so, Higashikata didn’t let up.

He still has his own work to do. Although he likes Go very much, Go is just entertainment.

I need to draw comics and have no free time at all.

“Yoshiharaso”, all the roommates are here.

Haven’t had time to go to work yet.

They sat around and discussed “The Sun Murder Incident” to be published in the next issue of Jump.