Full-time cartoonist - #68 - Chapter 68 Araki

The giant panda Linling is very cute, but he has his back turned to the tourists and has no reaction at all.

The Japanese people were still cheering and shouting “kawaii~” and “here here” non-stop.

Next to Higashino Hibiki were female high school students. Their smooth thighs were exposed in the winter, and the little girls’ voices were so sweet that Higashino Hibiki couldn’t bear it.

Although there are also giant pandas in Shaanxi, there are obviously more in Sichuan.

Dong Yexiang called “Ling Ling” in Mandarin, and the cat scratched its butt, but there was no response.

Akimiya Akemi also learned to call, but remained unmoved.

So Higashino learned the Sichuan accent that he learned on the Internet, and shouted “Guolai! Guolai!” twice.

“Huh? What are you talking about?” Akimiya Minmei asked doubtfully without raising her head.

“Guolai!” Dong Yexiang called again.

Linling suddenly sat up, rubbed his head, turned over, and looked towards Dong Yexiang.

“Amazing!”

“so cute!”

Everyone cheered.

On all fours, black and white color scheme, dark circles under eyes, extra cute.

It stared at him for a long time, then crawled up to Dong Yexiang and stared at him suspiciously as he called out “Guolai”.

As if to say: “Who is this guy?”

“Guolai!” Dong Yexiang shouted again.

Linling’s whole body trembled, and she sat opposite Dongye Xiang, stretched out her paw and waved at him, smiling cutely.

“What kind of spell is this?”

“He seems to be able to understand what you are saying!”

“so smart!”

Higashino Hibiki quickly captured the cute and adorable giant panda.

“Thank you very much!” Higashikata bowed.

Lingling waved his hand, yawned, and walked back lazily.

The time limit for Higashino Hibiki’s group of people was up, and they lined up and walked out.

Miss Akimiya was very excited. She grabbed Higashino Hibiki’s clothes and shook them, “What did you just say? Why did Lingling react!”

“Yes, yes!” Someone shouted from behind.

The position that should have been occupied by the Northwest duo was taken by those female high school students. They were pushed aside, shivering.

The female high school students raised their heads and looked at Hibiki Hibiki with admiration, their eyes shining with “not working”.

“Brother, what did you just say?”

“That’s awesome, brother.”

Higashino smiled and before he could say anything, he was dragged away by Akimiya Akemi, “Hurry up, everyone in front is gone!”

“What?” The female high school students waved helplessly to Hibiki Hibiki. One of them, the tall black man, shouted, “I am Ritsuko Kurata, Class 3, Grade 1, Ueno High School!”

Arriving at a place with few crowds, Higashikata breathed a sigh of relief.

“What’s next? Which venue?” he asked.

Then he saw three people with their arms akimbo in front of them.

“What did you just say?” they were curious.

“Maybe Lingling is homesick.” Dong Yexiang replied.

…

At Cangwu Comics Store, the store manager Yoshida looked ugly.

Shueisha distributed 500 single volumes of “Ghost of the Game”, which was enough for a large comic shop like his.

However, 300 copies have been sold, and the long queue outside the store still shows no signs of decreasing.

“How did this happen? Shueisha didn’t do any investigation at all?”

These are real achievements, but they were let go because there were not enough single copies.

“Hurry up and call Shueisha and ask them to send another batch as soon as possible, 500…1,000 volumes!”

“At this trend, it may not be enough.”

…

The jump editorial department is now in chaos, and distributors across the country are calling.

“Yes, yes, we are negotiating.”

Sasaki hung up the phone and breathed a sigh of relief.

The current situation is that there is a contradiction between the huge demand and the small quota for the single volume of “Soul of Chess”.

“100,000 copies of the first edition are still too few.” Sasaki shook his head. He had known this would happen for a long time, but Horie Nobuhiko had always insisted on his own opinion, and now he was finally in a panic.

“It simply doesn’t work if you want to observe it first and then publish it.”

He looked at the conference room, where Nobuhiko Horie and the deputy editor were having an urgent discussion to determine the number of reprints.

Half an hour later, Nobuhiko Horie came out with a very unhappy expression and informed the editors in the editorial department, “It has been confirmed that 300,000 copies will be reprinted. Please hurry up and roll it out in Tokyo in three days and nationwide in seven days.”

“Notify dealers and issue a notice.”

After saying that, he put on his coat and hurried out.

Sasaki understood that he was going to communicate with the printing house.

…

January 8th, Shueisha New Year Party.

After a year, Hibiki Higashino came to this venue again.

This time he saw the popular teacher Hirohiko Araki.

Several heavyweight cartoonists gathered together to listen to Yoshihiro Togashi, who was at the forefront.

He finished “Yu Yu Hakusho” in a desperate manner, which was big news in the entire jump manga circle.

The always tough editorial department actually let him finish. Everyone was very curious, and some people looked at him like a hero.

I’m talking about Mr. Akira Toriyama.

He was amazed and envious.

Mr. Araki shook the champagne and watched the scene with a smile on his lips, but did not join in.

“Teacher Araki,” Higashino Hibiki picked up the Coke and walked over, toasting him with a toast, which made him feel dazed for a moment.

“Who are you?”

The two people had not communicated with each other yet, and Araki didn’t know who this familiar boy was for a while.

“Author of “The Soul of the Game”, Tori Akino Mirai,” Hibiki introduced himself. He carefully looked at Araki’s face. For a 35-year-old middle-aged man, he was actually very delicate and rich in collagen.

“Oh!” Araki suddenly realized, “It’s the talented cartoonist Tori Akino. I often read your comics, and your drawings are very good.”

“We are still far away from you and me,” Hibiki Higashino said.

Araki’s style is unique. In addition to the muscular macho style of “Fist of the North Star”, it also has unique content.

For example, the famous Araki Line.

Draw lines on the character’s face to make it more three-dimensional and enrich the character’s expression.

This is an ability that Hibiki Higashino does not have.

Hibiki Higashino can only learn from the paintings of his predecessors now. When he talks about the characteristics, people will understand, “Oh! These are Tori Akino’s paintings.”

“Excuse me, what’s the matter with you?” Araki asked.

He is a very charming man, refined and well-groomed.

Don’t procrastinate and live life in a rhythm.

Higashino Hibiki admires this very much, so he came to look familiar.

“I am actually a loyal reader of the Jojo series, and I would like to ask you to sign it.”

Higashino Hibiki handed over a signed copy and waited expectantly.

One of the perks of being a cartoonist is that you can ask your colleagues for autographs.

“Thank you,” Araki said, writing “swish”.

I also took the time to draw a Q version of Kishibe Rohan.

This is his projection in the fourth comic of Jojo, the two-dimensional Araki.

“To Akino Tori, I wish you a happy life – Hirohiko Araki.”