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Chapter 254 Drawing is Interesting and the End of the Year

Yamamura hung up the phone without hesitation.

The next Saturday, Sasaki and Higashino talked about the next episode of "Slam Dunk", and also mentioned this matter, and Yamamura has already put it into action.

Thinking of this incident, Higashino sighed in his heart, "He is still so decisive."

The matter of the mountain village guarding the road came to an end.

Higashino turned his head to look at Akane Nakajima with a puzzled look.

"It's been eight days..."

After that day, when Akane Nakajima went to Higashino's house, she spent less time reading manga, and Higashino could often see her writing and drawing.

When watching today, Akane Nakajima has improved a lot compared to eight days ago.

There is still a big difference between being a layman and learning to paint with heart.

For example, now, when drawing characters, Akane Nakajima can draw the head-to-body ratio and outline.

Although it is still a very rough painting, it does not have the previous distorted posture.

When painting landscape objects, she also understands shadows.

Higashino Hibiki was stunned, she was really concentrating on learning painting.

"Why did you suddenly learn to draw?"

Higashino walked to Akane Nakajima and asked in a low voice.

During this period of time, Akemi Akimiya was teaching Akane Nakajima to draw, and Higashino wanted to know the motivation behind Akane Nakajima's painting.

Akane Nakajima curled her lips when she heard Higashino's question, "It's all because of my teacher."

She told Higashi Higashi what the teacher had taught her.

"I want to learn how to draw, and sooner or later I will impress her!"

"Ambition," Higashino rubbed her head, "But your teacher is going too far."

For a moment, he thought of his former teacher.

Why can't a slap be made, why doesn't he ask you to find someone else?

Such a teacher puts his own ideas on the students' heads without asking in detail, and judges based on his own experience.

In other words, teachers do not see themselves and their students as equals.

"Yeah!" Akane Nakajima nodded fiercely.

Higashino asked her if she wanted to learn manga from herself, and Akane Nakajima shook her head.

"Sister Mingmei draws better."

Higashino Hibiki: "..."

He looked aside, Akemi Akimiya raised two fingers and said "yeah".

……

At six o'clock in the afternoon, Akane Nakajima is going home to study and do her homework.

Before leaving, Higashino stopped her and gave her a picture.

"This is a painting I sent to your teacher."

Akane Nakajima took it, looked at it curiously, and found that the painting was a picture of Rukawa Kaede and Sendo Akira fighting a bull in a field field.

There is also the signature of Mirai Akino in the lower right corner.

"Mr. Bird Akino, why?" Akane Nakajima was puzzled.

"So be it,"

Higashino didn't answer her, clapped his hands, and went back to work.

……

on Monday.

Mr. Tazawa walked into the office angrily.

"What a mess!"

"What's wrong?" The colleague who was watching the jump looked away and asked concerned.

"Akane Nakajima in our class," she handed the wrinkled manuscript to her colleagues, complaining, "I told her a few words, but she even lied to me."

The colleague slowly understood what had happened, and comforted him, "Don't be angry, it's not worth it."

But when he saw the original manuscript, he couldn't help being stunned, "The painting is really good."

In the painting, Rukawa Kaede holds the ball and is trying to break through the defensive fairy road.

The expressions of the characters, the direction of the footsteps, the messy clothes, and the sweat stains are all clearly drawn.

This is not something that ordinary people can draw, and it has the style of Mirai Akino Tori in it.

"A good painting is a fake!" Tian Ze said angrily.

"Hmm," the colleague nodded, looking at the manuscript thoughtfully, "Isn't it?"

He flipped through the jump and pointed to a large-scale painting to show Tian Ze, "Is this the content of "Slam Dunk"?"

After entering the national competition in Shonhoku, Rukawa Kaede wanted to go to the United States.

Coach Anxi kept him.

And said, "You are still... not as good as Xiandao classmate..."

Because of this sentence, Rukawa Feng found Xiandao and played one-on-one with him.

Fighting from day to night, the two were evenly divided.

The colleague looked at the signed painting of Bird Akino Mirai in front of him, and the content was the plot of the latest episode.

"It takes at least 40 minutes to draw such a picture, and the ink marks on the painting are all dry." A colleague asked, "Tian Zesan, when did you get it?"

Tian Ze opened her mouth. She got it at 08:30, and "Weekly Shonen Jump" was released at 8 o'clock, which means...

With a cold face, she snatched back the painting, and was about to stuff it into her bag, but finally stopped, put it in the book, and kept it carefully.

Then she snorted coldly and walked out of the office.

The colleague looked at her eagerly until she left, and couldn't help but "cut".

"Looking at her attitude, she will definitely not apologize."

"However, that is the signature painting of Tori Akino Mirai."

……

After school on Monday, Akane Nakajima ran to Higashi Hibiki's studio excitedly.

She said Mr. Tazawa seemed to have apologized to her.

"Thank you for the sketch you gave to the teacher."

With such a sentence, she should be apologizing, right?
Akane Nakajima smiled silly.

But she still will not give up learning to paint.

It was the first time she was so sad and powerless to be considered a lie but had no ability to prove it.

"Besides," the little girl raised her head and said to Higashino: "Drawing is quite interesting, much more interesting than watching A Gang's football match!"

"You've grown up." Higashino said.

……

"Rukawa Kaede has changed, it's no longer the old Rukawa Kaede." Looking at the jump, Kazuya Takasugi sighed.

Starting from the Battle of the Mountain King, every player in Xiangbei has his own mental journey.

Rukawa Kaede, who had been guarding Sanwang ace Zebei, finally became weak in the last few minutes of the game under the huge pressure and blow.

Rukawa Kaede has a strong personal ability, offensive and defensive.

This created his lone wolf style of play.

When he broke through the opponent's defense, he rarely passed the ball to his teammates.

This is what he believes in himself.

This has also been confirmed in previous games.

In the duel with Zebei, he never broke through Zebei's defense, nor did he defend Zebei's offense once.

With Rukawa Feng, Zebei scored repeatedly.

This reminded Rukawa Feng of his one-on-one match with Xiandao.

He and Xiandao were tied.

Before Xiandao left, Rukawa Feng asked: "In the national competition, will there be someone stronger than you?"

"There is such a person. When I was in junior high school, I met a guy that even I couldn't beat. His name is... Kitazawa!"

In the game, Zebei Eiji scored a goal and the score came to 55:73.

"Zebei is right! Idiot!" Rukawa Feng's eyes widened.

……

Rukawa Feng's fighting spirit did not waver.

He is comparable to Xiandao, but Coach Anxi said that he is not as good as Xiandao.

Here in Xiandao, Rukawa Feng got the answer.

"If there was a one-on-one basketball game, I don't think anyone can beat you."

"But in an actual official game, are you really unstoppable?"

The status quo and Xiandao's guidance changed the stubborn Rukawa Kaede.

Rukawa Kaede held the ball, and at the last moment, he unexpectedly passed the basketball to Akagi.

"I am the only man in heaven and earth who can pass the ball!"

Rukawa Feng has more offensive methods.

Zebei Eiji defended Rukawa Kaede from breaking through in front of him, and at the same time he had to be distracted that Rukawa Kaede would pass the ball, which made him no longer have the strong suppression power he had before.

Rukawa Kaede, who can pass the ball, broke through from the left side of his body!
……

"How can there be a feeling of "Slam Dunk" being perfect..." Kazuya Takasugi finished reading the manga, and while shouting excitedly for Kaede Rukawa's changes, he couldn't help but have such an idea in his heart.

The current Xiangbei has finally become a team in the constant running-in of the game.

A person's advantages will become the team's advantages, and his shortcomings will be made up by the team.

Xiangbei is stronger than ever.

At the same time, the five main players have eliminated their psychological barriers and grown up.

"Consummated? How could I think so..."

Takasugi muttered, "Slam Dunk has just begun."

He also wanted to see the moment when Xiangbei won the national championship.

He pushed the thought to the back of his mind.

But there is a faint thought that "Slam Dunk" ends here, and it seems that there is no problem.

After letting go of jump, he started to study further.

When it was six o'clock in the afternoon, Takasugi Kazuya also turned on the TV. He was pleasantly surprised to find that there was news of the rebroadcast of "Slam Dunk" on the TV.

It's early October!
In April, "Slam Dunk" stopped broadcasting, and now it's October, half a year has passed.

Takasugi Kazuya thought about it, he still knew the animation clips of the 126th episode of "Slam Dunk", as if it was yesterday when he watched it.

"Really been waiting!"

……

"Sure enough, it's early October!"

"This is the best news I've heard in September!"

"Finally it's rebroadcast! I feel like a century has passed!"

There were cheers and encouragements on the Internet, as if they had encountered some great joy.

In the torment of many people, the time came to early October.

On the second day after the 127th episode of "Slam Dunk" was broadcast, Director Inoue was surprised to find that this episode broke the ratings record of the previous 126 episodes, reaching 26.7%!

It seems that it is not as good as "Soul of Chess".

But today is different from the past, children are busy with various training classes, and they have no time to watch TV on weekdays.

The average audience rating in previous episodes was 17.7%, and the highest audience rating was 24.4%. Kaede Inoue did not expect to resume the broadcast after the suspension, and the audience rating reached a new record.

"What a great news!"

……

66:74，在最后的2分钟50秒里，湘北还落后8分。

Still have to chase.

Rukawa Feng started to organize, and under Yingmu Huadao's wonderful performance, Xiangbei began to counterattack again.

This is the plot of "Slam Dunk" in early December 2000.

……

In the Shogakukan, the jury for the 2001 "Shogakukan Manga Award" began to be formed.

The editors of "Weekly Shonen Sunday", "Girls COMIC", "YOUNGSUNDAY", "Dragonman CORO-CORO", "BIG COMIC ORIGINAL" and other magazines under the Shogakukan sat together and began to discuss the quota of works for the next edition.

"I'll nominate the work of the youth department first," said the editor-in-chief of the youth sunday, "It's "Detective Conan" by Mr. Aoyama Gosho of our magazine."

"Detective Conan" was an unexpected success, and even Gosho Aoyama did not expect it to be so popular with readers.

It seems that in "Detective Conan", readers have become detective fans.

And "Detective Conan", which needs to imagine the way of committing crimes every week, is a test of the cartoonist's accumulation and creativity.

If "Detective Conan" hadn't been released as a movie, Gosho Aoyama would have almost given up serializing this work.

Even for detective comics, this work has become a hit at the national level.

"Detective Conan" has been released every year since 1997, and by 2000 there have been three.

A fourth part is also in production.

Visible reader support.

"Hmm." The editors of other comic magazines nodded.

There was no possibility of this work not being selected, and it passed quickly.

During their continuous discussion, the award-winning work in the children's department was also determined, which was "Biography of the Leader at the End of the Century" by Shimabukuro.

The girl's direction is "Phantom of the Dark River" by Chie Shinohara.

The general direction is Urasawa Naoki's "Monster MONSTER".

"Reckless Angel by Mr. Hiroyuki Nishisumi is also very good," someone suggested.

Nishisen Hiroyuki is also a cartoonist who is active in "Weekly Shonen Sunday". In 1993, he became famous with the serial "I am Big Brother".

"Reckless Angel" has the same style as "I Am Big Brother", and it is also a funny and contrasting cartoon, which has a large audience.

"There are probably two works in the Boys' Xiang section of the Manga Awards this year." Editor-in-Chief Sunday made a decision.

Of all the manga categories, of course the shonen-oriented manga is the most popular.

Girl manga is famous such as "Sailor Moon", with a total of 18 volumes and an overall sales volume of 1200 million copies.

The average sales volume is less than 100 million.

There is a huge gap between shoujo manga and shounen manga.

Among all the awards, the juvenile department has the most gold content.

Now, in the division of works, the chief editors of Xiaoxiaoguan are of course more inclined to their own comics.

The meeting ended, some people got up, and some chatted about the daily life.

Everything is in exceptional harmony.

"Wait! Have we left someone behind? The very important one?"

……

At the end of December, Akemi Akimiya was very excited. She stood in front of the mirror and looked at her clothes from different angles.

"How?" She asked Higashino excitedly.

"Very nice." Higashino took a look and gave a thumbs up.

"Are you serious?" Akemi Akimiya pouted.

"I'm serious," Higashino said helplessly.

When he glanced at it, he thought it was pretty, but after telling the truth, the women didn't accept it.

Men have to organize their language and talk about the advantages and disadvantages of the clothes they wear from a professional point of view.

Higashino had to watch carefully, and saw her small square-toed leather shoes from Akemi Akimiya's chest.

"Do you want to wear leather shoes?" Higashino Hibiki was startled.

Wearing leather shoes is uncomfortable. Akemi Akimiya draws manga at home with slippers, but when she goes out she wears sneakers or boots.

Higashino Higashino didn't even see Akemi Akimiya wearing high heels.

"Well," Akemi Akimiya nodded lightly, "doesn't it look professional in this way?"

"No need," Higashino waved his hand, "You can come however you feel comfortable. Shueisha's New Year's meeting is just to make everyone happy in the New Year, not to give a report."

That's right, in a few days, Akemi Akimiya will participate in the Shueisha New Year's Party as a manga artist!

(End of this chapter)