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Chapter 4 You Have the Potential to Become Akira Toriyama
"Please."

Torishima Kazuhiko handed Higashino a business card.

Higashino took it with both hands, "Sorry, I don't have a business card."

"It doesn't matter," he said proudly, pointing to his brain, "I keep your situation in my mind."

"Sounds scary..." Higashino looked at the business card and muttered, "Kazuhiko Torishima, editor-in-chief of "VJUMP", call..."

Torishima Kazuhiko nodded with a smile: "It's me."

"It turned out to be the editor-in-chief," Higashino looked at his face, "Is he only 50 years old? He is really young and promising."

Torishima Kazuhiko said with a dark face, "I am 42 years old..."

"I'm sorry, I'm joking," Higashino waved his hand, "I'm just curious, why the editor-in-chief of "VJUMP" came to me when the manuscript was obviously submitted by "Weekly Shonen Jump"."

Kazuhiko Torishima didn’t answer directly, he bent down, took out a brown paper bag from his bag, and said, “In 1978, I loved reading and hoped to join Wenyichunqiu as an editor.

It's a pity that I couldn't do what I wanted, and finally ended up in a comic magazine full of violence and sex - "Weekly Shonen Jump". "

Higashino scratched his head, not knowing why.I just feel that without the protection of hair, my bare head is very fragile.

Kazuhiko Torishima sighed, "I, the rookie editor, saw a rookie manga."

"Obviously, it borrowed from the popular "Star Wars" at the time, and the content was naive and boring, but I found the advantages in it. By the way, have you heard of the comic "Rajack the Mystery"?"

He suddenly changed the subject, supported his head, and looked at Higashi Higashi playfully.

"No." Higashino shook his head, he looked towards the kitchen, why hasn't his fried rice arrived after so long?

"I don't think so," Torishima Kazuhiko said triumphantly, "it's this little-known manga that couldn't win the manga award at all and was rejected by other editors. But I contacted the author, who didn't want to be bound by the company to create a direction." people."

"Three-dimensional characters and three-dimensional onomatopoeia are nothing now. But no one used them at that time. So I was as excited as if I had discovered a treasure."

"After more than a year of hard work, in 1980, he finally handed in a long-term serial comic. Do you know what it is?"

Higashino Hibiki was bored, "I don't know."

Torishima Kazuhiko patted the table, saying every word, ""Arale"!"

"Oh!" Higashino stood up excitedly.

Torishima Kazuhiko closed his eyes, crossed his arms and nodded contentedly.

"My fried rice finally arrived."

After receiving the fried rice from the waiter, looking at the stunned Kazuhiko Torishima, he put the fried rice in his pocket and said carefully, "Mr. Torishima's is tonkotsu ramen."

"I don't want to steal your fried rice!" He shouted loudly, "Didn't you react when you heard "Alalei"!"

""Arale"?" The uncle sitting next to him squeezed his chin, looked at Kazuhiko Torishima, his eyes lit up, "Are you Dr. Marcilet's cosplay? The reproduction is really high! Can we take a photo together?"

"No." Torishima Kazuhiko refused with a black face, and then murmured to himself in a low voice, "One day, I will hack that guy to death."

The uncle at the table next door lowered his head regretfully.

Higashino looked innocently at Kazuhiko Torishima, "I don't usually read manga..."

"I don't like reading manga, why do I want to participate in the monthly rewards?" Torishima Kazuhiko held his forehead in distress.

The newcomer in front of him is getting more and more outrageous.

"Mr. Torishima, who doesn't like manga, why did he become a manga editor?"

"It's for a meal."

"Me too."

Seeing Higashino Higashi buried his head in cooking, Torishima and Yanming realized, "The reason why you came to see me is to let me treat you to dinner."

"Of course not, I've been hungry for a long time. In order to see you soon, I endured hunger, and now I can't hold back." Higashino chewed the fried rice, with a grain of rice at the corner of his mouth, looking very convincing, very "serious" serious".

Torishima Kazuhiko frowned, and asked unwillingly: "What about "Dragon Ball", you must know this!"

"Oh! Goku! Of course I know this!"

Kakarot of "The Bearded Ghost", this is the protagonist of his favorite cartoon when he was a child.

All kinds of animals and strange vehicles are full of endless imagination.

The first world first martial arts meeting and the second world first martial arts meeting are full of wonderful battle scenes.

There are also seven dragon balls that can make a wish.

Everything is a boy's dream when he was a child.

"Well, what I'm talking about is "Dragon Ball," Torishima Kazuhiko breathed a sigh of relief, "That's how I found out the author of "Dragon Ball" Akira Toriyama."

He pointed at Hibiki Higashino, "After reading your manga, I think you are the former Akira Toriyama! You have the potential."

Facing the serious Kazuhiko Torishima, Higashino said calmly, "Please let me watch "Battle of Gods and Men."

At this moment, Higashino had finished eating the fried rice in less than 3 minutes. He stretched out his hand and looked at the kraft paper bag in Torishima Kazuhiko's hand.

Although it was strange to be so calm to the person in front of him, Kazuhiko Torishima still handed over the manga manuscript to Higashino.

Higashino looked around, took out a tissue, wiped his hands clean, took it with both hands, and then read the manga seriously.

After a long time, Kazuhiko Torishima had finished his tonkotsu ramen and was bored.

"I think you are TPC me." Higashino said.

The content of "Battle of Gods" is very simple, that is, 800 gods sacrificed to kill human beings. At a critical moment, a village named Shendai Village kept the ultimate weapon against the gods.

The protagonist Kurata Isi is the chosen one.

Very routine and boring story.

Moreover, the storyboard is very poor, and it is impossible to think of the content of the battle at all.

Often the battle has just begun, and after a scene, the winner has already been decided.

There are a lot of words, and Higashino's eyes are dazzled, and he doesn't know where to start.

The only advantage is that his painting skills are very good.

It doesn't look like a manga drawn by a high school student, with a strong personal style, which is not lost to the manga artists who are serializing.

But even so, it certainly cannot be seen that he has the potential to rival Akira Toriyama.

"You have to believe me!" Torishima Kazuhiko looked at him sincerely, "As the editor-in-chief of manga, I definitely didn't lie to you, a child, just because I was idle and doing nothing."

Higashino supported his chin and looked at the female high school students coming and going outside the window, it seemed that it was the end of club activities.

Higashino was fascinated by these students with their youthful and heroic beauty.

Certainly not because of the whiteness and tenderness of Absolute Domain.

Higashino, thinking that it would be great if there was a gust of wind, said to Kazuhiko Torishima, "Being the editor-in-chief of "VJUMP" is boring, so I went to screen and submit manga."

"Hmm." He nodded subconsciously.

(End of this chapter)