"Monama Sang, didn't I say that I wouldn't mention comics to me all day today?" Akira Toriyama raised his head and complained to the person who came.

The person who came was named Takaji Matsuyama, who had been an assistant to Toriyama for ten years. The two had a deep friendship and were in a similar mood.

Takaji Matsuyama didn't care about Akira Toriyama's complaints, but just smiled and raised the magazine in his hand: "Didn't you say that this issue of "Weekly Boy Jump" will be given to you immediately after it arrives? Have you forgotten?"

After the editing and layout of each issue of "Weekly Boy Jump", all cartoonists who have serialized the jump will get a sample magazine a few days earlier than ordinary readers.

Because the original manuscript of comics is different from the paper, magic water, etc. used by the printing factory, cartoonists need to determine with their own eyes the actual effect of their comics being published in magazines.

A book called "Weekly Boy Jump" has four or five hundred pages, as thick as bricks. In many animation films and TV series, there are scenes where jump magazines are used as mats.

With so many pages, in order to make it affordable for students without fixed income, a low price of 280 yen per volume was set.

Then in order to save costs, you can only choose the paper of the magazine.

Some cartoonists may not be able to see anything in the original stage if their painting style is too strong and saturated and their lines are complicated. However, in inferior paper and ink-printed magazines, they may appear messy or even blurred, and the picture effect will be greatly reduced.

Jump cartoonists living in Tokyo, such as Qin Han, got the current sample magazine two or three days ago. However, Akira Toriyama lives in the countryside far away from Tokyo, so it will naturally be later to get the sample magazine.

When Toriyama heard that the jump sample had arrived, she quickly got up, went to clean the oil on her hands, changed out of her dirty work clothes, and put on black-framed glasses that were almost the same as Alari.

After packing up, he and Takaji Matsuyama went to the living room and sat on the sofa before he slowly began to read this issue of "Weekly Boy Jump".

The cover of this issue is a family portrait of "Midfield Core" hand-painted by Qin Han. Toriyama looked at it carefully for a while and said: "It's very good. Whether it is the proportion and structure of the human body, or the details of the expressions of the characters, they are all perfect. There is also this style of painting that makes people shine."

Takashi Matsuyama rarely saw Akira Toriyama praise a colleague like this, and at this time he couldn't help but look surprised.

In the past, Akira Toriyama had also been exposed to some paintings from the Qin and Han Dynasties, and he always expressed his appreciation for his style of painting that was ahead of the times.

But now it seems that it is not just the style of painting, but almost all the painting techniques that make Toriyama praise.

Akira Toriyama looked at the catalog and quickly turned to the serial page of "Midfield Core".

As soon as he saw the first color page, his eyes lit up and was deeply attracted.

"The color matching is very bright, but not dazzling. The overall style is bright and fresh, which is very consistent with the theme of campus sports comics... Teacher Qin Han's use of colors is really amazing!"

Takaji Matsuyama actually bought a jump from the bookstore in advance today. He also has his own comments on the newly released serial comic "Midfield Core".

At least, from the picture, this comic has reached the top of the Japanese comics industry today.

"This industry is really not short of geniuses..." He sighed in his heart.

Originally, Takaji Matsuyama also planned to draw out the creativity he had been conceiving in his mind after this year and then submit it to the publication.

Although he is an assistant to Toriyama, he has a great income and a stable life, who does not want the comics he created to appear in a magazine?

But after watching "Midfield Core", Takaji Matsuyama gave up this idea.

He has been working as an assistant for a long time and has almost wiped out his ambitions. Now seeing the new era cartoonist like Qin and Han, who are so outstanding, he no longer has the intention.

Just as Takaji Matsuyama was thinking, Akira Toriyama was also reading "Midfield Core" page after page, and then, his heart was filled with exclamation marks because of this comic again and again.

"The narrative techniques of Qin and Han dynasties are already very skillful. At the beginning of the comic, it revolves around the protagonist Oda Philosopher, allowing readers to concentrate and enter the world created by the author with the protagonist's perspective. If readers have not become interested in and focused enough in the story, they will appear in a large number of characters, which will only distract readers and make them feel that the story is chaotic and then give up..."

While reading, Toriyama began to examine the comic from a professional perspective.

After spending a few pages to introduce the protagonist Oda Philosopher, his abilities, personality, family background, and interpersonal relationships, the first plot that promotes the development of the story and stimulates readers' interest in reading appears.

Oda Philosopher - First grade, Model Academic Master, extremely smart, unacceptable, and because of family, he has no good friends, so he is difficult to get interested in anything.

Such a boy who seems to be lonely has always been in love with the manager of the football club, Riko.

The biggest audience of teenage comics is of course the adolescent students. Elements such as love and girls are extremely attractive to teenage boys.

At the beginning of the series "Dragon Ball", I took the funny route of "Alarei". Toriyama also considered attracting readers and added many welfare plots to such a comic, such as Bulma's bathing, Turtle Fairy's peeping, etc.

Therefore, he agrees with "Midfield Core" using girls as the early plot driving force.

"Which man didn't have a girl he had a crush on when he was a student? Qin Han's psychological portrayal of Oda Philosopher was really vivid. Even if the protagonist is not ordinary in terms of setting, ordinary readers will still feel like he is substituted for him."

The protagonist has a girl he likes. If the story continues to develop and the two people gradually get to know each other and fall in love, it will be an ordinary love story with no highlights.

Therefore, there must be "villains" and "love rivals".

So, the girl Oda's crush on, Reiko's childhood sweetheart, once the trump card of the football team, and now the bad boy - Ryuzaki Hayato, appeared.

Reiko hopes that Ryuzaki Hayato can return to the team and don’t live a life of gangsters who fight all day long. The two quarreled with each other, and Reiko was popular with Ryuzaki Hayato.

And this scene happened to be seen by our protagonist, Oda Philosopher.

Here, the first episode of "Midfield Core" ends.

Although there is still a second episode, after just reading these twenty pages, Toriyama felt excited and excited.

The last time he had this kind of emotion, he was after watching "The Big Dipper Fist".
Chapter completed!