Full-time comic artist

Among the submitted works, I saw a familiar name, and the address was also in Meguro Ward, Tokyo.

The comics he draws also possess a talent that is difficult for ordinary people to match.

Most importantly, hopefully it will bring back the talents he had as a child.

As children grow older, the spark of their childhood is extinguished by time.

"Unfortunately, I am not the same Higashino Hibiki I used to be. Besides, manga is not an art exhibition or a sale of artwork. Higashino Hibiki's drawing skills are sufficient now."

As long as you master the basics and learn Akira Toriyama's cinematic language, that's enough.

He closed his eyes and sorted out his thoughts again.

After that, he put the matter out of his mind and started memorizing history books.

"Ok?"

He suddenly discovered that his memory had become much, much stronger.

I've only read it twice, but the time and details of the events are already in my mind.

Surprised, he turned to the next page and read about the ostracism law of the Greek city-state of Athens.

I memorized the rest after reading only half of it.

This is what I learned in my previous life, which I thought I had long forgotten. But now I know it all clearly, as if I've returned to high school when I first memorized it.

"Could it be because the souls of two lifetimes are superimposed?" Higashino Hibiki thought to himself.

He possessed a talent he had long admired.

By carefully recalling, I remembered all the embarrassing things that I had forgotten about in junior high school.

Girl A liked him and confessed her feelings, but he rejected her. At that time, a student's duty was to study hard and make progress every day.

Girl A asked, "Do you like B?"

Then she buried her face in her arms on the table and burst into tears.

When B saw A crying, he questioned, "Did you make A cry?"

So they started playfully fighting.

Seeing this, A cried even more bitterly.

So B got even angrier and started fighting even more fiercely.

This has created a vicious cycle, leaving Hibiki Higashino embarrassed and unsure of what to do.

In the end, he was criticized and denounced.

Higashino Hibiki shuddered. "Forget it, forget it!"

This talent isn't all good.

More of his dark past slowly surfaced, and Higashino sighed as he walked down the stairs.

The roads in the countryside are perfect for running.

But less than 20 minutes later, he came back with a long face and one leg longer than the other.

His right foot was covered in cow dung...

In the countryside, it would be a miracle if there wasn't cow dung on the road.

Hibiki Higashino, washing his shoes in the backyard at night, added another embarrassing chapter to his history...

……

The next morning, Hibiki Higashino returned to the Toriyama house after his run.

Yumi Toriyama is preparing breakfast: fried croquettes and milk.

So they rushed over to help.

"What a good child." Toriyama Yumi nodded with a smile. "I wish my child was as sensible as you."

"I'm quite lazy at home too. Are your kids here?"

"Oh, they went on vacation to Okinawa."

That's great, even during an economic crisis, we can still afford to send our children on trips.

Hibiki Higashino also hopes to become that kind of person, someone who can take good care of their family no matter what.

Only family and money are indispensable.

The breakfast at Toriyama's house is very lively.

Akira Toriyama was originally a very easygoing person.

People who grow up in the countryside and achieve success find it difficult to become introverted.

“There’s a river at the east end of the village. You can go and play there. After all, people from Tokyo don’t have this kind of opportunity, hahaha.”

“I’m here to be your assistant,” Hibiki Higashino replied, turning to Akemi Akemi and asking her to cooperate with him.

Unexpectedly, her eyes darted around, "I've never been to the riverbank..."

She looked very excited.

Akira Toriyama laughed heartily, "Hahaha, Ms. Akimiya is very interesting. But you, Mr. Higashino, shouldn't be so reserved at such a young age."

“There’s no rush to draw comics, Higashino-kun, why don’t you go with her?” Toriyama Yumi said.

"Yes." Hibiki Higashino could only agree.

"Yay!" Akemi Akemi cheered, raising her arms.

"Hahaha."

……

Akemi Akemi found everything fascinating; she couldn't stop watching an old woman picking cucumbers in the field.

"Has Ms. Akimiya never been to the countryside?" Hibiki Higashino asked curiously.

Akemi Akemi didn't answer. Instead, she tugged at Higashino Hibiki's sleeve, pointed to the side, and asked excitedly, "Higashino-kun, what's that?"

"Which one?"

"It's long, hanging down, and green! I've never seen anything like it before!"

"Oh, it's cowpeas."

"Where is that one? Where is that one!"

"eggplant."

"Oh! Isn't it purple?"

"That's the green eggplant variety."

"The one over there!"

"Next to it?" Higashino Hibiki hesitated. The large, golden flower was flamboyant and was about the size of two palms. Higashino Hibiki had no idea what kind of vegetable could grow such a large flower.

He shook his head.

"Higashino-kun doesn't know either," Akemi Akemi sighed regretfully.

She suddenly saw a butterfly and pounced on it.

Higashino Hibiki was still paying attention to the flower, so he walked over to examine it.

Then, with a "whoosh," Akemi Akimiya, dressed in a tan-colored top, returned.

"I...I didn't notice the stone...and I fell!"

Are you a little kid from somewhere?

Higashino covered his head and noticed that the big flower suddenly started moving upwards, and with a "whoosh," it grew out of the vegetable garden.

Akemi Akemi was startled and hid behind Hibiki Higashino.

"This isn't a flower, it's my hat."

A wild girl with fair and delicate skin appeared, wearing a hat decorated with golden flowers and an expressionless face.

She stood gracefully in the vegetable garden, holding a Polaroid camera in her hand.

Higashino asked curiously, "What are you doing?"

“To gather material,” the girl replied. She walked out of the vegetable garden, took a photo from her Polaroid camera, and handed it to Higashino Hibiki.

It's a praying mantis, catching aphids, and I captured it in a very vivid way.

The girl took the photo back from Higashino Hibiki's hand and said calmly, "Goodbye, Higashino-kun."

Chapter 10 The Process of Drawing Comics

“She knows you,” Akemi Akemi said quietly as she emerged from behind Hibiki Higashino.

“You said my name,” Higashino pointed at her dirty clothes. “Are you alright?”

"what!"

So, as soon as I came out, I went back to Toriyama's house to change my clothes.

……

Pencils, black ink, white ink, G-pencils, French curve rulers, halftone paper...

Numerous tools were scattered in a large pile.

The large drawing table thus became cluttered.

I've heard there's a tool called a graphics tablet, which is much more convenient than hand-drawing. Technology in 1993 was really too backward.

"Why don't you draw the background first, Higashino-kun?"

Akira Toriyama disliked drawing backgrounds during battles, as he considered it tedious and meaningless work.

After the third World Martial Arts Tournament, Akira Toriyama changed Goku's character design to that of a Saiyan.

With increased combat power, characters can fly into the air to fight, eliminating the need for backgrounds.