"Matsuyama-san, didn't I say that you shouldn't bring up the topic of manga to me all day today?" Akira Toriyama raised his head and complained to the visitor.

The person who came was called Koji Matsuyama, who had been an assistant to Akira Toriyama for ten years, and the two had a deep friendship and were like-minded.

Koji Matsuyama didn't pay attention to Akira Toriyama's complaints, but smiled and raised the magazine in his hand: "Didn't you say that this issue of "Weekly Shonen Jump" will be given to you as soon as it arrives?

After the editing and typesetting of each issue of "Weekly Shonen Jump" is completed, all manga artists who have serialized it on Jump will get a sample issue a few days earlier than the general reader.

Because the original manuscript of the manga is different from the paper, magic water, etc. used in the printing house, the cartoonists need to make sure with their own eyes that their comics will actually look in magazines.

A volume of "Weekly Shonen Jump" has as many as four or five hundred pages, as thick as a brick, and even many animated film and television dramas use Jump magazine as a mat.

With such a large number of pages, the magazine was priced at 280 yen per copy in order to make it affordable for students with no regular income.

Then, in order to save costs, the paper of the magazine can only be used relatively poorly.

Some cartoonists, if the style of painting is too heavy and saturated, and the lines are complex, they may not be able to see anything in the original stage. However, on magazines printed on inferior paper and ink, they may look messy or even muddled, and the picture effect will be greatly reduced.

Jump cartoonists who live in Tokyo, such as Qin Han, got the current issue two or three days ago. However, Akira Toriyama lives in the countryside far away from Tokyo, so it is natural that the time to get the sample will be later.

When Akira Toriyama heard that the JUMP sample had arrived, he quickly got up, went to clean the oil on his hands, changed out of his dirty overalls, and put on his black-rimmed glasses, which were almost the same style as Aralei.

After packing up, he went to the living room with Koji Matsuyama, sat down on the sofa, and began to slowly flip through this issue of "Weekly Shonen Jump".

The cover of this issue is a family photo of "Midfield Core" drawn by Qin Han himself. Toriyama looked at it carefully for a while and said, "Very good, whether it is the proportions and structure of the human body, or the details of the characters' expressions, they are all perfect. There is also this style of painting, which is even more eye-catching. ”

Koji Matsuyama rarely saw Akira Toriyama praise a colleague like this, and he couldn't help but show a look of surprise at this time.

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

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

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

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

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

Koji Matsuyama actually bought a copy of Jump from the bookstore in advance today. He also has his own evaluation of the newly debuted serialized manga "Midfield Core".

At least, in terms of graphics, this comic has reached the top of today's Toei manga industry.

"There is really no shortage of geniuses in this industry...... he sighed in his heart.

Originally, Koji Matsuyama also planned to draw the ideas he had been thinking about after this year, and then submit them.

Although he works as an assistant for Akira Toriyama, earns a lot of money and has a stable life, who draws manga and doesn't want the manga he created to be published in magazines?

But after watching "Midfield Core", Koji Matsuyama dispelled this idea.

Working as an assistant for a long time has almost worn out his ambitions. Now that he sees a cartoonist in the new era like Qin Han, who is so good, he no longer has that thought.

Just when Koji Matsuyama's thoughts were flying, Akira Toriyama was also reading "Halftime Core" page after page, and then, because of this manga, exclamation marks popped up in his heart again and again.

"Qin and Han's narrative techniques are already very skillful. From the very beginning of the manga, it revolves around the main character, Tetsuto Oda, allowing the reader to concentrate and follow the protagonist's perspective and enter the world created by the author. If you have a large number of characters before the reader has enough interest and attention to the story, it will only distract the reader and make them feel that the story is chaotic and give up on ......"

While reading it, Akira Toriyama unconsciously began to examine this manga from a professional perspective.

After spending a few pages to introduce the main character, Tetsuto Oda's abilities, personality, family background, and interpersonal relationships, the first plot to promote the development of the story and stimulate the reader's interest in reading appeared.

Oda Tetsuto is the first in his grade.,Model scholar.,Extremely smart.,It's cold and unapproachable.,And because of family relationships.,There's no good friends.,It's hard to be interested in anything.。

Such a boy who seems to be an orphan child, but he has always had a crush on the manager of the football club, Reiko.

The biggest audience for juvenile comics is, of course, adolescent students. The elements of love and girls are extremely attractive to teenage boys.

At the beginning of the serialization of "Dragon Ball", it was still the funny route of "Aralei", and Akira Toriyama also considered attracting readers to add many welfare plots to such a manga. For example, Bulma bathing, turtle immortals peeping or something.

Therefore, he very much agrees with "Midfield Core", which uses girls as the initial plot driving force.

"What man didn't have a crush on a girl when he was a student? Qin Han's psychological portrayal of Oda Tetsuto is really vivid. Even if this protagonist is not ordinary in the setting, ordinary readers will still have a sense of substitution for him. ”

The protagonist has a girl he likes, and 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 interest at all.

Therefore, there must be a "villain", and there must be a "love enemy".

So, the girl that Tetsuto Oda has a crush on, Reiko's childhood sweetheart, the ace of the football team and the current bad boy Hayato Ryuzaki appears.

Reiko hopes that Hayato Tatsuzaki will return to the team and stop living a life of a thug who fights all day long. The two quarreled without saying a word, and Reiko was cried by Ryuzaki Hayabusa.

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

At this point, the first episode of "Midfield Core" ends.

Although there is a second sentence, just after reading these twenty pages, Akira Toriyama feels excited and excited.

The last time he had this kind of emotion, it was after watching "Fist of the North Dipper".

It was also inspired by "Hokuto God Fist" that Akira Toriyama changed the style of "Dragon Ball" and added the plot of the world's first martial arts club, making this manga truly brilliant.