Masashi Karata (Masashi Kawada) is a giant who reaches a height of 2.1 meters and weighs more than 130kg.

Although Ikebana has excellent physical fitness, he still feels a little difficult in the face of such a Big Mac, and He Tianji has a fairly accurate mid-pitch in addition to the advantage of weight, and Ikebana has suffered a lot for this.

It wasn't until Hanamichi was reminded by Mu Gangxian that he relied on his core strength to resist He Tianji's waist and make the 210cm giant unable to turn around, which prevented He Tianji's role on the offensive end, and at the same time, in terms of offense, he used his flexible steps to break through the bulky He Tianji, which stabilized the situation.

At the end of the first half, the score of the two teams was 34:36, and the Xiangbei team had a 2-point advantage, leading Shangong.

The competition has never been so tight, and with SLAM DUNK on the back, Shonen Leap has miraculously steadied sales at 4.8 million copies.

With the exception of Shonen Leap, most of the other magazines sold less than 1 million copies a week — and the market for print magazines is shrinking further as webtoons are popularized.

For this reason, Tachibana Shin, as the editor-in-chief of Shonen Leap, is quite satisfied with this sales, but he also knows that it is closely related to the magazine's excellent manga, and "SLAM DUNK" and "Eternal Gate" are the two pillars of "Shonen Leap".

Of course, things like "The Strongest Pitcher", "Young Exorcist" and "Steam Age" also have extremely high standards, but, in Tachibana's opinion, the number of high-quality comics is still not enough.

There have to be more and better comics, and as far as the money goes...... What can be solved with money is not a thing.

During the time he took over Shonen Leap, he also discovered some newcomers, but the newcomers never reached the heights of the above five comics. Therefore, Tachibana Gentry is also in a hurry.

After flipping through the materials of the signed author of "Shonen Leap", Tachibana Shin's eyes fell on the name of Shinichi Konishi, who had just picked up the pen and prepared to circle the line, and the sales staff took the report and walked into the editorial office.

"Editor-in-chief, this is the sales table of this week's single book." The salesperson handed two copies of the report to Tachibana Shen, "The other is the first version of the new single book. ”

"Oh." Tachibana took the report and took a general look at it, except for the first edition of "The Strongest Pitcher", which was 500,000 copies, the first edition of other manga was 200,000 copies.

Needless to say, this batch of single-line books is the kind of manga that sells fairly well, but compared with pillar comics such as "SLAM DUNK" and "The Gate of Eternal Life", it is much worse.

Like what......

Tachibana Shin glanced at another report, "SLAM DUNK" Volume 25 has been on sale for 3 weeks, but it can still sell 200,000 copies, ranking second on the weekly sales list, this is the strength.

After flipping through it twice and finding that there was nothing to say, Tachibana signed it and returned the report to the salesperson, and then he looked at the materials of the signed manga artist.

"By the way, Yoneya, Konishi-sensei's contract expires early next year. Do you have an idea for the new work? Tachibana took the pen and put a triangle in front of Shinichi's name.

"Mr. Konishi is already preparing a new manga, but the effect is not very good, and it is still being revised."

Yoneya Tsubaki, the editor in charge of Shinichi Konishi, heard Tachibana Sentry call him and involuntarily sat up straight.

"Really?" Tachibana gin rubbed his chin and continued to sweep his gaze downward, "You go and tell Mr. Konishi and ask him to come over and renew the contract when he has free time." ”

As Shinichi Konishi, who once created the best-selling work "The Sin of Delusion", Tachibana Shin will definitely not let go easily, unless, Shinishi Konishi proves that he is exhausted and can't draw better comics.

"Okay." Miya Tsubaki nodded hurriedly, secretly glanced at Tachibana Sentry, and saw that he was looking down at the information, he hesitated again and again in his heart, and couldn't help but say, "Editor-in-chief, there is one thing, Mr. Konishi asked me to ask." ”

"What's the matter?" Tachibana Gin still had his head bowed.

"That's right, so far, the magazine doesn't seem to have invited Mr. Shen to participate in the annual meeting. Can you invite him over this year? Anyway, "SLAM DUNK" is also serialized in "Shonen Leap", so you can't say nothing, right? Besides, cartoonists should also want to meet Mr. Shen. Mitani Tsubaki thought twice and said this sentence.

If it weren't for Konishi Shin's repeated requests for him, he wouldn't want to touch the mold of Tachibana Gentry.

At that time, Shen Zheng had a very bad relationship with the magazine because of the animation, and the initiator was Tachibana Gentry. If it weren't for Murakami's forcible decision to settle the matter, no one is sure how big this matter would have been in the end.

It can even be said that the reason why Tachibana Shen was punished internally has a lot to do with Shen Zheng.

Therefore, there are two problems in inviting Shen Zheng.

First, can Tachibana Gentry overcome this hurdle in his heart and is willing to invite Shen Zheng over; Second, even if the Tachibana Gentry agrees, Shen Zheng is still unsure whether he is willing to come over, he can find a reason to refuse at will, there is no need to make a special trip.

Of course, if Tachibana agrees, it is equivalent to half of the completion, and the next thing depends on Shen Zheng's attitude, if it really doesn't work, you can only ask Murakami to pass.

All things considered, Tachibana Gentleman's opinion is the most critical.

"Teacher Shen?" Tachibana Gentry raised his head with a solemn expression, "Invite him over?" ”

"yes. We have cooperated with Mr. Shen for more than these years. In fact, we have cooperated since "Chess Soul", but Mr. Shen has never attended our annual meeting, and I think most cartoonists are not very familiar with Mr. Shen, right? Mr. Konishi has also been reading Mr. Shen's comics, but he has never met, which is a little regrettable. Miya Tsubaki said stiffly.

Hearing this, the Tachibana gentry nodded, his expression solemn, but he did not make a sound.

Mi Gu Tsubaki grinned, if he couldn't even pass the level of Tachibana Gentry, let alone Shen Zheng's side.

In fact, Tachibana Sentry is also entangled.

At that time, the incident had a bad impact on both parties, and Shen Zheng even said that "if the winter episode is not released, he will completely refuse to make an animation of "SLAM DUNK", which also brought him great pressure.

THE RESULT IS GOOD, THE ANIMATION OF "SLAM DUNK" IS EXTREMELY POPULAR IN CHINA, HUAXIA AND OMI, AND THE SALES OF THE SINGLE BOOK HAVE EXCEEDED 2 MILLION COPIES, EVEN MORE POTENTIAL THAN "THE GATE OF ETERNAL LIFE", WHICH ALSO PROVES THAT SHEN ZHENG'S ORIGINAL JUDGMENT WAS CORRECT.

However, Shen Zheng was invited...... He couldn't open his mouth, and even if he did, in view of the contradictions between the two sides, Shen Zheng was reluctant to come.

Just when Tachibana was hesitating, Miyamoto Taira, whose desk was in front of him, suddenly spoke: "Editor-in-chief Tachibana, do I think you should try it?" Anyway...... It's just a question, if Mr. Shen doesn't agree, we don't have a loss, but what if we agree? ”

Kotani Qianmei looked at Miyamoto Ping with a bewildered expression, why did this guy suddenly speak for Shen Xin?