Chapter 602: Basketball theme? Don’t be ridiculous
Hearing that Mrs. Yukino had a poor appetite, Oda Shingo thought that Hokkaido was far enough away that he should be able to get there in time: “Shall I buy you some cakes and send them over?”

But I can’t afford a cake with gold foil at the moment, so I can just buy one that costs tens of thousands of yen.

“…No, it will be fine soon.” Mrs. Yukino chuckled as she spoke, and she didn’t seem to mind that the man on the other side of the microphone was not romantic.

After chatting a few more words about the animation of “The Burial of Frillen”, Oda Shingo unexpectedly discovered that Mrs. Yukino had been concerned about the progress of the animation, and even said that the studio had completed all the storyboards for the first episode yesterday.

The animation was made faster than I expected, and the voice actors were in place. Even the singers were already found.

“Yoshioka Seiko came for an audition. I thought she sounded good, and the animation director approved her.” Mrs. Yukino didn’t know whether she said it on purpose or casually.

“Yoshioka Seiko? Who?” Oda Shingo pretended to be stupid.

Mrs. Yukino didn’t mind his little thought: “It’s the female singer who sang “Blue Bird”. She is not signed to any company, and there is no commission for using her.”

Shingo Oda recalled the voice of Seiko Yoshioka, and found that the OP and END songs of “The Burial of Frillen” were very suitable for her.

However, these two songs, or rather three songs – because one of the OPs was cancelled early due to collective protests from comic fans – are only excellent, and have not yet reached the level of divine songs.

However, Shingo Oda knew how powerful the songs from “Slam Dunk” were.

As the saying goes, half of the top ten hits of the year come from “Slam Dunk”.

When “SLAMDUNK” was animated, half of the annual golden songs charts were occupied by it.

Other cartoons are almost not worth watching. Of course, this is also related to the popularity of the animation, but the more important thing is that the quality of the songs is really high. They are still being sung even after almost 30 years.

After Oda Shingo hung up the phone, he took out a blank piece of paper and started writing more Slam Dunk song scores.

After writing, he instructed: “Yuko, these three songs are also the theme songs of “Slam Dunk”. Send them to the agency for official registration, and then arrange them with the main publication department of Springfield Books.”

“‘No One Can Control Me’…‘Just Staring at You’…‘Until the End of the World’…” Yuko Mikami looked at the song titles on the manuscript, her face turning a little red.

The title of the song sounded a bit like a love letter. She tried to sing the tune softly and thought it was quite good.

Fujido Kaoru came over and grabbed Oda Shingo’s neck: “Hey, hey, didn’t you suddenly get inspiration after talking to Mrs. Yukino?”

“If you strangle me for a while longer, I’ll be able to come up with more ideas for romance comics.” Oda Shingo said in a low voice due to being strangled.

“Why?” Fujido Kaoru loosened her arms curiously.

Oda Shingo took a breath and said, “When you strangle me, I can feel domineering and gentle at the same time. These two are two common personality routines in love comics.”

“The villain lady? The female president?” Fujido Kaoru tilted her head and thought about it.

Oda Shingo thought that the key was still the big thunder.

“Okay, concentrate on drawing. The first part of Attack on Titan is about to end, so hurry up and do the final finishing work.” Oda Shingo urged Fujido Kaoru, “There are still a few manuscripts scheduled for the figures, and our close-up drawings have not been submitted yet.”

“Hi!” Fujido Kaoru answered lazily.

Oda Shingo reminded: “Don’t forget, the new house has made us owe nearly tens of millions of yen, plus the renovation has cost hundreds of millions. Do you still want to wait until next year’s New Year with the debt?”

“A new house! Let’s fight!” Fujido Kaoru immediately became full of fighting spirit.

During their rest time on weekdays, a few girls would get together, flipping through various home improvement magazines and constantly revising their decoration plans.

As a result, the renovation plan for the new house far exceeded the original plan, soaring by more than 200%.

This is equivalent to 800 standard-bearers rushing to the north slope. No, it’s the same as using a budget of 800 to buy a card and 13,000 to buy a graphics card.

Oda Shingo’s debt pressure doubled, and even if the girls took out all their savings from working for him, it was not enough.

After all, the cost of renovation in Japan is really too expensive, whether it is materials, labor or design fees, it is all scary. Therefore, the husband directly serves as the decoration engineer of many families. However, under the yearning for a new life, or more bluntly, under the pressure of debt, Oda Shingo and his three female assistants have further improved their work efficiency.

Sparks were coming out of the production team’s millstones.

When the editors of the main publication department of Springfield Books saw the progress of the manuscript, their eyes almost popped out.

Each comic book is updated three to five chapters a week, and it is unexpected that the manuscripts can be submitted ahead of schedule? Even the first part of “Attack on Titan” has been completed?
There is nothing to say. Any editor who has seen manuscripts submitted at this speed can only walk silently to the statue of Oda Shingo and kowtow and pray devoutly.

As for the cartoonists under the editors, they are free from pressure.

Because these editors have already calmed down, there is no need for Nobuo Oda to motivate and spur those lazy guys.

The basic requirement for entering the industry is to update one chapter of the comics per week. Those who can publish two chapters per week are excellent workers, those who publish three chapters per week are super warriors, and those who publish five chapters per week are gods.

But if you can serialize three comics at the same time and update them like this, then you are beyond God.

Everyone has already admitted that he is a creature from another dimension. He is a great devil, and we mortals cannot compare to him.

The Ministry of Culture has announced that it will stop broadcasting “Dragon Ball”.

Since the update lags far behind “Champion” and it is an abridged version, the plot stops at the place where Sun Wukong defeats the great devil Piccolo, marries and retires with Chi-Chi.

It is also an excellent children’s comic. The fighting-oriented part in the later part is avoided. The light-hearted and funny style in the early part is in line with the original intention of the Ministry of Culture to serialize it.

More and more people on the Internet have noticed this.

“Did you see that? Shingo Oda’s Dragon Ball has been discontinued from the Agency for Cultural Affairs.”

“There’s fighting behind us, it’s hard to continue, right?”

“But I have inside information. There is a new comic by Oda Shingo online, and the subject matter is different from the previous ones!”

Shingo Oda’s new manga “Slam Dunk” has been leaked to the Agency for Cultural Affairs, and the official is the one that cannot keep secrets the most, even less so than companies such as Springfield Bookstore and Qun-Ei-Sha.

So soon, people on the Internet started to leak the news.

“Oda Shingo’s new work is a basketball-themed manga! It’s a work with passion as its theme!”

“what?”

“what?”

“what?”

The replies below were connected in one piece, all with basically the same expression of disbelief.

Everyone knows that the speaker of this account is not a small account, but a person who has leaked news about Oda Shingo many times.

Moreover, the news that the Ministry of Culture was going to publish Oda Shingo’s works was released by this account, so the credibility is very high.

But comic fans couldn’t believe that Shingo Oda would draw a comic about sports?

Don’t be ridiculous! He draws passionate, weird, love, funny, gods and demons, etc. We all believe it, but what the hell is sports?

How many years has it been since a sports comic became popular in the comics industry?
“Koshien, it must be a Koshien theme!”

“It could also be football, to cater to the World Cup.”

Various speculations emerged one after another, and some people even guessed basketball, but it was a niche ball game in Japan and not many people believed it.

Oda Shingo can draw basketball? Don’t be ridiculous. How many students nowadays play basketball?!
(End of this chapter)