Tokyo, everyone is drawing comics, who still wants to fall in love?.

Chapter 616 A wave of basketball fever!

"Slam Dunk made the basketball club the most popular club in the school!"

This is the title of a school magazine.

The content naturally talked about the basketball trend that was rising like a hurricane in the school.

Many boys began to go to the basketball court on their own initiative. The school gym was not big enough. But the boys were willing to play basketball in the open-air playground in the hot sun, and they had a lot of fun playing with the old hoop.

In the past, basketball courts were mostly empty, because in Japan, basketball is barely a third ball sport. The most popular ball sport among Japanese people is undoubtedly baseball. Many times, the school basketball court is even the training ground for the cheerleading team of the school baseball club.

"Minister, our basketball team has made a fortune this year! We have become rich! We have a lot of talented people!" the female manager said to the minister excitedly.

"I've asked around, and it's not just ours. The basketball clubs of other schools are also full!" The director was so happy that he couldn't stop smiling as he looked at the piles of basketball club admission applications on the table.

In previous years, the basketball team has always been dissatisfied with the number of new members. Now the basketball team has changed the threshold. It feels like a bandit has finally formed a big team. Although this is my last year of high school, I want to make some achievements!
The students who apply to join the club are not just tall ones. Some students who are not tall also have the confidence to join the basketball club, and they do not think that basketball should be a sport for tall people.

"It's all because of Mr. Oda's "Slam Dunk"!" The female manager is also a comic fan, so she naturally knows why this comic is the most popular in the comics industry.

The minister smiled bitterly and nodded: "Of course, let's see what you did in the basketball club's activity room?"

Originally, the walls of the basketball club were covered with posters of NBA stars and some handsome guys from the Japanese national basketball team, but now they have almost all been replaced with close-up posters of characters from "Slam Dunk".

Sakuragi Hanamichi, Rukawa Kaede, Mitsui Hisashi, Miyagi Ryouta, this guy's style is everywhere. By the way, Akagi Takenori is the least, it seems that girls still don't like King Kong gorillas.

"I think this is a very basketball-like atmosphere!" The female manager was a little embarrassed, but she didn't seem to intend to correct herself.

"That's right, the spirit of these characters in playing basketball is really great!" The basketball director recalled the plot of the comics and felt so excited that he couldn't help but wave his fist vigorously.

Sweating on the basketball court is a near-perfect embodiment of youthful hard work!

Sing praises to youth!

Recently, there have been more girls on the sidelines of the basketball team's training. When they see the basketball team's players shoot the ball into the net, they will spontaneously applaud or even cheer.

Playing basketball under the gaze of girls is awesome! This was the thought of the basketball team members during the training. Everyone wanted to show their best side in front of the girls.

When could they see girls before? They would not even glance at them when they passed by. The men in the basketball team were so angry that they gnashed their teeth when they thought that those girls must have gone to watch the baseball team's game.

There was once a very talented basketball player who, just to win the attention of girls, asked to transfer to the baseball team and became the sixth batter.

Ah, sing praises, basketball!

Playing basketball is so exciting when there are girls watching!
It would be nice if the female manager could be replaced someday. The basketball department director stole a glance.

Wow, this female manager can’t even compare to Haruko, let alone Ayako.

I quietly looked through the application process to see if there were any girls applying to be female managers...

Just as I was thinking about it, a member of the department burst through the door and shouted, "Minister, this is bad!"

"What's wrong with being flustered?" The director is a senior student, and it is natural for him to scold members based on his status.

"I'm so sorry, Minister, but they brought the trampoline over and are playing slam dunk!"

"Damn it! If you want to dunk, let me do it first... No, this is very dangerous!" The minister rushed to put out the fire.

Reports on basketball fever also began to appear in social news media.

[Slam Dunk, a work by the popular cartoonist Shingo Oda, has sparked a basketball craze across the country]

[You can often see young people walking around with basketballs on the streets]

[Some universities in Tokyo have begun to spontaneously organize basketball teams to compete]

[High school basketball teams are flooded with applications]

[The Japanese national team's lounge has a Slam Dunk comic strip on display]

[The coach said this comic book is helpful in improving the morale of basketball players]

[It is reported that "Slam Dunk" is a comic that the Ministry of Culture has strongly promoted this year, focusing on the spread of basketball culture...]

A few days later, the basketball fever intensified.

There was even a TV station that started interviewing comic fans on the street, targeting the line outside the bookstore. Half of the street was occupied by the crowd.

Those are comic fans queuing in front of the comic book store, waiting for the store to open and buying this week's latest issue of "Champion".

The female host picked a comic fan in line and asked knowingly: "Student, are you here to buy books?"

When the student saw the camera, he quickly lowered the brim of his sports cap.

"He's still a very shy student." The female host smiled gently to smooth things over.

The comic fan lowered his head and replied in a deliberately muffled voice: "No, I have classes this morning..."

"…It's not good to skip school."

"It's not a question of skipping school, but between the throbbing of youth and the rigidity of rules, I chose the former."

The comic fan spoke so seriously that the female host was stunned.

"For those who haven't watched Slam Dunk, it's hard to understand the feeling of giving up everything for youth."

You're using a hat to cover it up, but how can you be so open about it? The female host complained in her heart, but did not expose her: "It seems that you like Slam Dunk very much, so are all the students lining up here here for this comic?"

"of course."

“It’s for Slam Dunk.”

"Of course it's because this work of Mr. Oda's is only on Champion."

The female host asked, "Nowadays, comic magazines can be subscribed online, right?"

The surrounding comic fans burst into laughter.

The female host felt that she seemed to have asked the wrong question.

The comic fans who are ranked here naturally prefer physical books to the Internet.

Fortunately, with the sound of the door opening, the bookstore began to open.

The comic fans had no time to pay attention to the interview and started to rush forward.

Local police officers were dispatched to maintain order as much as possible.

Soon the camera captured comic fans scrambling to buy "Champion". Their expressions were excited, as if they had been holding back their energy for a long time.

“It’s finally here!”

"Did Mitsui's three-pointer go in?"

“If they get in, will Hainan fight back before it dies?”

"I've been waiting for a week! I can't wait any longer!"

Some people couldn't even bear to watch it on the spot, and were pushed and shoved by the crowd and moved slowly.

Soon, the comic fans standing there and reading the comics lamented, "Why didn't they get in? What a pity."

“Don’t give away spoilers!” The fans around him glared at him.

But he turned a deaf ear to it and continued to watch, soon shouting excitedly: "So handsome! Sakuragi is so handsome!"

He saw that after Mitsui Hisashi's three-pointer missed, Sakuragi Hanamichi handsomely overcame the crowd and grabbed the rebound in the last 8 seconds!
"Gorilla——!" Sakuragi Hanamichi shouted.

But the ball... was passed to the wrong place!

The Xiangbei team lost the game unfortunately.

"How could it be... I really lost... Sakuragi... I'm crying..." Manmi stood in the aisle of the bookstore in a daze, holding the comic magazine in his hand.

The comic fans who were still queuing around covered their heads and screamed.

(End of this chapter)