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"Tori Akino-sensei, romance manga!"

The girl Mafuyu was startled and immediately sat up. Maruko's hair bounced, her mouth shaped like a drop of water opened, and she asked quickly in shock: "Is it true?"

"Qiansui-kun..." The boy holding the jump blushed slightly when he saw Mafuyu's reaction, and his voice trembled, "Yes...yes, it was on the last issue of jump, and the name was "Five Centimeters per Second" .”

"What a pity! Ah!" Mafuyu sighed and slumped down on the desk and chair. "I have to wait until after school to find the last jump."

"You...you should read this issue first." The young man closed his eyes and pushed Jump to her side.

"Thank you." Mafuyu raised his head and narrowed his eyes with a smile.

"Well!"

He went back in a daze, and his friends complained:

"Mu Qi, you kid, we haven't watched "Weekly Shonen Jump" yet!"

"Damn it, you definitely want to sneak away."

"Sorry," he was startled and apologized softly.

Then he turned around and found that Mafuyu wasn't paying attention to what they were talking about. He breathed a sigh of relief and then felt disappointed.

Mafuyu was lying on the table, flipping through Jump in boredom.

"Slam Dunk" disappeared from her fingertips, and she didn't care.

until……

"Wow! So beautiful!" Mafuyu exclaimed in shock.

She sat up suddenly and looked at the cover.

Under the gorgeous starry sky, the wind was blowing the grass, and the boy and girl sat together and looked at the rising sun in the distance.

The stars were dotted, the clouds were spread together, and the sky seemed to be a huge color palette. There was no overpowering the scene, but just the right blend, which gave Mafuyu a huge shock.

The girl sat next to the boy, and their backs, against the backdrop of the huge sky, made Mafuyu feel a little lonely and confused.

Only the name of the artist who painted the painting is particularly large, affecting the overall atmosphere.

"Drawing: Akimiya Akemi?"

"Which teacher is this?" She was a little curious. It was a waste for a painting that could be used as wallpaper to just appear on the jump.

"Also, the original... Tori Akino Mirai!" Her voice became louder.

Qian Shui Mafuyu was startled, and all the students in the classroom immediately paid attention to her.

Mafuyu covered her mouth and shook her head violently.

When her classmates turned around, she breathed a sigh of relief.

Finding that Mu Qi was still looking at her nervously, she patted her chest to express that there was no problem.

After no one paid attention to her, Mafuyu's smile gradually became crazier.

"It's a manga originally written by Tori Akino-sensei!"

Just by looking at the cover, she knew that this must be a romance comic.

Looking into it expectantly, she gradually understood under the prose-style narration.

This comic is called "Astronaut". The female protagonist is Sumita Hanae, and she likes the male protagonist named Tono Takaki.

Hua Miao carefully planned the encounters every day just to talk to him.

When Guishu greeted Hua Miao, he had a gentle smile on his lips, but his eyes were a little sad.

Senior high school students have to fill out a career path questionnaire. Sasaki, who is in the same grade, is going to university in Tokyo. Some of her friends are going to Kumamoto to attend junior colleges, but Hanae has been unable to fill it out for a long time.

After school, Hua Miao refused to let her sister drive home with her, and Hua Miao waited in the carport.

When Tono Takaki appeared, his face showed anticipation and blush.

The two of them went home together.

"If I had a tail like a dog, I would not be able to hide this joy and my tail would keep wagging." Hua Miao thought.

She fell in love with Guishu in the second grade, and they always went home together after that.

When we go home together, Guishu always texts on his mobile phone.

“It would be great if that text message was sent to me.”

This humble secret love scene, especially when Hanae described herself as wanting to wag her tail with joy, made Mafuyu immersed in it.

"Can't you just tell him?" Mafuyu whispered.

"Hey!" Someone behind her panicked.

"Miqi-kun," Mafuyu turned around, and it turned out to be the owner of this jump, "What's wrong?"

"No... nothing..." Mu Qi became even more panicked. He pointed at the jump, "Isn't this the protagonist of "Sakura Copy", Takaki Tono!"

Takaki Tono showed a lonely look in his eyes. Although he is now a high school student, he still has some of the same look as before.

"Is he and Akari together?" Mu Qi asked.

This really diverted Mafuyu's attention, "Akari? Who is it?"

Mu Qi breathed a sigh of relief and replied, "Guishu's girlfriend."

"I see," Mafuyu mused.

She looked at the flower seedling in the comic and felt pity for her.

So that’s it, it’s just wishful thinking in the end.

After rejecting Mu Qi's spoilers, she planned to slowly finish reading "Sakura Copy" after school.

Now, keep reading seriously.

…

"Every time I'm around Tono, I feel a dull pain in my heart."

At night, watching Guishu sitting on the grass and texting seriously, Hua Miao felt far away from him.

Takaki Tono was very gentle, which made Hanamiao feel like crying.

"Unrequited love is so miserable." Mafuyu sighed.

But after reading the manga, Mafuyu gradually discovered that Guishu was even more lonely.

As he encountered the launch vehicle on his way back, his thoughts flew into the universe along with the rocket.

Walking alone in the darkness, finally...

"Walking with the familiar girl on the alien grassland, I couldn't see her face clearly as usual. There was something nostalgic in the atmosphere..."

The phone was in the text message interface. Guishu was typing but did not write the recipient, and finally deleted the letter.

Mafuyu felt suffocated for a while, so it turned out to be like this.

Guishu has no contact with Akari anymore, and he doesn't even know what she will look like when she grows up.

I use a rocket as a metaphor for myself, wandering endlessly in the starry sky, not knowing when we will meet again.

If you think about it carefully, he is more desperate than Hua Miao.

Half a year later, Hua Miao was ready to confess her love to Guishu.

But Guishu has always treated her tenderly, and there has been no change at all in the long relationship.

This kind of tenderness makes it even more distant.

Thinking that the confession could not succeed, Hua Miao couldn't help crying.

At this moment, a rocket was launched behind them.

Under the sunset sky, the rocket flew quickly into the sky. The tail flame divided the sky into two worlds, one bright and one dark, which was particularly clear.

Watching the rocket go away, Hanamiao understood that in Tono Takaki's eyes, he did not exist.

He kept looking into the distance.

"My expectations for Tono-kun must be unfulfilled."

"Even so, no matter tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, or in the future, I will still be unable to help myself from liking Tono-kun."

Hua Miao huddled together and fell asleep with tears in her eyes.

The comic is over.

After reading it, Mafuyu felt incredibly depressed. The vast sky everywhere in the manga could not soothe her heart.

Akino Tori's "Astronaut" tells two stories.

Hanae's one-sided love for Takaki Tono,

There is also Tono Takaki's longing for Akari.

No matter which story it is, it seems to have a bad ending.

Guishu will not like Hua Miao. Even if they are far apart, he will still be Mingli in his life.

And what about Guishu’s thoughts?

At the end of the comic, in the image, Akari stood up on the grassland and looked at Guishu with a smile.

Just like the flying rocket, the love between the two of them may also end in vain.

Guishu hasn't sent a text message to Akari for a long time. He always types in the text message interface, sharing his life, and finally deletes it...

"What a sad story..." Mafuyu muttered to himself.

She shed silent tears.

…

The second episode of "Five Centimeters Per Second" has been updated.

Sasaki was surprised to find that the number of votes in the readers' survey reached 602.

Although it is still not as good as "Confessions", it is already a very high score.

Is this what a girl’s romance manga can achieve?

There is no frivolous content, such as the heroine's underwear accidentally exposed, or the steamy haze in the bathroom, which outlines an amazing figure and exposes half of the chest.

Without Sese, girls' love comics can crush all the long-form serials.

This is amazing.

"Female readers voted 47%..." Sasaki was stunned, "Where do these readers come from?"

Are there so many female readers on Jump?

…

"Five Centimeters Per Second" has a third and final episode.

Naoko Takeuchi finally calmed down her grief.

In the first chapter of "Sakura Copy", with the comfort of Yoshihiro Togashi, she thought this story was an open beginning and felt relieved.

But there is a second episode, called "Astronaut".

Astronaut-related plots occupy a very small proportion in comics, with only a few frames.

But it is a summary of Guishu.

He came to Kagoshima and never saw Akari again.

As time passed, even communication became impossible.

It's like being an astronaut on a long voyage to the stars, with an unspeakable loneliness.

"Tori Akino is really going too far."

In "Astronaut", Guishu always gave her a very lonely feeling. This must be his purpose.

If this was a bad ending, she really wanted to spray Hibiki Higashino.

Stayed until Sunday.

Because Togashi was there, she was able to see the sample issue of Jump and knew the plot earlier than other readers.

…

The timeline jumped again, from the last time Guishu and Akari met, which was the winter of their freshman year of high school, to the early spring 13 years later.

Flower petals floated into the bedroom, and Guishu stopped working.

Strolling through the streets where cherry blossoms have fallen, I unknowingly came to the tram tracks.

The siren of an approaching tram sounds.

Takaki passed by someone, and it was a figure from the back that Naoko Takeuchi was extremely familiar with.

"This is Akari!"

Her eyes widened in shock and she looked forward to it.

Unexpectedly, the beginning of "5 Centimeters Per Second" was the reunion of two people.

"At this moment, if I look back, I strongly feel that she will also turn around."

Naoko Takeuchi stared at the comic closely. She saw the gate falling and Akari slowly turned around.

But at this moment, the tram passed by, just like at the beginning of the comic, the story line was divided...

"This... abominable train, abominable Bird Akino!" Naoko Takeuchi went crazy and shouted loudly.

She is looking forward to this plot very much, hoping to see the two people renew their relationship.

Just like in "Sakura Copy", they calmly talk about the past after separation, and finally kiss and embrace each other under the cherry blossom tree in spring.

but! What is this!

She felt anxious in her heart, wishing she could scratch Higashino Hibiki's face like a cat scratching a scratching post, leaving clear marks.

I have a thousand words in my heart and want to curse!

"Wait!" She suddenly came back to her senses and looked at the storyboard of Akari gradually turning around in the comic.

There is a subtle detail, Akari wears a diamond ring on her left ring finger.

This means that Akari is already married or engaged...

Thinking of this, Naoko Takeuchi took a deep breath and almost lost her breath.

Then comes the feeling of powerlessness.

She continued to read the comics, and Akari was indeed getting engaged.

In her dream, she dreamed about the past.

At night, in the snow, there were footprints left by the two people walking.

Over a long period of time, the two people gradually got tired of each other, and finally moved in the farthest direction in their hearts.

"I realized that the feelings that were etched in my heart had disappeared without a trace."

This is Guishu's idea.

The love past in "Sakura Copy" is lost in time and space.

"Yesterday, I had a dream."

"A dream from long ago."

"In the dream we were still thirteen."

"It was in the countryside covered with a thick layer of snow."

"The lights of private houses are far away, and only a few sporadic points can be seen."

"There were only two of our footprints on the fresh snow."

"then."

"One day we can enjoy cherry blossoms together again."

"Both he and I are steadfast..."

"Think so."

At the end of the comic, the two people reminisce about the past, but compared to now, they are completely different.

"Five Centimeters per Second" is over.

It turns out that at the end, it was also such a sad ending.

The train is not important, what is important is the relationship between Guishu and Akari.

They are no longer young. In the past thirteen years, they have each had their own lives. The proportion of past memories has become smaller and smaller, and deep love has gradually turned into numbness, and finally, a sudden enlightenment in their hearts.

So it came to an end.

Naoko Takeuchi understood this.

"It's really realistic, Tori Akino." She was helpless. What she actually wanted to see was a fairy tale, not a love that disappeared like a powerless cherry blossom.

In May, the cherry blossoms outside the window are almost gone.

Naoko Takeuchi put down the comics and walked into Yoshihiro Togashi's studio. She ignored the looks of her assistants and hugged him deeply.

…

Ever since the release of "Weekly Shonen Jump", the landline phones in the editorial office have been ringing one after another.

All are angry readers.

Torishima Kazuhiko didn't care. He was just a little surprised, "This manga should be for a niche audience, but it actually caused such a big response."

"And there are so many female readers."

Jump has reached its peak. If he wants to develop further, he can only attract young readers while attracting the new generation.

Torishima Kazuhiko was worried about this, but Mirai Tori Akino somehow helped him achieve something.

"It's really weird."

But he forgot the influence of "The Garden of Words".

Hibiki Higashikata also left a mark on girls, but not in a good way.