CATDOLL: Professionalism of cartoonists: Duck Sky refuses to be animated

The final volume of the basketball manga "Duck Sky" written by Takeshi Hyuga has been released recently. The end of the volume explains why the work was not adapted into an animation. After reading it, I can't help but sigh. In order to stick to the theme of the work, the author refused to use the plot script required for animation. This is a rare professional accomplishment.

The real outstanding thing about this work is that in addition to touching the basketball itself, it also knows how to use tactics to play paper basketball. It's not that I haven't read basketball comics before (I have also watched basketball game broadcasts, but I can't see the rules explained in the official game), but I didn't understand all the rules of the game until I came into contact with "Duck Sky". Maybe Hinata Takeshi himself may not be a good player, but just looking at the three informal games, there are tactics applied, especially some seemingly skillful but on the verge of fouls, and I feel that he is very attentive. The more often you play basketball, the more you will keep a normal attitude towards winning and losing and talent. Therefore, in the Jiuzuryu team, there are hard-working players who are not tall enough, talented players with strength, and of course, there are hard-working players who should sit on the bench but are actually combat power.

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There were two opportunities to animate Duck. When the script was handed to me, the ending was "Akong entered the NBA stage". (Indeed, the author himself refused to animate)

The first time I saw such an ending, I thought, "This doesn't fit the theme." So I rejected the animation. The second time I saw it, to be honest, I was shocked. The single volume has been published for many volumes, and I thought, "They still don't understand what "Duck Sky" really wants to express."

“How can we make them understand the theme expressed by the duck?”

In fact, I gave the answer in the form of a storyboard a few years ago, but now I think this behavior seems like screening readers, and I feel that this should not appear in sports comics.

But how should I put it... For those people who love and follow the series till now, I feel a strange sense of security: everyone can actually easily understand the theme that Duck wants to express? My confusion also dissipated.

This is the final episode of Duck Sky. However, there are more important scenes waiting for you in the future.

To explain the last sentence, Volume 39 is a new book after a gap of 1 year and 5 months, and the subtitle is EARLY LAST DAYS. This volume was serialized from No. 30 to No. 35 last year, and it contains the 5 episodes serialized between Episodes 417 and 418. This episode, together with the episode 0 at the beginning of the series when the series resumed, which is the storyboard of VS Daiei, constitutes the final chapter in the author's mind, that is, the author drew the ending in advance in the form of an episode. The current chapters are still in the order of narration. Perhaps, as the author said, the ending is not important, and future developments will be more important than the ending. The background of Volume 39 is what happened after the battle with VS Daiei.

Synopsis

Sora Kurumiya, who is 149cm tall and enrolled in Kuzuryu High School, swore to his mother that he would "win the first basketball tournament in high school" and joined the basketball team. However, the men's basketball team of this school was not well-organized and was a den of bad guys. Momoharu and Chiaki Hanazono, who were originally members of the basketball team, spent their days in a muddle, and the club activities were on the verge of collapse. Sora tried his best to revive the basketball team, and the Hanazono brothers also started practicing basketball again because of Sora's superb basketball skills. The ugly ducklings decided to open up their own basketball sky!