Plan

(I can't be bothered to split this into chapters. I'll put it all in this update!)

Chu Yu's first drafts were never especially polished. After all, even though he had the finished original works to refer to, adapting them to this world inevitably meant changing some details. Often, he took the easy route and made changes directly on the pages, so the scripts looked rather messy.

That was exactly why he could finish dozens of episodes' worth of scripts in just a few days.

Once the final drafts were ready, he'd have Zhao Qinyin use them as templates to produce polished versions.

But for now, these were still only rough drafts. When Su Ruo saw Mitsui Hisashi's line, "I want to play basketball," she was struck by what Chu Yu had done. He'd drawn a page of Mitsui Hisashi's expressions that was every bit as good as the art in a serialized manga—and only for this one scene.

The missing front teeth he'd lost after fighting with Sakuragi and the others in the gym. The blood on his face. The tears about to spill from his eyes. And the blurry figure of Coach Anzai reflected in his pupils.

Even without the boost from Slam Dunk's iconic BGM, "Until the End of the World," this single manga-style illustration by Chu Yu said everything.

Su Ruo was sentimental by nature. She wasn't quick to cry, but she wasn't immune to it either. She didn't break down in tears, but her eyes reddened all the same.

Su Ruo read quickly, but it still took her nearly four hours to finish the script for more than twenty episodes. Huang Ming had already finished reading the Spirited Away script and was now carefully working through the early episodes of Slam Dunk.

By then, it was