How to Become a Manga Artist in a Sports Anime

Soya Yuki was sixteen and attended Tokyo's Fukurodani Academy. Her debut manga, themed around shogi, had won countless awards. She was hailed as "the most promising manga artist of the new generation" and "a once-in-a-decade genius." But after she finished the script for her second manga, she suffered a crushing defeat. Her editor called in a panic with the following suggestions: "Soya-sensei, wouldn't it be more exciting if the male lead made a full-court three-pointer here?" "Soya-sensei, this won't work! He needs to dunk here! Only a dunk can get the readers fired up! Better yet, have the protagonist shatter the backboard too!" "Soya-sensei, your script is definitely gripping, but it isn't very realistic..." Soya Yuki: ??? Wait, my protagonist is only in middle school, isn't he? How's he supposed to dunk?!! Which of us is being unrealistic here, you or me??? To prove her ideas were sound, Soya Yuki looked through last year's national middle school basketball tournament. But she discovered that full-court three-pointers were real, and so was backboard-breaking. Soya Yuki: I'm not the one who's wrong. This world is! She tossed the manga script into the wastebasket and decided to steer clear of magical basketball. She'd draw tennis instead! · · Reader's Guide: 1. OOC and a mountain of headcanons. Primarily sports and slice of life. Pairing undecided, with lots of platonic affection. 2. Don't mention other works or authors in the comments, and don't mention this story under other stories. 3. This is a romance story. No BL in the comments, please respect each other. If you drop the story, please don't tell me. Thanks. Archived version of the original blurb, 2020.5.17 Theme: Professionalism and dedication.