About How I Get Up at 4:30 Every Day for the Basketball and Volleyball Clubs

[Be sure to read the warnings below] Kiyose Tsuruo had plenty of goals in life. Unfortunately, people have their limits, so she could only achieve them one by one. First, for the sake of love and peace in middle-school basketball, she couldn’t let her little rainbow beans fall apart. Next, for the sake of love and peace in high-school volleyball, she couldn’t let all those team captains and setters die before their time in the final exams. Finally, for the sake of love and peace in college track and field, she finally said the second-ranked line on her list of “Things I Most Want to Say”: “Hey, friend, have you ever seen Tokyo at 4:30 in the morning?” · · [Warnings]: 1. There’s a mountain of original headcanon and out-of-character portrayals. The heroine isn’t perfect: she has flaws, makes mistakes, and learns from them. 2. The love interest is a setter from Hyogo Prefecture. He doesn’t appear much early on, has a very doglike personality, and is great at getting on people’s nerves. 3. Don’t buy the whole story all at once, in case it isn’t your cup of tea. If you don’t like it, stop reading and cut your losses. - How to Become a Manga Artist in a Sports Anime Soya Yuki, sixteen years old, attends Tokyo Fukurodani. Her debut work, a manga about shogi, won countless awards. She was hailed as “the most promising new-generation manga artist” and “a once-in-a-decade genius.” But after she finished the script for her second manga, it was a spectacular flop. Her editor called in a panic with the following revision suggestions: “Ms. Soya, do you think the male lead could make a full-court three-pointer here? Wouldn’t that make it more exciting?” “Ms. Soya, this won’t do! He has to dunk here! Only a dunk can stir up the readers’ emotions! Better yet, have the protagonist smash the backboard, too!” “Ms. Soya, your script really is gripping, but it’s not very realistic...” Soya Yuki: “???? Wait, my protagonist is only in middle school, right? How’s he supposed to dunk?!” So which of us is being unrealistic, you or me??? To prove there was nothing wrong with her story, Soya Yuki watched last year’s national middle-school basketball tournament. Instead, she discovered that full-court three-pointers existed, and so did backboards getting smashed. Soya Yuki: It’s not me who’s wrong. It’s the world. She promptly tossed her 200,000-word basketball manga script into the recycling bin and decided to steer clear of fantastical basketball. She’d draw tennis instead! Theme: Fly