I interpret life in Tokyo

Chapter 29 Ordinary Success

"My dream is to become a voice actor."

A young senior high school girl swears her dream in front of the microphone. Against the opposition of her parents, she leaves her hometown and comes to Tokyo alone.

The industry of seiyuu is similar to that of actors, but the difficulty of audition is different.

It is difficult to get ahead in these two industries, and it is possible to fight for a passerby role, but as long as you have the first pot of gold, the second audition will be more convenient, and you will be more experienced.

Voice actors audition for different voice lines and control of vocal cords.

What actors audition for is a person's overall performance, facial voice, role perception, and muscle control.

Generally speaking, the level of difficulty varies.

Kaede Sakakibara held the manual of the voice actor training class in his hand, saw the requirements and courses one by one, and read the words and sentences at the request of the camera crew.

The filming team here is following him to shoot outdoors, and another filming team is following Qingshan Qihai in the training class, filming her hard work during training.

Getting started in any industry is from simple to difficult. Just like some rookie actors can only master a single character acting skills, rookie seiyuu can only master one kind of voice - which undoubtedly makes them need more time to learn. Adapt and increase your own play and voice.

"Ah...Sorry, Sakakibara-senpai, I've been waiting for so long."

Aoyama Nanami was wearing her high school uniform and appeared at the stairs. It looked like she had run down.

"It didn't take long..."

Sakakibara Kaede closed the introduction manual, nodded and smiled at Aoyama Nanami, "Senior Aoyama, please lead the way."

The order of tasks assigned by the previous production team was the same. The two gathered at the voice actor training class and then went to the next location.

Aoyama Nanami got a chance to go to the workplace to audition passerby girls. This time, the auditions were all new voice actors, and the competition was relatively easy.

This is an opportunity she has won for herself, so she must hold it firmly and not let it go.

"What type of role does Junior Girl Qingshan want to fight for?"

"It's a female student with no special features..." Aoyama Nanami said embarrassedly, as if it was difficult to speak.

Faced with a senior who is only one year older than her who has rich experience in the industry, Aoyama Nanami only has a heart of respect in her heart.

"No matter how monotonous a role is, it still has its own characteristics."

Sakakibara Kaede chuckled and said that in the last two periods, especially in the summer period, he took many passerby characters. Most of the time, there was no frontal face, only a back view and a voice.

"The role of a passer-by also has attributes." Sakakibara Kaede said, "For example, when I play the extras in the sports department, I will sweat myself out of exercise, and then act this part of the plot."

"The role I got this time is a passer-by girl in the student union. I think it should have a quiet attribute."

Aoyama Nanami and Sakakibara Kaede had surprisingly the same idea, and immediately took the lead in leading the topic, talking about the attributes of the characters.

"What grade is this passer-by girl in?"

"The first year of high school, according to the manuscript given to us, it is one year younger than the protagonist."

"It should have a bit of vitality, but it shouldn't be too obvious. It's not good to overshadow the heroine's limelight."

While the two were analyzing the characters and the plot, Aoyama Nanami didn't know which anime she was auditioning for, so the two could only infer based on the part of the script they had now, and perfect the setting of the passerby's role.

The camera crew nodded slightly. After analyzing these few paragraphs, it was full of dry goods, and Sakakibara-san was very sincere.

"Ah... this is it."

According to the address on the phone, Aoyama Nanami led Kaede Sakakibara into the building.

There were many girls sitting in the hall outside the studio, and there were all kinds of beings.

"This is... the voice actors who came to audition this time." Aoyama Nanami whispered.

"Well, it should be."

"There are so many people competing for a role." Aoyama Nanami clenched her lower lip. She was clearly mentally prepared before coming, but the expressions of so many people coincided with a little nervousness, which made her flustered.

To put it bluntly, it was the first time, and there were too many things to worry about.

She is afraid that she will not perform well, that her voice will not meet the requirements, that there are too many competitors on the scene, and there are things that scare her.

Seeing this scene, Kaede Sakakibara couldn't help but think of his first audition in a real sense.

The shooting of the graduation advertisement was also the first time I shot an advertisement.

At that time, he met many actors in the entertainment industry, and he became friends with some of them.

"Senior Sakakibara..."

Aoyama Nanami saw that Kaede Sakakibara, who was wearing a mask, had already occupied the foot of the sofa very familiarly, and couldn't help complaining in a low voice, why did Sakakibara-senpai look so relaxed.

"Relax, an audition is nothing more than an exam."

As someone who has experienced it, Kaede Sakakibara naturally played the role of a guide, which is why the filming crew likes to put him and other people together so much, because no matter which combination, as long as a boy is added, it will not feel awkward.

Sakakibara Kaede leaned over the table in the lounge and picked it up. He subconsciously picked up the chocolate bar, but remembered that the focus of Aoyama Nanami's audition was the voice. Eating chocolate at this time will definitely affect the performance of the voice.

After all, the boy never used his voice as his weapon in the past, and now he has become a singer. Kaede Sakakibara, who may hold a concert in the future, is secretly vigilant and needs to develop a good habit before singing.

After much deliberation, let's imitate Madoka Higuchi's diet, after all, her selling point as an idol is singing.

Thinking of this, Kaede Sakakibara got up and left Qingshan Qihai where she was, "You wait here for a while, I will come as soon as I go."

I took a mug from the tea room and refilled it with warm water. This habit is shared by actors—drinking warm water before filming starts. A few scenes require hoarse roaring to continue with warm water. If the throat is dry , Then maybe it just broke his throat.

Handing the warm water to Aoyama Nanami who was restrained and shrinking her body, amidst her small voice of thanks, the boy sat down beside her, and stuffed a mint candy into his mouth.

"Did you get nervous when Sakakibara-senpai auditioned for the first time?"

Qingshan Qihai asked in a whisper.

Sakakibara Kaede pondered for a moment, then said with a smile, "Nervous."

"At that time, I had just become an actor not long ago, and the competition was the starring position of commercials. At that time, there were many more actors gathered in the lounge than here." Sakakihara Kaede recalled, with a faint smile on the corner of his mouth, "I just entered the industry at the venue. I should be the only actor in a few weeks, and the others are old actors with several years of experience."

"At that time, I felt that it was unlikely that I would get the role. I tried with such a mentality, and I could feel less guilty." The self-deprecating words made Aoyama Nanami smile and shake her head. Indeed, mentality is very important.

He opened his mouth, but he didn't know how to use the power of words to help Qingshan Qihai, he was not her, nor was he a voice actor, any consolation would sound hypocritical.

"Seiyuu, like actors, need to take on roles." After thinking about it, Sakakibara Kaede was still talking clichéd, and talked to Aoyama Nanami about the topic he had talked with Ichinose Chizuru before.

"When you see a short sentence, you can make up the character and style of the character." The boy concluded, "Imagine yourself as the character you are playing, and put yourself into the role. Act in a play, sing a song, In a sentence, you must first move yourself before you can move others.”

Qingshan Qihai's eyes were shining with brilliance, and she muttered in her mouth, "Move yourself, touch others."

"It's just a little immature experience."

Sakakibara Kaede saw that the girl was chanting, so he quickly followed up. He didn't want Qingshan Nanami to be dazzled by this sentence, which would cause her to make a mistake in the audition this time.

The boy thinks that all he can do now is to keep silent and cheer for Qingshan Qihai in his heart.

"Ah...Senior, I will come as soon as I go."

Accompanied by her number being called, Aoyama Nanami squeezed out a smile, stood up and left the table, drank half of the warm water in the cup.

She had gotten a similar opportunity a year ago, and this was something the girl didn't tell Kaede Sakakibara—this wasn't her first audition, but her second.

In the summer of her sophomore year in high school, she had the same dream in mind, and after getting a recommendation, she participated in an audition for the role of a popular campus fan.

When she stood in front of the recording equipment, she opened her mouth, only to find that she lost her voice.

The dryness and spasm in her throat made her pinch herself, and after taking a deep breath, she could speak normally.

The first audition failed without exception.

Aoyama Nanami walked towards the recording studio, she felt heartfelt encouragement from Sakakibara-senpai's words and deeds, if she still failed this time. . .Will her parents continue to support her dream?

The girl shook her head vigorously, and drove the chaotic thoughts out of her mind. She took the manuscript, and there were two short sentences on it.

"Really, it's obviously already too busy—"

"Hey, I got it, haha—"

In just two sentences, the image of a young girl with vitality and extroversion is vivid on the paper.

Qingshan Qihai suddenly had a sense of déjà vu, she put herself in the position of this passer-by girl, and looked up at the sky, why did she look so familiar?

The first sentence is to blame coquettishness with a little coquettishness, and the second sentence is a vigorous reply to the senior's instructions.

It seems, a bit like myself.

No, maybe Qingshan Qihai is not like this in normal times. Most of the time in school, she belongs to the category of ordinary students. Apart from good academic performance, she has no outstanding skills.

But during the period of living in the dream apartment, she felt that she was being changed. . .Living under the same roof with dream chasers, her personality is more cheerful, and she can laugh and chat with anyone.

Before she knew it, she had also changed.

Qingshan Qihai clenched her lower lip, she opened her mouth slightly, but before she could speak, the corners of her mouth turned up naturally.

"what--"

The girl couldn't remember the next scene, but she only remembered that she said a few words with a natural smile on her face, and continued to read two sentences at the request of the supervisor, and left the recording studio lightly.

Followed the supervisor to another room, asked a few words routinely, wrote down the name of the voice actor training class, and then let her go.

"Senior Sakakibara!"

Aoyama Nanami waved vigorously at Kaede Sakakibara, who got up and smiled, "How do you feel?"

"feels good."

The girl made a whoosh sound and sat on the sofa, and found that the water in the water glass on the table had been cooled by the air conditioner, so she quickly got up again to pour water, and also refilled a glass for Sakakibara Kaede.

This busy and laborious character can also be seen here.

Compared with the restlessness of other new voice actors, Aoyama Nanami looks much more relaxed, at least it seems.

At that time, she looked at the mobile phone screen from time to time, and the act of confirming the time still exposed her inner tension.

Half an hour later, after all the voice actors had tried dubbing, the supervisors seemed to have made a decision. Several people came to the lounge with the files and faced more than 50 girls.

When they saw Kaede Sakakibara and the filming team behind him, they couldn't help but take a second look. The production team had greeted them before, so they didn't make any outlandish moves, but welcomed them very much.It is also a good gimmick to let the audience take a look at the selection process of voice actors, and their animation production team can also gain a certain amount of popularity.

"Oh, so... After many screenings, the seiyuu who won the role of passer-by A and B is."

He didn't continue to play tricks, and directly mentioned the names of the two voice actors.

Qingshan Qihai held her breath and concentrated. When she heard her Qingshan, her heart was pounding. There must be a girl named Qingshan in the venue. When she heard Qihai, the girl's heart spread her wings like a happy oriole.

For a while, the eye sockets were wet.

Sakakibara Kaede took the lead in clapping and laughing: "Congratulations, Junior Aoyama, you have been selected!"

The members of the filming team also smiled very relieved. They looked at Qingshan Qihai like the little girl next door. Now that they saw her take the first step towards her dream, they all smiled with the same feeling.

Qingshan Qihai still looked a little unbelievable, she expressed her gratitude to the supervisors in a daze, and the group left the studio and came to the street.

Standing in the sun, her fingers and toes quickly warmed up. The girl wiped a few tears from the corners of her eyes, "Senior Sakakibara, I succeeded!"

"Congratulations, this is just your first step."

Sakakibara Kaede's smile is as warm and bright as the sun, and he is honored to see the juniors who live under the same roof finally take an important step on the road to their dreams.

"whee."

Qingshan Qihai smiled very happily. She has always been cautious outside, and she doesn't show her original self very much, but now she feels that the sun is bright, the world is warm, and there is a steady stream of energy in her heart, which makes her feel that she is omnipotent.

"The dubbing work will be done next Tuesday. How is the dubbing room?"

"Take a few photos and share them in the group chat." Kaede Sakakibara smiled.

Six groups of people, the name of the group: dream-chasing middle-aged patients.

"Ok!"

Aoyama Nanami returned a bright smile similar to that of a boy.

What is Chapter 30 about?talk about work

The boys are in a good mood this week.

I witnessed with my own eyes that the school girl who wanted to become a voice actor successfully got her first role, and completed the outsourcing task of Yuki Koichiro ahead of schedule, and even played a few games with Sano Ken.

The filming also went smoothly. It has been more than a month since the reality show started, and the six of them have gradually mastered the rhythm of each other's life habits and tried not to cause trouble to each other.

Of course, there will be no shortage of tasks every day, and the production team will not give up the two-two combination and let them post CPs to each other.