How can I let go of the matter of saving my stepsister?

"It's not that it's poor. Some places are quite exquisite, but some places are very rough."

Halfway through the first episode, Qiong murmured these words while carefully considering the words.

Incongruous.

There are many anime series that show their poverty from the first episode, but as a facade, as the first episode presented to the audience, even if the budget is tight, the style will still be unified and coordinated into a whole, instead of mixing exquisite pictures with simple drawings like "Mei Fei Mei", giving people such a strong sense of separation.

"The production cycle was too short, and a lot of things happened in the middle. Even for the first episode, there were a lot of outsourcing..."

She wanted to show Qiong the last traces left by her sworn brother, but when she really sat there watching, the embarrassment and shame turned into a bristle brush that uncontrollably rubbed the heart of this "non-person".

With a wry smile, Sato Yu explained to Qiong.

A plan that should never have been born.

As a person who has participated in the production and knows many inside stories, this is Sato Yu's true thoughts about the animation work "Sister Not Sister".

The production was confirmed two months before the broadcast. Due to the tight schedule, the original supervisor Mamoru Yamada suddenly withdrew from the production team. Nanae Mochizuki, who was originally the first original artist in other production teams, was forced to serve as the supervisor. At this time, there was only one month left before the broadcast of the animation.

However, what is even more despairing is that when Nanae Mochizuki withstood the pressure and actually entered the production team to accept the storyboard, she found that in the previous month, the original supervisor Mamoru Yamada had only filled in two boxes -

1. I can’t do it, no matter how hard I try.

2. Run!!!

It was a project that was simply impossible to complete, destined to be a black mark in the director's career, a shitty animation that would be dug up and criticized even ten thousand years later. Perhaps it was the most that Mamoru Yamada could do to leave advice to his successor in the storyboard.

But even so, Mochizuki Nanae did not give up.

Based on his previous memories, Sato Youneng knew that the woman was an extremely serious and excellent, but also extremely stupid person. Even though the conditions were unfavorable, she still took on the project and tried to change it.

But some things cannot be changed by human power, especially animation production, which, unlike light novels, requires collaboration and is a garbage industry that inevitably relies on the power of others.

In order to meet the deadline, several episodes had to be worked on simultaneously, and the storyboards had to be started from scratch.

Due to the shortage of production staff, most of the original artists in the production team are inexperienced, and the finished products need supervision but no one has the time and energy to do this work.

Even if they wanted to seek help from outside forces, they couldn't find an outsourcing company above their standard due to the approaching deadline. When they sought help from individual original artists, most of them refused after hearing that it was a project for a girl or a girl.

The project has become a complete joke within the industry, and people have shunned it before it was even aired. And in such a hellish external environment, internal problems are occurring more frequently.

Not being able to receive the drawings on time was the least of the problems. Some original artists were afraid of having black spots on their resumes and even fled. When the cards they had issued were collected, they found that the file bags were empty. And because of the shortage of manpower, there were still dozens of cards to be handed over to outsourced with only three days left before the original drawing deadline...

It’s chaos and all strategies are lost!

Director Nanae Mochizuki has given her all, Yuya Sato has given her all, and the remaining original artists and the outsourcing companies who commissioned the work based on their connections have also given their all, but the result is still hell.

"This bowl should have been brown just now, how come it turned green in the blink of an eye?"

There were some low-level coloring errors caused by filling out the wrong photography sheet, but by the time we got the finished product, there was only an hour left before handing it over to the TV station, so there was no time to check or correct it.

"It seems that the construction period is really tight."

"The position of my sister lying on the bed is so weird, and it feels like déjà vu."

The twenty or so minutes seemed as long as a century. When watching the last part, Sato Yu's mind was no longer on the screen.

Hearing what Qiong said, he looked up at the screen. The sister in the anime had arms as long as her thighs, and was lying on the bed in a shape that was impossible for a human to have and a posture that was impossible to do.

Sato Yu could easily understand the origin of this sense of déjà vu and blurted it out.

"The Sphinx."

“Pfft~ Now that you put it that way, it really seems like that!”

The overly funny picture was even funnier because it corresponded miraculously to the real building. After being stunned for a moment, Qiong couldn't help but burst into laughter when she came to her senses. She threw herself on Sato Yu's arms, her body shaking violently.

"Ah, sorry, that's not what I meant, but...really... pffffff."

Obviously, it was an animation produced by her brother, and even if it was not good, he should have given an encouraging response and shown joy. However, the Sphinx seemed to have really touched Qiong's funny bone. She tried to hold back but once again burst into even more unbridled laughter.

"Sorry, sorry."

It took a long time to stop laughing. As she spoke, Qiong wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes.

"It doesn't matter. It's such a shoddy work after all."

With his eyes lowered, Sato Yu said this to himself in a low voice.

The animation production of Mei Fei Mei is just terrible, it is undeniably terrible, but being able to make people laugh with its crude images is perhaps the greatest significance of its existence.

But even so, as a production member, Sato Yu always felt a little blocked and unwilling when the animation elicited such a "contemptuous" reaction from his sister.

Even if he was not Sato Yu in the past, it would be the same today as Sato Yu.

I couldn't make Qiong feel satisfied, awesome, or proud to have a brother like him.

Although they had only been together for one day, and although he was unwilling to give up his life plan just for her to accept the system, perhaps Sato Yuu had to admit it——

He did care about Qiong a little, beyond ordinary levels of concern.

Maybe this girl is too pitiful, too sensible, and too lovable.

“But the plot is very interesting. An ordinary brother receives the light novel award on behalf of his genius sister. The identity dislocation and the disruption of the daily routine give people an inexplicable sense of anticipation. The cold and beautiful girl writer, the beautiful editor who lacks common sense, and the excellent but arrogant sister who dares not speak her mind are also very...”

Always overly sensitive and extremely aware of other people's mood changes, Qiong noticed that Sato Yu was in a bad mood and tried to save her own mistakes.

She tried hard and put her mind to describing the excellent aspects of the animation.

However, the plot, character design...the most important scenes for animation producers and original artists, Qiong was never mentioned at all.

This is probably what they call caring too much and becoming confused. After talking for a long time, he finally realized that he had made a bigger mistake. Qiong suddenly became speechless. His brows on his pale cheeks were furrowed and then quickly relaxed. There was a flash of panic in his eyes, but his thin mouth tried hard to force a smile.

She stammered, waving her hands around.

"That, that..."

Gently, Sato Yu rubbed Qiong's little head.

"Just tell the truth."

The quality of the animation is clear to everyone who has seen it. Any words are pale and powerless in the face of this fact and cannot be undone.

This idea should be clearly conveyed to Yu Qiong. Being gently rubbed on the head, she lowered her head, a misty color flashed in her eyes, and finally she said in a soft voice.

“It’s not very exciting.”

Volume 7: Chapter Chapter . Unexpected Call

Suddenly I want to smoke.

Walking aimlessly on the cold street, feeling irritated, Sato Yu tried to find a purpose for his "running away from home".

Just now, he watched the second episode of Sister Not Sister with Qiong at home.

Tighter deadlines, less manpower and more outsourcing.

If the first episode is still a rubbish work with an interesting plot, mixed pictures, and a serious sense of fragmentation but barely reaching the passing line of painting, then from the second episode onwards it is a true purgatory that is enough to go down in history as a collapse, a collapse that causes the sky to collapse and the earth to collapse.

The uneven quality of the painting team, the irresponsible and crappy outsourcing, and the chaotic production process due to rushing the deadline together created the character's quantum superposition state.

There are only four main characters in one episode, but one of them is broken in every frame, and there is a monster every second. Their faces are as white as chocolate, and you never know whether the next one will be broken or even more broken.

Who is this? Who is that? Who the hell is this?

How did your hand disappear? How did your hand appear again?

Why do you have six fingers on your hands? Why is your mouth in the air instead of on your face?

Isn't that a smart phone in the younger sister's hand? Why did it turn into a Nokia in the male protagonist's hand?

Given a 0.5kg tablet, why does it take a few seconds for it to start falling? Is it hovering in the air or a new type of physical dynamics? Is Newton dead or does his sister have super powers?

Such animation failures and accidents are present throughout the entire episode, and even former US five-star general MacArthur could not help but comment:

When I saw it on the battlefield, I knew that if Honkai was an art, then Meifeimei was the world's supreme treasure.

"......Ah."

At the end of the second episode, when the production credits appeared, Kyon was completely silent, while Sato Yuu smiled with relief.

It exists in my memory, the figure of the beautiful and capable woman who supervised Nanae Mochizuki, who worked day and night and was exhausted and fell asleep on the desk. The person beside her only made a little noise to wake her up, but she immediately pressed her aching forehead and continued to draw.

It does exist. The good-tempered production staff rushes around in the company and outsourcing companies. In the face of the artists' words of shirking responsibility and reprimands, they constantly smile and nod, trying their best to recover every piece of drawing.

It exists, rubbing the painting non-stop, drinking up the energy drink, eyes bloodshot but still not stopping, angry and resentful about why I can't paint faster and better, a ridiculous self.

Manure is also the crystallization of sweat, but that sweat has no meaning in the eyes of most people and only makes people laugh.

After all, animation production is just such a crappy and terrible thing. You work hard day and night but still cannot reap any results. It carries the dreams and hard work of the production staff but leaves people with no hope at all.

It is the right decision to continue writing light novels along the path of the previous life. A gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall, and a wise man does not enter the abyss of animation.

He couldn't save the girl, Qiong, but he was not wrong.

It should be like this, it should be like this!

But...the conversation with Qiong still flashes back in my mind.

"Which part did my brother draw? I want to know."

Although he was a member of the production team, when the first episode was produced, Sato Yu was still dealing with the funeral of his parents and the discharge of Qiong from the hospital, so he did not really participate in the production until the second episode.

Now his name was being listed in the original artist column, scrolling in the worn-out notebook and being frozen by Qiong's mouse. Facing his stepsister's expectant question, Sato Yu dragged the progress bar back to about four minutes, pointing to the rare few dozen seconds of exquisite footage in the entire episode and said awkwardly.

"I am responsible for these dozen cards."

"Amazing! It's on par with the one in the first episode... yeah, Director Mochizuki's drawing!"

"Ha, haha, my style of painting has been affected. Supervision is exactly what I am pursuing."

Saying such playful words, did Qiong discover it or not?

Sato Yuu couldn't understand clearly and continued his lie with an awkward smile.

Lies. In panic, he lied subconsciously.

He deceived Qiong.

Qiong's first feeling was not wrong. The place that Sato Yu pointed to was exactly the part that supervisor Mochizuki Nanae was in charge of, and he took credit for the other party's work.

Such a lie made Sato You blush. He turned his face away uncomfortably, his lost eyelids drooping, revealing a bitter look.

To be fair, Sato Yu's painting skills cannot be said to be excellent but they are definitely not bad. He is considered to be very strong among new painters, and he also contributed a few moments in the second episode where the picture did not collapse.

But he had no way of pointing it out, no way of pointing it out for Qiong.

“Wow! Nothing on… So obscene!!!”

While watching the animation, Qiong was so embarrassed that she buried her head in his arms like an ostrich.

As a result, the pictures he painted were so beautiful that Qiong only looked at them for one second and then didn't want to look at them again.

If the animation quality is not good enough, some unconventional methods have to be used. Sato Yu has no idea what kind of psychological struggle the director Mochizuki Nanae went through before deciding to present the obscene scenes in the novel in the storyboard without embellishment.

But in any case, in order to maintain a minimum level of ratings, the erotic illustrations drawn by the erotic illustrator "Ah Hei Yan Double V Hand Sign" in the original novel were required to be reproduced in the animation, and the person responsible for those pictures was Sato Yu.

From the perspective of the original artist's character, this is just presenting the entrusted work at the best level. It is completing one's job and there is no need to feel ashamed.

But as a brother...

[Onii-chan, what did you draw in the animation? 】

【Astringent picture. 】

【What? 】

【Awkward picture! 】

It's impossible to do this no matter what. Qiong clearly admires her brother so much, but I am revealing the most unpleasant truth to her.

The embellishment of lies is necessary, but what is left in the end is so shameful that it needs to be embellished with lies before it can be presented to Qiong...

"That's lame."

Sato You whispered, and it was unclear whether he was talking about the unlucky original owner who died, or about himself, the successor who was ready to give up Qiong's life.

He shook his head fiercely and threw the self-mockery into the cold wind. When he looked up, he saw the convenience store sign. Sato Yu walked in with his head down, took a pack of cigarettes from the shelf and went straight to the cashier.

"You are still underage, kid."

"Last year, the age of majority was lowered to 18."

"She's still a minor, so you'd better not smoke. You'll be smelling of cigarettes when you go back. You don't want little sister Qiong to know that you've learned bad habits, do you?"

Japan is indeed a very strange country. You can get married and go out to work at the age of sixteen, but you have to be twenty to smoke and drink.