Tokyo: Who would still fall in love after being spoiled?

Chapter 48: points love mission, no fourth lover appears
After sitting down and chatting for a few minutes in the monitoring room, he roughly understood the two meanings behind Suzuki's words.

One purpose is to make the other two supervisors and the special voice actors pay attention to his opinions, and the other is to bring him over to the animation team to lean towards the creator's position.

Both voice actors were invited from Aoyama Agency, and the majority of debut voice actors who came to the audition were from Aoyama Agency.

Most of the supporting characters only have three or two lines, and unless they are supporting characters in some important scenes, the poor dubbing level will not affect the overall viewing experience.

In other words, if the difference in level is not that big, it is not a big deal to fix the candidate as a contracted voice actor of Aoyama Agency.

The animation team is one side, and the voice actors from Aoyama Studio are also one side... Only he or Kuroki can be considered an uninvolved third party with sufficient reasons and weight to make opinions based entirely on the perspective of animation quality.

"In addition to 'The Wasteful Hero', Mr. Inoue has also been responsible for the illustrations of many other best-selling works, right?"

The female voice actor's surname is Ueda. She has bangs, short hair that reaches her neck, and her lipstick is a bit bright. She chatted with the staff while they were debugging the equipment.

"Every now and then, when I see the light novel sales charts on Instagram and scan the covers from top to bottom, I can't help but think, 'Ah...has this style of cover appeared so many times?'"

"It's not that exaggerated..." He actually didn't know himself.

The illustrator's royalties are all paid in one lump sum, and the sales of light novels can only increase his fame but cannot directly bring him any income.

"No, no," Director Suzuki interrupted, waving his hand. "There's a lot of discussion in the industry about Mr. Inoue..."

"Mr. Kuroki would rather have you draw the poster than let our animation team take charge of it ourselves." There was some resentment in the animation supervisor's voice.

Maybe this person came just for this matter, otherwise what's the point of him, a animation supervisor, coming to the voice actor audition...

"It's just that Kuroki is more familiar with me." He smiled back.

"If I remember correctly," the chief supervisor said for the first time after entering the monitoring room, "Asakura-sensei's 'Wrong Love' was written by Inoue-sensei, right?"

"It's me..." He was slightly stunned and responded subconsciously.

But what was on my mind was something else entirely unrelated to the anime—it turned out this was a mission related to Asakura, or a new lover who was a voice actor appeared...

"If Mr. Asakura is willing, "The Wrong Love" will most likely be animated." The chief supervisor only said this short sentence and did not reveal any other information.

But he had just submitted the illustrations for the fourth volume of "Wrong Love" half a month ago.

It's a bit too early to start the animation project from the fourth volume.

"'Wrong Love'?" The male voice actor had some impression of Asakura's novel. "Didn't the fourth volume just come out..."

"It's been decided to be animated after only four volumes? That's fast." Ueda exclaimed.

"Even if it's a seasonal anime, are the contents of the first four volumes really enough?" The male voice actor even looked like he had seen "The Wrong Kind of Love".

"Now that the project is ready, the animation team will definitely find a way, right?"

"I guess so...it's not something we should worry about."

"Have you read the novel, Ono? Is there a role that suits me? Preferably one that says little but appears a lot."

"Yes, yes..."

The two voice actors from Aoyama Studio started chatting with each other.

He watched coldly and noticed that the chief supervisor seemed to want to speak several times, but he held himself back in the end.

The staff reported that the equipment had been debugged, and the audition for the supporting roles of "That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Hero" officially began.

The first character is the cat girl who stole the protagonist's purse in the ground city of the first maze in the plot. She has two lines, one is the welcome speech inviting customers in front of the pornographic shop, and the other is the begging for mercy after being caught stealing by the protagonist, a total of seven lines.

The dubbing director gave him, Ueda, and Ono a roster each.

They are classified and sorted according to the order of the audition roles, with the names, identities, gender and age of the voice actors who came to the audition printed in rows.

Voice actors are allowed to have stage names, but at least on the roster he's holding, if it's a stage name, there's an asterisk in the upper right corner. Most voice actors debut under their real names, and I wonder if that's the general culture in the industry.

There are only two identities for voice actors. The roster will either say they are signed to an agency, or they will say they are a "free agent."

Later on, it was strange that the voice actors auditioning for the same role were not only of both male and female genders, but also ranged in age from underage to over fifty.

There is an empty box in front of each voice actor's name to mark the evaluation.

A circle indicates that it can be approved, a triangle indicates that it needs to be discussed, and a check mark indicates that it will not be considered.

Finally, the final voice actor was selected from those who did not receive a check. There were seven voice actors who auditioned for the role of Cat Girl, and he gave four checks and three triangles.

Looking around, he was the only one who made the check mark.

They said they would use "check marks" for preliminary screening, but in reality, the three of them only produced circles and triangles.

"Teacher Inoue... do you think these guys are no match for you?"

"Not open enough." But at least the four voice actors he selected also had the largest number of triangles among the other three rosters.

"Maybe he's just nervous..." Ueda said with a smile.

Among the names he checked off, one was from Qingshan Office.

"I was nervous during the audition, so how can I guarantee I won't be nervous during the actual dubbing..."

"Well……"

Ueda wanted to say something, but before he could finish his words, he was interrupted by the dubbing supervisor.

"Do the remaining three people also have problems?" Suzuki asked.

"The tone and emotions are all fine... but the sound is still different from the cat girl I imagined when I read the book." He was just muddying the waters of the audition.

In fact, before hearing the lines, he could hardly remember what the plot was like.

Circle, triangle, and hook are the apparent rules; circle and triangle are their actual rules.

He is the only outsider here, and he is the only one who can act according to the obvious rules.

Whether it's him or Kuroki, anime auditions always need a third person who doesn't take sides, eliminating the hidden dangers of inserting unspoken rules that would actually lower the quality of the dubbing.

He only needs to do a rough initial screening, and you can still tell the general quality of the voices by what you hear. As for the professional part later, it is the job of the dubbing supervisor.

"Next character! Tavern hostess! Tavern hostess!" The staff took advantage of the time they were discussing to stand at the door of the monitoring room and shout into the corridor.

Those who were waiting for the audition walked into the studio one after another, sat down on the chairs by the wall, and went to the microphone to introduce themselves and audition according to their wishes.

Only two tavern hostesses survived his writing, one of whom was the voice actor of Aoyama Office.

After a few rounds, Ueda and Ono didn't say anything more after realizing that he had no bias.

"...Goblin! Goblin!"

The impressionistic male voice actor with glasses was also checked by him and was initially eliminated.

While listening to the voice actors' auditions and ticking the boxes, he imagined in his mind the various scenarios that would occur after Asakura's "Wrong Love" was animated.

Time passed with each round of auditions.

"The Wasteful Hero" also spent a lot of money on dubbing. Not only were there dubbings for cat girls and goblins, but even the mute slimes and cats and dogs had a separate round of auditions.

"...Next character! The Adventure Guild Receptionist!"

After listening to a round of dogs barking, he patted his head, stared at the roster for a while, and circled all the people who came to audition.

When he looked up again, a person he had never expected walked into the radio room, which was separated from the monitoring room by only a glass wall.

The other party also noticed him, and their eyes met, both of them stunned for a while.

He lowered his head again and looked at the list of voice actors auditioning for the role of "Adventure Guild Receptionist".

The name is found in the third row.

The phone in my pocket vibrated, indicating a Line message had been received.

"..."

He took out his cell phone, glanced at the message, then looked at the pretty girl sitting in the radio room, tapping on her phone screen with her head down, and put the phone back in his pocket.

　Thanks to Yuchangwu for the 5 monthly tickets, thanks to book friends 20230222004233037 and Kaneki Ken for the 3 monthly tickets, thanks to People Live for Suzuka Gozen and Yayoushindian for the 2 monthly tickets, thanks to book friends 20210418000722177 and Xingyao Huanshi for the monthly tickets.

　　
　
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