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

Chapter 49: Personal Power and Vigor Voice Actor Takeda Nori is about to debut
Takeda probably went back to change his clothes after running.

Or maybe it was too early in the morning and the light was too dim, so he didn't notice how Takeda was dressed.

She wore a thin brown sweater on the upper body and beige wide-leg pants with the cuffs of her boat socks covering the inside of her canvas shoes, revealing a section of her fair ankles.

Her hair wasn't draped behind her shoulders like usual; it had been carefully styled. Her bangs were parted above her left eye, her shorter hair was permed slightly, and her long hair was braided into a pigtail that rested on her chest.

Simple and plain, yet just right, not to the point of being tacky.

Maybe it's because Takeda is beautiful enough. She wears an outfit that is already outdated by today's fashion standards, but when she is photographed in a magazine, it may become a new fashion style in a few months.

She seemed to be wearing light makeup and coral-colored lipstick - if the glass separating the radio room and the monitoring room had no color difference.

I wonder if she's wearing any perfume. For a girl, it's practically a full outfit.

[Takeda: Why are you here?]
[Takeda: Was that why you said you had to come to Shinjuku before 7:30 this morning?]
[Takeda: Why didn’t you tell me?]
After reading the message, he immediately regretted it. He didn't know how many times he felt that Line's read function was very troublesome.

"Mr. Inoue?" the dubbing director reminded.

All the voice actors who came to audition for the role of the Adventure Association's greeter were already there, waiting for him to finish looking at his phone before starting.

"Sorry," he smiled back, putting his phone back in his pocket.

On the other side of the glass wall, Takeda also put away his phone and looked at him through the glass door.

He then noticed that Takeda didn't bring the script with him.

Before this round, there were some who did not bring scripts, but they were all checked by one of the two voice actors from Aoyama Agency, indicating "failed".

It seems that according to the rules of these older generation voice actors, no matter how good their dubbing skills are, they must bring the script as long as they enter the recording studio.

It's exactly the same mentality as those voice actors who are pursuing "impression points" in the corridor.

He raised the form in his hand and shook it up and down at Takeda, who was staring at him and seemed about to lose his temper, trying to remind him.

Takeda glared at him even more fiercely.

Oh well, it has had a counter-productive effect, I’m afraid it might have gone the wrong way.

He put down the score sheet and stopped making unnecessary movements.

When the audition session begins, as usual, the order is determined entirely by the willingness of the voice actors to be auditioned, and there will always be someone who volunteers to be the first to go up.

In a way, auditioning first is advantageous. If you don't know the strength of your competitors, you can better give it your all.

If someone who is not confident in the first place listens to other voice actors' auditions and then it is their turn, they will naturally fall into a vortex of self-doubt - ah, she has never thought of the tone that person uses; hmm... this person's voice seems to be more suitable than mine - and so on, which will lead to poor performance and miss the dubbing opportunity.

However, in reality, their levels may not be that different.

If there was really such a huge disparity in strength, the decision would have been made during the primary election, right?

"Nakajima Kaede, from AS Agency... Thank you for your guidance, teachers, and thank you for your hard work, staff..." The first voice actor who sat in front of the microphone began to introduce himself.

He didn't know how many times he had heard this today, and how much time he had wasted.

They could easily find the corresponding box on the scoring sheet just by saying their name. Saying too many polite words wouldn't make their dubbing any better. It's better to just get started and let your skills speak for themselves.

Nakajima had neatly short hair, light makeup, no jewelry or hairpins, and was dressed in a formal suit. He looked several years older than the age he had indicated on the form.

The voice acting is smooth, the pronunciation is clear and accurate, and the tone and intonation are very close to the character - the most important role positioning of the Adventure Guild Receptionist is to be sunny and lively. "The moment he opens his mouth, he can make people who come to the Adventure Guild feel the vigor and vitality of the Adventure Guild's thriving development."

Although the lines in this audition were only three or four times in a certain plot.

But in his impression, this character seemed to appear several times in each volume, including a scene where the protagonist's birthday was celebrated and the birthday cake was slapped on the protagonist's face.

He gave a triangle, the voice actor supervisor gave a circle, and the two people from Aoyama Agency gave triangles to the voice actors from other agencies as usual.

The second person was a young girl who looked like a college student. She introduced herself as coming from a professional voice acting school affiliated with a certain agency, but the agency column on the form directly had the name of the corresponding agency written on it.

Director Suzuki had explained to him before that the information in this column is counted according to the registration method, which is divided into three situations: introduction by the agency or training academy, recommendation by relevant personnel, and personal dubbing submission.

He looked over Takeda's information on the form, which said "free man".

Suddenly, I thought of the thick stack of 10,000 yen bills in Takeda's wallet when he took back the 700 yen. It must be the tuition for some voice actor training school.

Did that training center not have a spot for "The Useless Hero"? Or did Takeda just miss out on getting one?

I taught him to send unclear congratulations on Line during those two days, just because a dubbing submission was accepted and he passed the preliminary audition...

Many fragments of his time with Takeda were connected in his mind, and the reasons for the breathing and pronunciation training were reasonably explained, but many new questions also arose.

While making circles, hooks, and triangles to the voice actors who came up for audition first, he was waiting to see when Takeda would come forward and how he would introduce himself.

Since this audition was based on a dubbing submission, would they mention the name of the voice actor training school when introducing themselves?

Takeda was the second to last to come forward, and behind him was only a college student who kept covering his face with a script. Like Takeda, he was a "free man."

"Ah... I remember this girl..." When he and Takeda looked at each other, as if they were competing to see who could keep their eyes open longer, Supervisor Suzuki suddenly spoke, interrupting his wandering thoughts and making him blink.

Takeda also blinked and looked away, with the corners of his mouth slightly raised.

"Mr. Suzuki, do you remember me? Is it because I'm pretty?" Ueda said in a flat tone. It seemed that he didn't have much of a good impression of Takeda, just like the other voice actors who didn't get the scripts before.

"No, no..." Before Takeda could open his mouth to audition, Director Suzuki circled the name "Takeda Inori" on the score sheet and said, "I was very impressed during the first audition."

"That's already been decided - no wonder you didn't even bring the script." Ueda suddenly felt bored and said something with a hint of meaning.

"She didn't bring a script to the initial audition." Only the voice actor supervisor would appear during the initial audition.

"So, what Mr. Suzuki is saying," the male voice actor judge patted Ueda's shoulder and continued, "is that even though this girl had a bad impression during the initial audition because she didn't bring a script, she was still chosen by Director Suzuki?"

"You could say that." Director Suzuki paused and turned to look at him, "...she was the most suitable candidate for the role at the time."

Mr. Suzuki, this is already a secret signal...

And it wasn't because they noticed that he knew Takeda and wanted to do him a favor; instead, they wanted him to make the final decision to ensure that Takeda would not be kicked out for such a small matter as not bringing the script.

(End of this chapter)