Anime rating game

“Weren’t you here just now? If his animation wins, I’ll confess my feelings to him. If my animation wins, then it’ll be the other way around.”

Is that what you meant?

Yoshino Koiwai looked surprised, pondered for several seconds, and then sighed:

"I feel like he didn't quite understand your thoughts."

"It's okay, I understand. Anyway, we've gotten to know each other again now. If we come here a few more times, we can also see each other's true feelings more clearly."

Adagaki Aki paused, then added softly:

"Actually, I don't really understand how I feel right now. Reuniting with old friends, I feel excited, but also a little unfamiliar."

"Do I like him? Somewhat, but it doesn't seem to be to the point where I want to date him."

"So, it's better to be ambiguous in your words, so that if you later find out that you don't actually like him, there's still room for maneuver."

"Oh, I see." Yoshino Koiwai finally understood; she had deliberately made her words ambiguous.

This way, if you find out you like the other person in the future, you'll have a reason to confess and can create the right atmosphere beforehand.

If you don't like it, you can pretend it never happened and leave yourself some room to maneuver.

Chapter Twenty-Four: Where is your camera installed?

For the next six days, Masamune did not leave the house at all, staying home to write scripts.

The first part, "K-On!", took three and a half days to complete. After becoming familiar with scriptwriting, the second part, "My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU", took two and a half days to complete.

That's right. After searching online, Masamune discovered that Hirasawa Yui and the others are now in their third year of high school.

Hachiman Hikigaya and others could not be found, but judging from the founding year of Soubu High School and the teacher information on the school's website, they should be in their first year of high school.

The private Sakuragi Academy was converted from an all-girls school to a co-educational school two years ago, and Takatoshi Tsuda and others should be in their third year of high school.

In other words, the plots of the first seasons of "K-On!" and "Seitokai Yakuindomo" are things that happened in the past for the people involved.

To turn these two stories into animation, we need to obtain permission from the parties involved.

However, since the plot of "My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU" is set in the future and has not yet happened, it can be created directly without needing to find anyone.

Since the future is uncertain, it can be changed by the slightest breeze, so there's no need to worry about being seen as a prophet.

More importantly, Sobu High School is located in Chiba, not Tokyo, so the two sides will basically have no interaction, which reduces a lot of trouble.

Therefore, after some consideration, Masamune finally decided that the second work to be produced in the next phase would be "Oregairu".

With that, all that's left is to go to the private Sakuragaoka Girls' High School and get permission from the five members of the Light Music Club to begin production.

The production of "Seitokai Yakuindomo" can be postponed until this winter or next spring.

This Wednesday evening in early July was just an ordinary school day for the students.

Inside Sakuragaoka Girls' High School, the five members of the Light Music Club are leisurely drinking tea and chatting.

dong dong...

With a knock on the door, Nakano Azusa rushed to open it.

"Please come in."

Seeing Ms. Sawako, the school principal, and a boy of similar age in a suit outside the door, Nakano Azusa looked puzzled.

Why is the principal here? And is the man in the suit a teacher or a student?

"Hayase-kun, this is where our school's light music club is located. You can talk to these kids about what happens next."

"Excuse me."

Accompanied by Sawako Yamanaka and Principal Sakuragaoka, Masamune slowly walked into the Light Music Club's activity room.

Akiyama Mio hurriedly stepped forward to move a chair, while Kotobuki Tsumugi calmly took out the tea set and began to brew tea.

"Sawako-sensei, what happened?" Hirasawa Yui and Tainaka Ritsu rushed to Yamanaka Sawako's side anxiously and asked in a low voice.

"I don't know either. The people the principal brought shouldn't be anything bad."

He sat down in the chair, took the teacup from Kotobuki Tsumugi, thanked her softly, and then said:

"I'm very sorry to cause you trouble. I need to speak with the members of the Light Music Club about something, so I'd like to ask you for a few minutes."

To be honest, with the principal watching over him, Masamune was somewhat restrained.

But this is an all-girls school, and you can't get in without contacting the school in advance.

Visiting the homes of all five individuals would require visiting each one individually, making it difficult to find a time when all five could be together.

"That's alright, we're pretty free anyway." Hirasawa Yui shook her head repeatedly, then asked curiously, "What do you want with us?"

"Before we get down to business, please allow me to introduce myself. My name is Masamune Hayase, and I am the president of an animation production company."

Masamune took out five pre-prepared animation scripts from the file bag and placed them on the table.

"I happened to hear a song by the Light Music Club during the school festival, and I became a fan of all of you. I often dream about the daily life of the Light Music Club."

"After careful consideration, I wrote a script with Sakuragaoka Girls' High School as the setting, and I want to turn it into an anime."

"Since the main characters of the story are the members of the Light Music Club, I need to obtain your permission."

"In addition, the animation will use songs created by you, which will also require your permission. Of course, I will pay a certain copyright fee for the songs."

"You mean, you want us to be the female lead in an anime?" Yui Hirasawa's eyes sparkled with excitement. "I love watching anime! I never imagined I'd be the female lead on TV one day. No problem, I agree!"

"I don't have any objections, but with the story created by our Light Music Club, can it be successful? It feels like it will be very ordinary."

Tainaka Ritsu looked curious, then smiled and looked at Akiyama Mio:

"However, Mio is not so easy to persuade."

“I’m fine with it too,” Akiyama Mio said nonchalantly. “It’s just an anime, not a live-action drama. Besides, there’s nothing in our daily lives that we can’t share with the public.”

“I’m fine with that too, no problem.” Kotobuki Tsumugi smiled slightly. “I wonder what kind of story it will be? As long as it’s not too bad, I have no objections.”

“I agree.” Nakano Azusa casually chimed in, her eyes fixed on the script on the table, her heart filled with curiosity.

"Thank you for your permission, but please take a look at the animation script before signing the contract."

Despite their easygoing nature, Masamune remained unfazed. In fact, he believed that a victory could only be achieved if they could still say the same thing after reading the script.

"There are so many words, can I skip reading them?" Hirasawa Yui asked instinctively.

“Then let’s read it together.” Ritsu Tainaka smiled and picked up a script. “Aren’t you curious about what the light music club’s story is like? Oh…! The names are all our real names, you didn’t even use an alias?”

“I think this is more intuitive,” Masamune explained.

"Yes, that definitely makes it more immersive."

Since there weren't enough chairs, Ritsu Tainaka simply pulled Yui Hirasawa to sit on the wooden floor to the side, against the wall, and the two of them shared a script.

Nakano Azusa and Akiyama Mio shared one copy, while Kotobuki Tsumugi and the others each shared one copy.

Soon, exclamations of surprise rose and fell.

"How nostalgic! Did I really say something like that back then?"

"Azusa is so cute. Even though it's just words, it feels like there's a real person standing in front of me."

"She herself must be sitting not far away, right? Is this the charm of words? Our lives are so wonderful."

"Hirasawa Yui is so stupid, no, I'm not that stupid!"

"Yui? I don't know why, but this nickname keeps echoing in my head. Can I call you Yi from now on?"

"No, I'm not stupid at all."

The animation script, which was several hundred pages long and was only an uncorrected first draft with not many words per page, still took the group nearly an hour to read through.

Ritsu Tainaka immediately sat up from the wooden floor, placed the script on the table, and looked around.

"Where? Where is your camera installed?"

Seeing Masamune's puzzled expression, she added:

"The dialogue and plot in the animation are exactly the same as our past experiences, it's like we're being followed by a camera all the time. So, how long have you been spying on us?"

"Is it really exactly the same? This is a dialogue I simulated based on your personalities, and the storyline is also based on real-life scenarios."

Because my memory isn't very strong, although I remember the plot very clearly, the dialogue is still impossible to be exactly the same as the original.

Therefore, many of the dialogues were imagined by Masamune himself based on the character settings and plot.

"Although they are not exactly the same, the similarity is as high as 90%. With such a high degree of similarity, do you dare to say that you did not install a camera?"

“Thank you very much for your praise. It seems I do have a talent for being a mystery writer.” Masamune stroked his chin, a slight smile on his face.

"Stop spouting nonsense and tell me, how long have you been spying on us, and how did you do it?"

Kotobuki Tsumugi gently patted Tainaka Ritsu on the shoulder and said with a smile:

"Calm down, Lv. I believe it's impossible for anyone to be spying on us to this extent."

"You need to know that the story takes place not only in the light music club's activity room, but also in the shopping street outside the school, Yui's house, and the place where we stayed together..."

"Perhaps, as he said, it was deduced from his personality."

Tainaka Ritsu subconsciously thought of Hirasawa Yui's perfect pitch talent, and as she pondered, her tense mood gradually relaxed.

That makes sense; if someone could actually spy on us to that extent, it would be terrifying.

Relatively speaking, the explanation of talent is more reasonable.

Some people's talents are just so outrageous and unreasonable.

“Okay, Tsumugi is right. Even fans can’t possibly spy on us 24/7.”

"What do you think of this script? Should we agree to make it into an animation?"

“I agree,” Kotobuki Tsumugi blurted out instinctively, then added with a smile, “Because the story is very interesting, so no problem!”

“I agree. However, I hope you can make my character in the story more normal; I’m not that naive in real life.” Hirasawa Yui raised her hand to speak.

"Me too! Please make sure to remove the scene where you fall during the first-year high school festival from the animation!"

After finishing her story, Akiyama Mio recalled the scene of her accidental fall and felt a great headache coming on.

If it's three to two, what's the point of my objection?