Anime rating game

"President, here's your tea set!"

Upon hearing Miyamori Aoi's shout, Masamune, who was pondering 'why he only received the producer's reward and not the male lead's reward,' instantly snapped back to reality, hurriedly picked up his phone, and dialed his home number.

"Zong-kun, I saw your name. You have a rating of 3 stars, that's really impressive."

"Mom, check if anything is missing. Miyamori's reward is our spare tea set, Ema's reward is our refrigerator, and Kuwana's reward is our living room sofa."

"Hey...? Wait a minute, I'll go check the living room."

On the other end of the phone, a series of footsteps sounded instantly.

About two minutes later, Hayase Kinue's voice, tinged with relief, finally rang out:

"Zong-kun, nothing is missing. All the items are here. The sofa, the refrigerator, the tea set—everything is safely stored at home."

"I can rest assured that."

After ending the call, Masamune's gaze shifted to the box in Miyamori Aoi's arms and the large refrigerator next to Yasuhara Ema, and he said with a smile:

"Don't worry, you can accept it. Our things are still here. This seems to be a new copy, not something that was directly transferred from our house."

"So it's a replica." Miyamori Aoi immediately relaxed. "In that case, it's similar to anime merchandise."

"That's it."

Masamune smiled and then looked at the others:

"Ema's refrigerator, I'll have someone drive it back for you later. Is there enough room in your current place?"

"OK."

Ema Yasuhara nodded slightly, feeling a little regretful.

Receiving a reward from heaven is certainly a good thing, but if she could, she would prefer a skill rather than a large item like a refrigerator.

But thinking about it carefully, I realized that I didn't contribute much to the creation of "Masamune-kun" and wouldn't have received a better reward, so this is already quite good.

"I never expected that a work with a 3-star rating could receive such an extraordinary reward."

Seiichi Kinoshita recalled the extra track and field knowledge in his mind, and looked puzzled:

"However, why did the president only receive a reward as the producer? Since the female lead received a reward, the male lead should have received one too."

"I can only think of two possibilities. One is that the names are different. After all, in the anime I am Masamune Makabe, but in reality I am Hayase. The other possibility is that my experiences are too different from Masamune Makabe's."

Both are very possible, after all, the three female protagonists, Adagaki and the others, obtained extraordinary abilities, although they were the weakest of the three.

As the producer, he only gained ordinary abilities, which were completely unrelated to anything extraordinary.

Theoretically speaking, if the female lead gets a reward, the male lead should get one too.

At that time, whether it was two rewards combined or two rewards received, it could not have been such an ordinary reward.

Therefore, it can be inferred that, in the system's judgment mechanism, the contributions of the real actors are more important and account for a larger proportion than those of the producers and supervisors in the case of a live-action adaptation.

He only received the producer's reward, not the male lead's reward, probably because of the difference in name and experience.

Adagaki Aki and the others' experiences and personalities haven't changed much from childhood to adulthood; they just didn't meet him in high school.

"Regardless of the possibility, we can only wait for the fourth evaluation in three months." Kinoshita Seiichi nodded slightly.

"Wow... I'm so envious of you guys."

Takeuchi Yasuyuki clutched his neck, his face contorted in pain.

"What's wrong, Takeuchi?" Kinoshita Seiichi looked at him in surprise.

"Three months ago, before I joined Musashino, I participated in the production of an animation, which was just among the works being evaluated."

"Excuse me, what's the score? What's the punishment?"

"One and a half stars rating, punishment: three days of stiff neck."

At that moment, Kinoshita Seiichi really wanted to laugh, but he felt it wasn't appropriate, so he could only force himself to cover his mouth.

"Oh, I see... That's really bad."

"Ugh... three days in a row, just thinking about it gives me a headache. Luckily, Oregairu is already finished."

The pain in his neck made Takeuchi Yasuyuki involuntarily gasp again.

I've had stiff necks before, but it's impossible for it to last for three days in a row.

Just thinking about the next three days gave him a terrible headache.

"Only ratings of three stars or higher will receive rewards. With over 300 new anime series in October, thinking about it, a whole bunch of people will suffer again at the end of the year."

Seeing that many people, including Yasuyuki Takeuchi, were rubbing their necks and foreheads, the five people invited by Hirasawa Yui couldn't help but gather around Masamune and bombard him with questions:

"President Hayase, how's the production of K-On! going? What score did you expect it to get?"

"That means, three stars or above is fine, but not too low, I don't want to get a stiff neck."

“I don’t want any punishment. Even though the reward is lucrative, the punishment is terrible.”

"Don't worry," Masamune said with a smile, "This is the result of the hard work of the entire Musashino team. K-On!'s rating will definitely be good."

At that moment, Karasuma Chitose's panicked voice came from afar:

"Wujing-jun, what's wrong? Don't scare me!"

Upon hearing her voice, Masamune and the others rushed over:

"What happened to Wujing? Your Majesty."

"I'm fine." Karasuma Gojo waved his hand weakly and said in an extremely weak voice, "The two works in which I played the male lead had very low ratings, and I was punished in two ways. One was to be exhausted for three days, and the other was to suffer from insomnia for two days."

"In addition, of the three works in which I played a supporting role, one of them received a good rating of three stars, and the reward is a Level 1 skill video game."

"The other two films also received terrible ratings, and the punishments were a two-day cold and a two-day color blindness, respectively."

"Sigh...?" Hearing his slightly sorrowful explanation, Masamune felt a great deal of sympathy.

Whether an animation is good or bad, in reality, it doesn't have much to do with the voice actors.

Karasuma Gojou's acting skills are excellent; he is undoubtedly a genius in voice acting.

Therefore, in order to accumulate rewards, I have taken on a lot of voice acting work for animations in the past few months.

But no one knows whether an animation is good or bad until it is completed.

"I'll have someone take you to the hospital to rest for three days."

"No, I'll just stay home and rest for three days." Karasuma Gojo turned his head with difficulty and looked at Ando Miki not far away. "Ms. Ando, ​​could you please help me postpone all my work for the next three days?"

"Don't worry, a lot of voice actors will definitely take a break in the next few days." Miki Ando nodded slightly. "I'll contact those production committees later, there shouldn't be any major problems."

It's easy to see that Karasuma Gojo, a voice actor who has accumulated a lot of negative buffs, is not an exception.

Rather, it's more accurate to say that many popular voice actors take on supporting roles in other works while also playing lead roles.

Of the animations evaluated in this round, only 7 received a rating of three stars or higher and were rewarded; the creators of the remaining dozens of works were all punished.

Fortunately, the punishment was not very severe; at most, many animation companies and voice actor agencies in the industry would have to suspend operations for a few days.

Chapter Fifty-Five: Expectations for the Future

Is everything really okay?

Among the crowd, Hachiman Hikigaya, who had been invited, looked nervously at the people in the distance.

Although I am just a word-writing machine who writes novels and am not the original author of "My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU," I am still the male protagonist.

The anime adaptation of "My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU" has been completed, and as outsiders, we can only see it on television and have no way to get firsthand information.

If the animation gets a bad rating, what kind of punishment will I, as the male protagonist, receive?

'Oh no! Only Musashino's anime is a live-action adaptation. I've heard that some companies are also producing biographical anime, but they won't air until at least next month, and there's no precedent for that.'

'But since the female lead gets a reward, I, as the male lead, will definitely get one too after three months. Conversely, I can't escape punishment either.'

After seeing Karasuma Gojo off, the celebration resumed.

But compared to before, the atmosphere inexplicably became somewhat heavy.

Especially at the table of voice actors, many people looked uneasy and had complicated expressions.

Aoi Miyamori sat down in the empty seat next to Shizuka Sakaki and asked in a low voice:

"Shizuka, how are you?"

“I’ve mostly voiced extras and supporting characters with few lines before, and I haven’t been punished,” Shizuka Sakaki said as she thought. “The supporting characters with more lines are mostly from the October anime season, which hasn’t started airing yet.”

"So, in three months? What do you think of the quality of those works?"

"Hmm...it has its pros and cons."

Seeing the solemn expressions on everyone's faces, Aoyama Nanami took the initiative to speak, trying to comfort them:

"Don't be afraid, everyone. Before joining Musashino, becoming a voice actor was something I could only dream about."

"Not long ago, I got my first official voice acting opportunity, and it was for a role with lines."

"At that time, I was really happy. Although the content of that animation was a bit hard to describe, I'm sure it would be punished when it was evaluated later, right?"

"But thinking about it carefully, if the score is good and you can get a reward, it's something that will make you happy for a long time."

"I don't even know what I'm saying anymore, but... I don't plan to give up being a voice actor. I'll be very happy to take on any more voice acting work in the future, even if it's for an anime with low ratings."

“That’s right.” Masamune walked to the side, took over the conversation, and comforted everyone, “Don’t worry about being punished. Just like Gojyo himself, who has been punished a lot, he is not afraid at all.”

"Compared to the potential reward, three to five days of punishment is really nothing."

"Like myself, before entering the animation industry, I was actually prepared to be punished continuously for two or three years."

“That’s right!” Takeuchi Yasuichi said with a smile while rubbing his neck. “At the moment of being punished, although I was very unwilling, I didn’t actually regret it at all.”

"For us animators, any job opportunity is extremely rare. Only by constantly seizing opportunities can we go further."

"With over 20 years of experience in the industry, I have participated in the production of excellent animations, and I have also supervised the production of garbage animations that have been criticized by many people."

"If the heavenly assessment had come earlier, I would certainly have received many rewards and also suffered many punishments."

"But no matter what kind of punishment I receive, the only thing I don't regret is entering the animation industry, and I don't regret any of the job opportunities I've had in the past."

"Ouch... this stiff neck really hurts."