I teach kendo in Tokyo

Until the next review, 24 working days, a total of 480,000 yen!

Kazuma was stunned. Although this amount of money was not enough to fill the huge financial gap that Chiyoko had just shown him, it was enough to greatly ease the financial situation of the Kiryu family.

Even if Chiyoko didn't say anything, he would still take the job.

Okada Koji continued: "We have prepared the title of Series Director Osamu for you, what do you think?"

Okada Koji and Kazuma had a good relationship before, and they always called each other "you". This time they changed their honorifics, maybe to match the title of Director Shu.

Kazuma: "Okay, good."

In fact, he doesn't care about the title at all, as long as he is paid, he can be called whatever he wants.

You can call me a sweeping monk.

"Then, come and hang out with us after school tomorrow." Anno Akito's address to Kazuma did not change. "It's no good if the things you create always fail to pass the review of the production committee."

Kazuma glanced at Anno Akito and said, "Okay, let's just use 24 days to make something that even those fat-headed guys can understand, but that is also artistically worthy of our conscience."

As soon as Anno Akito heard that art must be worthy of his conscience, he immediately became energetic: "Okay, that's it."

**

The next day, Kazuma went directly to Okada Koji and his company after class.

Tamamo went along because the revised version of the book passed the review.

Okada Koji's company is a five-story building. From the outside, you can't tell that it is a place where investors' real money is burning.

The front desk on the first floor was empty, there wasn't even a girl working on duty, and the elevator next to the information desk didn't even have the wrapping paper of SiLeng Heavy Industry torn off.

He Ma guessed that this group of people would find it troublesome to go up the stairs, so they used the investors' money to renovate the elevator. After renovating it, they just used it until now without taking care of it carefully at all.

Kazuma pressed the elevator button, and the door opened directly.

Even the plywood has not been removed in the elevator - the main function of this kind of plywood is to protect the metal box inside the elevator during construction to prevent scratches. Generally, when the board is removed after construction, the smooth and beautiful inner metal wall can be directly exposed.

But they didn't dismantle it and just used it like this, highlighting the word "lazy".

After the elevator door closed, Kazuma pressed the button for the fourth floor.

When Okada Koji introduced it yesterday, he said that the second and third floors are mainly where the painting team works, the fourth floor is where the original painters work, and the fifth floor is where senior positions such as supervisors and art directors work.

It can only be said that it is indeed a company established by the Japanese, with a clear hierarchy.

As the elevator ascended, Tamamo spoke: "If the dojo's funds are really unable to circulate, I can introduce you to underground banks."

"Usually you should lend me money directly here, right?"

"Although our wagashi shop in Jinguji is a century-old shop, it is a small business and we don't have much money to lend." Tamamo said with a smile, "That's why I want to publish a book to make money."

I believe you. You, a thousand-year-old vixen, have accumulated a lot of wealth over the years. I’m afraid you don’t just have a pile of gold bars buried under your house!

Tamamo: "No, the wealth I accumulated was used to restore the possibility of seeing more of the outside world and seeing more human beings."

Is that so?

Kazuma was about to complain about Tamamo when the elevator door opened. As he opened the door, he heard someone shouting outside: "Oh, my energy drink is finally here!"

Then Kazuma heard someone running over quickly.

The man arrived at the elevator door and spoke before he looked inside: "Energy drink, hurry up, I'm just waiting to relieve my fatigue... Um, who are you two?"

Kazuma observed the man carefully. He had a slightly chubby figure, wore a pair of glasses, a plaid shirt on his upper body, and a pair of colorless toad glasses - today's intellectuals, regardless of liberal arts and sciences, all look like this.

At this time Okada Koji appeared: "Oh, Miss Jinguji is here too, that's great. Our main artist is doing some Japanese style designs, so I would like to invite Miss Jinguji to take a look."

Jinguji Tamamo smiled and said: "My attainments in Japanese art are not high, so I probably won't be able to give you much help."

Kazuma, who was standing next to him, subconsciously broke the situation: "You have been dancing Japanese dance for three hundred years..."

"That was an excuse to reject the Japanese Dance Association's invitation. It was half a year ago. How come you still remember it?"

It's not just me that Kazuma wants to remember. Your statement has become an urban legend at Tokyo University.

Okada Koji: "Anyway, please come in... Oh, by the way, this is our concept designer, Kunikida-kun from Musashino Art Academy."

Kunikida bowed slightly to Kazuma: "This is the first time we meet, you are the Kiryu Kazuma, right? Can you actually perform ninjutsu?"

Kazuma looked confused: "Now?"

"Yes... um no! You can do it later when you have free time. I am responsible for drawing the concept art of Cyber ​​Ninjutsu."

He Ma was speechless, then turned around and kicked off the wall. He was stuck to the ceiling of the elevator, clinging to the corner like a spider.

Kunikida exclaimed: "Oh, that's great. Looking from the outside, you can't see your location at all, Kiryu-sensei!"

Kazuma landed calmly.

Kunikida was still muttering to himself: "So it's like this. It's simple and conforms to the laws of physics, but it can also achieve the same effect as a ninjutsu. Wow, this kind of ninjutsu is comparable to those ninjas with strange powers and chaotic powers in the Koga Ninjutsu. The technique is much cooler! I feel inspired!"

As he muttered, he turned around and ran back to his place.

Kazuma asked Okada Koji worriedly: "Are all the people you recruit like this?"

"Yes, they are a little weird, but they are definitely talented." Koji Okada showed a proud expression, "We have formed probably the most talented team in the history of Japanese animation."

Seeing his confident look, Kazuma had a vague premonition that the animation created by these people in this world line would probably follow the same path of Wang Li's Space Army.

——Forget it, never mind them, I’m here to earn enough money for 24 days anyway, and I’ll leave as soon as I’m done.

"Let me show you two around our working environment." Okada Koji said and made a "this way please" gesture.

Kazuma then got out of the elevator.

Tamamo followed him half a body away from him.

I have visited animation studios in China all my life, and my impression is that there are a lot of computers with electronic drawing tablets.

But there is no such advanced equipment now. Okada Koji and the others look like a large studio here.

Kunikida-kun, who had just been inspired by Kazuma, was now sitting in front of a large drawing board, holding a brush and drawing something quickly.

Akito Anno was sitting in front of a machine that looked like a teaching slide projector that he had seen when he was in school.

It is the kind of machine that has a backlight to illuminate the film on which the questions and writings are written on the blackboard, and then uses a mirror to reflect it onto the screen.

The backlight of the machine was on, and the white light cast the pattern on the film placed on the machine onto Anno Akito's face.

Okada Koji led Kazuma and Tamamo to him and patted his shoulder: "Teacher Kiryu is here, and Miss Jinguji is here too."

Anno Akito turned his head and glanced, nodded and said hello, and then said to Okada Koji: "I suddenly had another brilliant idea yesterday. Look, we changed the main character from 112 to 140 to Will it be more expressive this way?”

As he spoke, Anno Akito picked up a dozen films he had put aside, put them into a hand-cranked device, and then placed them on the backlight.

As he turned the handle, the film in the device began to flip at a constant speed, and the characters painted on the film began to move.

Kazuma opened his mouth wide. When he visited the animation studio in his previous life, they also demonstrated how to animate the animation, but that was done using a computer.

This is the first time I have seen this kind of hand-cranked demonstration and horse.

Okada Koji leaned over to take a look: "Indeed...it seems to be smoother. What do you think, Kiryu-sensei?"

Kazuma: "I remember that in the demo clip you gave me yesterday, this shot should be a scene with a lot of furniture and debris, right?"

"Yes." Anno Akito asked doubtfully, "What's wrong? Do you think there are too many elements in the scene that affect the visual expression?"

Kazuma shook his head.

No, I think you didn’t make use of the props in the scene.

Kazuma: "It will be faster if I give you a practical demonstration. Do you have a place with a lot of miscellaneous furniture?"

Okada Koji: "Yes, we have all the equipment on the second floor, but we haven't recruited animators yet. There are only workstations set up on the entire floor, but there are no people."

He Ma was shocked. These people really didn't regard investors' money as money. No matter how many animators there were, they had to prepare all the equipment in the workplace first.

"You don't have animators, so how did you make the demonstration you showed us?" Kazuma asked in surprise.

"As long as the original artist draws the middle frame, it will be fine." Anno Akito waved his hand, "It's just a matter of a finger."

Kazuma glanced at the film still installed in the hand-cranked device in front of him, thinking that for this guy, it might just be a casual drawing.

Okada Koji: "Let's go to the second floor for a demonstration anyway? A small part of the third floor has been opened, and a few animators will start working today."

Kazuma: "Okay, let's go to the second floor. We might break it a little - I mean break some stools or something like that."

Okada Koji: "It's okay, I just need to buy more chairs and stuff."

Kazuma nodded, and then said to Tamamo: "I'll ask you to play opposite me later and play the bad guy."

"Is it okay for me to show off my skills and embroider my feet?" Tamamo asked with a smile.

"Of course, as long as it makes sense."

So Tamamo nodded: "Then leave it to me."

Anno Akito clapped his hands: "Everyone! Our supervisor is going to give us a demonstration of ninjutsu. Stop what you are doing first and go to the second floor to observe! So who, go to the fourth floor and ask the original artists to stop doing it and get off. Watching a show on the second floor.”

Kazuma stood beside him with a wry smile: "It's not ninjutsu, it's just a demonstration of some indoor fighting skills."

"Anything is fine." Anno Akito urged, "Let's go."

**

When Kiryu and Ma followed Tamamo down to the second floor, everyone in the company gathered around.

Kazuma heard someone exclaim: "It's really that Kiryu and Maya!"

He glanced at the crowd and effortlessly found the young man in his early twenties who exclaimed - No, he is not twenty years old now, so he cannot call someone in his early twenties a young man.

I should call you Big Brother...

Kazuma introduced himself to everyone: "Yes, I am Kazuma Kiryu. Today I will show you how to deal with a superior number of enemies in this complex indoor environment full of debris."

As soon as Kazuma finished speaking, someone raised their hand and asked: "Teacher Kiryu, was it really you who taught Miss Fujii?"

——As expected, the topic turned to Mikako again.

Anno Akito said with a serious face: "We are still working during working hours, so we can wait until lunch break to chat."

Kazuma waved his hand: "Everyone is curious and there is nothing we can do about it. Yes, Mikako Fujii is my apprentice."

"So the predictions she made were actually your predictions?" someone else asked.

Kazuma said in his heart, "Yes, that's my prediction," but he replied: "I am just Mikako Fujii's kendo teacher. Although I often discuss international relations with her, I have never taught her anything. I am from Tokyo. I’m from the university’s law school, and international relations is not my area of ​​expertise.”

The person who just asked the question immediately asked again: "So Ms. Fujii is really smart?"

Kazuma seemed to deny the problem at first, but that might cause Mikako to be expelled from school.

After she dropped out of school, she probably stayed at the Kiryu Dojo all day long.

With Mikako's appetite, if she became the dojo's proprietress, Kazuma wouldn't be able to afford it.

After all, there is already a edible Seiryuu.

But when Kazuma was asked to praise the monkey without conscience, he refused, so after struggling for a while, Kazuma replied: "That Mikako has a very bright mind, but he doesn't like to use his brain or study.

"You may have discovered it by looking at her recent performance as a guest on some talk shows.

“Sometimes her arguments are very organized, and other times she behaves like a headless fly, relying on unstructured sophistry to win.

"This is due to her knowledge reserve. She only remembers the things she said when discussing with us. Apart from those things, she usually doesn't take the initiative to learn on her own.

"Once it goes beyond her knowledge base, she starts running around."

After saying this, Kazuma felt a little proud: it would not cause Mikako to be exposed and drop out of school, and he would not praise her too much.

In fact, what Kazuma said is basically true except that he did not admit that all the predictions were made by him.

This should not make Mikako's false reputation even higher!

When he was feeling proud, the person who asked the question sighed: "So that's how it is, so her wonderful counterattacks on various programs are all based on her quick wit and improvisation!"

Um?

Kazuma frowned involuntarily, realizing that things were not simple.

"Miss Fujii is indeed a very smart lady." Another person sighed.

Um? ?

The third person was speechless: "Sure enough, this is what Yamato Nadeshiko should be like in the new era."

New era...huh?

Just her?

Kazuma was extremely embarrassed. At this time, Okada Koji stepped in and said: "Let's let Supervisor Kiryu demonstrate quickly. You can ask about other things when you have the opportunity later. Supervisor Kiryu will work with us twenty-four." God."

Kazuma also cleared his throat: "Yes, I will ask for your advice in the next 24 days. Now I will show you hand-to-hand combat in a complex environment. First, there will be one enemy against many. Has anyone signed up to be a villain combatant? ?”

A group of animated youths looked at each other, then one of them raised his hand and asked: "Are there any shameful lines you want to read?"

"No, just use any method you can think of to besiege me. Miss Jinguji will work with you."

As soon as they heard that Tamamo could do something, several people immediately raised their hands.

So a temporary team of villains was formed.

They surrounded Kazuma, all holding mops and brooms from the cleaning equipment room on this floor.

Kazuma: "Come on!"

Tamamo acted first, and Kazuma immediately performed the table-turning dodge that Jack Chen is good at.

Everyone onlookers said "oh".

Concept designer Kunikida-kun exclaimed loudly: "Is this the so-called wood escape in ninjutsu?"

No, it's not! Don't explain blindly!

Yuki Sadamoto, the character designer and artist who had been silent next to Kunikida, shook his head: "No, this should be the 'substitution technique'."

Just give me a moment!

Kazuma was distracted for a moment and almost got poked in the face by a mop. He dodged the mop and grabbed the hem of the man holding the mop's coat. He lifted the hem completely at once and tied a knot around the man's head.

"It's the cocooning technique!" Sadamoto said loudly.

You've had enough! If this continues, Jack Chen will become a ninjutsu master!

Hey, wait a minute, he is indeed a master of ninjutsu in a sense...

At this time, those guys playing combatants saw Kazuma responding in this novel way, and they obviously became more playful and had a strong desire to attack.

Kazuma also had to move around seriously and had no time to complain about the two people commentating next to him.

A minute later, of the four combatants who came to make up the count, one was hung on a coat rack, one was pushed headfirst into a vat of copy paper, and one was photographed on the photocopier. The photocopier was turned on. He spat out the audio and video picture of his embarrassed profile. The last part of his shirt was lifted up and knotted. He has not yet broken free and is standing there twisting.

Only Tamamo stood by as if nothing happened - she just stood up and then withdrew from the fighting circle.

Kazuma: "Did you see that? In this complex terrain, you have to make good use of everything at hand to fight."

The onlookers applauded together.

The man on the coat rack clapped his hands and said, "Um, can you get me down first and then summarize your speech?"

The man in the copy paper bucket kicked his legs in agreement.

Okada Koji: "Go and help them. Today you are all considered work-related injuries. Go to the finance department to get a work-related injury subsidy."

Before he finished speaking, Anno Akito clapped his hands: "I understand!"

Kazuma looked at Anno Akito: "What do you understand?"

"This kind of fighting is an art in itself!"

Anno Akito clenched his fists with both hands: "As long as we show this cool battle in animation, we can convince most people, just like I am impressed by this artistic battle now!

"So we should simplify the plot, or even scatter it in fragments throughout the play. The main space should be used to show the cool battles! Then those who are impressed by the battle will delve into it themselves and discover the hidden things. The plot!”

Kazuma looked at Anno Akito - this guy seemed to be getting farther and farther away from the Anno Hideaki in his previous life.

Is EVA no longer born?

Anno Akito bowed to Kazuma: "Thank you teacher for your guidance, I will go back and continue working."

"Ah, oh, okay." Kazuma nodded with a complicated expression.

To be honest, it would be a bit of a pity if EVA would never be born. After all, I have loved this movie so much my whole life.

Even though he was drunk so much in the old theatrical version of "Sincerely for You", he still liked EVA very much.

Forget it, if the ruffians in this world line can no longer create EVA, then - then I will create it!

Hey, are you still a little happy?

Kazuma tried his best to hide the smile on his lips and said to Okada Koji: "I'm sorry for making your second floor such a mess."

"It's okay, the degree of damage is much lower than expected." Okada Koji waved his hand, and then said to everyone, "Okay, I've finished reading, let's go back to work. There are still 24 days until the next review meeting, for sure Get a demo that passes!"

Everyone responded unevenly and feebly: "Understood."

For a moment, Kazuma wanted to shout at these slackers: "It's boring! You still want to do animation after being so quiet?"

However, this may have the opposite effect. After all, most of the literary and artistic people in this era are left-wing and deeply hate the old navy.

This group of people are all young people, basically college students who have experienced the student movement, and they are probably even more disgusted with this.

When everyone started walking towards the elevator and stairs in twos and threes, Yuyuki Sadamoto and Kunikida pulled another young man whom Kazuma didn't know to him.

Sadamoto Yuuki spoke first: "This is our painting supervisor Tsuyoshi Tsurumaki. He is also working as a color designer. He has some questions about the color tone of the work."

As soon as Kazuma heard this, he knew whose different time and space person this was, so he looked at it a few more times.

While he was looking at it, Tsurumaki and Tsuyoshi also spoke: "The result of the previous discussion between Kiryu-sensei and Anno was that the overall use of dark, cold tones is something I don't like very much. I still tend to use richer colors..."

Kazuma: "Of course you can use rich colors. In fact, to highlight the contrast between 'high technology and low life', you need some bright colors to contrast with those dark and cold tones."

Tsurumaki Kazugo looked puzzled: "High technology should make people's lives better. How can it be possible that high technology makes people's lives worse?"

Kazuma asked back: "Japan's economy is also very prosperous now, but street homeless people can be seen everywhere?"

Street friend is the elegant Japanese way of talking about homeless people.

Tsurumaki and Gang were stunned for a moment.

Kazuma added: "I know it's difficult for you to fully understand it all at once. If you don't give me a way to let you see this contrast intuitively, let Okada approve a fund for you and go to Hong Kong for a business trip. Let's take a look. You know the Kowloon Walled City next to Kai Tak Airport. Remember, don’t enter the Walled City.”

Okada Koji looked embarrassed: "He is our main painter here. He is indispensable if we want to ship the goods at the next review meeting."

Kazuma: "It's okay. Just go there for four or five days and walk around the Kowloon Walled City. When you come back, you will know how to describe the world of cyberpunk."

Tsurumaki and Tsugumi looked embarrassed: "People in Hong Kong speak Cantonese, but I don't speak it."

Kazuma: I can! I can be your guide!

Before he could say this, Tamamo spoke: "Two classes are ending this week. You don't want the credits?"

Kazuma scratched his head.

Tamamo continued: "Also, you haven't even applied for a passport, right? After all, our high school is not the kind of school that goes to Hawaii for school trips, so there is no such thing as a unified help to apply for passports."

Kazuma muttered to himself, even if our high school study trip would go to Hawaii, I wouldn't be able to afford the travel expenses.

At this time, Okada Koji decided: "Since Kiryu-sensei said so, then I will find a friend who understands Cantonese to lead the way. Tsurumaki, you can go there. Sharpening the knife will not stop chopping wood."

He Ma stood beside him and his teeth were sore with hatred - ah ah, you can have morning tea when you go to Hong Kong!

I haven’t had morning tea in more than a year!