Tokyo life starting with painting

The weather was indeed very cold. After getting off the train, Higashinoji rubbed his hands while heading to Tokyo Animation Production Company - the action of rubbing his hands was actually of no use, it just gave Higashinoji some psychological comfort.

Tokyo Animation Production Company is not far from the tram stop. After getting off the taxi, Higashinoji arrived at the door of Tokyo Animation Production Company.

I have to say that this Tokyo Animation Production Company is quite good. It has the spirit of animators and even built a snowman not far from the gate.

Higashino glanced at it, and just walked around the snowman -

"I'm sorry, you stepped on my sign."

Um?

Higashinoji showed an incredible expression. He turned his head and glanced around, only to realize that it was the 'Snowman' who had spoken.

It doesn't look like a snowman.

Higashinoji just took a cursory glance and didn't see clearly.

The person in front of me is clearly a girl, a college student in her twenties, who looks a bit innocent and cute.

She was wearing a white fur hat, earmuffs, and very bulky clothes. Judging from the small snowdrifts on her shoulders, she must have been standing here for a long time, and her face was red from the cold.

At this time, the other party was pointing at the feet of Higashikata, and Higashino realized that he had indeed stepped on the snowman girl's wooden sign.

He put his foot back.

"Thank you!" The girl in a bloated dress bowed respectfully and politely to Higashinoji.

Her voice is very clear, but at the same time it is very strong, giving people the impression of being serious and serious.

"You're welcome." Higashikata waved his hand, and then took a look at the writing on the wooden sign.

I saw the wooden sign written with a thick marker pen - 'I am Hasegawa Riko! Please give me a chance to audition for dubbing! ’

Well

Tonoji was stunned, and then glanced at the snowman girl with an innocent face in front of him.

Are you here to apply for a job?

Or did you come to apply for a job with a wooden sign? Or a voice actor? Is there such a wild way? And the writing is too ugly, right? It looks like it was written by a primary school student of several years old.

Higashikata felt strange.

After all, generally speaking, voice actors are dubbing actors, and they are usually taken to various places by the producers of their own voice actor agencies for auditions.

In other words, the voice actor firm’s human resources in the industry are used to promote the voice actor.

Whether you can get a good role or not depends on your voice actor's ability.

However, there are actually many Japanese voice actors, but 90% of them mostly play background roles such as supporting actor A and classmate B.

There are only a handful of people who can get good roles.

But it’s really rare for Hasegawa Riko to stand next to an animation production company and ask for the opportunity to audition for dubbing.

At least Higashinoji has never seen it.

Of course, Tonoji didn't take it any further. He apologized to the snowman girl, then pulled up his scarf and walked towards Tokyo Animation Production Company.

Behind him, the snowman girl made no sound again. She just took the sign out of the snow very carefully, and carefully wiped the stains on it with her red palms from the cold.

The snow continues to fall.

Occasionally, a low cough could be heard coming from her side.

Even this is an insignificant episode.

However, the sight of the snowman girl standing in the snow and waiting still made Tonoji somewhat impressed, and he wrote down the name of Riko Hasegawa.

He quickly moved from the main building to the auxiliary building, and then went up to the three floors in one go to the studio of the "Midnight Ring" production team.

It's already quite warm when we get here.

I have to say that the indoor insulation measures at Tokyo Animation Production Company are quite good.

Tonoji straightened his clothes, patted the falling snow on his shoulders, and walked inside.

"Brother Dongye! You are finally here!"

Originally, Naohashi Motohashi was still discussing camera issues with other members of the creative team. When he saw Higashinoji approaching, he finally smiled and walked towards him.

"We meet again, brother Motohashi." He shook Motohashi's hand and exchanged pleasantries for a while.

The content of the greetings mainly introduced the names of these original painters.

After the pleasantries were over, Tonoji drank another cup of hot tea before getting down to business.

"Look, brother Higashikata, no matter how our original animator painted this scene, it doesn't have the same feeling as you do. Let me show you what you're going to do?"

Director Motohashi was furious. It seemed that this problem had been tormenting him for a long time.

"Well, don't worry, I'll draw it for you guys to see first." Higashinoji raised his head and glanced around, and found that Akisa Kuromiya was indeed there.

Kuromiya Meisa was holding a sketchbook and looking at Higashinoji here.

Seeing her look over, Higashinoji also nodded, then took a breath, flexed his fingers, and then started work under the eyes of Motohashi Nabuhiro and his group of original animators——

He didn't draw fast, but at a constant speed. After all, he wanted to show it to Motohashi Nabuhiro and the original painters, although Higashinoji didn't think they could learn it.

And just as Tonoji slid the pencil in his hand, a picture of Sadako crawling out of the TV appeared in front of everyone.

The disheveled Sadako reached out to the real world, her vicious and terrifying eyes staring at everyone from between her hair.

This gaze, which was like a living thing, made Motohashi Nabuhiro and others feel that they had entered the world of "The Ring", as if they were in that small Japanese room.

In front of them stood a cold TV set with snowflakes shining on it.

And just on the TV, the indescribable thing opened its eyes and reached out to the world.

"Well--"

It took Naiboshi Motohashi a long time to react. He looked at the already formed Sadako under Higashinoji's hand, and he actually felt like, 'Could it really be possible to crawl out of a painting? 'a feeling of.

Next to her, Akira Kuromiya opened her mouth.

She never thought that horror comics could be drawn like this and be so scary.

She subconsciously gestured with her hands and drew pictures in the air. She felt as if she had caught something, but she didn't catch anything.

"That's probably what it's like?"

Higashino asked as he held the still-warm hot tea next to him with both hands and took a sip to warm himself up.

How about it?

The several original animators who were studying the original painting all looked at each other, and then they were all speechless.

Because just looking at this new work painted by Higashinoji, it is actually not much different from what they painted.

But the things they drew didn’t have the sense of catching people’s eyesight as Higashinoji did, and it had the feeling of being able to catch people into the terrifying world of “The Ring”.

Seeing that no one was speaking, Naohashi Motohashi next to him said, "In this case, Brother Higashino will be responsible for the main original painting from now on, and all the teachers will help me, so it should be okay, right?"

His move undoubtedly touched the cake of these original painters. After all, the position of the main original painter is very tempting, and these original painters do not want to give up.

But these original animators also know what kind of character Motohashi is.

Although this person usually looks smiling and cheerful, he is absolutely unambiguous when it comes time to take drastic measures. He is the standard kind of animation director who is too talkative but has a sharp heart.

If you don't meet his standards, it's normal for you to be kicked out of the production team.

As an animation supervisor, how many good-tempered people can you have?

Many new employees are scolded to "resign and leave if they can't do it anymore."

In addition, Higashinoji is indeed capable and is not a person who has a reputation for nothing, so under his position, these original animators are still acceptable.

So naturally, everyone nodded in agreement.

"Okay, I respect everyone's decision." Motohashi coughed and said that this is a public election, which is fair, just and open, without any behind-the-scenes operations. He also encouraged: "This is a rare big event. Production, we must make good results!"

And Higashinoji who was on the side saw that everything had been arranged by Motohashi Nabuhiro, so naturally he didn't say much.

After all, "The Ring" is an animated film of his own work, so it is natural that he, the original author, should be the main person in charge of the original animation.

After taking over this job, Tonoji would naturally put in the effort to do it well.

After Motohashi Naihiro finished instructing these necessary things, Higashinoji approached him and whispered: "Brother Motohashi, regarding Mr. Kuromiya, can you help me arrange a position with her?"

Only in this way, if Kuromiya Mingsha wants to ask him any questions, he can answer them immediately.

"I know." It was obvious that Motohashi had misunderstood. He glanced at Higashinoji with a smile that every man could understand, and arranged the work table for Higashinoji and Kuromiya Akisa's desk. together.

After all, Akisa Kuromiya is indeed beautiful, and she is quiet and a good woman.

In addition, he and Higashinoji are in the same publishing house, so there is no pressure at all to form a CP combination. Naturally, Motohashi thought wrongly.

But I thought about it wrongly, and Naohashi Motohashi still remembered that Higashinoji had said in the newspaper that he already had a girlfriend. Why did Higashinoji still want to take advantage of Meisa Kuromiya when he had a girlfriend?

Daohashi Motohashi shook his head and pretended to sigh, "People's hearts are not as old as they used to be."

Seeing him like this, Higashinoji was speechless for a while - this guy must have thought wrongly, thinking that he was asking for it because he wanted to pick up girls.

But forget it, Higashinoji didn't bother to explain this issue.

He sat next to Akisa Kuromiya, looked at the storyboards that Motohashi had brought over for him to draw, and was about to start writing——

"I thought you forgot."

Kuromiya Mingsha's calm voice suddenly sounded in her ears.

This sentence also hit Higashinoji's sore spot.

However, Higashinoji's response method was also very simple. He smiled and waved his hand, and replied without any panic: "I haven't forgotten, it's just that there have been a lot of things recently."

Kuromiya Meisa stopped talking and just looked at Higashinoji calmly.

Her eyes were very steady, with no other emotions. She seemed to be just observing Higashinoji.

But it is this kind of girl who is the most difficult to deal with.

They seemed to have no reaction on the surface, but in fact they didn't know what they were thinking, which was completely different from the type of Konoe Ryoka who had all her emotions written on her face.

After a while, Tonoji felt the eyes on his face move away, and at the same time, there was a slight 'hmm' voice from Kuromiya Meisa.

This is considered to be muddling through.

Tonoji let out a sigh of contentment, turned back and prepared to draw the storyboard in earnest.

But before he finished drawing two pictures, he heard a few people discussing quietly next to him.

"Have you heard? That Hasegawa Riko is here again. She has been standing in front of our company."

"Really? With such heavy snow, will she still stand in that place? Nothing will happen, right? She's almost a snow girl, right?"

"Who knows? But she must have brought it upon herself. Didn't it mean that she unilaterally terminated the contract with the firm?"

"Huh? Is this really true?"

"I just heard that I'm going to Kabukicho tonight? There's a nice izakaya there."

"Go ahead. Can you call Yamanaka-kun by the way?"

"Hey, he can't do it. He is very afraid of his wife in the mountains. Hey, he is really a tiger."

The content of this discussion attracted Higashinoji. Don't tell me, Hasegawa Riko's innocent appearance really feels like a snow girl.

This made Higashino put down the pen in his hand with some curiosity, pulled up the bench and came in front of a few people.

And he, the person in charge of the creative script and original painting, came over and immediately shut up these people. They looked at me and I looked at you, and they were a little worried that Toyoshi was a little angry with them for chatting at work.

After all, Higashinoji is considered their boss, and the people in their production team are just working for the creative team to produce their finished products.

If the other party is not satisfied, they will have to call back and redo it, so Higashinoji could really suggest to Motohashi Nobuhiro to expel them from the production team.

"What can I do for you, Mr. Higashino?"

One of them hesitated for a while and then asked Higashinoji.

"Ah, I have something to ask you." Higashinoji asked thoughtfully, "You all seem to know very well about the snow girl, er, Hasegawa Riko?"

"Ah? Oh, you mean Ms. Hasegawa?" One of the animators said.

The artist was a little unsure about the relationship between Higashinoji and Hasegawa Riko, so he used honorifics: "Ms. Hasegawa Riko was a well-known voice actress before, and she must have some strength. I remember the work is "Ultramarine Philosophy" , the heroine in "The Golden Fields Murder Case"

"Really? Then I just heard that the firm contract was unilaterally terminated?" Higashinoji became somewhat interested.

"The agency issued a document saying that she was not satisfied with the roles the agency found for her and asked for more good dubbing roles. Then the other party unilaterally terminated the contract with the agency and is now in a complete decline period."

The other party's words were very particular, and it took Tonoji a long time to understand the situation of Hasegawa Riko.

Isn't this a state where everyone shouts to beat me?

It's a big deal to offend a firm, and it's natural to be ostracized by the industry.

No wonder the other party didn’t bring his manager to Tokyo Animation Production Company for an audition.

There is no chance at all.