Sakura anime studio.
"Hmmm, looks good."
Looking at the game work area on the first floor where a dozen or so people were already working, Sonoko took a casual look, then went up to the second floor.
Compared to the game area where there were both boys and girls, the second floor was full of unknown girls. Misaki serves as the interviewer, but the interview follows a bit of a rule.
"Oh! Sonoko-san, why did you suddenly come here?"
Seeing her, Misaki temporarily left the girls being interviewed and was greeted enthusiastically.
Sonoko noticed that several girls were staring at her, and said indifferently, "I have already discussed everything with the railroad joint publicity."
"Very fast?"
It's only been a few days, but Misaki has to admire Sonoko's efficiency.
As expected of the deputy editor-in-chief of the publisher, she has a wide network of contacts, and a relative price drop is taking place.
Seeing several girls sitting in a clean booth, Sonoko was a little surprised and said: "Here to interview animators."
Misaki nodded, then said to the young woman named Miyamori Aoi in front of her, "Well, where did we talk about this earlier?"
"Favorite food!"
The brown-haired woman answered with a smile.
"Oh! This is it!"
Misaki's eyes lit up: "I like a lot of food! For example..."
Hearing Misaki who was a few years younger than her start babbling nonsense. Although the woman named Miyamori Aoi was very surprised why the interview was like this, perhaps it was because of the characteristics of the other party, so she buried her doubts in her heart and answered the questions carefully.
At "Anime Studio Sakura", she hears about Hasegawa Asahi and Kamiikusa Misaki.
Recruiting people, she chose to come to see the situation first. The names of these two people are very popular in the ACG field, even bringing their friends and partners to follow.
Sonoko no longer bothered the two interviewers, she chose to grab the interview materials on the desktop and browse through them one by one.
Miyamori Aoi: I started an anime club with my friends in high school, co-produced [Shinbutsu Konkou SHICHIFUKUJIN] and showed it at cultural festivals. After studying finance in college, I worked part time at several general anime studios.
Yasuhara Ema: Be an animator for half a year. The reason I came here for an interview seems to be because of my friend Miyamori Aoi.
Toudou Misa: is an animator.
Imai Midori: I wish I could be a screenwriter.
This fellow was purely here to try his luck.
Sonoko glanced at the young woman with long blue hair tied in a ponytail to the left, a sweet appearance and fair skin, then shook her head.
Going through the interview materials again, she saw a woman named Sakaki Shizuka who was aiming to become a seiyuu. She came to join in the fun, and even twitched the corners of her mouth.
These women have too much experience in the industry, and Sonoko has no idea where Misaki found them. After that, there were pure newcomers like Andou Tsubaki, Satōu Sara, Kunogi AI.
The good news is that experienced seniors also exist.
Shinkawa Nao, who worked as a color checker. Chiemi Domoto, who is the animation checker. Segawa Misato, a freelance animator. Iguchi Yumi, nominal assistant chief animation supervisor. Okitsu Yuka, who is in charge of animation general affairs. Ogasawara Rinko, facial expression design supervisor and head animator. Erika Yano, who is in charge of animation production, and other women who have worked as animators, original artists, photographers and producers. Most were around 21 or 20 years old, very few were in their twenties.
Putting down the information in her hands, Sonoko was a little relieved, only on the resumes of the personnel behind, plus the abilities of Misaki and Asahi, it is more than enough to support the anime studio.
It's just that, looking at the pile of other documents, Sonoko's brow wrinkled.
She thought that Sakaki Shizuka, who was determined to become a voice actor, had chosen the wrong voice, but she didn't expect that there was actually a plan to recruit voice actors.
Sonoko closed her eyes to digest a lot of information.
Is there an error? The speed with which anime studios, game studios, voice acting agencies, and Asahi are planning to open at the same time.
Even if games and anime need dubbing, there is no need to set up a voice acting agency. Well, as long as the news is released, there are several voice actors to choose from.
Judging from the factors that make Asahi produce so many popular works in every anime, there is no need to spend any more time running a Seiyuu agency.
Even if he wanted to do it, at least wait for the animation and game to stabilize.
Laying down the documents, and exiting the specially renovated cubicle office temporarily used as an interview location, Sonoko walked to the deserted window, took out her cell phone, and planned to call Asahi.
"Hey! Asahi, what happened to the Seiyuu recruitment?"
Sonoko frowned and asked.
A surprised voice quickly came from the other end of the line: "Seiyuu recruitment?"
"You do not know?"
"Tell me a little about the situation."
Soon, Sonoko told him everything about the situation.
Asahi got off the station, and while walking, he heard Sonoko's confused tone: "I probably understand the situation, I'll be right there, I'll talk about it later."
"Okay."
After hanging up the phone, did he show a helpless smile?
Asahi did tell Misaki before that if she had time, she could help pay attention to the seiyuu problem, but he didn't expect the woman to act so quickly, so she directly asked someone to come for an interview.
Tsk, but good. Let's finish it once, so as not to think about it later.
But in this case, the space is clearly not enough, a three-story independent private apartment can accommodate an early animation and game studio at most.
Or simply buy an apartment on the left and back. Since this is a big step, it is better to solve the space problem from scratch.
Because this area is a private apartment area, it is divided into two districts, one district has three independent private apartments, the one on the left has been listed for sale by the middleman for a month.