I am a Type-Moon comic artist!

But... that's not the case.

Although she doesn't yet know what her teacher said when she was [sealed], that's all she knows.

Much later, more than a decade later, in the El-Melloi II Chronicles, she asked her teacher what she had been thinking back then.

Her teacher replied, "I highly recommended you, so please make sure to preserve Touko, Aozaki, and her magic circuits forever deep within the Secret Court."

Well, although she hasn't heard of these things before, she can roughly guess what they are.

......

Takehito Koyasu's heart was pounding.

Two days have passed.

It's been a while since I participated in that voice acting audition... Although we're still selecting some minor roles, the earlier parts, like his scenes, have already been completed.

All that's left is to announce it.

When the results are announced, not only will a banner be hung in front of the venue, but you'll also receive a phone call...

But even if you're not selected, you'll still get a phone call...

"Ring ring ring—"

"Well--"

Takehito Koyasu swallowed hard. Could it be someone from the JOJO company?

"Um... Hello, this is Zi'an."

"Hello." A gentle female voice came from the other end of the phone: "This is JOJO Studio. Are you Takehito Koyasu, the voice actor for Dio Brando (number five)?"

"Yes!" Takehito Koyasu stood up, glancing sideways at the phone.

"You have passed the previous voice actor selection and can register at the JOJO headquarters in Kanbuko City before February 1st."

After that... Takehito Koyasu could no longer hear clearly.

He just felt... as if his soul was about to take flight.

"Um... Mr. Koyasu? Mr. Koyasu?"

"Huh? Ah...sorry! I was so surprised that I got distracted. Could you please repeat the address again?"

"Yes, then I'll say it again, the address is XXXXX, Guanbuzi City."

After noting down the address, Takehito Koyasu went to the JOJO theme park again! He had been staying in Morioh Town recently and hadn't left at all.

Just in case, let's go and see now, and see if I'm the one chosen in that amusement park's hall!

soon--

He saw it

In front of the guild hall, there are several large signs surrounding it.

The screen features images of characters such as Jonathan Joestar and Dio Brando, with their names displayed below each image.

There were people all around.

After much effort, Takehito Koyasu managed to squeeze next to the Dio Brando sign and saw the words below the picture.

“The voice actor for Dio Brando – number five, selected through voice acting audition.”

It worked!

Chapter 169 The Passage of Time

The clock is ticking.

Production, music, voice acting.

They all arrived one after another.

Even Hideaki Anno and others were surprised by the quality of this group of voice actors.

This is unprecedented; to dub a 20-minute animation entirely in one go requires an extremely high level of skill. Anyone who does this without making any major mistakes is truly talented.

Kazuya Kurokawa signed more than a hundred voice actors in one go.

However, only a dozen or so can be used this time.

We'll hold off on the rest for now, and wait for the next series. Whether it's our own animation or theirs, we can save a lot of costs then.

after...

The animation production officially began.

Kurokawa Kazuya didn't have the time to keep an eye on them and supervise their drawing progress, since he also had his own manga to draw.

I can only visit occasionally.

Most of the time, they would only send it to him once an episode of the animation was finished.

Then... he said, "Add onomatopoeia here." "This sounds a bit off." "The sound here doesn't feel right, re-dub."

Sometimes, he wouldn't even notice what was wrong at the time, but when he was bored and looked at it again, he would suddenly feel something was off and still make them redo it.

And so it went, again and again.

Repeatedly.

These people have finally experienced the painful feeling of having someone who knows absolutely nothing giving them wild instructions.

But there's nothing we can do. He's just rich.

And they don't care about their opinions at all... they probably don't even care about the audience's opinions, they just want to make animations that make them happy.

They've already reached the level of making animated films, but there are still occasional mistakes.

Fortunately, Kurokawa and Mi didn't watch it frame by frame; otherwise, they would have been even more annoyed.

Even using the same level of production quality as an animated film, a single episode would normally cost around 50 million yen. But now, it's taking hundreds of millions of yen to complete.

Fortunately... even so, there are still hundreds of millions left.

Everything else was alright, but the main problem was that the animators, including Mosayuki, were exhausted. However, the extra several million yen they received per person for each completed episode kept them incredibly motivated... They continued production at a pace of a little over two episodes per month...

.......

Looking at the sixth episode of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure in front of him, Kurokawa Kazuya nodded in satisfaction: "Not bad, this time it's temporarily acceptable."

This episode just happened to be the last one, with Zeppeli walking towards his inevitable death without looking back!

"For now...?" Hideaki Anno gave a wry smile. "How about we start working on the seventh episode then?"

As he spoke, he breathed a slight sigh of relief, because...

It's finally almost finished.

The first season is expected to have a total of 9 episodes, and more than half of them have been completed.

Once this is done, I can take a short break.

"Go ahead and do it. Speed ​​isn't the priority, but the quality must be top-notch."

"Understood." Hideaki Anno nodded. This JoJo's Bizarre Adventure was definitely the most tiring one he'd ever done as a director...

Thinking about it carefully, this is only my second time supervising. The previous one was only half-finished before stopping, and even if I continued, it would definitely be starting from scratch.

After all... with so much funding, why leave the part that was already done half-dead?

He even wanted to revise the script!

Previously, some elements were included to please the audience, but now? That's completely unnecessary! We just do whatever we want, whatever we want to make the animation we like!

Thinking about it this way, a little tiredness is fine... a little tiredness is fine too.

Kurokawa Kazuya was also surprised, not expecting that such a small amount of money would be enough to make an animation. After all, he was an outsider, whether it was making animation or drawing manga, he was actually an outsider at the beginning, but he learned the skills of manga artist Kishibe Rohan, so he suddenly became the most professional person.

However, he still knew absolutely nothing about animation.

Hmm... I only understand it a little bit now.

Before acquiring the animation company, he always thought that making animation was very expensive... the kind that costs hundreds of millions of yen... Now that he thinks about it, did he include the cost of Western films in the animation budget?

At first, I thought that 1 billion yen might not be enough.

But now, even if it is occasionally remade and maintains a level that surpasses that of animated films, it still only costs around 100 million yen per episode.

The most complex level was reworked six times, and it still cost less than 200 million.

Was the Japanese yen more valuable during this period?

Or perhaps, this is simply how animation is made...

Compared to producing animation, the main revenue comes from acquiring bands, music producers, collaborating with art schools, securing television broadcast time, and advertising.

"Well... let's take our time to get to know each other."

Kurokawa Kazuya picked up a pen and began writing the script.

What he wrote was none other than the script for Code Geass, but he only described the beginning and the ending in detail; the middle part... he only wrote a rough outline.

The rest is up to Hideaki Anno and the others.

Trying to fill in the gaps and transform Lelouch's high intelligence from simply flipping the floor with Geass into genuine high intelligence on one's own is definitely not as effective as having a group of people working together.

A group of people can fill in the gaps.

so...

All I need to do is finish writing the script, and draw the first, second, and final chapters of the comic in comic form. That's all.

Moreover... the JOJO Club is currently gathering many geniuses who will be able to stand on their own in the future. The effect of so many people coming together must be extraordinary.

However, recruitment of talent continues...

"Alright... that's almost done... but now's not the time to bring it out. Let's wait until they finish making JOJO. Then we'll give them time to make their own animation... and after that, we'll make this Code Geass."

"Ring ring ring—"

Just then, the phone line from the front desk directly to this location rang.