My Cartoonist Girlfriend

After Honoka finished singing the nursery rhyme, the girl turned around, looked at everyone with a smile and said, "I sang pretty well, didn't I?"

"..."

It’s a pity that what was greeted was just everyone’s silence.

Taking a deep breath, Asakura looked at her and said, "Honoka, can't you choose a more normal song?"

"Um..." Scratching her cheek, Honoka said awkwardly, "Well, I don't know many songs. Apart from some nursery rhymes I've known since childhood, there's only the Otonogizaka school song."

Asakura Kaede felt like she almost couldn't catch her breath. She still wanted to be an idol?

Looking at Umi and Kotonari in disbelief, the two girls nodded successively.

Umi said, "That's true. Honoka didn't really sing in the past, and I'm pretty much the same."

Qin Li followed closely and said, "Yes, I don't sing much either, but I know more songs than Guo Guo. She is usually free and spends most of her time thinking about finding something to eat."

"Not at all!"

Facing the exposure of her best friend, even in front of Asakura Kaede and the other two who were already very familiar with her, Honoka still felt very embarrassed and stuffed the microphone into Kotori's hand: "It's your turn!"

"Ugh?"

Blinking her eyes, Kotori stood up shyly holding the microphone. Among the three, she was the only one who stood up today. She was wearing a pleated skirt and white over-the-knee socks with lace trim, looking cute and pure.

Honestly speaking, just by standing forward like this, everyone's attention will be drawn to Kotori, so there will be absolutely no problem with the typhoon.

Moreover, Kotonari's voice is very distinctive, a bit shrill, like the chirping of a bird. It is really addictive once you get used to it.

Listening to Kotori's singing, Eriri whispered to Asakura Kaede, "Kotori sings very well, and is very recognizable."

Nodding, Asakura Feng agreed and said, "It's really good, but relying on just the three of them, it's still a little bit lacking to compete with A-RISE who has a professional foundation, unless we use a trick."

"Tricks?"

"That's right, it's a trick." With the corners of his mouth slightly raised, Asakura Feng lowered his voice and said, "Three against three may not be enough, so what if we add more team members? You know, Otonokizaka is an all-girls school. With Honoka's mobility, I'm sure she can find a suitable partner."

"emm~~~"

Eriri looked at Honoka who was cheering for Kotori over there and felt a little bit unbelievable.

Although Honoka does have a special temperament, but for idols, is it really useful just to rely on numbers?

Kasumigaoka Utaha agreed with Asakura Kaede's opinion and whispered, "It may be hard to say for other places, but for an all-girls school, there will definitely be a few candidates. Aren't there so many people in AKB48? Their popularity has always been so high. What's more, they are just school idols. It's impossible for them to have such high requirements as professional girl groups. If the height is a bit unique, the success rate is quite high."

Four minutes later, Qin Li finished singing a song. After putting down the microphone, she bowed shyly to everyone: "Well, my singing may not be very good, please forgive me."

Everyone applauded, and Asakura Feng smiled and praised: "You sang very well, Kotori, don't underestimate yourself, in my opinion, your singing is much better than Honoka's."

Umi also nodded: "Yeah, I think so too."

"Ah! You just know how to bully me!"

With a dissatisfied shout, Honoka picked up a cookie and started biting it, venting her dissatisfaction on the snack.

After Kotori finished singing, it was Umi's turn, whom Asakura Kaede had been looking forward to.

Holding the microphone, Umi looked the most nervous among the three. The other two were not like Umi. They blushed as soon as they stood up.

Although she was very nervous, after taking a few deep breaths, Umi finally chose the song she wanted to sing.

Born into a traditional Japanese dance family, Umi was also quite traditional in her choice of songs. She actually picked an enka song, which surprised everyone.

What is this, a Showa song girl?

But to be honest, Umi's voice is still top-notch, and her singing skills are surprisingly good. Even when singing enka, her expressiveness is still very good. If it were a pop song, the effect would probably be 20% to 30% better.

All three of them finished singing. Although Honoka's singing was a little lame, she still had a solid foundation. As long as she practiced more, she would definitely be able to sing well. After all, even a voice as powerful as Shirogane Miyuki could be trained by Fujiwara Chika. For someone like Honoka, there was no need to find a professional teacher. Just spend more time on it.

Clapping his hands, Asakura Feng looked at the three of them and said with satisfaction: "Well, you all sing very well. Now that we've finished warming up, let's move on to the next stage."

Then, he asked Eriri to take out a NS from the study and connect it to the TV.

Turn on the computer, replace the Just Dance cartridge, and enter the game.

Looking at the three people who were all dumbfounded, Asakura Feng said with a smile: "As an idol, in addition to singing, dancing is also an important part. We don't have a dance machine here, so let's use this game instead. We have a lot of controllers, you can try it out."

Coming back to her senses, looking at the handle in her hand, Honoka didn't feel too much shame, raised her little fist and said, "Oh!!! Leave it to me!"

Kotoori looked down at her skirt, but because she was wearing safety pants, she wasn't too shy: "Dancing... I'm not very good at it. Umi, it's your turn next... Umi?"

Kotori's shout shifted everyone's attention to Umi. This girl was holding the NS controller in one hand, staring straight ahead with dull eyes, and no one knew what she was thinking.

It wasn't until Honoka came over and patted her on the head that Umi reacted and shuddered: "What are you doing?"

"What are you doing? It's about to start, get ready!"

"Ah? Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah?"

Pulling Umi to stand in front of the TV, Honoka said with a smile: "It's okay, don't be nervous. Let's pick a simple song to get used to it, and then find a song with bigger dance moves. Umi, you're the best dancer, so just stand in the middle!"

"I...I can't do it!"

But unfortunately, the TV skipped the loading screen and the song officially started.

"Hey? Has it started yet? How do we play?"

Looking at the game screen on TV and the moving game characters, Umi looked confused and nervous.

Then, she heard Asakura Feng standing beside her say with a smile: "Just follow the characters on the screen. This should be easy for you, Umi."

Although she said so, Umi's movements were still extremely stiff.

This girl is really nervous.

Chapter 470 Another inspiration (2/2)

In the first song, as expected, Umi was as stiff as a zombie, and there was no trace of the family's traditional Japanese dance in her movements.

On the contrary, although the movements of the first song were very simple, Kotori unexpectedly showed good body flexibility and sense of rhythm.

As for Honoka... well, she's full of energy.

There's no way. This girl has no foundation in dancing, and her body flexibility is average. The only thing she has is her energy.

Gasping for breath, Umi came back to her senses and realized that her performance just now was very bad. She covered her face with her hands and dared not look at everyone.

"Ugh...I told you I can't do it anymore!"

Everyone looked at Umi's expression and knew that she would most likely not be able to continue with the second song, so they just turned off the game and sat down to drink tea and chat.

After Umi finally recovered her composure, Asakura looked at her and said, "Umi, you obviously studied dance, but why are you still so shy? And we are just playing a game, we are not really asking you to perform on stage. What if one day you really have to perform on stage, wouldn't that be a real breakdown? You must adjust your mentality."

“This is an easy fix.”

After drinking the drink, Umi whispered: "It's fine as long as I don't go on stage."

"no!"

Honoka came over immediately, hugged Umi and said, "We agreed to be school idols together, Umi can't run away!"

"Woo...I think you're just trying to embarrass me!"

Asakura Kaede had a helpless smile on her face. It seemed that even without finding other partners, Umi's mentality problem alone would be enough to keep Honoka and Kotonari busy for a while.

Turning his head, Asakura Feng just saw Kasumigaoka Utaha holding a pen and paper in her hand, writing something down quickly.

He gently touched Ying Lili and signaled her with his eyes, asking her to go and take a look.

Eriri understood what she meant and secretly took a look, then returned to Asakura Kaede's ear and whispered, "Seeing the interaction between Honoka and the other two, I got an idea."

"Hmm...Hmm?"

Asakura Kaede's eyes widened instantly, and she looked in disbelief at Kasumigaoka Utaha who was still having a burst of inspiration.

Is this to expand your creative scope? Incredible.

At four o'clock in the afternoon, Honoka and the other two said goodbye and left.

When it comes to saving the school, Honoka has made up her mind completely, and she has gained some confidence from Asakura Kaede and the other two. Asakura Kaede also gave her some useful suggestions, such as setting up a club and expanding the manpower. The three of them alone are definitely not enough.

When Honoka left, she was full of confidence.

After changing her shoes and walking out the door, Qinli turned around and looked at Asakura Feng, and asked quietly: "Senior, do you think we can really succeed?"

“Where there’s a will, there’s a way.”

Asakura Feng smiled and said, "If you want to do it, then do it. Don't worry too much about the results. Just don't let yourself regret it."

Listening to Asakura Kaede's words, Kotori pursed her lips, nodded vigorously, and followed the pace of Umi and Honoka.

After sending the three girls away, Asakura Feng closed the door and looked at Kasumigaoka Utaha who was holding her notebook in the living room and trying to avoid being caught by Eriri. He said helplessly, "Senior, it won't hurt to let Eriri take a look."

"That's what I said."

Twisting away Eriri's hands, Kasumigaoka Utaha quickly put her little notebook into her bag and said, "These are just some scattered contents now. I'm not sure whether to add them to the novel. When I make a decision, I'll write it out for you to see."

"Tsk, tsk, tsk, are you really going to write about this?"

"Don't worry, it's just a minor one." Sitting down, Kasumigaoka Utaha picked up a piece of apple with a toothpick and took a bite, saying with a smile, "As a creator, I still know how to control the content. I will definitely not write this content over the line. But I didn't expect that you, Eriri, wanted to see it so much."

Eriri didn't hide anything and nodded in acknowledgement, "Because it's really strange that you would actually want to write about yuri, so I wanted to see what you would write."

"Haven't you drawn a yuri book yourself?"

"Drawing and writing are different!" When it comes to this field, Eriri instantly becomes serious. "And when I talked about that subject matter, I also borrowed from other similar works. I had never touched upon them before. But to be honest, the ones that are well drawn and well written do look very exciting. If it were you, Shiyu, who wrote it, I guess a lot of otakus would like to read it."

In response to this, Asakura Kaede was speechless, as he actually wanted to watch it too.

Noticing Asakura Kaede's gaze, Eriri quickly said, "I deleted the original manuscript of that set because I was not satisfied with the drawing. If you want to see it, you can only find someone to buy it second-hand at a high price."

"Let's forget about this."

Shaking his head, Asakura Kaede no longer had much interest in doujinshi.

Kasumigaoka Utaha smiled and said, "Isn't it easy to see? Just let Eriri draw it directly."

"You wish! I won't draw fanfiction anymore!"

With her arms folded, Kasumigaoka Utaha said with interest: "Don't be so sure! Who knows, you might want to draw one someday? Have you ever thought about drawing a fanfiction of Nura?"

"Woo..."

Kasumigaoka Utaha's words instantly touched Eriri's heart.

She actually had this idea in mind. Seeing that many artists at the fan exhibition were creating fan works, she couldn't help but feel itchy, but she finally held back.

Taking a deep breath, Ying Lili tilted her head back and said, "I said I can't do it, and I mean I can't do it!"

As to whether it really won't happen, only time will tell.

...........

The matter of Otonogizaka was discovered by other members of the club during casual conversation in the following days. Usami and the others were very surprised that Honoka actually wanted to save the school by becoming an idol.

Subaru Uchimaki stroked his chin and said in surprise, "Hmm~~ It feels like a development that only appears in comics, where girls choose to become idols in order to save the school."

"Comics or something, reality is even more magical than comics."

In response, Asakura Feng spread her hands and said, "And at noon, Honoka sent me a message saying that she had found a candidate who could write for them, and was trying to get the other party to join."

"Ah~~~It looks like the progress is pretty good."

Usami usually pays attention to some information about idols, and is looking forward to the results after Honoka and the others form an idol group.

Chapter 471: Prepare in Advance (1/2)

Usami, Eriri, and Klette gathered together to watch A-RISE's videos and helped Honoka and the others study their opponents, while Asakura Kaede took out her phone and logged into Otonogizaka's school website.

"Well, it's pretty much what I expected. Because it's a traditional old school, the school's official website hasn't been improved in any way. It just simply publishes some school information and introduction, without any special features."

Stroking his chin, Asakura Kaede muttered to himself.

Subaru Uchimaki moved his chair over and looked at the page on his phone and said, "That's true. Compared to our school's official website, the difference is quite large. I just visited the official website of UTX Girls' School, and the difference is even greater. Not to mention that there are also schools like Shuchiin, where the official website of a school is designed by top professionals in the industry."

"It's a traditional school, so we shouldn't ask for too much."

Shaking his head, Asakura Kaede searched for information about lovelive. Now it is time to register for the second session.

"If they want to use this method to save Otonogizaka, Honoka and the others will have to find all the members, form a team, release a song, and then sign up for the competition within a limited time. The longer they delay, the less exposure they will get."

"A nationwide school idol competition? That's really exaggerated."