"Big brother, drink tea."
"Thanks."
Kamiyagawa is now at the home of former Tokuma Animation Studio head Satake Tsukada.
He came to visit with gifts.
As soon as he arrived and sat down in the living room, Mr. Tsukada's daughter jumped up and brought him hot tea.
This little loli is so cute and has a sweet mouth.
Kamiya and Tsukada Satake exchanged pleasantries in the living room for a while, and found a suitable moment to explain their purpose: "Mr. Tsukada, actually I came here to ask about the past. As I said, I want to establish a family Small-scale animation studio.”
Because Tsukada experienced the incident involving Tono Soba, he had the idea of retiring from work.
His Tokuma Studio was acquired by Taisha.
According to Mr. Tsukada’s previous statement, this acquisition and reorganization will bring a large-scale personnel reshuffle to Tokuma Studio.
There will be some experienced animation industry practitioners flowing into the talent market.
Kamiyagawa had made a wishful thinking before. He planned to win over some animation production staff from the original Tokuma Studio to form a small studio of his own.
It is now late July, and the acquisition of Tokuma Studio has been confirmed.
So Kamiya came to Tsukada Satake with gifts and sincerity.
"Sure enough, you haven't given up on this idea yet. I really admire your determination to stick to your dream." Tsukada chuckled. Since he was relieved of work, he seemed to be a lot more relaxed and friendly. He was no longer the first person. The tense and serious feeling was gone when I saw him, "I had planned to contact you in the past two days, it just happened."
Mr. Tsukada said, pulling out a pamphlet from the drawer of the coffee table and handing it over.
Kamiya took it and turned it over. There were some names, contact information, and position written on it.
Like original animator, 3D producer, production conductor, animation director, coloring, editing, etc.
Tsukada Satake: "These are very good guys. They are leaving the reorganized Tokuma for various reasons. If Mr. Kamiya is interested, you can try to contact them. But it depends on whether you are willing to join your studio. It’s their personal wishes.”
"It helped a lot."
Kamiyagawa also had a good preview of the process of establishing an animation studio.
Looking at the positions recorded in the booklet, if we recruit all these people, we can really form a grass-roots team of our own.
If work such as voice acting is outsourced, more than a dozen professionals performing their respective duties are enough to support the operation of a low-cost animation.
However, it is somewhat unrealistic to use all the people in this book for your own use.
These people also left the reorganized Tokuma for various reasons, and their needs for the next job were different.
All Kamiyagawa can do at present is to offer them the same salary as Tokuma, and bring [Thousand Silver Needles·Change] with them and visit them one by one to see if he can use his "childhood animation dream" Such passionate words impress the other party.
After carefully flipping through the booklet given by Mr. Tsukada, Kamiya's eyes stopped on the second page.
There is a contact whose information is specially marked with an underline -
[Xuse, script writer, contact number...]
The script writer, that is, the animation script writer, is equivalent to the screenwriter.
A key player in animation production who is responsible for adapting copyrighted works or creating original animation plots.
The plot of an animated work depends entirely on the creation and performance of the script writer. As a result, the script creator has become the position most likely to be criticized by the audience after the supervisor.
The only scriptwriter that Mr. Tsukada could contact was this one.
Well, "Xuse" is obviously a pseudonym.
"This Xuse teacher?"
"Oh, his real name is Chiaki Miyake. He is a very good script writer and original writer. I think he is a young genius. Have Kamiya heard of "The Rise of the Stick Heroes"? That is his famous work for his debut. , won the award at the Dengeki Grand Prize."
Mr. Tsukada has a high opinion of Kyoshi.
It is said that this teacher became famous when he debuted as a teenager, and he is still very young now. Tsukada Satake was considered a wise man at first, but it still took a lot of effort to win him over to join the studio.
Tokuma Studio's main animation project last year was for Kyoshiki to be responsible for the script and script supervision.
The animation industry also has very good reviews for Xu Se. Occasionally, someone will mention him together with another senior figure in the industry.
Of course, as a newcomer in the industry, there is still a huge career gap between Xu Se and the knife-loving boss.
But this can be regarded as a kind of recognition, indicating that his future is promising and his future is limitless.
Kamiyagawa: "It sounds like Mr. Kyoseki is Tokuma's ace script writer?"
Tsukada Satake: "That's right."
"Then why didn't he stay in the reorganized Tokuma?"
"This...I don't know. The club that originally acquired Tokuma also valued him very much and offered him a big price in the hope that he would stay. At first, I had reached an agreement with him. But the day before yesterday, he suddenly refused to sign. It’s about the contract. Maybe he plans to go it alone. With his talent, writing the contract himself is a very good way out."
"That's right." Kamiya smiled bitterly, "Then I think it's unrealistic to persuade such a person to join my little-known studio."
"Try it... maybe you can impress him. After all, he is also a young man."
"Well, can you give me Teacher Xuse's address?"
"Wait a minute, I'll look for you."
A good animation script writer is very important for Kamiya to establish an animation studio.
Moreover, it can be regarded as a soul character.
After all, Kamiya can not interfere in other aspects of animation production, but he only has his own absolutely unchangeable requirements for animation scripts. His primary purpose in creating animation is to spread the faith of his shikigami.
If it doesn't work, we can only consider letting Wenche Yafei learn script writing.
But Kamiya’s training position for Xiao Wenche is to be the general affairs and director of the studio, and the manager who coordinates the overall situation.
In this way, he can be the hands-off shopkeeper with peace of mind.
It may be a bit too difficult for Wenche Yafei to take full charge of script writing. Even if Kaitan itself needs less rest time than humans, there are only 24 hours in a day.
Let’s take a step first and see one step at a time.
…
Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo.
rain.
This is an apartment building in Roppongi.
A black Honda car passed through the pouring rain and parked in the parking lot next to the apartment building. Sitting in the car was a man in his mid-twenties.
He looked a little tired and upset, as if he hadn't been resting well recently.
The man was wearing a standard suit for office workers, and the time now was three o'clock in the afternoon, not the normal off-duty time.
He sat in the cab, rubbed his messy hair, rolled down the window and lit a cigarette.
Raindrops pattered on the front windshield, meandering into streams.
There were also many gaps along the opening of the window on the side of the cab, splashing onto the man's sleeves.
Halfway through his cigarette, he took out his phone.
Toot——
A call was made, but no one answered.
"Damn it!"
The man banged his fist on the steering wheel.
His body is very strong, and you can see good muscle lines in a suit. Perhaps he is more like an athlete than an office worker.
After a few more minutes, the man put out his cigarette and dialed the phone again.
This time, the call came through.
"Hello?"
A familiar voice came from the other end of the phone.
Hearing this voice, the man was a little angry: "Qianzhang, what on earth are you doing!?"
"Ah, brother. Sorry, sorry."
The voice on the phone was obviously apologetic.
The man's name is Kouta Miyake, and on the other side of the phone is his younger brother, Chiaki Miyake.
"What's going on with you? I didn't see you here yesterday, and I couldn't get through the phone today. Just because of you, I asked for leave from the company. What are you doing!?"
"Ask for leave? Big brother, you?"
"I'm downstairs at your house!"
"No, no. Brother, I'm not at home, I'm really sorry."
beep--
The phone hangs up.
Miyake Yasuta was obviously angry. He clenched his fist and smashed the steering wheel again, causing the Honda car to sound an alarm and beep. However, the sound was completely covered by the sound of heavy rain, and only the dazzling double flashlights danced in the rain curtain.
"This guy!"
The Miyake brothers' father died when they were very young, and they grew up with their mother.
But last year, the year after his younger brother Chiaki Miyake graduated from college, their mother also died of illness.
At this point, in this world, the only relatives of these brothers who belong to the same family are each other.
Both brothers left their hometown and lived in Tokyo.
As adults, their relationship is not particularly close. In short, it is not as close as it was when they were children. Adults always seem to have their own things and worries.
However, the Miyake brothers still contact each other regularly once a month, have a meal together and catch up on each other's current situation.
Yesterday was the time they agreed to have dinner together.
Miyake Kouta waited for half an hour at the izakaya last night, but there was still no sign of his brother. He just received a call from the other party. On the phone, Qianzhang didn't explain in detail the reason why he missed the appointment. He just said that he was busy and couldn't make it for the time being.
Kangtai drank in depression and went home.
This morning, he called his brother's number again, but the call remained unreachable until the afternoon.
Miyake Kouta had no choice but to ask for leave from the company and drove to the downstairs of his brother's house.
"Is that guy avoiding me? I know...he looks down on me. Maybe he's hiding upstairs now and laughing at me."
Miyake Kouta rolled up the car window and planned to drive away.
The Honda vibrated twice and started normally.
But Kangtai's hand stopped shaking the steering wheel. He glanced at the left glass and the apartment building next to him. The car window was completely wet with rain, and he couldn't see anything clearly.
"What a bastard!"
Kang Tai didn't know what he was thinking. He turned off the car again, took the passenger's umbrella, and got out of the car with a curse.
The sky weighed down like a huge lead weight.
In the distance, a bolt of lightning pierced the sky, making a huge roar, and reflected the sky and the earth in a vast expanse of white.
Miyake Kouta held an umbrella that was shaken by the strong wind and walked towards the apartment building that was blurred by the rain.
…
Apartment downstairs.
Snapped.
Kang Tai put away his umbrella.
It was obviously not too far from the parking lot, but because of the heavy rain, he was still half wet.
"The suit I just bought."
The Miyake brother started cursing again.
He doesn't like summer very much.
This season is sultry and changeable, with clear skies and heavy rains switching abruptly.
Just like today.
If he had known that it would suddenly rain heavily in the afternoon, he would not have come to his brother's place.
In addition, Miyake Kouta also... doesn't like his younger brother very much.
How to put it, maybe it's not that I don't like it, but something else.
Kangtai walked upstairs with a dripping umbrella.
My brother's house is on the fourth floor of an apartment. There is no elevator in this apartment.
The voice-activated light in the stairs didn't come on. I don't know if it was because of the daytime or if it was broken. Coupled with the heavy rain that I didn't know when it would stop, the walk up was dark and depressing.
When did you start not liking your brother?
Miyake Kouta couldn't tell.
In fact, when they were young, the relationship between their brothers was very good.
Kang Tai was a model brother at that time.
The younger brother Qianzhang has been an inconspicuous bean sprout since he was a child. He is a character who is not taken seriously in the class and has a timid personality.
Such people can easily become targets of bullying.
This is indeed true. When he was in junior high school, Qianzhang was bullied by the bad boys in the class.
When Kouta, who was in high school at the time, found out about this, he skipped class and waited outside his brother's school. He dragged the two bullying brats into the alley and beat them up.
At this point, no one in the school dared to bully his younger brother anymore.
So, when did you start not liking it?
"ah……"
Kouta continued walking up, the raindrops from the umbrella dripping on his shoes.
He has reached the fourth floor.
Because of the rain, the corridor was also very dark.
Also, it's a bit cold here.
When he was a child, Qianzhang was very attached to Kouta, perhaps because he didn't have a father.
In high school, Kang Tai was a high-profile presence in the school.
He is the ace of the baseball club.
People around him said that Kang Tai would play Koshien in the future and become a sports star.
He is a proud man of heaven, and his life will not be ordinary.
At that time, Qian Zhang was... inconspicuous, really inconspicuous.
Kangtai is used to and enjoys the feeling of being a dazzling older brother and being admired by his younger brother who is ignorant and is inferior in all aspects.
But since when did things become different?
Maybe I should start writing that stupid light from Chiaki...
When Kouta Miyake went to college, everything changed.
He finally sadly realized that the baseball ace in a small town school was really nothing.
There are many geniuses in this world.
The vast majority of people are destined to be ordinary.
But his younger brother unexpectedly became extraordinary.
Qian Akira's writing won the Dengeki Bunko award.
At this point, the identities of the two brothers were swapped when they were young. The older brother became an inconspicuous social animal that could be seen everywhere, while the younger brother became a much-anticipated and sought-after family member.
How could this happen?
I am the dazzling one, and I am the one who is admired.
So, it's not that I don't like my brother.
But...
"...but jealousy."
Miyake Kouta is jealous of his younger brother.
Thinking like this, he had already reached the door of his brother's house and stood there in a daze.
