How to raise a random guy's wife

"It's still too complicated as expected," the sound supervisor, with his extensive experience, understood that it wasn't a matter of the voice actors' lack of ability, but rather that the dialogue was indeed extremely difficult.

The performance suggested, "How about further reducing the emotional expression?"

Bo Island, pursing her lips slightly, said, "..."

“This part can’t be shortened,” Kasumigaoka Utaha shook her head. “The sculptor is the center of this story, and the depth of his character is the depth of the story. As the story unfolds, the complex emotions here will be revealed layer by layer. If it’s shortened, the subsequent plot will also have to be modified accordingly.”

Being a fellow actor is a mindset that extends to a variety of emotions, and since it's a supporting role, acting skills can be reduced.

However, the sculptor's state is a complex interplay of emotions, requiring multi-layered acting skills to portray it. Forcibly reducing this aspect would affect the emotional expression of the entire story.

Although they are similar problems, their fundamental differences mean they cannot be solved in the same way.

Hashima looked at Kasumigaoka Utaha with gratitude.

Kasumigaoka Utaha crossed her arms over her chest, thought for a moment, and then came up with an idea, "Nyanmori?"

"Kasumigaoka P?" Miyamori Aoi responded.

How long will it take to produce the storyboards for the last two episodes?

"We can start producing the original footage now. If we work overtime, we can finish it today."

“Alright then.” Kasumigaoka Utaha made the decision. “That’s all for today. Thank you all for your hard work. We’ll work on the script tomorrow and record the next two episodes the day after tomorrow.”

Chapter 777 Narrative Trick

"So you encountered such a difficult situation," Kobayashi Megumi said, flipping through the completed original artwork. "You must have been under a lot of pressure, right?"

"I...I'm fine..." Bo Island paused for a moment, then nodded.

The recording was in trouble. Kasumigaoka Utaha noticed that Hashima was going out to sea and suggested that she come over and talk to Kobayashi Megumi about creative matters.

Really useful?

To be honest, I had some doubts about going out to sea from Po Island.

It's not that I'm questioning Kobayashi Megumi's abilities; RER is doing so well now, no one would question the president and his secretary's capabilities.

However, the ability to run a company is different from the ability to create.

Kobayashi Sora also created works, as did Kobayashi Megumi...

Kasumigaoka Utaha asked me to come and talk to Kobayashi Megumi, probably to relieve her stress... That's my guess, Hashima Sai.

If there is less pressure, the creative process should be smoother.

"Kuōshō," Kobayashi Megumi tilted her head, "what do you think of this story?"

"The overall structure was very complete," Kobayashi Sora recalled the contents of the script.

The story is divided into three parts, each telling the truth about the human-faced tree.

That is, the form of the monster formed by human karma, the truth of the event, and the true thoughts of the parties involved.

The first episode tells the story of a three-person group: a medicine seller, a woodcarver, and a masked man. The three come to the woodcarver for different reasons to have a beautiful wooden sculpture carved. Due to heavy rain, they stay overnight at the woodcarver's house. During dinner, they talk about the rumors surrounding the woodcarver.

After telling the woodcarver what they wanted, the three of them went to sleep that night. The medicine seller noticed strange noises outside and went out to investigate. He found a woman crawling out of the trunk of a tree in the yard and entering the woodcarver's room.

The medicine seller went closer to examine it and discovered that the thick trunk of the big tree was covered with countless beautiful faces.

Faces were crowded against the tree trunk, eyes closed, with a hole in the middle, as if something was crawling out of it.

"This is...the tree with a human face...it is."

The medicine seller slowly described the monster's appearance.

Meanwhile, the woodcarver, gazing at the exquisite wood carving before him, softly announced, "The first one is finished."

This concludes the first episode.

The second episode opens with fellow artists praising the wood carving, trying to find fault with it, but the wood carver's work is too perfect.

Perfect... a little too perfect.

"It has no soul," was the conclusion drawn by a colleague.

The woodcarver exposed his colleague's identity and angrily denounced his shamelessness.

During the argument, their identities as colleagues were revealed.

The fellow carver lost his composure, revealing his true feelings. He then stayed, citing dissatisfaction, and demanded that the woodcarver, after completing the woodcarvings of the medicine seller and the masked man, carve him a new, truly soulful woodcarving of a beautiful woman.

The woodcarver secluded himself to carve the wood carving requested by the medicine seller.

The medicine seller's request was: he wanted a wooden carving that could reveal the truth about the beautiful woman.

The woodcarver completed the wood carving in just one night.

The image is of a rotting corpse embracing a beautiful woman.

The others were horrified. The beauty had no soul, but the rotting wooden corpse had a chilling quality.

The medicine seller used this to reveal the "truth" about the human-faced tree, that is, the truth of the matter.

With the help of the pharmacist, the woodcarver, who had regained his sight, killed a man and buried him under a tree.

Then... that tree began to produce exquisite wooden carvings of beautiful women.

The woodcarver was able to complete the wood carving so quickly because the wood carving wasn't actually made by him; it was created by the tree with the human face.

That is why he could not decide the final outcome, nor could he conceal his own sins.

The medicine seller wanted the truth, and the human-faced tree produced the truth.

"She betrayed me!" the woodcarver angrily accused his wife of infidelity. "I didn't want to kill her... I can't carve anything anymore..."

This concludes the second episode.

In the third episode, the masked man stated his demands.

A wooden carving of a beautiful woman.

The most beautiful woman in the heart of a woodcarver.

Another night passed, and the third wood carving was revealed to everyone.

She was a rather plain-looking woman, not at all like a beauty.

This time, my companions finally felt the soul of the work.

The woodcarver stared blankly at the wood carving that had sprouted from the tree with a human face, tears streaming down his face.

That was the first time he saw his wife after his sight was restored.

She was also the most beautiful woman in his heart.

But he had already killed her and buried her under the tree.

As the woodcarver broke down, the human-faced tree went out of control.

The medicine seller drew his demon-slaying sword and slew the man-faced tree, revealing the monster's "reason," that is, the true thoughts of the person involved.

The masked man revealed his true face, which was exactly the same as the third wooden carving.

The wife did not betray the woodcarver; it was the woodcarver who betrayed the wife.

When he went blind, the woodcarver would touch his wife's face, imagine her beauty, and carve one beautiful wooden sculpture after another.

After regaining his sight, the woodcarver could not accept seeing his wife's ordinary appearance. He drove her away, killed himself who was carving the beautiful wooden sculpture, and buried himself under a tree.

Thus, ordinary trees acquired the ability to carve, producing soulless wooden sculptures of beautiful women.

But deep down, he believed that outward beauty could never compare to inner beauty.

The disappearance of the human-faced tree represents the disappearance of the woodcarver's obsession with illusory beauty.

He took back his wife, who had an ordinary appearance, but she simply bowed and quietly left.

End of episode 3.

The story of Bo Island setting sail is told through three wooden carvings, illustrating the truth of the human-faced tree.

The seemingly biased evaluation from his peers actually revealed the truth of the matter.

The story unfolds smoothly, with each episode posing a mystery, resolving it, and then introducing a new mystery. In the process of solving these mysteries, the characters are portrayed and their psychology is analyzed.

As Kobayashi Sora said, the structure is very complete, and the narrative tricks are quite interesting, giving a feeling of being both unexpected and reasonable.

"So..." Kobayashi Megumi looked into Hashima's eyes as he sailed out to sea, "what are you trying to say?"

"It's just... um..." Hashima Izumi opened his mouth, but couldn't find the words.

Kobayashi Sora raised an eyebrow. "So...inner beauty is more important than outer beauty. The woodcarver can't control the wood carving that grows from the human-faced tree. The peers' comments that it has no soul are somewhat of a reference to the current AI painting. The disillusionment of imagined beauty is similar to the collapse of a celebrity fandom. Finally, the wife's departure also implies emotional independence."

Hannya is endless jealousy, and Jorogumo is waiting in vain.

What is a tree with a human face?

Bo Island wanted to express so much during her sea voyage that in the end, even she herself couldn't articulate what she wanted to say.

Chapter 778 Singing in Harmony

The idea of ​​going to sea from Hashima was correct. Compared with true creators, Megumi Kobayashi did not know much about creation.

However, Kobayashi Megumi had an extremely accurate grasp of human psychology.

Unlike Akane Akasaka, Megumi Kobayashi may not be able to spot problems in a work at a glance, but she can easily perceive any unusual behavior in the creator.

The more heartfelt a work is, the more it reflects the creator's inner world.

That's why Megumi Kobayashi was able to discover the problems with "Mononoke".

“Because the first three stories expressed your ideas very well, you wanted to express more of your own ideas in the fourth story.” Kobayashi Megumi put down the original drawing. “That’s normal. Besides, the fourth story is the last one, so it’s only natural that you want to express the ideas that you couldn’t express in the first three stories in the last one.”

The story is nearing its end, but there's still so much to say that I can only cram it all into the last story.

To put it bluntly, "but the result is that the story's theme is unclear, and the emotions are complex, difficult to express, and difficult to understand."

Bo Island, holding his cup, lowered his head in frustration. "That's right."

With Kobayashi Sora and Kobayashi Megumi's analysis, the issues that Hashima Island deliberately avoided became impossible to ignore.

Is it the arrogance brought about by the initial success, or the later surge in the desire to express oneself and act as a know-it-all?