I live my life in Tokyo

"I have to ask Aoyama-san about the pronunciation of the voice actor..."

The boy rubbed his chin and thought. Sakurajima Mai pursed her lips. She knew how good the relationship between Aoyama Nanami and Sakakibara Kaede was. How could she not know about it?

She watched every episode of the reality show on time and rewatched it from time to time. She would pay special attention to the personal shots, plots and tasks of Sakakibara Kaede and others.

She didn't pay much attention to the plot involving Sakakibara Kaede and Shirogane Miyuki.

The focus is on the other four girls.

Furuno Furuhashi and Kaede Sakakibara have a simple junior-senior relationship, while Nanami Aoyama and him have a senior-junior relationship in the same circle. Like fellow actor Chizuru Ichinose, the two often have a lot of topics to talk about and can be considered friends.

The person that Mai Sakurajima focuses on is none other than Kasumigaoka Utaha. This high school girl, who is the same age as Mai Sakurajima, has become increasingly popular within a few weeks of the reality show's launch. Her well-educated and well-mannered temperament and her occasional playful jokes have made her a hot topic on Twitter, winning the hearts of countless young people who have fantasies about the future.

Such a literary girl is hard to come by.

Naturally, Mai Sakurajima also knew the story of the three of them visiting the University of Tokyo together.

When she heard that Sakakibara Kaede was talking about Nanami Aoyama, she breathed a sigh of relief. After a moment, she was stunned and her cheeks blushed. This thought of breathing a sigh of relief was like she was watching the boy and not cheating on him.

Her thoughts jumped so wildly that Mai Sakurajima's mind instantly became a mess.

She didn't come back to her senses until Sakakibara Kaede raised his hand and waved it in front of her eyes, "Are you too tired?"

The girl shook her head, "Just thinking about the plot."

She told an insignificant lie.

"We need to film this scene again." Takenaka Kiyoshi came to the table and announced the result in advance. "Sakakibara-kun, Sakurajima-kun, you two can be more emotional when watching the video of the tragedy. It doesn't matter if it's a little exaggerated."

Sakakibara Kaede nodded in agreement. This was probably similar to his reaction when he first visited the ancestral hall and saw the belt.

In just over twenty minutes of plot, the rich emotional impact firmly captures the hearts of the audience.

"Ge Shanjun, you should stay the same and remember not to laugh."

Takenaka Kiyoshi pointed at the smiling face of Katsuyama Nobuto and said that he was different from the serious-looking Kaoru Ichijo in the play. In the crew, he was kind to everyone and loved to laugh.

"understood."

Seeing that everyone was in their positions, Takenaka Kiyoshi came to the next room and said into the intercom, "Action!"

The boy put away his calm face, he knew where the weakness of his last shooting was. In his subconscious, he saw the weirdo in skin and regarded it all as a game, so the emotions he revealed always lacked some flavor.

This time his focus was not on the weird man who kept sneering and killing people, but on the investigation team who were trembling with fear and unable to take a step forward.

When a person is afraid, he cannot walk. His body shakes like a sieve and his legs become weak. How can he possibly turn around and run away?

A deep and sharp scream was heard in my ears, and the cameraman fell to the ground trembling. The last thing that appeared in the video was a foot that did not belong to a human. After a weird sneer, the picture turned into noise.

Sakakibara Kaede slightly closed his eyes, and opened them after a moment. From this angle, the photographer could clearly see Sakakibara Kaede's face... and the emotions hidden deep in his eyes.

Kiyoshi Takenaka was next door and had seen Kaede Sakakibara fall in love more than once. He couldn't help but hold his chin and hum.

If acting is compared to diving, Sakakibara-kun is a free diver who no longer needs to rely on oxygen tanks. He can dive as deep as he wants, and what he displays are deeper emotions.

If such actors are not good at feeling themselves or restraining themselves, then the only option that awaits them is emotional collapse.

The deeper you dive, the farther you have to go to surface.

Some actors cannot help crying after a crying scene. Their hearts are filled with grief and they have no other emotions except sadness. At the very least, filming cannot proceed, and at worst, it affects their life and life.

Being stuck in a certain emotion and unable to get out of it is a very dangerous thing for an actor.

Actors need to deeply understand the inner thoughts of the characters they play. A true actor can laugh or feel sad from the heart, so actors are required to completely transform themselves and truly enter the role when acting.

Using such actors is like walking on a tightrope. If you are not careful, you will fall into the abyss of tangled emotions, and it will be extremely difficult to get out of the emotions in a short period of time.

Everything has a price. When actors finish a TV series, they are in a state of extreme excitement and full of energy every day. But once the actors slip from the state of excitement, they will become very depressed and feel exhausted.

Emotions that cannot be expressed will eventually destroy an actor.

Why do comedians suffer from depression?

All emotions need an outlet. If ordinary people are unhappy in life, they can watch a joke or a comedy movie to vent their dissatisfaction.

However, comedians have no channel to vent their emotions because their job is to be funny, so they are very familiar with the techniques of comedy, and general comedy stimulation has no effect on them at all.

Forcing laughter to relieve sadness and vent emotions will only backfire. Bringing laughter to the audience will only cause pain behind the scenes.

Takenaka Kiyoshi gritted his teeth and broke out in a cold sweat. He stared at the emotions in Sakakibara Kaede's eyes with an excited look. He saw what he wanted to see, and this scene should end.

For Sakakibara Kaede, this is a double-edged sword. He knows it, and Kiyoshi Takenaka knows it too. So after a scene is shot, Kiyoshi Takenaka will give Sakakibara Kaede more time to adjust, so as to present the most perfect character on the screen in the next shooting.

"CUT!"

Sakakibara Kaede leaned back in his chair, watching a massacre in person, which really took a lot of his mind. The agitated emotions surged up at this time, filling his chest with a foul air that he couldn't get rid of.

But he has his own way of regulating himself.

Every actor has his own way of relaxing, and Sakakibara also has his own unique way of resting. After mobilizing his emotions, he leaned on the sofa beside him, closed his eyes, put on headphones, and started playing classical piano music in a loop.

Mai Sakurajima was also too tired to say anything. She sat on the same sofa, but she did not disturb Kaede Sakakibara's rest, nor did she enter the boy's private space. She put on headphones like the boy and listened to the song "Shining from the World" that she had recorded before going out for the filming.

"Bravo."

The actor who played the detective sighed that when he walked in, he took in the emotions that remained on the two people's faces. He was older than Sakakibara Kaede and Sakurajima Mai. This was like the old wave being beaten to death on the beach by the new wave.

Seeing that Katsuyama Nobuto was also a little tired, Takenaka Kiyoshi confirmed the time and said, "You guys should take a break first, and then continue the afternoon shooting schedule after lunch."

"it is good."

Nobuto Geyama made an OK gesture, leaned back in his office chair, closed his eyes and dozed off.

They made a lot of progress and also gained more rest time. Kiyoshi Takenaka was reporting the progress of the work and shooting to the stonemason at this time. He sent over the two excerpts that had just been shot, and attached a note that the actors were tired due to over-commitment.

Finally, he picked up his cell phone, took a photo of the three people sitting on the sofa in the corner of the audio-visual room, and sent it to Mr. Ishida.

He thought for a moment and then uploaded the photo to the crew group.

“Can this photo be used for publicity?”

What he was referring to was naturally the promotion campaign carried out by Toei's official account on Twitter.

Kaede Sakakibara and Mai Sakurajima are both very popular, and there are many CP fans of them on the Internet. Kiyoshi Takenaka agrees with this.

He just felt a little bit regretful. It would be great if Higuchi-kun was here. Although he directed Higuchi-kun to shoot a plot that would make him regret his whole life, causing Higuchi-kun to lose Sakakibara-kun more than once, he is now a firm supporter of Higuchi-kun and Sakakibara-kun.

Chapter 17 I’m not a human being anymore!

Spider-Man.

Or perhaps it would be more appropriate to describe the other party as an unconfirmed life form. In the sudden attack by Spider-Man, a policeman who was patrolling in Minami-Nagano City was brutally killed.

Kaede Sakakibara held French fries in one hand and a Coke in the other, chewing and watching with great pleasure.

After finishing the morning scenes, they took a short break in the police station and made some adjustments. Seeing how hard the actors were working, Takenaka Kiyoshi waved his hand and ordered some takeout for lunch today and they could eat whatever they wanted.

So, hot-blooded men like Sakakibara Kaede and Katsurayama Nobuto ordered a calorie-rich set meal of hamburgers and fried chicken, while Sakurajima Mai remained the same, eating her salad reservedly.

"By the way, you can check out Toei's official account. It would be a great help if you could like and leave a comment."

"What are you talking about, Director Takenaka? This is our job."

After taking a sip of refreshing Coke, Sakakibara Kaede was revived to full health and waved his hand.

Everyone present took their phones back from the staff and started scrolling through Twitter.

The boy hasn't been on the official account for a while. He handed his phone to the production team when the filming started. He didn't have the energy to chat or look at the erotic pictures after the filming. Every day when he returned to the hotel, he just wanted to sleep after reading the manuscript. Even his passion for playing games was gone.

When you click into Toei’s official account, the first thing you see is the official stills.

I no longer have any recollection of Kaede Sakakibara taking stills, but when I clicked on them I realized that these photos were taken secretly... No, they should have been taken during the filming of the first episode.

In the stills, he is wearing a brown jacket, a helmet under his arm, and grinning.

Mai Sakurajima was typing on the computer keyboard while Nobuto Katsuyama got out of the police car wearing sunglasses.

"Cool——"

Sakakibara Kaede blurted out that this storyboard and this framing actually gave people the feeling of reading an introduction to a comic character.

In addition to messages from fans of several of them, friends who have a good relationship with them also sent their blessings.

When he saw Ken Sano's cheering, he couldn't help but smile. After liking the post, he planned to have a private chat with Ken Sano. In addition to thanking him for his guidance during the audition, he also needed to refer to his past experience as Kamen Rider.

Each generation of knights is completely different.

The spirit of chivalry is different in each generation.

After the fast food, the afternoon plot began to proceed in an intense manner. Since the shooting location did not change, the few people gathered together after eating to prepare for the upcoming monster attack.

Sakurajima Mai came back from the bathroom and couldn't find Sakakibara Kaede chatting in the crowd. When she moved her eyes, she found him sitting in the corner, silent.

The same was true when we were filming the daily lives of our high school students. At that time, Sakakibara Kaede was not very familiar with everyone. Compared to communicating with his colleagues in the crew, most of the time he would sit quietly in a corner, reading the script alone, and sometimes he would simply close his eyes and do nothing.

Mai Sakurajima pursed her lips and sat down not far from Kaede Sakakibara. According to the other party, it was an appropriate and polite distance that could maintain her own private space without causing the other party's disgust.

"Sakurajima-san."

Kaede Sakakibara opened his eyes, his eyes were clear. He smiled at Mai Sakurajima from the side. It can be seen that he was in a good mood. At least he was not trapped in a plot and unable to get out of it as Mai Sakurajima worried.

Such a terrifying talent... Perhaps it would be more accurate to describe it as empathy. It would be a pity if he didn't become a famous stage actor.

"Are you...trying to immerse yourself in the plot again?"

"Yeah." Sakakibara hummed, his answer was not clear. He tapped his cheek with his finger, his eyes focused on the extras who were enthusiastically discussing how they would die in the next scene. After a while, he raised his head and said, "The next scene is the appearance of the monster."

"The appearance of the monster will definitely take away lives. I know all this, but I can't stop it because I'm not a Kamen Rider yet." Sakakibara Feng slowly closed his eyes, "So I need to show my recklessness, my anxiety, and my powerlessness."

"Sakurajima-san also knows that the actors appear in costumes, right?"

"Yeah, I saw it. Toei's prop team is really amazing. I think that spider suit is very realistic."

"But I just couldn't think of him as realistic enough for me to express my true feelings."

Sakakibara Kaede smiled self-deprecatingly. He could never imagine that one day he would seriously talk about the shortcomings of his acting skills. "When I played Kitahara Hiroshi, what did Sakurajima-san think of me?"

"It feels like Sakakibara-san is Kitahara Hiroshi."

The boy hummed, and he did not continue to explain anything. Sakakijima Mai looked deeply at Sakakibara Kaede and gently advised: "Sakakibara-senpai, this kind of substitution of the plot is very harmful to your health and spirit."

"Well, it's just an emergency measure. As long as I stay in this situation for a while, I'll be able to adapt to the current rhythm."

Sakakibara Kaede ended the topic with this sentence, and Sakakijima Mai did not persuade her any more. Everyone has their own way of acting and their own way of getting into a role. She didn't want to affect Sakakibara-senpai's immersion in the role, nor did she want Sakakibara-senpai's acting skills to change because of her intervention.

“3, 2,1, , Action!”

Following Takenaka Kiyoshi's order, Sakakibara Kaede and Sakurajima Mai walked out of the audio-visual room one after the other with a bit of sadness on their faces. For both of them, there were still many unresolved mysteries that had not been explained clearly.

Power, what is power?

The two walked to the first floor. At this moment, the exclamation outside the door made them look up at the same time -

"Bah!"

With a loud bang, a police car crashed directly into the police station, smashing the door frame and stopping only when it hit the stairs.

Sakakibara Kaede was stunned, and the shock on Sakurajima Mai's face was completely indelible. This... Driving the car directly into the police station? What kind of incredible operation was this?

If it was some behind-the-scenes synthesis, he would still believe it, but this is too real.

If the boy were a bystander, he would find that the car was decorated very artistically. It did not hit anything except the glass. Even the surface of the police car did not have many scratches. The wall was not broken either. There was simply broken glass all over the ground.

These glasses are all made of syrup, and they look like broken glass no matter how far or close you observe them.

The biggest difference from glass is that it is not sharp at all. Even if you accidentally fall on these syrup glasses, it will not hurt you. . . You can even eat these syrup glass fragments.

Kaede Sakakibara and Mai Sakurajima fell to the ground. At this time, a tall humanoid spider slowly crawled down from the side of the police car.

The policeman, who had just recovered from his shock, immediately took out his gun and started shooting.

Sakakibara Kaede was dumbfounded again. The props group had prepared a 9mm M60 revolver, a specially developed police revolver. Although the replacement models of the New Nanbu M60 revolver have gradually been put into service, the gun is still the main firearm of Japan's law enforcement forces.

Looking again, Sakakibara immediately realized that it was an air gun, the same as the one he used in the first audition, but the bullets fired by these air guns were indeed slightly more realistic.

The bullets hit the Spider-Man and all fell to the ground.

The police officers gasped. The bullet actually caused no harm at all. This was unheard of for them.

Compared to this, the fear that the other person was not a human was clearly written on everyone's face.

At this time, Sakakibara Kaede was marveling at the cleverness of the production team. There was no need to add any post-production special effects to show the bullets failing to hit the body. These shots taken close to Spider-Man could completely record the scenes of these bullets failing to hit the body.

The spider monster opened and closed its mouthparts, and then it flipped over and climbed onto the roof, looking around with its huge eyeballs.