Tokyo Soft Rice King

"What?! There's no voice actor training school?"

This surprised Kuroba Akira. He thought that a voice actor agency of this size must have its own training department. After all, it needs to constantly discover new talents to inject new blood into the agency and the industry.

"Well... there used to be one, but Director Fuyumi said it was 'a waste of money' and not as efficient as 'I could find it myself', so they shut it down..."

"That's too... uh, bold."

Kuroba Ming originally wanted to say that this was too crazy, but this was someone else's territory after all, and it was not appropriate to directly disparage someone else's boss. As a result, it was Arisugawa Yuki himself who complained very rudely.

"Director Fuyumi is completely crazy. What farmer would tear down a chicken coop? When Director Fuyumi did this, everyone thought the agency was doomed."

Indeed, if an ordinary person did this, the firm would definitely be in a state of transition.

However, it’s different with plug-ins.

This shows that Saotome Fuyumi has "absolute confidence" in being able to discover talented voice actors on her own.

"But this decision did help the agency save a lot of costs at the time, and Director Fuyumi actually recruited several future top voice actors, revitalizing the entire agency."

"What an amazing person..."

"She's certainly impressive... but ultimately, Director Fuyumi is a crazy gambler. She doesn't always win, and every time she loses, it devastates us. It's just that she wins more often overall."

When Arisugawa Yuki mentioned his director, he was half admiring and half complaining about him, which gave him a dual feeling of being a god or a ghost, but more of it was a feeling of "helplessness".

"What I admire most about the director is that she seems to enjoy this so much... I really don't know what's wrong with her."

If you win the bet, you can make a lot of money. If you lose the bet, all the money and time you invested will be lost.

Most people definitely can't bear this kind of pressure.

But Kuroba Akira can understand what Saotome Fuyumi did because he is doing the same thing now.

He also found that Saotome Fuyumi seemed to have similar ideas to his own, that is, "don't hang yourself on a tree."

Because he saw other 'mining' departments.

"Um, please..."

Kuroba Akira stopped and asked, and Arisugawa Yuki turned around and asked back.

"Yes? What's the problem?"

"Isn't this the voice actor agency? But I think I saw some other entertainment departments..."

"Ah, it's true that we're primarily a voice actor agency. In fact, before Director Fuyumi took over, we were also primarily involved in voice actor affairs. But as I said just now, Director Fuyumi is happy to discover new talents, and she's 'not limited to any field,' so now we have directors, screenwriters, producers, actors, photographers, and so on... Actually, calling us a voice actor agency isn't quite right anymore. We're more like a comprehensive entertainment agency."

Hearing this, Xiao Niaoyouwei, who was following behind, became excited and raised his hand to ask.

“Is there a singer there too?”

"Well... as for pure singers, I haven't found any yet. If I want to release records or albums, I still have to cooperate with other record companies."

"That's it..."

Weilai looked at Ziyin, and Ziyin was also looking at Weilai. She knew that Weilai was asking on her behalf, so she returned a grateful smile.

Takanashi Akiko also saw this scene and smiled bitterly in her heart.

How could she not know the situation of her own firm?

If being a singer at Four Seasons Agency had a future, she would have agreed to recommend Ziyin from the beginning.

"Actually, right now, only the voice actors are the most famous. Other departments are still in the 'pilot' stage, and many are losing money..."

In other words, apart from the voice acting business, everything else is half-baked and a pure waste of money.

This is true.

Although I haven't been able to take a closer look, I can find out with a little attention that not everyone here has "talent" and many people have no words on their right hands.

And among those few who have talent, their talents have nothing to do with performing arts.

If Saotome Fuyumi really possessed the same "talented insight" cheat as herself, she shouldn't have been supporting these "incompetent people".

"So the only right thing Director Fuyumi did was to recruit Akiko-sensei to our agency... Akiko-sensei is our top voice actress. Now when people mention our agency, the first thing they mention is 'the agency that discovered Akiko Takanashi'!"

Takanashi Akiko felt a little embarrassed by the praise and said while holding her cheek.

"Xue'er, you're exaggerating..."

"That's not an exaggeration at all! Everyone! Don't you agree? Isn't our teacher Qiuzi amazing?"

Arisugawa Yuki opened her arms exaggeratedly. Although the other artists around her didn't know what was going on, they also joined in the fun and cheered loudly.

"Oh! Miss Akiko! Our savior! A miraculous reversal!"

"Director Fuyumi's brilliant decision! Without Teacher Akiko, the firm would have been ruined long ago!"

"Ms. Qiuzi is a woman who can be my mother!"

Hey, isn’t that last one a bit too much? Although Hei Yuming also thinks so.

Moreover, they are all professional voice actors. The cheers of a few people created a feeling of national support, which was very exaggerated.

However, there was a female voice actor who did not "go along with them". She seemed unable to bear the noise and stood up from her seat and left.

Just at this moment, Ziyin saw this familiar yet unfamiliar person and couldn't help but make a sound.

"Ah...that's...Senior Xiao Huang!"

Everyone looked over, and the female voice actor who heard the voice also raised her head and looked over here, her eyes full of confusion.

"...Xiao Huang?"

Arisugawa Yukiya asked back.

"Shion, do you know Niwa-sensei? Well, Niwa-sensei is a well-known voice actor after all, so it's not surprising that she knows her..."

The woman called 'Xiao Huang' had a look of confusion in her eyes. She probably didn't understand why she was called Xiao Huang for a moment.

She stood there thinking for a few seconds, then seemed to have figured out the reason, and pounded her palm and said.

"Oh, you're talking about Star Pretty Cure... That elementary school student with the yellow drill is definitely my match."

Unexpectedly, she met a senior voice actor here, and he was also the person Ziyin had always imitated. Ziyin immediately felt a sense of reality that she had "finally entered the industry."

"Hello, my name is Murasakimiya Shion. I've been imitating your voice. You could say you're my voice acting teacher. I didn't expect to see you here... I'm very grateful for your 'teaching' to me."

Ziyin bowed her head in thanks, appearing humble and polite.

"I see... My name is Niwa Kaede."

And Niwa Feng just nodded. Even if it was a response, he seemed a little cold. However, it was not indifference, but a feeling of not caring about anything.

Then there was another wave of self-introductions and exchanging names, but when Hei Yuming mentioned his own name, Ni Yufeng frowned and immediately asked back.

"Your last name is Hei Yu?"

"Yes, my name is Kuroba... Is there anything wrong?"

"Are you from Hokkaido?"

"Uh… sorry, what did you say?"

When someone suddenly asked about his hometown, Hei Yuming was a little choked. After all, he knew nothing about his past in this world.

"...Isn't it...No, forget it. It's nothing. I was just asking casually."

Speaking of Hokkaido, Arisugawa Yuki suddenly remembered something and turned around to look at Takanashi Akiko and said.

"I remember Niwa-sensei and Kotori-sensei are from the same hometown, right? And they seem to be distant relatives?"

Takanashi Akiko nodded and said with a smile.

"Yes, we're both from Sapporo. As for relatives... I think there's a saying about that, because there's a famous family in our area with the surname 'Ame-no-Yu', which seems to be related to the famous sword 'Ame-no-Yu-zan'..."

Oh, Tian Yu Yu Zhan, also known as the Ten Fist Sword, one of the three divine swords.

Hei Yuming had also heard of this thing, mainly from playing various Japanese RPG games. Often the ultimate weapon or super-killing move of the sword is called Tianyu Yuzhan.

By the way, the other two sacred swords are Ame no Murakumo, also known as the Kusanagi Sword, and Butsu Mikami, also known as the Fūryū Sword.

Takanashi Akiko continued.

"Then Miss Niwa is a branch of the Ameha family, and our Toriyu family seems to have been one of the branches, but was later expelled..."

It was also the first time that Wei Lai heard her mother talk about her hometown, and she frowned and spoke unhappily.

"Expelled? Why would my mother's family be expelled? Are you looking down on us?"

Niwa Feng corrected lightly.

"It's not 'expulsion', but 'frustration'."

"Sha Yu...?"

This doesn't sound like a word in Japanese at all, but after reading it several times, Kuroba Akira understood that it refers to the "铩羽" in "铩羽而归"... But it shouldn't refer to failure here.

Niwa Feng had no intention of explaining, and instead explained the origin of his family and surname.

"Tenyu is the main family, and we, Niyu, are a branch family. Besides them, there are Akabane, Asaba, and Hisaha, a total of four branch families... Kotori Yu was once one of the branch families, but due to an incident in the past, they were 'dismissed' and subsequently lost the right to inherit the 'feather' character, so they changed their name to Kotori Yu... which means 'wandering bird'."

Takanashi Akiko pinched her chin and suddenly realized.

"So there are all these allusions... I didn't even know about them..."

After all, Akiko Takanashi left her hometown very early and had never heard her parents talk about these family matters.

After hearing this, Hei Yu Ming realized that Hei Yu was not in the four major branches, but judging from Dan Yu Feng's reaction, Hei Yu should also be related to the "Yu" family, so he asked.

"What about Hei Yu?"

Niwa Feng's eyes dimmed.

"As for Kuroba... it's a 'non-existent surname'."

"what?"

"Nothing... Maybe I'm just overthinking it. The surname Kuroba isn't unique to Hokkaido. Most people think it originated on Honshu... You probably just happened to be named Kuroba, right?"

After saying this, Niwa Feng left on his own, showing no intention of continuing the conversation with them.

Everyone looked at each other, feeling a little confused.

"Well, don't worry about it, Niwa-sensei is just a bit of a natural... He seems to be living in his own world, but he's actually a very nice person."

Arisugawa Yuki tried to liven up the atmosphere and made a suggestion to Kuroba Akira.

"By the way, Kuroba, are you interested in working for us after you graduate?"

As soon as these words were spoken, before Kuroba Ming could react, two mature women, Takanashi Akiko and Da Hongxiang, stepped forward and protected him behind them.

"Wait, Xue'er, I know the office is short of staff right now, but Kuroba-kun is my daughter's friend and a benefactor of our Toriyuu family, so please don't make things difficult for him..."

Dahongxiang also said this.

"Yes, please don't think about Amin. We can't live without him."

Ziyin and Mirai also held Hei Yuming's hands on the left and right, and looked at Arisugawa Yuki with some hostility.

Arisugawa Yuki didn't expect that her casual words would put her on the opposite side of the four women, so she quickly waved her hand to explain.

"Sorry, sorry, it's mainly because I saw that the young man Kuroba seemed very interested in our agency... Cancel! Cancel what I just said! Just pretend I didn't say it!"

horrible……

So this young man is the backbone?

Chapter 256 We Are All Superpowered

Arisugawa Yuki realized that he had made a serious mistake in judgment.

She originally thought that Hei Yuming was just a high school student who came here for an inspection, so she tried her best to appear enthusiastic and leave him with a good impression of the Four Seasons Agency. However, she didn't expect that this one sentence would trip up everyone's nerves.

The main thing is, no one has ever told me who he is.

Before arriving, Teacher Akiko had said there were five of them: herself, her daughter, and the newcomer she was recommending, the incredibly beautiful girl named Murasakimiya Shion. Following behind her was Tashiro Hongxiang, her manager...

These were all within Arisugawa Yuki's common sense, but Kuroba Akira who got mixed up in it really couldn't understand it.

That is, among the group of people brought by Qiuzi, only Hei Yuming's identity is very "special".

A future friend? Ziyin's boyfriend?

Whether you bring a friend or a boyfriend, it's weird, right?