Unfortunately, shortly after, Takeshi refused.
"Didn't you say he would agree?" Takumi asked.
Alice replied innocently: "I think he has a good impression of you. He said you have bodyguards and he doesn't want to humiliate himself."
'With bodyguards?'
Takumi was puzzled. 'What did Takeshi mean by that? If he wanted to refuse, he had to find a more appropriate excuse.' Takumi didn't need to have him.
"Forget it, if he doesn't want to come, don't come." Takumi shook his head: "Let him work there if he wants."
Takeshi's new boss should be very affectionate towards him, except for her appearance. 'Takeshi might fall in love with him after seeing him.'
Takumi put the matter behind him. While having breakfast, he talked to Aika about yesterday's final exam and mentioned that Shiori hadn't gone home.
Aika, who was eating noodles, was surprised.
"Shiori didn't go home?" She complained: "Why didn't you bring her, kid?!"
"This... there's no other option." Takumi said: "There's no room for her to live in our house, and I usually have to draw manga, so it would be inconvenient for her to come."
"That's true... but...".
Aika frowned. "She's a girl; isn't it a bit inappropriate to throw her into a hotel...".
"What's inappropriate?" Takumi raised his eyebrows and said strangely: "Mom, you want her to come, would you mind telling her what I do?"
Aika was stunned. "It's better if she doesn't know. I've seen Shiori a couple of times, and she's a good person, but I'm not related to her, and I feel uncomfortable."
"Takumi, do you think Mom is too cruel?" Aika put down her chopsticks and said sadly: "Sakura said that people nowadays are very cunning. I believe that too. Do you remember your second aunt's daughter? She used to be a very good girl, but she changed after going out to see the big city."
Aika shook her head and said: "It's not that Mom doesn't believe in Shiori. You can't know a person's heart just by looking at their face. Relatives change, let alone other people's children."
"You're at the age where it's easiest to be influenced. I'm not worried about what Shiori does, but I'm afraid that you, Takumi, will be influenced by her."
Takumi has done too many things in the last six months, but because of that, Aika is always worried, fearing he might stray from the right path.
"Mom, I'm fine." Takumi smiled bitterly: "I think Shiori is also very disciplined."
"Then, tell me about Shiori." Aika asked: "Tell me about her."
She was interested. Takumi had never talked about Shiori in detail, which piqued Aika's curiosity.
Takumi saw that he still had plenty of time, so he told Aika about his previous dealings with Shiori, omitting some details and mainly talking about Shiori and her two roommates.
Upon hearing these words, Aika was surprised.
"Are there still kids like that?"
She was truly surprised. Thanks to Takumi's words, she discovered Shiori's simplicity.
It's difficult to find such a person among ten children who leave the countryside to go to the city at an early age. Sixteen or seventeen is also a rebellious and adolescent stage, and the external environment changes them more easily.
"Then it's not good to leave her at the hotel. We can't ignore her. You can invite her home for a meal." Aika said: "In a few days, when you're not drawing, you can invite her to your house."
"And what about the studio?"
"Lock it. She won't know you draw manga."
Takumi thought about it. 'Aika said it was fine, so what did he care?'
"Okay."
He agreed.
So, before going to work, Takumi went to the Platinum Hotel to greet Shiori.
"Did you sleep well last night?"
Shiori asked as she got into the car in her school uniform.
"Good." Shiori nodded, full of energy: "It's just that the bed is too soft; I'm a little uncomfortable."
"It's a minor detail; you'll get used to it soon." Takumi nodded, asked the driver to drive, and then said: "I'll take you to the company to sign the contract. That way you'll get familiar with the work, and someone will teach you if you don't understand."
"No problem." Shiori's eyes sparkled: "Is the voice actor busy?"
"Normally not; if you're good, you can finish the work in half a day." Takumi replied that voice actors are different from actors, as they can dub by following the script. In each episode of animation, professional voice actors can dub it naturally; even during the broadcast phase, this work will not be too busy.
"That's good."
Shiori breathed a sigh of relief; she wanted to go home early.
"But Shiori, you might have to stay for a while." Takumi hadn't finished speaking, he smiled and said: "You haven't received professional training; for your convenience in the future, I'll ask someone to guide you in dubbing; you have to prepare."
Although Shiori's voice is good, the dubbing is still a little stiff. Her knowledge of voice actors is not entirely good, and she needs to be trained.
"Also,"
Takumi continued, "The opening song for the Pokémon animation will be sung by Ash's voice actor, uh... that's you, so you'll have to learn to sing."
"Hey!"
Shiori was surprised: "I have to sing? And then when can I go home?"
"If it's fast, it will only take a week. It's just one song." Takumi comforted her: "First, learn dubbing, and come to my house in a few days; I'll practice with you."
"At your house?"
Shiori was stunned for a moment, but then her eyes lit up: "Can I come to your house?"
"Yes."
Takumi wondered why Shiori was so excited.
After arriving at the company, he handed Shiori over to Haru and got to work.
The voice actor problem was solved, and the last flaw in Pokémon's production disappeared. Takumi began composing the music for the animation's opening and closing. "Pokémon Theme Song," this song is too classic, Takumi didn't want to change it, although he also doubted that Shiori would sing well, but if she didn't sing well, he could ask other singers to sing.
To lighten the workload of others, Takumi deliberately rendered the initial screen in manga strip form and then completed the lyrics. The initial animation was exactly the same as the original.
But after writing the opening song, when it was time to write the ending song, Takumi hesitated. He felt that Pokémon's ending song wasn't very good and considered changing it.
But there was no suitable song, so he ultimately didn't change it. In addition to the opening and ending music, the animation's background music was more problematic. There was so much of it that it would require a lot of time and energy to acquire.
Takumi only composed the necessary background music for the first part, which took him several days. He handed a stack of sheet music to Kenji.
"Mirai-sensei..."
Kenji was scared and cried on the spot: "Do you want others to live?!"
'What kind of monster is this? Before him, the company's animation department is nothing but trash!'
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