Minato Ward has a lot of ramps, and after repeated uphill and downhill climbs, the driver parked in front of the Suntory Concert Hall fountain after rounding Shiba Park.

Yu Murakami thanked the driver and got out of the car.

The well-dressed passers-by around him saluted him. He rolled up the cuffs of his shirt in his early 1,000 yen and calmly walked into the venue.

The Mita Library didn't go to work.,Naturally, it came much earlier than planned.,There's no one in the lounge for voice actors.。

The theme of this "April" event is "sound" - live voice acting by voice actors, character songs by voice actors, solo piano, solo violin, piano and violin ensemble.

Yu Murakami is only on the dubbing and chorus opening song, but as the actor who is destined to speak in the finale, it is impossible to leave early.

Just as he was thinking about whether to sleep or come back from going out to buy books or magazines while he still had some time, Ai Nakano and Miss Sakura walked into the lounge.

"Brother You~" You Mubi poked her head out from behind the two.

"Why are you here?" Yu Murakami asked.

"She didn't have classes in the afternoon," Ai Nakano explained with a smile, "so she took the ticket you threw in the cabinet and said she was going to surprise you." ”

"Hey, hey!" You Mubi looked proud.

Yu Murakami nodded, noticing the bag she was carrying, "Concave sauce, do you have a pen and paper in your bag?" ”

"Yes."

"Lend it to me."

Anyway, he had nothing to do, so he decided to pass the time by drawing comics.

Yu Mubi gave him the bag, and then followed Ai Nakano and Miss Sakura into the dressing room - for today's event, the program team prepared a suit for the male voice actor and a colorful fluffy skirt for the female voice actor.

Yu Murakami ignores the snacks and feminine items in his bag and takes out a cute mechanical pencil with stickers attached to it from his cute pencil case.

I pressed it, but the pencil lead didn't come out, so it should have run out. He rummaged through the pencil case again to find a spare refill.

After installing it, he took out today's activity notebook and prepared to paint on the wasted side of the back.

Because he didn't care if it could be serialized, he didn't bother to construct the characters, and with a few strokes, the expressionless girl with a ball-combed head walked out of the crowded Toyosu 2-chome station.

She slowly walked to the edge of Tokyo Bay, took pictures of the cruise ship, and then was hit by a reckless girl riding a bicycle.

In this way, Nao Higashiyama, who has just finished junior high school and is about to enter the private Sakuragaoka Girls' High School, met Ayane Sakura, who likes to ride bicycles, has a reckless personality, and is about to enter the private Sakuragaoka.

The characters who appeared later include Ai Chino, a sophomore senior sister who is responsible for distributing benefits and taking bullying as a person;

is so short that only the scalp of Yumu Bi often appears in the picture;

I look down on the foursome who only travel to free attractions in Tokyo, but they take the initiative to help provide routes and often meet by chance - Mizuse Kei and Saori Onishi;

There is also a co-consultant of the travel agency and the walking club, art teacher Risa Taneda;

Chinatsu Akasaki......

To be honest, Yu Murakami didn't even talk to her alone, and his feelings for her stayed - knowing the other person's face, name, and personality, but not caring.

But after all, she is Ai Nakano's best friend, everyone writes, only she is omitted, and she can't be explained.

Yu Murakami suddenly smiled self-deprecatingly, not even sure if it could be serialized, just thinking about this.

"What are you laughing at stupidly?" Risa Taneda didn't know when she came to the lounge and walked within the distance that would allow him to smell her scent.

"You've come just in time." Yu Murakami gave her the script, "I remember that you graduated from the design department of the Women's Art University, and you also have a teaching certificate, help me take a look." ”

Risa Taneda took the script suspiciously.

"That's a good drawing, did you draw it?"

"Leave this alone." Yu Murakami said directly: "As far as manga is concerned, what are the shortcomings? ”

"Then you've found the right person," she replied as she looked through it carefully, "I've wanted to be a cartoonist since I was a child, and although I didn't succeed, I know a lot." ”

Yu Murakami plays with the mechanical pencil in his hand like a throwing knife, waiting for the evaluation of the "professional".

After a while.

"Murakami," Risa Taneda put down the script angrily, stared at him and said, "Can you please not turn the pen, it will distract me." ”

The pen, which turned into a disc like an electric fan because of the afterimage, stopped very abruptly.

Taneda Risa picked up the script again, and before reading it, she was still muttering: "I hate turning the pen the most, and there are people who shake their feet." ”

“...... I'm sorry. ”

Ai Nakano has been in the dressing room for a long time, and the appeal of colorful and fluffy skirts to women seems to be extraordinary.

There are only a few pages, to be precise, only the first act of the opening and the sketches and settings of each character, and even the "incineration of sanitary napkins" that Yu Murakami planned to draw at the beginning did not appear, but it took a long time for Risa Taneda to read it.

At this time, several other male voice actors also arrived in the lounge, each holding a script to confirm the process of the event.

Saori Hayami, who arrived at the end, beckoned to him and slipped into the dressing room.

When Taneda Risa tapped the script with the back of her hand, Yu Murakami retracted his thoughts that he didn't know where to go, and made a deaf look.

"How can I say it," Taneda Risa thought about the wording, "As a manga, the drawing skills are enough, and the character settings are passable, but the camera sense is insufficient." ”

"Lack of lens?"

"It's just that there's a problem with the storyboard." Noticing that a long time had passed, Risa Taneda quickly returned the script to him, and as she walked to the dressing room, she said, "Your drawings are the same as illustrations, like a picture with a story." ”

After saying that, she also entered the dressing room, there was a skirt, and she must not be able to get out for a while.

Yu Murakami had to figure it out on his own.

After a while, the female voice actors came out in dresses of light pink, light green, bright red, etc., and they should be very satisfied with their expressions.

The male voice actor only went in to change into a suit at this time.

Yu Murakami had no plans to do a hairstyle, so he was the first to come out after changing his clothes.

"Oh!" You Mubi gave a thumbs up, "Brother You is so handsome!" ”

"Yes."

His tone was too perfunctory and bland, as if You Mubi was lying to him, which made her very dissatisfied.

You Mubi turned to a few young women and said:

"Sister Aiyi, Sister Lingyin, Sister Lisha, I saw my predecessors early, did you say? Brother Yu is really handsome in a suit, right? ”

"That's right." Ai Nakano looked at Yu Murakami and nodded with a smile.

"Concave-chan," Miss Sakura said earnestly, "You think he's handsome because you have a good relationship with him, but in fact, this guy is just average." ”

"So," Saori Hayami smiled, "Sakura, don't you have a good relationship with Murakami-kun?" ”

"Senior! We're all voice actors of YM! Why say such things! ”

"Hahaha, it's because they're all YM voice actors that I can say that."

"Me too, me too!" YM newcomer Yu Mubi raised his hand high.

Risa Taneda took her eyes off Yu Murakami and said to Ai Nakano:

"The two of us from Ozawa's office seem to have been sidelined."

"Who made them more powerful?" Ai Nakano smiled helplessly.

After the joke ended, everyone chatted curiously about Yu Murakami's "Swaying Travel".

"You guy," Miss Sakura said with a laugh, "can't you just take the time to come up with a name?" If this continues, I'm going to ask you for the royalties for your name!

And the bikes! I hate two-wheeled cars the most, it's not safe at all! ”

Yu Murakami spread out his right hand and made a "whatever you want, please." gestures.

Miss Sakura slapped him angrily.

Regarding Miss Sakura's behavior of putting herself into the role without authorization, Yu Murakami doesn't know what to say.

"The painting is very good, the perspective and realism are handled very well, I have read a lot of books and practiced for a long time, right?" Saori Hayami said, "What tools are you using to draw now?" ”

"What tools?" Yu Murakami was stunned for a moment, "Waseda female college student's mechanical pencil." It's no different from what is sold in ordinary stationery stores, but if there is anything special, it is a sticker that I like personally. ”

The girl and young woman in the floral skirt were amused by his serious answer.

Saori Hayami, who graduated from Waseda for a long time, asked again, "Does Murakami-kun like Waseda?" ”

"I don't like it, but I can sing "The Capital of the Northwest."

"I taught!" You Mubi, who has just become a native of Waseda, is very proud.

""The Capital of the Northwest", if you don't hear the tune, you can't sing it now." Saori Hayami's tone was full of reminiscence.

Risa Taneda says:

"Murakami-kun, I have special manuscript paper for comics, and tools such as needle pens are also available, if you want it, I will bring it to you next time, and I won't need it anyway."

"If you really don't need it in the future."

"In addition, I have some classic comics that you can borrow to read and learn more about excellent storyboard processing."

"That's not necessary." Yu Murakami said, "These things are in your collection, and I'll just consult with professional manga artists who do everything but draw manga." ”

"How can you say that about others?" Ai Nakano smiled and patted him.

"It's the truth."

"That can't be said in such a place." Ai Nakano noticed that the other male voice actors had come out of the dressing room.

"Yes, yes."

——————

You can also hear the sound of the audience entering the stadium in the background.

The event is about to begin.

The others either confirm the process or help each other sort out their clothes and makeup, and instead of doing nothing, Murakami Yuya is going to try to modify the encounter between {Nao Higashiyama} and {Ayane Sakura}, making sure to "move" it instead of the beautiful illustrations.

Thanks to "Unexpected Love", Yu Murakami has shallow experience in stories and scenes.

After revising it two or three times, he showed it to the art teacher again.

"It's almost time to play! What are you doing? "The peerless beauty really has no way to deal with Murakami's behavior of not wanting to get close to her all the time.

She took the script, and her attention just went up.

"So much progress?!"

Yu Murakami's initial painting style, although the background and characters are exquisite, are very rigid, as if they are illustrated one by one, and then it feels like you are looking at a slideshow.

"I didn't do anything, just added a few moves."

"How many moves?" Taneda Ri Sasha parroted this sentence and expressed his incredibleness, "Your action storyboard can be regarded as gorgeous, understand?" The whole comic comes to life at once! ”

"What do you mean?" Yuu Murakami, who can only draw.

"To put it simply, the reader is comfortable reading it, and reading your comics is like watching a movie."

"So, just draw along this line?"

Taneda Risa didn't answer him, and looked at the delicate sketch in his hand unwillingly.

"I've been studying comics since I was a child, and I've always wanted to be a cartoonist for so many years, but I only got a teaching certificate in art." She raised her head and looked at Yu Murakami: "Don't lie, tell me honestly, how long have you been learning manga?" ”

"It's been a long time." Yu Murakami scratched the center of his eyebrows with the tail of the mechanical pencil of the Waseda female college student.

"Drawing comics really still depends on talent, alas."

"Where, without your guidance, I can't get the hang of it, and this page is also the result of me changing it two or three times."

"Two or three times?"

Yu Murakami replied with some hesitation: "Two or three times, it's normal, right?" ”

"It's normal, but you've changed it two or three times in such a short period of time? Moreover, "Risa Taneda looked at the sketch, "the amount of work is not small, and there is an extra picture of {Ayane Sakura riding from a distance} in the middle, and the windows of the building are drawn in the background. ”

"This building exists in reality, you don't have to think about it, you just follow the painting, it doesn't take much time."

"You just said that you've been studying comics for a long time, this {quite long}, how long is it? Start with copying. ”

"Copy?"

"Hmm."

“......”

"You don't seem to be happy to share it with me?" Risa Taneda looks at him with the beautiful eyes that a peerless beauty should have.

"It's not that I'm unhappy, but it's very complicated, and I won't understand it for a while, and I'll talk to you when I have time later."

Yu Murakami took back his script and ended this consultation.

——————

The audience entered, and the voice actors stepped onto the stage with the curtain pulled.

On stage, Goose House, the band that sang the theme song of "April" – "If You Can Shine" – was already in the mood.

The voice actors can sing along loudly if they are confident, and if they don't have the confidence to sing in a small voice, they really can't lip-sync - this is a sentence written by the program team in the script, and then Yu Murakami expressed it in his own words.

Staff on the side: "3, 2, 1!" ”

The curtain was slowly opened.

【Rainbow after the rain】

【Awe-inspiring blooming flowers】

[Colors are overflowing]

......

The young women's colorful and fluffy skirts, like seaweed, couldn't figure out why they liked this style.

Personally, he prefers tight skirts and self-dressing skirts.

Yu Murakami, who was paddling at the lip shape, thought about this.

"Yoyo! Long! ”

"Sing Yoyo !!"

"We're going to listen to Yoyo sing!"

The shouts of female fans are neatly like the row of ice edges on the eaves in winter.

First a few, then dozens, hundreds, and finally three floors up and down the venue, thousands of people were shouting.

Whether it was the singers, voice actors, guitars, basses, drums, or electronic keyboards on the stage, all of them fell silent.

......

"We're going to yo!"

"One God! One God! Sing! ”

"We're here to listen to Yoyo sing!"

......

The female singer who led the singing trembled and held the microphone, in a state of confusion and panic.

Yu Murakami, who was lip-shaping in the back, had to come out from behind the female voice actor in a colorful and fluffy skirt.

One person, one microphone, no backing in headphones, no instruments on stage.

"It's you, it's you who tell me"

"If You Can Shine in the Dark"

"You can turn into a starry sky"

Kiyokoshi's voice, penetrating treble, elegant Suntory Concert Hall, and an audience of more than 5,000 people.

It was an autumn afternoon at the end of September and the beginning of October, and everyone in the hall was sent to the place they wanted to go by this tidal wave of singing.

Then came the screams that were enough to tear over the roof.

"Ah——!!!h

"Yoyo ——!!!"

"The One and Only God!!

"Murakami! Strongest ——!!! ”

He, she, they, they, are willingly conquered by Yu Murakami.

Whether it's a voice actor, a singer, a guitar, a drum kit, an electronic organ, etc., all the voices sound again.

The difference is that this time the sound seems to be given life, like an umbrella on a rainy day, the wind in summer, completely free to let go, and become the real form of music.

The heroine, Risa Taneda, stands next to the male protagonist, and during a break in the song, she hears someone's muttering.

"I don't give a chance to lip-synch, it's my black fans who won't come, right?"

The peerless beauty sneered, and when she spoke again, she looked at Yu Murakami, as if she wanted to be louder than him, and sang:

"It's you, it's you who bring me a smile"

"If Teardrops Can Shine"

"It can turn into a shooting star"

"These Scarred Hands"

"Please don't let go again"

......

At the end of the song "If You Can Shine", everyone on and off the stage had unfinished expressions, and they couldn't wait to continue singing and listening.

But the show is a show after all, and the next step is the self-introduction session.

His face has never changed, even if he sang enthusiastically just now, he was still as handsome as the Six Singers of the Heian Era, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

The chorus ended, followed by the dubbing session, and then there was no more of him.

He can draw his comics quietly in the background.

"Hello everyone, I'm Igawa Eimi Saori Hayami, I'm very happy, really happy to hear such a great singing voice today.

My mom was a jazz singer when she was younger, and I invited her to this event because there were a lot of musical performances.

It's a great decision, it's a great music like this to be heard. ”

"Hello everyone, I'm Ai Nakano, and like Hayami-san, I also invited my mother to come and see. She's usually busy with work, and she hardly ever comes to a place like a concert hall......"

"Hello everyone, I'm Sawabe Tsubaki Sakura Suzune, haha! I also invited my mother over ......"

"Hello everyone, I'm Kaoru Miyazono Taneda Risa, and it's a coincidence that I also gave my mother the ticket for the related seat......"

......

"Murakami-san? Murakami-san! The director called out in the headphones, "It's your turn to introduce yourself." ”

"Hello everyone, I'm Yuu Murakami Arima, my words ......"

In the seat of the relation, in addition to the mothers of the young women, You Mubi was waving at him.

Beside her, it was Dongshan who threw a flying kiss to him.

Next to him is Dongshan's father, who is nodding in satisfaction with his legs.

“..... My sister is coming. ”

You Mubi stood up, showed her brightest smile, and waved vigorously to the audience and voice actors.

If nothing happens to this event, Yu Murakami is willing to donate the 1 billion yuan awarded at the end of this year to the Foundation for Caring for the Elderly and Widows.

The only hope is that the dubbing session can follow the script.