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Time passed day by day, and the production of "Gundam Seed" gradually got on track.

The illustrators have been able to cooperate with each other to complete the picture level required by Meng Huo. At the beginning, the speed was very slow, but Sakura Animation recruited a group of new illustrators. After the number of people increased, the speed gradually increased.

However, this speed-up is still very slow compared to the production speed of other companies. The Gundam series is a new animation, and there is no precedent before. Every company has to figure out how to make animation scenes well.

But Meng Huo's requirements are very high. He spent more than a month 'brainwashing' the team members of the two companies to make them produce gorgeous and handsome Gundam battle scenes.

During this period, the script and storyboards were gradually improved to the details, the soundtrack work was also carried out one after another, and the voice actors of the characters were basically confirmed.

The voice actors of Gundam Seed use Ning Hai's voice actors, which are the best voice actors in China. Today is different from the past. More than a year ago, Phoenix Company was not favored by people, and voice actors were hard to find. However, today, a year later, many voice actors broke their heads and wanted to join Phoenix Company's voice actor firm.

The popularity of "Pokemon" and "Fate/staynight" made the participating voice actors gradually emerge. Although the profession of voice actor is still famous in the entertainment industry, the voice actor of Phoenix Company has basically got rid of the predicament and has a new development path.

During this period of time, there are more and more animations and galgames in China, and these new things require a lot of dubbing. The first choice is the voice actors of Phoenix Company.

The office does not refuse anyone. The voice actors basically no longer worry about work, they can live a very nourishing life through dubbing. It makes other artists who are depressed are envious.

"If you can't be a singer, you can be a voice actress!"

Artists submitted their resumes to Phoenix Company with this idea, and some artists with unique vision were eager to move for the potential value of the voice actor industry.

Huaxia animation and galgame games have just emerged, and there is still a lot of potential. The government will provide strong support, and the demand for voice actors will only increase in the future.

It's also because of this—now Phoenix's seiyuu firm has become a separate department with hundreds of employees, which can fully provide the seiyuu needs of "Gundam Seed".

In order to fight for the character dubbing of this animation. Some seiyuu turned off redundant work and tried every means to get a chance to appear.

"The fastest way to become famous is to dub Master He Xi's work!"

Inside the office,

This is a thought shared by all.

The past six months have been a golden period, and many people have acted in animation, but the most popular are the voice actors of "Pokemon" and "Fate/staynight". These voice actors sometimes even receive interviews from TV stations. Vaguely looks like a real idol.

There is a saying in the company that He Xi values ​​seiyuu, and he once claimed that seiyuu can become idols during chats. Moreover, the seiyuu agency faced the risk of withdrawing the department several times, but was stopped by He Xi's phone call.

This may be just a rumor, but it has brought endless imagination to the voice actors. Now that the plan for the new animation came out, Shen Jie and Long Xue were selected as special voice actors. It made this imagination even more confirmed.

"Responsible for singing, isn't that the job of a singer?"

"I heard that Mr. He Xi prepared dozens of songs for this animation. Instead of choosing a singer, he chose a voice actor. It's incredible!"

"Long Xue and the others can each be assigned more than a dozen songs...they can release singles in the future!"

In the office. The voice actors are extremely excited, He Xi's actions are obviously continuing to expand the value of voice actors. The rumors inside the company turned out to be true, and they will have a chance to change from voice actors to singers in the future.

Singers, this is the dream of voice actors.

However, it is not easy to realize this dream, and Meng Huo has too few people to choose from.

Shen Jie, Lu Xue, Xia Chuan Masako, Xia Chuan Zhenzhen—these four women worked very hard and prevented others from taking their place.

It took only one month for Shen Jie and Lu Xue to sing a few new songs prepared by Meng Huo in the dialect of the Far Eastern Region, and they sang very well. Meng Huo felt that it should be no problem to assign the work to them.

Everything went well with the animation, except for one shortcoming.

Meng Huo has no specific distribution of songs yet. "Gundam Seed" has a lot of original songs. Excluding individual male voices and soundtracks, most of the songs can be completed by four women. If they are divided equally, each person has more than ten or twenty songs .

Of course, songs cannot be averaged. In order to match their respective styles, Meng Huo felt that he should be divided into two main singers, including most of the songs. Two secondary singers, responsible for the rest.

How to allocate specifically has become a difficult problem. Meng Huo first called two female singers from the Far East to the company, planning to spend a day reviewing them.

Meng Huo and Xia Chuan Masako have already met, but he is busy with work. Since signing Xia Chuanzhen, he has been observing the progress from the recording. This is the first time he has seen this fourteen-year-old girl.

After meeting, Meng Huo was very surprised. Xia Chuan really looks cute, just like a delicate and frail loli - of course, this is not the key point, the key point is that this child is very introverted.

Introverted, this was Meng Huo's first feeling when he saw her. During the short time of greeting, Xia Chuanzhen kept hiding behind her manager (her mother), pulling her by the hem of her clothes, like a little girl who had never traveled far.

And when Meng Huo asked her questions, Xia Chuan was really nervous, and he stammered his answers, not like an entertainer at all.

"A girl with this personality can also be a singer?"

Meng Huo felt curious, and after watching the mother and daughter walk into the backstage of the audition room, he asked Takashima Eiji, "Is Xia Chuan really like that all the time?"

"Yes, it was like that when I first met her."

Eiji Takashima replied: "She is an ordinary junior high school student. The mother used to be a singer. She never wanted Miss Zhen to debut until something happened to her family half a year ago."

Xia Chuanzhen's grandfather was seriously ill half a year ago. In order to make money, his mother took Xia Chuanzhen to debut. However, the girl was introverted and her debut process was not smooth until Meng Huo found out.

Introverted personality - this made Meng Huo a little embarrassed. He admired Xia Chuan's real voice, but his personality was too introverted, and he seemed unable to entrust him with important tasks.

However, after listening to two Xia Chuan's singing voices, Meng Huo had to admit that Xia Chuan was really a born singer. Her delicate, misty voice with a touch of sadness was more in line with the overall style of "Gundam Seed" than others.

As for the other Xia Chuan, Ms. Masako's singing voice is also good. She has developed a good momentum in the extreme east entertainment circle in the past year, but in Meng Huo's view, her talent is not as real as Xia Chuan.

"..."

After listening to the song for a day, Meng Huo went home and thought about it for a long time, and finally decided to make Xia Chuanzhen the main singer and Xia Chuan Masako in the secondary position.

Personality can be cultivated, but talent cannot be changed. Of course, there is another reason... Masako Xia Chuan is not a voice actress of Phoenix Company.

Meng Huo didn't think of her until he couldn't find a suitable fourth person. But she belongs to another company. Out of selfishness, Meng Huo is of course more willing to train Xia Chuanzhen as his own person.

The two extreme eastern singers decided, Meng Huo classified the songs, and finally gave Xia Chuan Masako 7 songs, and Xia Chuanzhen has nearly 30 songs, including "The Car of Dawn", "The Solitude of the Deep Sea", "The Proof of Water" and so on. ...

There are dozens of other songs that Shen Jie and Long Xue are responsible for. Meng Huo's idea is that Shen Jie is the main singer who will do my part. She is suitable for singing the OP and ED of the animation, and she can also be responsible for some of the fighting songs.

Long Xue is special, the other three people don't have to dub, but Long Xue has to dub the heroine, the heroine Lacus of "Gundam Seed" is a singer, and there are quite a few of her songs in the animation.

So the distribution of the songs was completed, and the songs of Xia Chuanzhen and Shen Jie accounted for 70% of the entire animation. Although there are not many songs by Masako Xia Chuan and Long Xue, they are all classics.

In particular, Long Xue is in charge of dubbing Lacus, and his status is very different, so it doesn't matter if he is said to be one of the three masters once.

"So be it……"

After Meng Huo finished this work, the last obstacle in the production of "Gundam Seed" disappeared, and the animation was rushed to work.

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