Jangsanbeom Dubs a Yuri Anime
While sipping coffee, I waited for about ten minutes before the director came to me.
“I’m ready.”
His eyes sparkled with fear and a hope he hadn’t let go of.
“In exchange for letting you record, I’ll naturally have to take three hundred, and you’ll have to hand over the money earned from this animation too.”
......This cat-like thing....
“What?”
I sharpened my claws again.
“Ah, no. I’ll give you half of my share of the animation’s earnings.”
“Seven tenths.”
“Six, six tenths...”
“I won’t say it again. Seven tenths.”
Neng......
Just a fox, why would the Mountain Lord give it? Why so much talking.
“Let’s head to the recording studio first.”
The recording studio in the studio was quite professional.
The microphone had various devices hanging for noise cancellation, and soundproofing was thorough.
And..... for some reason, people were bustling about.
“Is that girl the voice actor?”
“She looks underage... is this okay?”
“She’s really cute.....!”
“Cute, but the team leader told her to get out without manners.”
“Is she a female?”
To me, who hated noisy and chaotic sounds, this situation wasn’t great.
“Hey, why are so many people here?”
“They’re our staff, gathered to see Sanbeom-nim.”
“Tell them to clear out everything except the minimum staff.”
Choi Junho, the director, followed my words and had all the staff except the minimum leave the recording studio.
“What should I start with now?”
I had done a lot of voice mimicry, but this was my first time as a voice actor, so I didn’t even know what I was doing.
Since it’s done with voice, I thought even using half of my ability would easily finish it.
“Originally, we watch the animation we made, match the timing, and so on, but trusting Sanbeom-nim’s ability, we boldly skipped it.”
The director rubbed his hands together and flattered me.
“So what do I do?”
“You just need to say the appropriate lines matching the timing the director gives you.”
The director politely handed me the script with both hands.
The script looked quite thick. It seemed like about 50 pages of A4 paper.
“For the acting, watch the animation and do it on the spot, but match the timing well.”
“Understood.”
I roughly understood. The level of voice acting work.
It was so boring I wanted to die.
In short, the core of this job is to say the appropriate lines at the appropriate scenes.
Originally, I would have to record each line separately.
However, I am Jangsanbeom.
If I hide my appearance and lure humans, there are times when I need to talk directly to humans.
At that time, what’s important is the reaction speed to make the other person not feel awkward in the conversation.
My reaction speed is much faster than humans, so even if I watch the animation and record at the same time, I won’t feel awkward.
An animation started coming from the screen installed in the recording studio.
When the first line came out, the number 1 appeared on the screen.
I took a breath and started recording.
“Let’s date!”
“Wha... what? Am I being confessed to now? To the same girl?!”
“No no, that’s not it. What does this mean..... That is, that!”
“For the reality of the novel I’m writing...... let’s do a pseudo-romance!”
“Originally, the novel written by Lee Ha-yeon was a novel where girls date each other, so it wasn’t entirely impossible.”
“Wait, that means I and that kind of thing.......”
“......”
“Wow.....! We don’t even need to adjust this, the voice actor is really good.”
“How is it possible to say such long lines without messing up the timing or pronunciation once?”
“Director, where did you get this person from?”
“If you know, you’ll be in trouble.....”
The minimal staff left in the recording studio couldn’t close their mouths after seeing Sanbeom’s skill.
At first, they thought it was impossible even with limited time after hearing the director’s words about recording in one go, but now they were directly witnessing the scene.
Even the staff holding the gauge to shout ‘Cut’ if something went wrong were now stunned, listening to Sanbeom’s voice.
“Now, the next part is where a man appears, so I’ll ask the voice actor to take a short break.”
“Yes.”
The staff stopped recording at the exact part according to the director’s signal.
What? It’s over? The script still has about 30% left?
“Thank you for your hard work. The next part is where a man appears, so please take a short break while we finish.”
“I can do male voices too..... Well, taking a short break is fine.”
I came out of the soundproof room with the microphone.
“Sanbeom-nim, you really did well.”
“Director, come here for a moment? I have a lot to say about the animation you made.”
“Did you like the animation we and the staff made?!”
“In the bad way....”
“Ah.”
The director’s expression darkened rapidly, as if he had met the Grim Reaper.
The director and I went to a corner of the building where there were few people.
“While recording, I kept thinking....”
“Yes, yes.”
“Can we really make money with something like that?”
The quality of the animation itself was excellent.
It showed the vibrant colors and dynamic pictures pouring money.
Separately from that, the story itself was......
“Romantic story is good. Good..... There was demand for such stories in the old days too. But why is it a story where a woman and a woman fall in love, not a man and a woman!”
“..... .....”
“I’m not human, so I don’t feel disgusted. Right, I’m not human! But animations are popular, right? Can it be popular with this kind of content?!”
I poured out the words I had been holding back during the recording like a flood.
“Since Sanbeom-nim only lived in Jangsan, you don’t know much about the world these days.”
“Then, while I wasn’t looking, there became many wives like Munjong’s second wife, and those women would enjoy this animation?”
“This is why tigers are strong but lack cunning....”
“Say it again.”
My fingernails split, and black claws poked out.
“It’s like saying to make up for each other’s shortcomings like Yu Bi and Zhuge Liang and help each other. Hahaha....!”
This fox thing lives on empty calories.
“So there are people who enjoy animations with this content?”
“Of course! In faraway neighboring Japan, such animations are already the trend.”
“Japan... a country that invaded our country twice?”
“Yes, yes.”
Importing something famous in Japan and spreading it popularly in our country.....
“Today, I have to do some patriotism for once in a long time.”
“What? What does that mean...... Wait, why are you opening your mouth?!”
“It’s shameful to be swayed by money and cooperate with the pro-Japanese faction’s schemes. I will become upright again by eating you.”
The will of the concubine continues.
“No, that’s not it at all! This is, I mean, it’s in the realm of taste!”
I closed my mouth after hearing those words.
It was because the first words I heard from Hyung Baekho when I first came down to the human world were ‘Respect people’s tastes.’
“Taste, yes, you have to respect tastes. Gumiho originally lures the opposite sex. You have a really unusual taste.”
Well. The world is wide, and there are many phantoms besides humans. It’s fine to meet one gumiho with such a peculiar taste. Hmm.
“Since it’s come to this, I should formally inform you. Creative works like animations or stories where a woman and a woman fall in love are called ‘yuri.’ It’s a beautiful genre where girls act lovey-dovey.”
“I didn’t want to know that.”
Occasionally, very rarely, I saw girls teasing each other in the deep parts of Jangsan.
Every time, I didn’t catch them and passed by.
It wasn’t that I didn’t want to disturb their time.
It was because of the intense yang qi that burned hotly next to them, I couldn’t approach.
I had never known that even with yin and yin combined, such strong yang qi could come out.
“By now, the recording should be almost over, shall we go back?”
“Yeah, I want to finish quickly and go home too.”
The director and I returned to the recording studio.
“NG. How many times are you shaking here!”
“It’s weird to ask an animator to be the voice actor in the first place!”
“But we can’t get a male voice actor here either. Just do it.”
Contrary to the director’s thought that the recording was over, it was still not properly recording even the second line.
“Oh, it’s almost time for dinner. Shall we eat and come back?”
Dinner? With 3 million won on the line, how can I swallow food!
“I’ll do it.”
I pushed open the door of the soundproof room where I was recording and stepped inside.
The staff who were forcibly brought out because of me had a bewildered expression.
“Hey, you cute girls, want to play together?”
“Hua, huaaaaa! Man, man......”
“Unfortunately, we only came out to play the two of us.”
“Hey, don’t say that. Let’s play together.”
Using thick male voices and slender female voices freely, I recorded.
Finally, I had to record lines where both man and woman speak at the same time.
The notes written on paper say ‘Record separately then overlap sounds’ but
“That is, let’s play together!”
“Stop it!”
I did it with skill. This is me, Jangsanbeom the Mountain Lord. Hoot!
The surrounding staff were looking up at me as if I were a phantom beast.
Being the target of fear all the time and then receiving this gaze isn’t bad.