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Volume 1: Chapter 64 April Fool's Day Prank Project [Please Subscribe Now]
After the show started, everyone had to admit that ARTSVION had unearthed a gem.
He's quick-witted, outgoing, and can handle any topic thrown his way, not to mention his face that can charm countless young girls.
And most importantly, he's bold. Not only does he dare to joke with his seniors, but he also showed absolutely no nervousness after learning that the show was broadcast live.
A newcomer is qualified if they can do any of the above, and when all these advantages are concentrated in one person, it would be unfair if they didn't become popular.
Moreover, they have ARTSVION, a giant in the voice acting industry, backing them up. It's obvious they won't lack resources in the future.
Putting everything else aside, how many people can appear on Ayane Sakura's show right after their debut?
As for Shimizu Toru, this can be considered the first performance record that can be found by others. The minor roles he played before were not known to many people.
Even Shinsengumi Ibunroku is a niche anime with a level of obscurity comparable to Aine x Riki, and the comments under the Bilibili theatrical version are almost entirely from female fans of BL (Boys' Love).
His first appearance was quite successful. Judging from the real-time feedback, people have high expectations for him, and most of the comments are encouraging.
—When he becomes like Emperor Jun, playing six lead roles a year, the tone will probably change.
As the saying goes, everyone has their own Jun-ou and Akari Kito. He doesn't want to be disliked like that in the future, so he has recently been trying to develop a new voice, but so far there has been no success.
Having been tricked by Sakura-san, but unable to get rid of her, Shimizu Toru could only transfer her dissatisfaction to others.
So after returning home and having lunch, he immediately started broadcasting.
The live stream title was very straightforward—April Fool's Day Prank Operation!
"Hello everyone, good afternoon! I'm Tohru Hanyu, a virtual transfer student belonging to 2434~"
Viewers were initially looking forward to seeing if Shimizu Toru would become like Kenjiro and Suzuki Katsu, turning into Shimizu Toruko.
We were so disappointed when the show started. We'd already taken our pants off, and this is what you're showing us?
"As everyone knows, today is April Fool's Day. I started preparing for today last week, so please stay tuned!"
As Shimizu Toru spoke, he dragged a picture of Takamiya Rion from the resource library to the top left corner of the screen, then took out his phone and changed his LINE name to Kirigaya Kazuto and his profile picture to Kirito.
As a devotee of the One God, he naturally imitated the other's voice, which was his main method of pranking today.
He cleared his throat and tried to say a famous line in Kirito's voice: "As long as I'm alive, I won't let my teammates die in front of me."
After accurately locating the voice, I decisively dialed Rion Takamiya's number.
Jin Hanhan, who was in a different room on the same floor, was Googling how to increase battle time when he suddenly saw a voice call from Kirito.
My mind went blank for a moment, but my hand instinctively tapped the answer button, and then I heard Kirito's signature voice: "Moshi moshi~ Is this Rion-chan?"
"Ah—Hi hi hi! I'm Rion Takamiya~"
When she heard that the other person wasn't calling her by her real name, she realized it must be a prank, and she couldn't help but start thinking about who among the people she knew would imitate Matsuoka.
If it's Hiroshi Kamiya, then there's an 80% chance it's Kuzuha; if it's Akio Otsuka, then it's possible it's Belmond.
But as for Matsuoka, it seems that no one in Nijisanji can imitate him like that. Could it be someone from outside the company?
"Good afternoon, Rion-chan~ Could you please help me with a short survey?"
"No problem! As long as it's Kirito-kun, you can ask anything~"
On the other end, Shimizu Toru looked at the screen full of "Who are you?" and smiled slightly. Heh~ Now you've seen how terrifying a professional voice actor can be, haven't you?
"If Asuna and the person you hate the most both fell into the river, who would you save first?"
"Huh? Such a good thing? Asuna is the person I hate the most!"
"Why? Did Asuna do anything to upset you?"
Upon hearing this, Rion Takamiya had a pretty good idea that it was Toru Shimizu who was messing with her, because he knew very well that she disliked Asuna.
Asking this question on purpose was her way of giving me a hint: "Because you like her, Kirito-kun, that's why I hate her the most!"
"That's a pity, we can't talk anymore, otherwise Asuna won't let me into bed tonight."
After finishing his sentence, Shimizu Toru hung up the phone immediately. If they continued talking, the chaotic scene would extend to the virtual characters.
Looking at the screen full of "www", he curled his lip and said, "This prank plan had a slight mishap. Let's try someone else."
Then he hyped it up, changed his profile picture to Celty from Durarara!!, and changed his name to Miyuki Sawashiro.
That's right, the second person to be pranked was Yu Yang Lili, who likes older women. Although the two had already been intimate, he felt that it would be difficult for her to change her fetish.
The call was answered immediately, and Shimizu Toru spoke in Sawashiro Miyuki's older sister voice, "Moshi moshi~ Guess who I am?"
"Hiss—Eh! Uh, Miyuki-san? No, no, no! It can't be her! But, what if it is!?"
Yuhi Lily sounded much more swayed than Takamiya Rion had been earlier. Anyone with a vivid imagination could already picture her inner turmoil.
"Hey~ you guessed wrong, it's me, Toru Hanyu!"
The first half of this sentence was spoken in Miyuki Sawashiro's voice, but the second half was spoken in a business-like voice, a significant difference.
Even Lily in the Sunset was stunned: "Huh!? Tou, you have this kind of voice! I want to hear it! Keep listening!"
"Not yet, I have to keep messing with other people. Next up is Suzuka-san, bye~"
"Suzuka-san? Utako? You can even have a boyish voice!?"
Lily, who immediately guessed what he was going to do to her, pleaded sweetly, "Let me hear it first~ Just one sentence, just one sentence!"
Unable to do anything with her, Shimizu Toru cleared her throat and said in a boyish voice that sounded only seven or eight years old, "Onee-chan~"
"Ugh! That voice is too much! Shiko's going to die—"
"Is it really that serious? I'll be careful later. If she loses too much blood, remember to call an ambulance."
Shimizu Toru had previously obtained the contact information of six people from Jiang, and this is still less than half of them.
It's a rare opportunity to showcase my extensive voice repertoire and, incidentally, to confirm the rumors that Nijisanji is a voice acting agency. How can I not work hard?
So when he called out to Suzuka Utako in a boyish voice, "Onee-chan,"...
A girl who was watching the live stream and was going to collaborate with him had her nosebleed drip onto her keyboard.
"Aaaaaah—my newly bought keyboard!"
"Hinano, what are you doing? You scared me so much I almost got shot in the head."
"Don't believe her, she's just trying to shift the blame!"
Volume 1: Chapter 65 The Cover Song Group is Formed [Ten Updates, Please Subscribe]
Shimizu Toru's April Fool's Day prank was a huge success.
While everyone else was gender-swapping, he was the only one genuinely trying to deceive people, and he succeeded in deceiving more than one person.
The audience was quite surprised by his rich vocal range, and some have begun to speculate whether he is a lower-tier voice actor.
As is often the case, good things come in pairs. While his prank plan was successful, the permanent cover song group he had planned to create was also successfully formed.
After privately messaging Lvxian and Xuhaichuang and receiving responses that everyone was interested in joining, he directly created a small group on Discord.
[Toru Hanyu: Ahem, so let's officially begin the first meeting of this group. The topic is—what should the group name be?]
[Green Fairy: They haven't even come up with a name yet? This smells like a amateur production team. I think I've gotten on the wrong ship.]
[Sunset Lily: It's too late to escape now~]
[The bed between Dog and Pig: You can call it whatever you want, as long as I don't have to come up with the name]
[Toru Hanyu: You're such a lazy dog. Is this how you guard the gates in hell?]
[Machida Chima: How about picking one character from each person's name? That seems a bit too long?]
This is actually a solution. The delinquent group is actually called "Fengdao Jingming Qiange". They are called the delinquent group because they covered a song called "Delinquent Boys and Delinquent Girls".
[Gentian Lord: Then let's pick one letter from each person's name, the first letter?]
[Green Fairy: rimhyr, what can you possibly spell out with that?]
[Toru Hanyu: Let's lean towards the intended meaning, like Eute?]
A-Chuang, Chima, and Asahi Nancy form a group called Nornis, which is also one of the muses.
Later, Nancy Asahi retired and graduated in 23, and the group became a duo – this person may not be familiar to everyone, but debuted in the same class as Chihaya Nishizono.
[戌亥床: Among the Muses, is she the one who governs music? That would be quite fitting.]
[Sunset Lily: It's just that you're the only guy in the group, it feels a bit out of place.]
[Toru Hanyu: What are you trying to say??]
[Sunset Lily: Hehehe~ How about we wear skirts together when we're making the PV?]
[Machida Chima: Yes, yes! I'm the first to agree!]
[Green Fairy: +1, I want to see it too]
[Xu-Hai Bed: +2, remember to send me a copy when it's finished]
【Gentian Lord: +3, would you like me to provide some materials?】
[Sunset Lily: OK~ Five votes to one, after a unanimous decision in the meeting, Tomo in the PV will wear women's clothing with us.]
[Green Fairy: Yay!]
[Toru Hanyu: ...Never mind, let's talk about what our first choice should be.]
Anyway, it's just in the PV. Do you think they would dare to dress up as women in real life while they're sleeping?
[Machida Chima: Speaking of April, it's definitely that song, isn't it?]
[戌亥床: It's that time of year again when we shed tears for Kaoru and Kousei]
[Toru Hanyu: Speaking of which, I just met Ayane Sakura today, but unfortunately I didn't get to meet Risa Taneda.]
In "Your Lie in April", Ms. Sakura voiced the childhood friend of the male protagonist, Kousei Arima, in the drama. Her character's name is Tsubaki Sawabe.
[Midori: Huh!? Wait, why are you meeting with Ms. Sakura??]
[戌亥床: Yuzuru-senpai, actually that Shimizu Toru who's trending number one today, didn't you guys know?]
[Sunset Lily: I do know, but Inui, how do you know?]
Feeling like Lily was about to burst into her bedroom and interrogate her any second, Shimizu Toru quickly typed an explanation: "I saw them at the company when they first debuted."
[Rindan-kun: Just got back from Twitter. By the way, Toru-kun, do you have a girlfriend now? If so, would you mind having another one?]
[Machida Chima: She is indeed very beautiful, but she's not my type. I prefer someone like Belmond.]
[Green Fairy: Little girls all like older men, it's totally understandable]
[Toru Hanyu: I only told you because I thought you guys would definitely recognize me when we're recording songs in the future, so please don't spread it around.]
[Sunset Lily: What will you do if there are offline events or live performances?]
[戌亥床: Wear a mask, right? One of those fox masks that covers the upper half of your face]
[Gentian Lord: The more you try to hide it, the more curious people will become, right? Anyway, quite a few people already know, so I might as well just make it public internally.]
[Toru Hanyu: Let's take it one step at a time. It's better to let everyone know one more day later.]
[Green Fairy: Getting back to the main topic, besides "If We Can Shine," are there any other nominated songs?]
[Sunset Lily: A little-known Mother Goose rhyme? It feels like a song that would be perfect for a group collaboration]
[Machida Chima: Koi-on to Amazora? AAA songs should be suitable and can bring out our strengths]
AAA was a Japanese group consisting of both men and women. However, due to a scandal involving the leader assaulting someone, coupled with the departure of a female member after she got married and had a child, the group eventually ceased its activities.
There's a famous scene in this song, right before the final chorus, where the choreographer makes a dance move that looks like stomping on a cigarette butt.
Image: "Rubbing rubbing~", Location: "Images/1752854020-100444248-113612268.jpg"
Besides "Koi-on to Amazora", another classic song by this group is "Kaze no Kakero wa Kakero no Kiseki". If you haven't heard it, I suggest you give it a listen.
[Toru Hanyu: I really like the fireworks of the Third Generation JSB, could you add them?]
"JSB" is an abbreviation; the full name in English is too long. You can usually find it by searching for "Third Generation Fireworks." It's a classic song that won a record award.
[Green Fairy: Okay~ That makes three songs tentatively selected. Everyone remember to make time to record them.]
It's no wonder he's the organizer of so many projects; the list of participants has only just been finalized, and he's already urging people to record songs.