The 4th | Casting and Design Diagram - Sound Director Hiroki Kikuta Interview (4/4)

Kikuta Hiromi (Hiromi Kimata)
Acoustic director (Musical sound room). Since the 1990s he has been involved in dubbing overseas movies and dramas and since 2000 he has been active in the forefront as a sound director who is in charge of casting and studio direction. In the major work in charge in recent years, I am handling a lot of animations such as "Osomatsu-san", "HI-QUE !!", "Welcome to the Ballroom", Games "Angelique", "Golden Corda", "Dream Color Cast".

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Interview with Aco Director Hiroki Kikuta (4 times in total)
1st | Voice Actor and Play, Anime and Game
The 2nd | "The Golden Corda" Casting Secret Story
The 3rd | Balance of color and space ~ The play is three-dimensional and color tone
The 4th | Casting and design drawing

- I think that I am dealing with many voice actors so far, but what kind of person do you think are suitable for voice actors?

Kikuta　I think at least I basically like people who like play, people who are interested in play. I like animation only, it is said that it is a good voice from around, not only. later,People who are not resistant to exposing themselves, and those who are living properly in daily life.Laugh when laughing, get angry when you get angry, cry when you are sad, be happy if you are happy. It is a person who can move feelings properly. In addition, a person who knows ordinary.

- What does it mean to know normal?

Kikuta　To know the reactions and emotions of most people in the world. For example, if you wake up in the morning, "Good morning." I apologize if I do bad things, I think I feel sorry. I will mostly appreciate if you do something. It is better not to cross the red light, and shrines and temples often become subtle feelings. Wall dong is not something everyone does on a daily basis, and most people say "thank you" when receiving a gift for a close friend, and the response "I do not care like this" is not common. It is such feeling.
fundamentally,Works are appealing to heart chords through experiences of those seeing itSo I think that it is important to get some sympathy. That's why you have to know the standards of the world. I know the "thank you" standard of that standard, but dare to say "I do not need this". This will be there.

- On the surface it looks like tsundere.

Kikuta　Tsundere has "Thank you" basically, but it is "I do not need it" because I can not say it "thank you" there. I have to know that. Since there is no "thank you" from the beginning "I do not need it, idiot" is not an arrangement, I think that it is not a tsundere.

--I see!

Kikuta　After that, I think that my preference is good. Do you like the music by listening to music or not? Whether it can be said that "I like this" or "I do not like it" instead of matching people around. "Everyone likes, well then I do like myself" (laugh).
"This song is sold, you understood, I understand, but I do not agree with myself." It is important to have yourself properly. This is the standard of the world that eight people out of ten are saying yes. After understanding that, express it straight or attack it obliquely from above. I think that it is good to express the work that was good for that work.

- But, on the other hand, what kind of person do you think is suitable for sound director and production site staff?

Kikuta　After all, liking to make things. Be aware that you are working properly (working people), do not mind talking with people. Since every position is a basic collaborative work in the field, there is no choice not to be involved with people. I like animation and games, it's tough to just motivate them to like voice actors. No matter how you like your voice actor, you must not do it, because it is often that opinions clash in order to improve your work.

- I am familiar with the previous "knowing ordinary".

Kikuta　Many people think that sound director is very elaborate and have power, but there is no power (laugh). Acoustic director is not only a position to take responsibility about the sound surroundings but it will not be established unless there are excellent staff who will embody the direction that I want to make.
Things to do are diverse, but I think that it is important to communicate with a lot of people involved in the work, have themselves properly, understand ordinary things and work steadily. I will.

- When directing in the studio, what is worrying about communication?

Kikuta　That's a very difficult question. (For a moment's discourse). I am changing how to tell by partner.
The way of the direction is quite different depending on the work and the members, so it is a question to be asked but I can not answer. I only do it in a sense.

- How about a case where you are a well-known performer, but let's make a play that you have not heard?

Kikuta　I will continue to give expectation, dense life, mission, role and pressure (laugh). Well, it is a joke, but since the actor is a gathering of people with high ambition, we will challenge boldly for such a role I have never done. I will make a base together so that it will be enjoyable and unbearable.
For example, in Mr. Makoto Saito's "Tsumasa Ashi" of "Dream Color Cast" (* 1), in order to create an atmosphere where roles are not in contact with the main team, we can shift the position of the reading point, I asked them to change, and I had them do the work which I do not know but I heard and played a feeling of getting caught something. By doing so, it was aimed to impress a little unpleasant singer's feeling.

- This is the main drama 3 part 20 chapters of the game!

Kikuta　If the performer is given such "mission", there are really many people who can burnIt is. If it is the same "dream color cast", Yankee of Mr. Daisuke Hirakawa (* Masaki Akedo) is also so.

- I thought this is Mr. Hirakawa !?

Kikuta　Because it is Gunma (laugh). Regarding Mr. Takashi Yamashita, I had a dramatic play. Various things to other members ...... It is very important that you give missions to each one so that you can inflate themselves so that you can inflate themselves, and that is the real thrill of making it together .
While clarifying the way of "Genesis" for "Yume color company", I will direct it based on the explanation that it is such a character. While taking communication, it is time to take the time to make it together, leaving the rest.

- Do you make characters together?

Kikuta　Even if it says, "Prince-sama anyhow", even though the image of the prince you imagine is truly each. So try to share the image as possible.
For example ... ... I return to the story of Yumkee of Gunma, (laugh). It is as it is in the local but I have a complex in Tokyo. That 's why I'm ringing like that. That item is self defense for him. It is a symbol of loser and complex. Imagine such an interpretation happily, share it, add plus α image only, tell it.
Then, from that point, the performer has already expanded it, and as a result, a unique character is finished. The work from the actor has already been done since arranging the place. That's the best job of sound director. It is spending much time surprisingly.

- I think that the game is recorded often by one person, but how will the production direction change?

Kikuta　There is not much change in directing method as it is a game, but in the case of games, what kind of system uses the spoken dialogue and how the game production will be applied is recorded I do not know at the stage. I can not see the finished form, so there is a bit scary place.

(※ 1) "Yume color cast" ... .... SEGAз musical rhythm game by Rantis. The hero becomes a screenwriter of the musical theater company "Yume color company" and weave the dreams with the casters. Takuma Haya played by Mr. Makoto Saito presides over the rival theater company "Genesis" of the dream color company. Mr. Yamashita Daisuke, Mr. Daisuke Hirakawa, Mr. Shin Furukawa, Mr. Kenichi Suzumura, of cast of Genesis was in charge of casting by Mr. Kikuta.

- Is there anything different about the role of sound supervisor in men's work and women's work?

Kikuta　No, because that is the view of the world of the work. Since the absolute plan of animation made by director exists properly, if you make a play conforming there, you will not be out of the world view of the work, so you do not need to be conscious of it .
If the blueprint is properly done, there is no mistake for a house to build.For example, I do not know if the design plan is a design drawing that does not know whether to want Japanese style or Western style, but what I want, what I want to do, how to make it If there is something lost, It is natural, but first let me clarify.

- In the case of animation and games, are there any cases where the design drawings themselves are different?

Kikuta　In the case of games, regardless of the scenario before or after the scenario, it is difficult because there is a case where it is sought for a special line of only one window such as "Please only make this atmosphere ~ ~ ~". Finally, it is impossible to imagine the completed form when combined, so the performers may be confused.

- The flow of feelings before and after the scenario is not understood, does it?

Kikuta　So, I think that it is work of the sound director in the game to arrange it so that one window can be made from the entire story. Since it can be a bluff,Take the actor to get the best speech without hesitationThat's it.

- The way and manner of correspondence seems to be different depending on the performer.

Kikuta　Since game is also a lot of speech, I am planning to give consideration so that the performer does not feel shin. There are also types you'd like to go to where you can go without a break, and there are also some types that you may want to take breaks in detail. It is also work of acoustic director to judge there.

- The role played by sound director is great.

Kikuta　Especially in the case of recording games, it will be a lonely job. So in the studio, I am watching the whole situation that today I can not go today I am a bit weak in concentration. The rest is how to retake. Since I want to reduce the burden on the throat as much as possible, I want to tell in a clear way to understand what I would like to recode and do not want to retake many times. If you retake 10 times, it will increase 10 words and I think the performers will get confused.
Including that kind of thingIt is also very important to direct the site itself.I think that it is director, including that. I think that being asked to do sound director anything including animation and games is asked including such role.