Juni Taisen Abridged - Ep. 1

Juni Taisen Abridged - Ep. 1

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Re-update update: original schedule kinda bit the dust. Anyways Boar is still open! Feel free to drop an audition or email me if you are at all interested. Drop by the 
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fvYPLVj5KAPc9-ihVnU1sFGyNI-OZEGSpN2NNu5CNug/edit?usp=sharing
for updates


Boar is open for auditions once more.

Hello all,

I am currently in the process of looking for more Voice Actors to *refill 1 role (1F) in a, for fun, anime abridged version of the
show Juni Taisen (zodiac wars).

Pending Name: The Holy Birthday War(s)

This will be the third time I have needed to recast this role. As such the original schedule is way behind now. Would be looking for a tentative dubbing of the lines within the next 2 weeks at the latest, the sooner the better. If you are interested and want to see the script in full, send me an email (my name in lowercase at gmail). If you have any questions, email me as well, as that is the fastest way to communicate at this stage.

The fastest route is:
-Do a sample dub and/or give me links to other works I can use as reference.
-Email me your interest, at which point I'll send you the full script to review
-We set a time to talk briefly (15 mins), and determine if we can get a good fit.
-We move forward with the dub asap

I will be using google docs and email to spread scripts and other information.

There is an old casting call video on youtube, bunch of somewhat promotional amv, an
undubbed sample video of the full abridgment, a full colour coded script
with timestamps, and individual scripts available as resources, alongside other little segment videos.



Further information detailing the above can be found on the audition doc (just scroll down 'alot'):
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fvYPLVj5KAPc9-ihVnU1sFGyNI-OZEGSpN2NNu5CNug/edit?usp=sharing




Synopsis:

12 warriors arrive in an abandoned city to partake in the legendary
birthday party to end all birthday parties, dubbed the Holy Birthday
War. Only the last one alive will be crowned ultimate Birthday
girl/boy/champion.

Send me a message/email (can't post email directly here but you should be able to find it) if you are interested and are unable to submit a sample within by the deadline (willing to consider based on any other work you might have that could give me an idea if you might be a good fit for the role).

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Project Roles: Boar Monkey Bunny
Voice Actor
Voice Actor
Boar
closed
Unpaid
cast offsite

A woman in her 20’s with mid-low vocal range; flavours of seriousness, sarcasm, nervousness in her voice


Her Father was the winner of the last war. She has been raised by her very rich and noble family to participate in this war in his stead (live personalized military training). She has had a very sheltered family-centric life (mother-dad-sister). As such, she is constantly trying to Live up to family (specifically father’s) expectations, yet gets sidetracked by her own feelings/actions. For example her place in this war was given to her younger sister after she had failed to kill one of her training opponents (the flashback of which is 10:14⇒10:28). In order to get her place back, and be chosen as Boar, she chose to psychologically destroy her sister into committing suicide (happens prior to the script). Throughout the script there is a running gag foreshadowing her inevitable premature death. She picks up on these clues, but is unable to do anything about them in the end. Even though she is taking the event extremely seriously, her mind tends to wander on its own.


More interested in voicetypes when you give a sample. Following the outlines is great, but I'm really looking to get an idea how you 'could' make the lines sound. Feel free to do 2 takes, or more if you want, and/or to do different lines in different voices as you run through the 3 listed. Greater, more understood, context for the lines would be provided in followup auditions.


I am listing Monkey and Boar. But I am really only looking for 1 VA for 'one' of the two roles. I have a VA who was going to do both, but has asked to do just one. So I am posting here with the intent to find someone to fill one of the  two roles, then the existing VA remains on for the other. I'm doing it this way because I want to allow each VA twice as many chances to be a good fit for their role. Basically I'll look at Monkey and Boar as a single entry, and choose one person from both sets of auditions. I highly recommend auditioning for both roles, that way I know you are willing to accept either one, and it gives me twice as many samples of your voicetype to try and match you as a good candidate to take one of the roles.


  • Boar:

    -starts going over things in her head while peering at the situation around her-

    (Soliloquy: trying to think calmly, serious, somewhat nervous but trying to think rationally and figure out a strategy; for the first part simply run through the names "lancer...saber" fairly quickly without pausing much inbetween, like you were going down a checklist)

    Lancer, Saber, Archer, Assasin, Rider, Berserker, Castor....I must determine who the real 7 main characters are amongst this rabble.

  • 3:13⇒ 3:18

    Boar:

    -While the title “The holy birthday War” is on the screen and the music is blaring-

    -Boar is alarmed, it was announced that 10 people were contestants and her picture was not among the 10 faces in the picture shown in the opening-

    (act rushed, alarmed, stunned, dumbfounded; try ‘not’ to sound angry/frustrated yet)

    Wait, 10 contestants…!?!?


    3:14

    -sound effect abruptly stops the song-

    (anger starting to seep into her dialogue now)

    ...shouldn't I be in that picture?......Hello? I can't be the only one seeing -gets cut off by the video somewhere around here- this right now.

  • 12:38

    Boar:

    -said during the black, we hear one last thought from Boar after she had been stabbed through the chest/lungs about 1 minute ago-

    (She isn’t verbally saying this with her mouth, she is thinking this. Assume she isn’t dead yet and can still say words clearly in her mind, albeit with some delay/struggle in terms of pacing rather than pronunciation. These are dying thoughts rather than dying breaths/words)

    (very much words of reflection)

    D.....daddy.....did I...did I make you proud?



    9:06

    Boar:

    (soliloquy)

    Thankfully it’s just 1 on 1. I got this. Daddy always taught me to (use a really goony stupid voice that seems extremely out of place) "keep both hands free to deal with enemies appearing from any direction at any time"


Voice Actor
Voice Actor
Monkey
closed
Unpaid
cast offsite

Monkey is the pacifist in the actual show, she is trying to end the war without anyone having to die. The contrast here is that in this parody she is simply interested in partying and enjoying herself like she’s at the greatest and most legendary birthday party ever. A very eccentric, positive sounding/acting girl in her 20’s. Her lines alternate between a positive/eccentric/high-pitched generic girly sounding/acting highschool girl, and between lines that are very mature and heavy in sexual connotations. She is acting immature playing innocent girl, and then acting like a sexual predator the other times. She develops an obsession with the bunny early on due to how he looks/acts.

Lines alternate between high pitched eccentric girl, and lower pitched sexualized womanly.



Monkey has 3 or 4 more little lines like the above ones. What I have listed is over half her script though, so expect twice as much of the above at most for her full script. Most of her comments have sexual connotation to them. The words themselves in her script are like the above, they are PG rated, but the meaning behind them deserves a more mature rating.

*the below is repeated on Boar's script, and vice versa*
More interested in voicetypes when you give a sample. Following the outlines is great, but I'm really looking to get an idea how you 'could' make the lines sound. Feel free to do 2 takes, or more if you want, and/or to do different lines in different voices as you run through the 3 sets listed. Greater, more understood, context for the lines would be provided in followup auditions.

I am listing Monkey and Boar. But I am really only looking for 1 VA for 'one' of the two roles. I have a VA who was going to do both, but has asked to do just one. So I am posting here with the intent to find someone to fill one of the  two roles, then the existing VA remains on for the other. I'm doing it this way because I want to allow each VA twice as many chances to be a good fit for their role. Basically I'll look at Monkey and Boar as a single entry, and choose one person from both sets of auditions. I highly recommend auditioning for both roles, that way I know you are willing to accept either one, and it gives me twice as many samples of your voicetype to try and match you as a good candidate to take one of the roles.

  • 0:38⇒ 0:42

    Lip Sync:

    Monkey:

    -Raises hand and asks bunny a question-

    (higher pitched, inquisitive kinda sexualized remark)

    Are you here for meeee?

    -An alternative line to the above-

    (voice akin to how a wide-eyed excited child would voice it if they were handed a present and looking up at their parent)

    Is it my birthdayyy already?

  • ~7:05

    Monkey

    -monkey calls out from offscreen while the music has been blaring for a couple seconds now-

    (very excited sounding, very innocent sounding)

    Ohhh! Lets play Birthday games! Raise your hand if you wanna visit the rabbit farm!

  • 7:47

    Monkey:

    (deeper voice, nagging sounding)

    Cmon mister wabbbbbit.

    (normal eccentric high pitched, a huge contrast to last line and the sexualized lines)

    Let's play ‘animal farm’.

    (sexualized, deeper voice)

    I wanna see what your hiding under that puffy tails of yours...



    8:05

    Monkey:

    -while waving at bunny right before the explosion-

    (very energetic and positive sounding, like she’s a kid calling her friend over to play a game)

    Mr Bunnnnny!! Over here!

Voice Actor
Voice Actor
Bunny
closed
Unpaid
Role assigned to: RianBCK

Bunny (Male) *Note: Female VA are welcome to audition for this role*
Bunny is the loveable psychotic rabbit. He’s a grown man (20-29 mbe) dressed in a bunny suit, wielding 2 very evil looking long-knives. For this abridgement he has a very dynamic emotional state. He’s very childish in his temperaments. For example he’ll quickly switch from anger, confusion, happiness, timidness, and other anxious states. He talks to himself alot, or at least he seems to be. In reality he’s talking to the deadguy he had killed who is now his zombie minion of sorts. Very unstable, his vocal tones switch very suddenly. Picture him as having multiple personalities whom he switches to and from, but he remains childish throughout. An introverted manchild, who thinks aloud, is a good summation. Very mentally unstable personality.

This will be a difficult role to fill, and will require getting an idea of the range of a VA's voice. Once that is known, it will require individual/personalized followup on best practice per line given your range. VA contacted will be asked to switch between ranges for different sets of lines. i.e. doing your deepest pitched voice possible, and then doing your highest pitched voice possible.

Comfort Level: All his lines are PG rated if not E for everyone. No swearing whatsoever.
He quotes Charles Dickens 'a christmas tale' 2 times and says the lines of the nursery rhyme little rabbit foo foo. Laughing, screeching/shouting required in places.
He has about 1/2 a page of lines (3 pages long with my notes and spacing)


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Line 1:
++++++
I would like you to voice this using as many distinct sounding voices as possible. Feel free to pause after each line/period. You can do 2+ voices per sentence/segment or 1 voice per sentence and pause then start a different voice. Its freestyle.
Try to add in a possessive psychotic laugh somewhere into line 1, if not all over if you wish.
There's no right way to do this.

++++++
Line 2:
++++++
Picture the bunny swaying his head back and forth. And as he sways to the right he is saying/singing "foooooo". Then he swings back to the left he says "fooooo" again; repeats x3
Its a very childish type of scene in reaction to someone asking what bunny's name is. Try a run through it using a monotone, or mellow version of him saying the lines as if his eyes and mind were fixated on something else. You can try a more upbeat kind of childish take on it as well. Would like to avoid cartoony sounding effects
++++++
Line 3:
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For the first part he's kinda mumbling/muttering and talking to himself, he's not necessarily whispering though, he's saying the words clearly.
Then the second part he charges forward in combat mode, emitting a very possessive evil screeching/sneering kind of voice. Think angry deep sounding gollum from lord of the rings.

  • 0:04⇒ 0:17

    Bunny:

    -During the Black just after the disclaimer-

    Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail.


    0:18⇒ 0:26

    -Shows dead body + re:zero sound-

    Mind!

    I don't mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a door-nail.


    0:27⇒whatever

    -Lip Sync: begins the lines when his lips start moving ⇒ Lines end sometime after the closeup of blood dripping from sword-

    I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadliest piece of ironmongery in the trade.

  • 0:59⇒ 1:09

    Bunny:

    *dancing/swaying back and forth*

    Lip Sync: one ‘foo’ per directional swing

    Fooooooo FOoooooo FOooooooo FOoooooooooo FOoooooo Fooooooooooooo…

    -offscreen now, the words continue in the background-

    Foooooo Foooooo Foooooo Foooooooo Fooooooo Foooooo

  • Bunny

    (His tone changes to a more passive one, then gradually he gets more eccentric and excited, but it’s more evil sounding as time goes on. He is humming/singing/voicing a nursery rhyme, mainly just say the words though rather than making it sound like a rhyme)

    Litttle rabbit fooo fooo hopping through the forest. Scooping up the field mice and bopping them on the head. and dooown came the fairy god mother.....

    (very forced, deep sounding, angry, gollum from lord of the rings kind of screech)  ... aND SHEEEE SAID:

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