📣FIRST WAVE CAST CALLING - ULTRA DANGANRONPA: Heaven of Despair [Web Series] -Rei Akiyoshi Audition-
projectalpha22 for Rei Akiyoshi, the Super High School Level Judgement
Rei Akiyoshi is a stoic and quiet individual. He prefers to keep himself out of the spotlight, and occasionally wander around in his own thought. He is an observer, not a speaker, and daydreaming is a very blatant trait for him, which many times have led him to be disconnected from the world around him, which often times annoy the others who were trying to speak to him.
Though he is perceptive and intelligent, he lacks the initiative and is constantly challenged by his own self-doubts, especially when everyone is looking up to him for guidance.
Despite the pressure of carrying the faith of their lives in his hands, he will remain calm and fight on while at the same time battling with his own inner madness.
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Rei has a medium, to slightly deep, low voice, with a natural calming tone, almost monotone, and usually filled with a hint of indecisiveness and curiosity. (If you need an example, I'd say it is similar to a lot of Johnny Yong Bosch's performances (closet would be, say, Yu Narukami). But don't worry it isn't *exactly* like Johnny Yong Bosch!)
He will spend the majority of his time talking to himself in his inner thought. His stoic demeanor is hard to break and he will remain in control in most situations.
If you're going to take this role, expect a *lot* of work coming your way!
Some examples (Not necessarily the exact voice that I wanted, just an idea of the area I wanted the voice to be in).
https://youtu.be/ZOE0oka233M (Just Yu Narukami)
Yeah there's a lot of Yu Narukamis, but that doesn't mean you have to have the *exact* same voice as him, any kind of voices you think would be fitting for his character are free to submit!
(inner thought) "This is bad...! If I don't turn this situation around... There must be a way... There *has* to be a way!)
(you know Danganronpa you get the idea) "You've got that wrong! / That's wrong!"
(lost and confused/defeated) "My... talent? Right. It's... I... I don't know."
(dumbfounded) "That sounds... interesting."
(indecisive/nervous) "Are you sure that would work?"
(impressed) "You made these stories? Wow... I can't believe I'd actually get to meet you, let alone in person like this."
(stating to self) "Maybe this is my chance... My one last chance to make things right."
Optional but also quite important: Choose one of the character profiles (or more than one of them, your choice) and narrate it out from start to finish. You don't have to do it in one go, you can make a cut between pauses and take a short breather as long as they're not noticeable. Follow the link to the character page or if you're already in the Discord server, you can go there instead: https://heavennozetsubou.tumblr.com/cast
I'll be paying attention to this one a lot.
The performance was quite good! Though there are something that can be changed. First off, you were going through the profile narration(s) too fast, slow can use with some slow down, you should have more pauses between sentences, a second or two to raise the tension a bit, he's not racing with time here so give him a couple of breather to collect his thought. And for the tone, it's pretty decent, but I could use a slightly deeper/lower voice, and put less confidence in his delivery, make him sound more indecisive, more gentle, more monotone, but not too much that he becomes a robot, just the right amount of emotion put into his lines, he's not a man of expression after all but he's not heartless either. These would be pretty difficult to pin down at first especially with just the surface information that I could give at the moment, but you show promise, so keep it up! I'll gather more results and try my best to make things easier for you guys.