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Have you ever watched an anime and wondered what would happen if I got to voice act in an anime?
TheAnimeMen compete to become voice actors for Rascal Does Not Dream, learning and auditioning with no prior experience.
Key Takeaways
- Voice acting requires practice in breath control, emotional expression, and clarity.
- Even beginners can learn and improve quickly with professional guidance.
- Auditioning involves multiple takes and adjustments based on feedback.
- Collaborations with studios provide valuable real-world experience.
- Confidence and boldness are important traits for voice actors.
What the video covers
- TheAnimeMen explore voice acting by auditioning for roles in the anime Rascal Does Not Dream of Santa Claus.
- They receive guidance from professionals including a casting director and localization producer.
- The participants practice various lines, receive feedback, and perform multiple takes.
- The video includes humorous moments and challenges faced by beginners in voice acting.
- The auditions are supported by Aniplex of America and Bang Zoom Studios.
- The contestants work on breath control, annunciation, emotional delivery, and character interpretation.
- Feedback highlights strengths like voice boldness and areas for improvement such as clarity and shyness.
- The video showcases behind-the-scenes of anime localization and voice acting processes.
- Final decisions are made after multiple auditions and combining judges' feedback.
- The experience provides insight into the voice acting industry for anime fans and newcomers.
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Speaker A
[laughter] Well, recently we got an opportunity to voice for not just any anime, but Rascal Does Not Dream of Santa Claus.
Speaker A
Hello. Welcome to Studios. My name is AJ. I'm the casting director for [music] the Rascal Does Not Dream series.
Speaker A
Hey, nice to meet you. Hi. Um, I'm the localization producer. Nice to meet you. And in this video, we'll be competing against each other to see who will voice act in one of our favorite anime.
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Red leather, yellow leather, red leather, leather, yellow. [laughter] I'm so excited. Oh my gosh. Where is she? Where is she?
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Where is she? I spent so MUCH MONEY ON THIS CONCERT. YEAH. ALSO, big thanks to Aniplex of America and Bang Zoom Studios for letting us be a part of this. Who will be crowned the winner?
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How nerve-wracking, making them wait for an hour and 38 minutes? You know that? What now?
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I thought I [laughter] was bringing you online. Well, I didn't even see it yet.
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Some nerd making you wait for an hour and 38 minutes. You know that? I know. Definitely isn't the cute.
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[laughter] Oh my god. I'M SO CONFUSED. I'm so confused. Making a guy ride in [music] agony by using sound to fuel his imagination.
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Typical behavior in mature woman, which you definitely are. You don't have to tell me that. I'm not.
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It was a little too Hung day guy. Hung day guy. Like that's that's the best way to describe it.
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For an hour and 38 minutes, you know that [laughter] it Let's go ahead and do one more.
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I'll leave a towel right out there. [laughter] You know that one hit. You know that one hit.
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Wait. So Saka doesn't get shy around Rio. So more like nonchalant like the towel right out here, babe. Ooh, that was tough. Wait, how is he so loud?
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He's so loud, man. That hurt my feelings bad. I may lose the nerve to ever talk to women again.
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Nice. Pretty good. Really well done, actually. I bet my whole life savings on Sam and Kate. So, hey, please repeat what you just said.
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That's pure talent. [laughter] You are so loud. Oh my god. Hey, uh, your foot.
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Let's keep that one actually. Thank you. Okay. No, it sounded like you're like a like a like a a neighbor. That make sense? You're like, "Hey, your foot." What now?
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The my I know definitely isn't the cute type of girl who'd wait. I got tired.
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[laughter] The my I know definitely isn't the cute type of girl who'd wait patiently for a man who's running late. You must be an impostor. [laughter] You must be an imposter.
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I want to hear it more like a newly led wife. Why couldn't I get this one?
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I'll leave a towel right [music] out there. Why are you yelling at us? You do have a change of clothes, right?
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Oh, can I add the do or no? No, Aiden's reenacting. I already talked to a woman in real life, bro.
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No, I heard that. I heard that. You have a change of clothes, right? [music] Cuz if not, I got you.
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[laughter] Great. So, we're going to delete the back half that we don't need, but we are going to keep the part that we do.
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All right. Now that you've actually had a little bit of time in the booth, do you have any questions for me before you do your actual audition?
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So, how many lines are we doing? The actual scene now you're going to be doing the actual scene.
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Are you ready for your actual audition? Distant. Yep, I'm ready. Okay. You haven't tried looking it up yourself?
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No, cuz I don't have a smartphone. Oh, wait. You don't? Good. And let's come in for one more.
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And um just make sure that on beep beep breathe or inhale. So, make sure that you're getting [clears throat] a lot of breath before you actually come in for the line. One more.
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You haven't tried looking it up yourself. No, cuz I don't have a smartphone. Okay, great. So, we're going to keep all that 161 preview.
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Well, I did used to have one, but I got mad and tossed it in the sea.
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We're going to go ahead and do um one more take on just that first part.
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Well, I did used to have one. Great. We'll keep that. Thank you. I'm really trying to like do my best.
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And sometimes people's best isn't good enough. That's okay. What do you mean even? As far I That's the take right there. That's the take right there.
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Is that Jill? That's our keeper. All right. Yeah. Thanks. Okay. One more time. As far as I'm concerned, I think having Oh, I messed up the line.
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As far as I'm concerned, [music] I think having Tora is more than enough. [laughter] Okay, you got one more shot.
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What do you mean even? As far as I'm concerned, I think having two is more than enough.
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keeping that. Thank you. I just have to keep them for the rest of my life.
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Thank you. We're going to go ahead and move on to our next audition. Great job, Giani. I'm ready. I'm ready to win, bro.
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You haven't tried looking it up yourself? No, cuz I don't have a smartphone. Wait, you don't?
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Well, I did used to have one, but I got mad and tossed it in the sea.
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The sea is not the place for your garbage. You don't have any friends, do you?
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I have friends, too, even. What do you mean even? As far as I'm concerned, I think having two is more than enough. I just have to keep them for the rest of my life.
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Yeah, Jeremy, you're up. [laughter] Line 11:49. We're going to go ahead and preview this in Japanese.
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In that case, I don't see any reason why I would ever forget about you.
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Huh. Really nice read. Let's go ahead and slow down that back half. I don't see any reason why I would ever forget about you.
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Cool. Um 1151 preview. [music] Because it's bittersweet to me. I mean, it's the memory of my first love.
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Great. 11:52. I need to [music] get going now. We'll go ahead and keep the first one. I really like what you did there. Um 11:56.
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Goodbye, Shokoan. All right. It's crazy. Great job. Thank you. Thank you. In that case, I don't see any reason why I would ever forget about you.
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Huh? Because it's bittersweet to me. I mean, it's the memory of my first love.
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There's no need to forget. Really? Now, there's that twisted personality of yours. I need to get going now.
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Okay. Goodbye, Shokosan. Bye-bye, Sakuta. Who's next? Who's next? Who's next? It's time for the king. Aiden is the real deal.
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Moving on. May I touch? Yeah, sure. Nice. Well done. Um 353. I'm ready. Oh, wait. [laughter] When you come in for your take, you can give us like two or three different variations in a row.
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Not like that, but two or three different variations in a row, and then we'll go ahead and pick from those.
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Can you tickle me? What? [laughter] Don't make weird noises. Cool. [laughter] Um, that first one was a keeper. Thank you.
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Appreciate it. It's kind of sensitive there, so be gentle, please. Um, 356 OM being touchs.
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Be gentle, please. How's this? So, be gentle, please. Gentle, please. How's this? It's perfect. We'll keep that.
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It feels amazing. Do you really feel it's amazing? Sell it to me. One more.
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Oh crap. I can't sell you the pen, bro. Wait, let me [laughter] It feels amazing.
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But I just changed the voice, though. It feels Let's uh come in for 359.
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Oh, this is going to be impossible. Okay, let's just I believe you left out the words, but the reactions I think were all there. So, let's double check that. Let's just come in for one more and then let's try and
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make sure that we get the let go in there. THAT is gentle enough for you.
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Great. All of that worked great. Good job. That is your scene. May I touch?
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Yeah, sure. [sighs] Don't make weird noises. It's kind of sensitive there, so be gentle please.
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How's this? It feels amazing. Ow. Let go. How about this? Gentle enough for you?
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[sighs and clears throat] So, what caused a wound like that? Oh, good. That was really good. That was good.
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We're going to preview 327 and 328 together. Okay. But why? A liar. You said you wouldn't forget.
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I see. We're going to go ahead and keep that all that. 331. I'm sorry.
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Let's come in for one more. Just a little bit more earnestness. I'm sorry. We'll go ahead and keep that one. Thank you. And then I say, "I'm sorry again." I'm sorry.
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Give me a safety. Um, try something different, but still st
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Good. We're going to keep the first one. The first one was great. Um, 3:35.
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Fine then. I won't let go of you till you do. Slow all of that down. Keep the gentleness.
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Fine then. I won't let go of you till you do. We're going to punch in for after fine then.
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Fine then. I won't let go of you till you do. That did it. Thank you. And then preview 337.
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Why? We're going to keep that one. Thank you. Yay, Sam. Are you ready for playback?
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I was born ready. [laughter] But why? Liar. You said you wouldn't forget. You said you'd never forget.
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I'm sorry. It's too late. I'm sorry. [sighs] Well, I won't forgive you. Fine, then. I won't let go of you till you do.
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In that case, I'll never forgive you. What? [laughter] That was He's good. I'm reading the lines. I'm like, "Yo, it's a lot of reactions. This is good luck." [laughter] Kid sounded like he was dying.
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[gasps] Sakura, what are you doing? We'll keep all of that. Thank you. What are you doing?
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[laughter] Ka, wait. You can actually see me. Good. Let's make sure that we get the full word. Wait. Wait.
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Wait. You can actually see me. Add a little bit more incredulousness. Coug Wait, you can actually see me?
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Perfect. Great sink. That did it. Thank you. Um, 10,00. You all right? Let me touch you.
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Great. Um, try something different. Same intention. Same desperation. Are you all right? Let me touch you.
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Great. Great. Adjust. I like what you did. Thank you. Um 108 just for a sec.
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That's great. We're [music] going to eat that. Thank you. Wow. That was a That was a That was a masterpiece. That was a masterpiece.
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That was pretty good. Wow. [laughter] [gasps] Sakura, what are you doing? Koga, wait. You can actually see me.
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What do you mean? Of course I can. Are you all right? Let me let me touch you just for a sec.
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What? So, Luke 283, let's go ahead and preview. I won't read the atmosphere anymore.
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It's so stupid. So, you've been running around. Let's give a little bit more of that physicality into it.
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I won't read the atmosphere anymore. It's so stupid. Slow that first part so that I won't read the atmosphere anymore.
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I won't read the atmosphere anymore. IT'S SO STUPID. GREAT. Keeping all of that. Thank you.
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Um 284. Listen up everyone. THIS IS IMPORTANT. GOOD. Make sure you're not blowing yourself out. Um right now I can kind of hear you doing it from your throat. So let's make sure that we're doing it from our diaphragm.
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Listen up everyone. THIS IS IMPORTANT. That's great. We're going to keep that. Class 21, attendance number one, SAKUTA AUAGAWA.
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SO, let's make sure that we're keeping that intensity. I don't want you to blow your voice out, but I also want to make sure that you're still yelling to that entire building.
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CLASS 21 ATTENDANCE NUMBER ONE. GOOD. We're going to keep most of that. I want to come in just for class 21.
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CLASS 21. PERFECT. Keeping all that. Um 287. This message IS FOR MY SAKURIMA IN CLASS 31.
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GOOD. We just need a little bit more clarity on her name. This message is for my Oh, I messed that up.
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Suka. This message IS FOR MY SAKURAJIMA IN CLASS 31. WE'LL keep that one. Just I hate asking you to do this so many times. My Sakurajima. So you want to tap the R just slightly.
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IS FOR MY SAKURAJIMA IN CLASS 31. PERFECT. Keeping that. Thank you. 288 preview. SAKURAJIMA. I NEED YOU TO KNOW I LOVE YOU. [screaming] NO, don't pause after Sakurajima. You can see it still continues clapping throughout that. So don't pause there.
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The only time that you pause is right before love you. So that means that you are going to have to stretch that out.
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Pick a word, focus on it. It's all right. I need you TO KNOW I LOVE YOU.
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[screaming] OKAY, COOL. Are you ready to play this back? Yeah. Yeah, I'm ready. Let's watch it.
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I won't read the atmosphere anymore. It's so stupid. LISTEN UP, EVERYONE. THIS IS IMPORTANT.
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CLASS 21, ATTENDANCE NUMBER ONE, SAKA AUAKAWA. THIS MESSAGE IS FOR MY SAKURAJIMA IN CLASS 31. [screaming] SAKURAJIMA, I NEED YOU TO KNOW I [screaming] LOVE YOU.
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I hope that was good. I gave that my all to be honest. No, we know. Yeah, because you practiced.
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[laughter] One of the things that I do notice about the newer actors that we work with, the people who are newer tend to not just go 100%. It's a lot hard trying to get them to go bigger rather than trying to bring
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them back. And I didn't have that problem with him. I think is ready to go. He probably needs to learn sync. Of [music] course, he's figuring it out quickly. Kind of my last place.
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Oh, this is hard. [laughter] Excited. Sorry. You guys don't have to spoil it. We know I won. Let's get on.
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You guys ready? Oh jeez. If we're being [music] honest, we can't rate between out of like a whatever out of 10. Considering that you guys have never done any of this before and we literally just threw [music] this at
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you. You guys did wonderfully. You took direction really well. We all did. It was really hard.
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Let's see. Let's see who's last. Let's see who's last. Yeah. Just be honest. Ju just just just hurt the person. I can't wait to see.
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Just be honest. Regretfully. And it's not because [music] you're bad cuz you actually did really well.
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Number six is Giani. They got to get the They got to have these wrong. They got to have these wrong.
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You took direction really well. Um I love the adjustments that you were making. [music] Um we do think that you need to work a little bit more on your annunciation induction.
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Yeah. Yeah. So that was actually a big factor. [music] At the end of the day, we can't understand.
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Two friends. It was It was a great start. It was a great start. Uh number five is Cade.
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Okay. Really? We would have loved to see a little bit more of just nuances [music] and performance. There was a little bit more enunciation that we were hoping to get from you and the fact that I was able to kind of like work with you and
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look for those performances that was really [music] good and you took those direction well. So just being able to kind of like further that direction would be [music] great.
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And then for fourth we have Aiden. Not bad. I'll take it. [laughter] Um you have great boldness. Your voice boldness is very good. You have very stable voice. You were lacking a bit on the clarity as well.
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Okay. [music] Yeah. So, it's like opening your mouth bigger, doing like tongue exercises. I think if you guys had maybe more time to do those exercises at [music] the beginning, it may have been different.
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Yes. I was I was fooling around a little too much. He was goofing. I thought cuz I thought I was out of last place, so I was kind of fooling around, but bottom three on three.
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And then for third, it's Jeremy. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Well, shoot. Actually, [music] you have very good clarity and you have very good tone flexibility. So, I think you probably have a talent for this.
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Okay. We didn't see as much of the [music] like um getting into it. M. Okay.
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So, maybe you're a little shy compared to Yeah, you're a little shy. So, if we combine our powers, Jeremy, for the last top one, [music] for the last two, before we make our final decision, we'd actually like for
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each of [music] you to read each other's scenes right here, right now. Wait, I'm So, I'm reading the one he got [music] and he's reading the one I got.
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Exactly. Oh, jeez. Huh? But why? I'm sorry. I'm I'm sorry. Fine then. I won't let go of you till you do.
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Okay. Thank you. Oh jeez. Not bad, [applause] kid. The first line I screwed up, bro.
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You should I I screwed up that first line. I won't read the atmosphere anymore.
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It's so stupid. Listen up everyone. THIS IS IMPORTANT. CLASS 21, ATTENDANCE NUMBER ONE. SAKURA AUGAWA.
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THIS MESSAGE IS FROM MY SAKURAJIMA IN CLASS 31. [panting] SAKURAJIMA, I NEED YOU TO KNOW I LOVE [screaming] YOU.
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CHILLS, BRO. CHILLS. CHILLS. That was good. Did I unleash my mamba? The mamba's everywhere.
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The mamba. I unleashed the mamba. Oh jeez, bro. I think I lost. Thank you for doing that for us. Now our decision was even harder. But um Two. One. Sam.
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OMG. OMG. Congratulations. Mama. Mama. Come here, bro. You did great. All them voiceovers. Huh?
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You did great. Great. You were both really good. Yeah. Really, really good. Are you ready to record?
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I was born ready. Let's do it. Right, guys? [laughter] Transition. I'm Michelle Ra. I'm directing [music] the series.
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Hello. Hold it right there. Age. Boom. right out the gate. Awesome. [laughter] Merry Christmas.
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Good. Thank you, guys. Make sure to check out Rascal Does Not Dream as Santa Claus and watch it in dub so you can hear
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