I am the Entertainment Tycoon

"Cupcake, Ryoko is calling. It's probably related to the anime production. How about you order some food for us to eat for lunch?" Theo asked with a smile as he picked up his phone.

Aurora nodded and picked up her own phone and started searching places to order their lunch.

Theo smiled and answered the call, "Hello?"

"Hey, boss!" Ryoko's voice came through the phone.

"Hey, how is it going? Why are you calling me on a Saturday?" Theo chuckled.

"I wanted to report our work from last week, and some other things." Ryoko replied promptly.

"Great! Tell me about it." Theo smiled.

After three weeks, Theo was more than satisfied with Ryoko's work in his studio, he indeed took the right decision to put her in charge.

"We are almost finished with the first episode. The only thing left for the episode to be done is to add the sound effects and the dubbing."

"The sound effects will be produced next week by our sound studio, but it is the dubbing that is the problem. As you know we haven't hired the voice actors yet. I think it is time to hire them already." Ryoko explained her position calmly.

Theo was silent for a while after he heard Ryoko's words.

His face showed a thoughtful expression.

That was because choosing good voice actors was something essential for an anime to be successful.

Just like in Theo's last life.

The anime industry made the voice actors become celebrities.

In Theo's last life, in 1888, Charles-Émile Reynaud was the first person to use animation techniques to make drawings come to life.

But it was only with the emergence of the Walt Disney Studios that animated films gained popularity.

When Disney released 'Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs', it became a success worldwide.

But in Azure Star, the history of animation was different.

In 1880, Hitarashi Mizuki made use of the first animated techniques in Sakura City.

He was able to animate his drawings with brute techniques, but that was only the beginning of animation in the Sakura Abode Country.

For 30 years, animation techniques improved constantly, until the cutout and stop-motion techniques were invented.

And it was using these techniques that the first anime was invented.

Hitarashi Itsuki was Hitarashi Mizuki's daughter, when her father died, she promised herself to continue her father's work.

She devoted her who life to animation, and it was using the cutout and stop-motion techniques that she produced the first anime movie.

All over the Sakura Abode Country, there were countless legends about elves and fairies.

And Itsuki chose one of these legends to be the story of her animated movie.

'Song of the Elven' was Itsuki's first animated movie.

It told the story of an elven tribe being threatened by monsters from a magical forest.

And when the final moment arrived, when the village was about to be destroyed, a song sounded.

This song was sung by the whole elvish tribe, and the song drove the monsters away.

The movie was thrilling and emotional, it was not a surprise that it became successful in the Sakura Abode Country as soon as it was released in 1915.

And one year later, Itsuki's movie was released in other countries, where it became a huge success as well.

Itsuki produced several other movies throughout the years as she founded her own studio.

The Elven Animation Studio was until today, one of the most successful animation studios in the world.

And Itsuki wasn't only passionate about animated movies, she was also the first person to launch an anime on a TV Channel!

As most people might already guess, television was created in the Sakura Abode Country in the year of 1948.

TV Channels were established 2 years later.

And as the TV Channels were something out of the world at the time, everyone in the country wanted to have a TV to watch the amazing shows throw the magical box.

But some people would rather create things to be broadcasted on the channels.

Hitarashi Itsuki was one of these people.

She was already 60 years old at the time, but her spirit was always with the animation.

When she saw the TV Channels, she immediately saw their huge potential of them.

The Elven Studios, that she owned, was already one of the biggest animation studios in the world.

Even though she had great competitors, everyone would agree that her movies and studio were the best.

She released several movies since her first movie in 1915.

But when she saw the TVs, she felt the same excitement that she felt when she created her first movie.

And she had an idea, an idea that would change the history of animation once again.

She created an anime to be aired weekly on a TV Channel.

And just like her first movie, the anime told the story of an elvish tribe.

'Seldarine' told the story of a particular elf adventuring with her friends in the magical forest they lived in.

Itsuki worked personally on the project, even at her advanced age.

Seldarine's first episode was aired on LHK TV Channel, and just like Itsuki predicted, it became a huge success throughout the country.

Everyone gathered around the televisions every Sunday night to watch Seldarine's adventures in the magical forest.

The anime had 12 episodes and took Itsuki 5 years to complete the project.

This was a normal timeframe for that time of history, they didn't have the sophisticated techniques that were later developed.

In 1965, the first anime in history was released, and it opened the doors for something amazing.

Itsuki couldn't predict that because of her actions, the future would change drastically.

When Itsuki's rivals saw the success of her project, they immediately copied her.

They started producing their own animes.

Just like that, the anime industry was born.

More and more studios opened throughout the years, and more animes were produced.

It became a normal sight to see animes being broadcasted on TV.

When Itsuki died in 1995, she died happily as she watched her first movie.

The whole world mourned her death.

After all, she was the Mother of Animation!

She made animation famous and she created the first anime!

Legendary was the only word possible to describe Hitarashi Itsuki.

Some may be wondering why the explanation about the history of animation.

That was because every work that Hitarashi Itsuki produced was dubbed in Yamatese (Japanese).

In other words, the animated movie that made animation famous worldwide was in Yamatese!

'Seldarine' the first anime TV show was in Yamatese!

And seeing her success, her competitors also used Yamatese as the mother language of animation.

So, every animation movie or TV show produced in the Sakura Abode Country was dubbed in Yamatese.

All because Itsuki preferred Yamatese rather than English to dub her animations.

But that was not a problem for the citizens of the Sakura Abode Country, as they all were fluent in English and Yamatese.

Therefore, all the voice actors in the industry used Yamatese as the main language.

Theo needed talented voice actors, but the famous voice actors were hard to hire because they might have already projects in place.

"Schedule an audition next Saturday in our branch at Sakura City. Contact the Voice Acting Union about our requirements." Theo said to Ryoko after thinking for a while.

He agreed with her, they needed to hire the voice actors as soon as possible.

Theo wondered if he would be able to find actors with voices similar to what he heard in his past life.