Japanese with anime voice: episode33
Hello, I’m Sachi.
April 17 is Hello Work Day. ハローワーク (Hello Work) is the Japanese Employment Security Office, where you can get job referrals, job guidance, unemployment insurance, and various other job-related consultations. I have also visited ハローワーク (Hello Work) several times. I don’t really care about that.
The anniversary was established on April 17, 1947, when what had been called 職業紹介所(Shokugyoushoukaijo) was renamed 公共職業安定所 (Koukyoushokugyouanteijo), based on 職業安定法 (Shokugyouanteihou), and inaugurated. I don’t really care about that kind of thing anymore. I’m sorry…but…. But, you know, is there any need for an anniversary just for a name change? I’m just saying…. Is there?
When I was a child, I thought that becoming a company employee would be an ordinary life. I didn’t want to lead such a life. This kind of thinking was very disrespectful to the company employees. But about 20 years later, I tried to become a company employee and struggled. In the end, I could not become a company employee. Now I’m glad I didn’t become a company employee. Or, rather, it is correct to say that I was not hired. Let me rephrase that. LOL I’m glad I didn’t get hired as a company employee.
And I thought I would become a celebrity. I wasn’t particularly pretty or beautiful, nor did I have any outstanding talent, but I wanted to be a celebrity. The reason being, I thought it would be a quick way to make money. I didn’t know that there were many steps to go through to be on TV as an entertainer. Looking back, I was a very black-hearted child. I also had a bit of a desire to be famous. I wanted to make those who made fun of me look up to me. Something like that.
But I didn’t stop at dreams; I took action to make my dreams come true. When I was in elementary school, I wanted to be a TV personality, but when I entered junior high school, I wanted to be a voice actress. I don’t remember how it all started, but there was a very famous person in the voice acting industry named Megumi Hayashibara. I admired her and thought that I wanted to be a voice actress too. Then I found an audition for a voice actor training school in the newspaper and applied. I went to that training school from junior high school through high school. After graduating from high school, I moved to Tokyo and attended a one-year course at a vocational school there that also had a voice actor talent course, and graduated. As a result, I decided that I liked my rural dialect too much and didn’t want to change it to standard Japanese! I gave up on my dream of becoming a voice actor for such a trivial reason.
After that, I stayed in Tokyo for a while and was scouted by a talent agency in Shibuya or Shinjuku, and I was cheated. I was deceived, but don’t worry, I didn’t get into any trouble. I went to the office without thinking because I was scouted, but I soon realized that it was not a very good office, so I just turned it down. And the last time I was in Asagaya? I was scouted there by the CEO, who was rather decent. He took me to the work sites of idols who were just starting out, taught me about the entertainment industry, and I did a bit of extra work. But I was getting old in the process. I wondered if there was any demand at my age, and I felt like I was seeing reality, so I quit.
That would have been when I was about 22 years old. When you think about it, voice actors are also a kind of entertainers, and I remember I wanted to be an entertainer when I was about 11 years old, so 22 years since then means I’ve been chasing my dream for 11 years. I thought I got interested in it in an instant and lost my passion for it in an instant, but it took longer than I expected.
I thought it was too much for me, so I gave up on my dream and returned to my hometown, but even after that, I still had a longing to be a voice actor. I always thought it would be great to be a DJ on the radio, too. And now, as I had never expected, we live in an amazing time when anyone can create their own radio channel. Thanks to this, my wish has come true and I am now able to do a podcast using this strange voice of mine. I am giving my voice to people all over the world. I don’t know if people around the world are listening. I guess they don’t. Well, let’s leave that aside.
It’s a great time to be thankful. Even if no one is listening to this podcast, the best thing is that I have the satisfaction of doing this as if it were my job. It’s more fun than anything else. Most of all, it’s rewarding. What dreams did you have as a child? Are they coming true now? Or did you give up on it for some reason? If there are those who have given up, why don’t you try to pursue your dream again, even if you are not a professional? I think that by doing this podcast, I might be asked to do voice-over work for an anime. I’m not sure what I’m talking about, but I’m trying to enjoy this podcast with a funny and super positive attitude. You never know when or where life’s opportunities are lurking around the corner!
