Cue!

Thank you.

Next person auditioning?

My name is Mutsuishi Haruna. I'm with AiRBLUE.

Thank you for having me!

Haruna-chan!

Welcome back.

Thank you.

Welcome back, Haruna.

Well, how did it go?

I'm not sure.

I personally felt like it went okay, but who knows?

Oh, that reminds me!

Speaking of auditions,

the results from that audition you did a while ago came back.

It looks like they didn't take anyone from our agency.

That's too bad.

Welcome to our ball, my dear prince!

Thank you for waiting.

Here's your Moon Omelet Rice of Fate and Glass Slipper Parfait.

And your seaweed tea.

What are you guys doing here?

Yuuki-chan insisted on coming.

We wanted to come back, too.

Come on, you guys.

For me, this is exhausting work, you know?

I'm so sorry.

I was just joking.

I'm not mad or anything.

No rest for the poor, huh?

Hey, now.

We actually have a lot of free time, though.

I was thinking we'd be really busy with the anime adaptation of Himmel...

But then it turns out the recording starts in a year!

I guess making an anime takes a very long time.

Anime is so cool!

A year, huh?

That does sound kinda far off.

At first, it was going okay,

but after I messed up once, I completely fell apart.

You'll just have to shake it off.

We newbies just need to hit up a lot of auditions.

I know that, but...

In this business, even the most sought-after voice actresses get rejected.

You need to get used to it, or you won't survive.

Have you gotten used to it already?

You know what?

We'd love to see you in a play again!

When are you doing the next one?

Yeah, we'd like to do one again, too.

The stage readings are fun, huh?

Yeah.

They're not bad.

Yeah.

I'd like to do one again.

Yeah, we're definitely losing listeners.

I wonder why.

It started going down around the time we started the Boken Survivors project.

Shouldn't we be getting more listeners, now that we're in an anime?

The way we do Survivors is basically how we do our radio show.

So you're saying all those listeners just moved over to Survivors?

I see.

Oh, my.

I don't like seeing our listeners decline like this.

Isn't there anything we can do?

Yeah...

Well, wouldn't it be okay to just call it quits at some point, then?

If all our listeners are moving over to Survivors,

doesn't that mean our radio show has served its purpose?

Its purpose...

But I can't imagine us not doing our show anymore.

Nobody said this would be easy.

Oh...

I wasn't expecting you here at this hour.

Work ran late, and then I was thinking I'd relax a bit before going to bed.

Welcome back.

Want to sit?

Sure.

What? The recording won't start for another year?

Yeah.

I see. I guess it takes longer than we thought.

Do you feel demotivated now?

I can't honestly say I don't...

But Yuuki-chan and the others are almost annoyingly full of energy,

so that one year might just go by in a flash.

I'm also older than everyone else.

You're saying that to me?

Oh, sorry.

But things start to get murky when all you're doing is your side job.

Your sense of distance to your dreams, I mean.

Yeah, even if it's a dream that finally came true,

maybe you have to let it go in order to keep going forward.

So I wondered a bit...

If it's always, always...

going to be...

like this.

I know what you mean.

It's like...

Goodnight.

Huh?

What's up?

Oh.

I've been taking walks here twice a week.

I'm out for a walk, too.

I see. So Rie-san's also a little down.

Yeah, well, it's almost like we go to auditions to get shot down.

True.

I also really wanted to work on the project Haruna and the others auditioned for today.

I guess Rie and Mutsuishi-san were both invited by name to the audition.

Either way, I want to support Haruna and the others,

but it also really sucks that I wasn't invited.

It's hard to put it into words.

I know.

I think every voice actress should be fending for herself,

but I do know what you're talking about.

Well, I'm going to keep walking a little longer.

And I'm pretty tired, so I'll be heading back.

We might be going different ways,

but we're still going back to the same home.

That's kinda nice.

That's true.

I asked you all here today for one reason.

In the near future, there's going to be a large-scale audition for a certain project.

That project is Alma of the Azure Valley.

That's...

But wasn't Alma...

Yeah, Alma was...

Alma of the Azure Valley is the title I once played Alma for.

A lot of time has passed since then,

and a lot of new characters have been introduced.

This seems unreal...

We've arranged it so that all of AiRBLUE can participate.

Please make your individual decisions after talking to Rio.

Movie Adaptation of Alma of the Azure Valley Project Plan

They seemed a little hesitant.

Yes.

The audition results haven't been good lately.

I'm wondering if they're starting to lose confidence.

Everyone has to go through that.

That's right.

B-But isn't this precisely when the teams should support each other?

To be a voice actress is to be alone.

Everyone has to walk their own path,

even if they happen to be on the same team.

That's true, but...

But, Masaki, you're still thinking about that dream of yours, aren't you?

You got me.

When people are taking their first step out onto that dark path,

I wonder how many more possibilities would unfold

if only there was a small, friendly voice calling to you...

I see. This was your dream, huh?

Main Characters

Lilia Daughter of Alma and Rick. She seems innocent and calm, but she's brimming with curiosity and will jump head-first into dangerous situations. Her friend Rush always comes to her rescue when she's in a tight spot. It was decided that she is to receive her mother's jewel and the powers of a fairy. But on the night before the ceremony, the jewel emits a strange light, and Lilia and Rush are thrown into a different world.

Yeah.

Dreams, huh?

What is it?

Well, I've been thinking lately.

Back when I got that part in Bloom Ball, and while I was recording,

it felt real, that I had actually become a voice actress.

That my dream had come true.

But without a job, we're just regular students.

Makes you wonder which parts of you really are the voice actress.

Yeah.

I can't really put it eloquently...

Right now, I'm still desperate.

But every day is fun.

I guess I'd like to keep going until I find the answer to that question.

Yeah, we were desperate.

Yeah, but each day is fun.

Yeah.

That reminds me. It's today.

What is?

The one-year anniversary of us all coming here.

1st anniversary!

Hey.

What do you think voice acting is?

That's a hard question out of the blue.

It's been on my mind since we had that talk about what we should do with the radio show.

I guess it's work where you earn money with your voice.

So I guess we're all voice actresses.

For now.

For now?

For now.

I mean, we don't know what's ahead.

It's not just about making money,

Ride the Headwind

but about our voices actually reaching someone.

So like, are we doing what we want to be doing?

And you have to be popular.

ji Mahoro @ live radio broadcast!!

Miyaji Mahoro

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By "popular," do you mean online followers?

Of course, that's important.

And the radio?

Of course, that's important, too.

So why are we quitting?