Sore ga Seiyuu! Episode 11

Self Care
Episode Info
Episode 11 Japanese Title 自己管理 Romanized Title Jiko Kanri English Title Self Care On Air 15 September 2015
Theme Song Info
Opening Sore ga Seiyuu! Ending Anata no O Mimi ni Plug In! Request Corner Happy☆Material Beloved Version
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Sore ga Seiyuu! Episode 11, title name as Self Care (自己管理, Jiko Kanri^?) aired on September 15^th 2015.

Synopsis

While waiting in the recording room for both Ichigo and Rin, who have been busy after the Earphones Unit debuted, Futaba gets news from Aoi Konno about program regular work in the anime Western Detective. She's really happy that she will work with Ryoko Shiraishi who taking part in this anime. She decides to practice her role but nearly ends up dying from forgetting to breath.

At Sound Team Don Juan Studio, Futaba meets Ryoko Shiraishi. Futaba thinks that she's really pretty. Futaba learns that Ryoko can do both boy and girl sounds very smoothly and also learns that Ryoko has some of the boy personality too. While recording the dry run, because Futaba focuses on the work too much, it make her cough. After that everyone worries about Futaba's throat and give her advice about it. Ryoko advises her to take as many cough drop sweets, put a face mask on and go to sleep. She also tells Futaba to take care of herself. Futaba has a problem about her role while taking a bath, making her stay in the bathroom for too long, which later causes her to have a cold and fever.

After Futaba's recovered and done the recording, she walks back home with Ryoko. Ryoko asks her about Earphones Unit, which reminds her of when she was in another voice actress unit. Futaba thinks that unlike both Ichigo and Rin, she needs to work hard so she doesn't drag them down with her. Ryoko now realizes the reason why Futaba was overdoing work. She tells Futaba that she once had vocal cord nodules. She was focusing too much on her work and made it worse, so she needed to get surgery on her throat. It was uneasy but she decided to take surgery in the end, because she wants to be a voice actress for the rest of her life. Her speech makes Futaba realizes something she nearly forget; that she also wants to be a voice actress for the rest of her life too. She just needs to go at her own pace. Suddenly, Ichigo and Rin call to tell her about the solo concert that Kaibara-san has decided to hold for their unit.

The next day, Futaba, Ichigo, and Rin find out that their concert ticket sales are 12 from the 500 available seats. They decide to promote and advertise more about the concert. Kaibara-san also tells them that since they currently have 3 songs, which is not enough to hold a 2 hour concert. They decide to covers songs, but because of the budget, the three of them need to do the choreography by themselves. After promoting in many ways, only 52 tickets were sold. So Kaibara-san decides to make the unit promote their concert at the Anisong Autumn Concert. First, Futaba, Ichigo, and Rin think that they will have the time on stage, but the truth is they only have to hand out flyers in front of the concert halls. They still end up filling their concert hall with 200 people in the end. After hearing the news about the seating, Ichigo accidentally hurts her leg while practicing. What will happen to their concert?

Trivia

• Before reading through the script for Western Detective, Futaba remarks on how Ryoko Shiraishi would be in it and how she also played the main character in the butler anime she loved. During this scene, Hayate Ayasaki from Hayate no Gotoku! briefly appears behind her.
• The cast of the anime Western Detective does their recording at Sound Team Don Juan Studio. This is a reference to the real life Sound Team Don Juan Studio.
• Ryoko Shiraishi guest stars as herself in this episode and she also voices Hayate Ayasaki, one of the main characters in the Hayate no Gotoku! Anime.
  • She's also best known for voicing Aoi Nogami from the Zettai Karen Children series, Kaede Nagase from the Negima! Magister Negi Magi & Negima!? series, Akari Hinomoto & Mervamon & Opossummon from the Digimon Xros Wars series and Kazue Takanashi from the Working!! series.
• As Futaba, Ichigo and Rin practice their choreography, outside their lesson room, a poster featuring a band called Aice 5 is shown. This is a parody of the Japanese band A9 (formerly known as Alice Nine).
• After Ichigo asked Futaba and Rin for the rest of the cover songs, Rin suggests the popular Japanese folk song Tsubasa wo Kudasai. Although this song is not originally an anime song, it was featured in several anime such as K-On! episode 1, Nichijou Episode 14, and Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance.
• Masumi Asano, the writer of Sore ga Seiyuu! guest stars as one of the voice actresses during the Anison Concert.
• During the ending credits, Futaba, Ichigo and Rin briefly sing along to the opening theme song "Happy☆Material Beloved Version", a variation of "Happy☆Material" from the series Negima! Magister Negi Magi, of which Ryoko Shiraishi, (this episodes guest) voices a supporting character and sings 3 versions of this song (Beloved Version, 31 Girl Version, and Return Version) by herself along with other Negima voice actresses.

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