Ishihara: For this work, the female point of view from our women directors was immensely strong.
Oguro: Was that in the visual aspect? Or perhaps in the dramatic aspect?
Ishihara: The visual aspect. Theres lots of things that we call manly or feminine that women dislike, but women are better at character relationships and how to treat characters mental states. At least the impression that theyre more fixated on it exists. Men would put more effort into cool camera work but I get the feeling that women would treat the character connections and relationships as more important. So its there that we could rely on them.
Oguro: So in dedicating how to frame the characters and how to compose the image as a whole, right?
Ishihara: Those kinds of things. And also we relied on them when it came to rotating around dialogue too. Our sound director also relied on Yamada too. During our recording sessions, Yamada would read the script and be asked does this sound adolescent to you? She would change the dialogue at those parts that didnt sound like something a high school girl would say. Our sound director was fixated on high school girl reality this time, but well, to make it short, Im not sure high school girls would sound that logical. (laughs) At the scenario stage, we wrote lines that would go in logical order, but high school girls wouldnt have the entire conversation be that thoughtout, would they? Thered be some parts where a logical connection wouldnt exist in the entire conversation. And so we consulted Yamada for the does this part feel that way? portions.
The easiest example I can give would be episode 9. Hazuki, who had just been rejected, is talking with Kumiko on the train and their conversation has logically progressing dialogue, but theres some strange portions when its written down. I also thought Huh? Is this alright? when I read it; like in the part where Hazuki goes Sorry for inviting Shuichi, You dont have to say that I do. I thought it was really odd, but it probably ties together the whole conversation.
Oguro: So Yamada-san would be the judge for those kinds of exchanges?
Yamada: I wouldnt put it as cool as that
. But that reminds me, she mildly rebuked Hazuki there. (laughs)
Oguro: Please tell me how she rebuked her.
Yamada: (laughs) Ishihara-san has talked with me about nonsensical conversations since K-On!. But I had some worries over how the kind of nonsensical, wandering conversations that high school girls have would be received by the audience, so I thought to have some mild rebukes in there. (laughs)
Oguro: I see.
Yamada: Even if the information that you want to put in is present, that doesnt mean that you can create a conversation that doesnt go according to reason. I made sure to make these conversations have a certain reasoning to them even if they didnt proceed logically
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Ishihara: Right, right, that kind of thing.
Yamada: Hey! (laughs)
Ishihara: I didnt think they fit properly.
Yamada: Oh
So my planning was like accessories for them. (laughs)
