I Reincarnated and Tried to Become a Genius Child Actor. I Want to Quit. Chapter 1 Part2

Here’s part two.
By the way, chapter one is my absolute favorite out of all the currently translated chapters.
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Hanamura Nanami is my name. (1) 10 years old and in 4th grade.

Yeah, I know I skipped like seven years. Sorry.

I managed to convince my parents somehow, and I pa.s.sed the audition to become a child actor.

The audition was easy with a brain of an adult. Sit if told to sit, laugh and smile if told to laugh, and remember some of the words. You don’t ask for too much in a small child.

Many other children forgot the words. Even more would burst into tears in the dazzling light of the camera.

With the appearance of a toddler and the brains of an adult, I am matchless!
In order to be a normal female, I was committed to feminine behavior. Speak like a female. Wear cute clothes. Have long hair.

I was the perfect image of Yamato Nades.h.i.+ko. (2) Neat, polite, pretty, cute.

There was even a case where I got a big, white-eyed, cat for work.

This life is in easy mode! Was what I was thinking for a few years.

By the time I got to elementary school, they start making you actually act, and the children at this age have quick progress and strength. After all, the real geniuses who aim to be a top child are different; better than the ordinary me with no special skills. Some children act better than me, and yet others can perform acrobatics that make you want to say that they’re descendants of ninjas. Isn’t it better to go to the Olympics than to aim for a child acting role? Do you want to be an action actor? Well, action actors do get paid well, try hard.

I was supposed to be bored being a genius child, so I was shocked at seeing real geniuses. As a matter of fact, I’m in a hurry to strike it rich; I only have so much time before my advantage as an adult goes away. Yet, I was caught up to just before entering elementary school. Genius children, why???

I studied acting desperately to become a NEET in the future. I also took an acting lesson program, which was free since I’m a “special student.” Hyahhou!

The lesson program had everything; basic acting, singing, voice training, dancing, j.a.panese dance, conduct, action scene practice, and more.

In addition to the more normal things, I received lessons on tea ceremony, flower arrangement, horseback riding, swordplay, archery, and martial arts…

Martial arts? You’d think it isn’t useful, but it’s a dojo that teaches the know-how of stage combat.

There are some scenes in historical dramas with swords. If not swords, then bare hands.

So, such skills are essential in order to be chosen for a role. If you want to learn the basics, you can just learn from the child actor’s office, but, if you want to get more specialized, you need to go to a dojo like the one that I’m in.

I learned a lot when I found out it would be useful, and I got accepted to play a role in a historical drama. Yet, it seemed that I didn’t need to know this as a girl. Basically, I was in a princess’ childhood role and a village girl role… Why?

When I thought I wasted a couple years of my new life, another offer came in. I could be the childhood persona of a female ninja.

The producer was looking for a girl that could ride horses and wield a sword. I wasn’t allowed to jump from horse to horse because I didn’t learn how. I could possibly die if I attempted it. It seems that people have died from riding normally too.

Eh? Is there any other child who could do it? Ah, there was the child who was an acrobatic action actor; the one that probably descended from ninjas. It turns out that we were childhood friends in the same ninja village in the production.

Yeah, that actor was jumping, while rolling, from horse to horse. A ninja? A ninja. Amazing.

Well, since even the seemingly useless art of jumping from horse to horse is, in fact, useful, I give up on using common sense for this. I learned piano, violin, cla.s.sic ballet, rhythmic gymnastics, sports, and things from any scene that I could think of.

There are so many fields, I was tempted to quit half-way. It’s still meaningful that way, but, if you don’t know certain things well enough, it’s bad. For example, if you play the piano, your movements look amateurish despite the fact that the sound comes from a pro, so I had to practice to make my piano playing look like a pro. After I was able to play some famous songs on the piano, I only practiced every so often so my skills wouldn’t get rusty. I quit violin and ballet after I could perform some famous songs and dances. I thought I had the basics down.

It’s too late to wait for the audition. Sometimes, you only get notified of an audition a day before. If you’re an adult, you can subst.i.tute with a stunt double or another actor with the required skills, but children don’t have fancy things like that. Basically, a child who can do it gets the role.

Because of my efforts, I pa.s.sed the auditions of various roles, and my exposure increased. As I was well known, there wasn’t the need to actively search for auditions; the offers came by themselves. And, as the offers gain in number, I was able to choose the job, my popularity increased, and my guarantee (3) also increased. In order to maintain my popularity and income, I took more lessons.

And, I’m also at an elementary school student’s age, so I’m undergoing compulsory education.

Yes, compulsory education.

There’s an obligation to receive education. I’d like to say that I’m a reincarnated adult that went through this in my previous life, but there are obvious problems in saying that. When I don’t have a job, such as photo shooting, I have to go to school on weekdays. Considering my age and status, most of my jobs are on the weekends and holidays. I go through lessons and lessons on each minute of my free time. Of course, I do my homework too. Then, without the time for anything else, I go to bed.

It’s super black, really, thank you very much.

“I want to quit…”

Since I worked for a black company and died from overwork, I was aiming to be a NEET, but how did this happen…

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(1)If anyone’s interested, the name 花村菜々美 (Hanamura Nanami) means: 花(flower)村(village)菜(greens)々(kanji repeat character; same as another 菜)美(beauty)
(2)Yamato Nades.h.i.+ko is the traditional j.a.panese ideal woman/housewife
(3)ギャラ in j.a.panese; it’s a borrowed word that came to mean a different thing. Anyways, it means a fee for performers and the like.