Fuji Yuiko

**Fuji Yuiko** (富士 結衣子, *Fuji Yuiko*) is an inbetween checker for N2 Factory Studio.

## Personality

Fuji Yuiko takes her job very seriously and expects the best out of her current trainees Date, Natou, and Miyuki Sanada. Because of this, she can be seen as overly harsh on them. Over the last 6 years, she has trained 20 people, with only 2 of them still being with the company.

## Plot

N2 Factory Studio was conducting interviews for new animators and Fuji was one of the interviewers. They were discussing how many people would they need and were discussing Date as she was a daughter of a famous mangaka and Fuji didn't see a reason not to hire her, but Souji Igarashi mentioned lighting doesn't strike twice. Fuji told him to look from her eyes, as she was the one that was going to train her. They all got surprised when Kujo entered the room and wondered what he was doing there, as his studio 7 doesn't hire people, but he told them this year, they will.

As they had lunch break between the interviews, Fuji was shocked that Souji opened a beer, saying that he needed it go be able to go through the interviews. When Miyuki Sanada came for her interview, Fuji questioned her if her parents were supporting her as the first years of animators are though financially and Miyuki told them she had some savings from her part-time jobs. After Miyuki's interview, Souji wasn't happy with her ability to draw and Fuji questioned how she passed the first exam with Souji mentioning he pushed her through as he saw she had black belt in judo and figured she had guts.

Six months later, the new hires were introduced to Fuji at Studio 2. She gave them their first assignment, cleanup. But Miyuki didn't knew what to do. As the other two wondered what an amateur like her got hired, she told them to go and start working and then explained in detail what cleanup meant for Miyuki. Natou came first, surprising a bit Fuji that he was already done, but she told him it was sloppy and there wasn't a point in rushing, so she returned it for him to fix. Date came after him, and Fuji commented since she was a daughter to a mangaka, she had learned inking from a young age. She told her that her lines weren't bad, but her nose was 0.2mm off and explained why that was a problem. Seeing Miyuki taking her time, she went to see her. Looking at her work, Fuji found it being terrible, but looking deeper, she praised her on using correct pens on different lines. She then showed her how to draw lines and if she practice she will become better. As everyone went to the welcoming party, Fuji remained to finish her work and was wondering how many of them will survive the animator's life.

At the party, Asaishi spoke with Fuji that the free food, especially meat will go out fast like previous years. And Fuji told him, she stopped trying to get some at her third year. Then Miyuki came with 2 full plates of meat and offered them some. She then heard from Souji that, the President gave Miyuki a nickname, and knowing what that means, she gave a cold look at Miyuki.

On the next day, Fuji gave Natou and Date tweeting assignment and gave Miyuki cleanup again. When Natou was ready, she commented he knew the basics, but his tweens are simplistic and boring in motion. As she went for a lunch, he told Miyuki to be ready for when she returns. When she was back, she checked Miyuki's work and found it worse than yesterday. As Miyuki commented it was because she was trying to do it fast, Fuji explained it that professionals don't make excuses as those don't show up on the TV. She questioned her why did she even became an animator, and Miyuki told her that she won't be quitting and will meet Serizawa and thank him for making Pannacotta anime.

Later she saw Kujo, telling him that so far she sees negative stats, but triggered a dialogue event saying the things Kujo told her and then left to catch the train.

She kept making Miyuki redo the same frame, until she finally did it in around a hour and satisfying condition. She told Miyuki there was no point in doing the same frame and could have given her different, but she needed to practise the lining. Fuji then asked her how much takes it took her to draw it and after hearing it was 12 redos and done in 5 days, she told her she earned only 210 yen for that time. Fuji then explained to Miyuki what the animators are getting paid, making Miyuki realize she will be loosing lots of money each month.