Miyuki Sanada

**Miyuki Sanada** (真田 幸, *Sanada Miyuki*) is the main character of Animeta!.

## Personality

Miyuki is passionate about her favorite anime *Royal Girl Pannacotta*, which is what inspired her to become an animator. It is her passion for it that convinced Director Kujo to hire her as an inbetweener.

## Plot

Miyuki had passed the first exam and was invited to the second round for entry-level inbetweener at N2 Factory Studio. The second round exam was key animation and inbetweening practical, which she felt she bombed it. As she waited for her turn to be reviewed, she was eating and enjoying her favourite song from Pannacotta anime. Moments before entering the interview room, she was still listening to it and started to sing, but then the door opened and surprised her. Asaishi asked her if she was a fan of the anime and she happily answered she was and due to that anime she wanted to be an animator and also explained how she was amazed seeing someone could draw like that and then animate it. Fuji Yuiko questioned her if her parents agreed as she would need financial support in her first years and Miyuki explained that her parents weren't against it and that she had saved money from her part-time jobs. As Souji Igarashi looked at her practical exam, he commented that she needed to go to a technical school, as she wasn't that good. Asaishi send her off for the day, saying they will evaluate her properly

As it started to rain, Miyuki was still in the building, when Kujo was going for a drink but dropped his coins on the stairs. She grabbed one and told him where the other had fallen. Outside as she was preparing to run to the train, Kujo came running giving her an umbrella and wanting she to return in next spring and asked her if she was brave enough to bet her life on anime, to which she happily answered yes.

Six months later, Miyuki was still looking at the letter she received after the exam of letting her know she passed and will be starting work on April 1. She then left for her first day at work and outside of the studio, she was Kujo heading towards the vending machine. She apologized for forgetting the umbrella, but Kujo didn't recognize her. She explained who she was and he remembered, saying it wasn't a problem. She then went into Studio 2, where Asaishi introduced himself and started to explain things. He explained that Miyuki was part of a different studio, but will train with them the first month and then introduced Fuji as their trainer. Looking at her new desk, Miyuki was quite happy. Fuji then gave all three new people their first assignment, cleanup. Miyuki didn't knew what was that and Fuji explained it to her. As she started working, she realized it was quite hard to trace a line and seeing the other 2 new people getting done, but returned by Fuji, made her even more nervous. Fuji then came to her, telling her she was slow and checked what she had done. Looking at her work, she told her it was terrible, but looking deeper, she praised her for using different and correct pens for specific lines. She then showed it how to properly trace lines. Miyuki was impressed and commented she must had done quite a lot pages.

Asaishi then invited her and the rest to the welcoming party. There Miyuki was excited for the free food and particularly meat and managed to get 2 full plates, before it ended. She then offered her new co-workers some and was a bit shocked when Natou took one of the plates. Miyuki along with the new inbetweens were called on the front scene, to be introduced. While on the scene Souji was speaking about her with the President, who after that called Miyuki and gave her a nickname "Yukimura". At first Miyuki didn't understood what's going on, but after it was explained to her that anyone who got a nickname from him, quits their job, she was shocked not wanting the name, but kept saying she won't quit.

On the next day, Miyuki woke up, remembering she was on a cleaning duty that morning and rushed to the studio. As she started cleaning the trash, she saw character designs, story board sketches, keyframes and other, finding them impressive. She then heard a noise and saw Souji sleeping on the floor under his desk and realized she was the legendary god-tier animator Souji Igarashi. As she threw the trash, Fuji told her she was late a couple of minutes and assigned her cleanup again. Some hours later, Fuji went out to eat, telling Miyuki she wants she to be ready when she returns. As Fuji returned and checked her work, she told Miyuki that yesterday's work was better than today's. Miyuki explained that she tried to draw neaty and fast, but the more she rushed, the worse her lines were becoming. Fuji told her that professionals don't make excuses, as those excuses don't show on TV. Fuji then questioned Miyuki, why did she even became an animator, working for so long, yet for so little money. Miyuki remembered her past, and how she didn't had goal back then, but after watching Pannacotta, everything changed for her. Miyuki then told Fuji that she isn't quitting and one day will thank Serizawa for making Pannacotta.

On her third day, she found a purple not, telling her to draw lines until the paper is black. As Fuji came, she asked her about the purple paper, but Fuji didn't knew anything. Fuji again assigned her to cleanup the same frame, but telling her she only had one hour, which was twice more than necessary. After 2 hours, Miyuki was ready, but her work was still not good. On the next day, she again found a purple note, telling her to use her whole arm. As Fuji came and gaver her cleanup the same frame, he noticed her arm was black and told her to wash it. Miyuki managed to do it for little over one hours and Fuji told her to redo it again. She then noticed that Miyuki wasn't even touching the paper when drawing. As she commented it, Fuji didn't even realize she wasn't touching the paper. Miyuki kept observing and noticed Fuji was not touching the paper only when she does long strokes. Miyuki returned to her desk and started practising. After work Natou asked her if she knew someone from the studio or for other reason she was hired, but Miyuki she didn't knew why they hired her. Natou told her that he worked hard to get hired, but having someone like her starting with him, make his value lower as animator. At home, Miyuki was angry at him for saying that, even though she was agreeing on what he said and went on watching Pannacotta anime.

On her fifth day, she was little late and saw Natou still angry at him, but Fuji came and understanding she was late, told her to go clean and start redoing that frame again. Miyuki then found a new note, telling her to not give up. She was done in little over a hour and Fuji finally liked the cleanup. Fuji then told her there was no point in redoing it, and she could have given her different frames each time, but doing the lines over and over was worth it. She then asked Miyuki how many time it took to make it. After Miyuki said she did it 12 times and it took her 5 days, Fuji told her that one frame was 210 yen, so she worked for 5 days and got 210 yen. As she started making calculations, she realized she will be loosing lots of money per month. As she kept working, she later asked Fuji how she managed to live with that salary and Fuji explained she was being supported by her parents in her first 2 years. Fuji then gave her first tweening, but Miyuki again didn't knew what that was and Fuji had to explain again. As she did her first tween, Fuji asked her if she enjoyed it and Miyuki happily said yes. As she was about to speak for her tweens, Kujo came asking Fuji to correct some inbetweens. He ended up looking at Miyuki's work and commented she was genuinely impressed that someone was that bad. Later in bed, Miyuki was recalling that moment of how she though for a moment he liked it, but then felt really embarrassed.

The following day she did again tweening and Fuji called her to show her tweening and Miyuki's, with Muyiki noticing how much sharpen and stable Fujis tween was. Miyuki explained she just imagined how she wanted the character to move and drew them, but Fuji explained that's how keyframes are drawn but inbetweening is completely different. Later that day, as she was leaving, Kujo came to her and asked her to come with him. He brought her to Studio 7, where they were gonna watch a trailer for their new show. Hearing they calling him director, she realized he was the assistant director for Pannacotta and that Studio 7 was responsible for the making of Pannacotta. As they watched the trailer, they asked her if she saw something, and she ended up prising some frames and what impact they had, but then Kujo started listing issues he noticed. Miyuki was thinking to herself that all was looking good to her, but Kujo told her that they don't settle for anything than perfection as animation is made out of love.

## Trivia

* The President of N2 Factory Studio gave her the nickname "Yukimura".