Seiyuu Academy

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***Seiyuu Academy*** **(hangul:** 쎄이유우 아카데미, **kanji:** 声優 アカデミー**)**, sometimes referred to as ***Seiyuu Academy 1***, is a South Korean-Japanese co-ed survival show broadcasted on Mnet in South Korea and its sister channel Mnet Japan in its respective country.

The winning contestants will debut as an idol unit under a joint venture between **SM Entertainment** and **Avex Trax**, as well as being offered a contract by **81 Produce** to increase their job offers as voice actors in Japan.

It is the first season of the homonymous series.

## Concept

*Seiyuu Academy* aims to further enhance singing, dancing and acting skills of recently debuted acts in the South Korean entertainment industry, as well as helping them enter the Japanese market as all-rounded performers. 39 debuted actors and idols - referred to as **Students** during their time on the show - will be split into **3 classes** of 13, each one guided by four **Teachers** - two focused on the **idol aspects** and two on the **acting** - plus two others shared by all classes responsible for their **Japanese** and **Media training** classes.

## Background

On November 12, 2022, Mnet first announced their collaboration with SM Entertainment and Avex Group on a new survival show which would take place in early 2023 and that applications would be open starting the next month.

On December 27, 2023, auditions for the show officially opened. Active or inactive idols and actors born between 1996 and 2003 and debuting after 2018 were all eligible for the show regardless of gender. Mnet registered a total of 45 applications, barely the minimum for the show to have the right amount of contestants.

On January 1, Mnet confirmed *Seiyuu Academy* to air starting March 1 of the same year. The profiles were revealed in the same occasion.

On February 1, Mnet released three promotional posters for the show containing the trainee Go Subin, with the profiles being subsequentially released in batches of thirteen in alphabetical order. No reason behind the choice has been revealed so far.

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## Panel

### Hosts

* Seohyun
* Nishiyama Kotaro

### Teachers (mentors)

#### Class One

* D.O (vocals)
* Seulgi (dance)
* Eguchi Takuya (acting)
* Koga Aoi (acting)

#### Class Two

* Baekhyun (vocals)
* BoA (dance)
* Miki Shinichiro (acting)
* Uchiyama Kouki (acting)

#### Class Three

* Taeyeon (vocals)
* Rikimaru (dance)
* Umehara Yuuichirou (acting)
* Nakajima Yoshiki (acting)

## Evaluations

### 1st VOCAL AUDITION: Don't Get Yourself Kicked Out!

The students - already split into classes - were asked to perform a song from any current or former SM Entertainment artist in three groups per class at most. Subsequent to the gradings from the teachers, the four students with the lowest grades were eliminated from the competition to be replaced with auditionees.

With Elvira's withdrawal from the competition, the number was reduced to three eliminated students.

### 1st RECORDING: 'What If...?'

After receiving their respective grades in the **Japanese Test**, the students were asked to create *writing committees* who would create stories for the class to enact. They were then evaluated based on their acting skills.

Unlike last evaluation, this one did not originally plan eliminations: it did, however, cause seven students to drop out due to most being tested positive for COVID-19, as well as some dropouts due to personal reasons.

#### Writing committees

##### Class One

* Ahn Junyong
* Amajiki Ruruka
* Jang Huijun

##### Class Two

* Go Subin
* Nam Kyuhyung
* Park Juno

##### Class Three

* Cha Jiseong
* Jin Sieun
* Taeyang

## Aftermath

Nam Kyuhyung, Oscar Lee, Jin Sieun, Taeyang, Jang Huijun, Yoon Jihyeon Alice, Park Juno, Son Yeeun, Chen Yuting, Sung Junsoo, Choi Mingyu and Hannah Yuxin Chen were announced as the final members of the co-ed project group niveau seuil.

### Other contestants

* Elvira officially left AMARENA after her departure from the show.
* Eden officially left AUTOMATA after his departure from the show.
	+ AUTOMATA officially disbanded on July 2023 after all the members won the lawsuit against SIGMA CORP.
* Kwon Siyun will continue working as a musical theatre actor after his recovery from COVID-19.
* Li Mo announced her intention to return to a non-celebrity life. Her current whereabouts are unknown.
* Luka, Suho and Hanna officially left END OF REASON.
	+ The band presumably disbanded.
* Monday returned to AMARENA.
* Noh Seokhoon and Lee Siyun announced their retirement from acting.
	+ Postcards from Mars presumably disbanded.
* Yang Sihyeon continues working as a producer.
* Zhou Liqiang's current whereabouts are unknown.
* Yueliang and Zixuan left Cube Entertainment and 100bpm.