SERA00's schedule and our company!

Hey everyone! With the recent announcement of expansion of the Infinity Project overseas, many fans were wondering how our training regime works, since Asian entertainment agencies are famous (or infamous...) for their factory-like production of idols. I've outlined life in the complex before, but I haven't really explained the system itself. 

It's kinda complicated and I'm not the best at explaining, you might have to read it twice XD (warning long post!)

Hmm, I would have to say the system resembles that of its Asian counterparts more than Western. Here in North America, the artist has to pave their own way, but in more than one cases in Asia, artists can be famous even before they debut! Entertainment companies like YS Entertainment scout potential talents and train them, and then package the best trainees into a group and promote them. Often fans are anticipating the groups before their first single. You could even say that is the case of CASUT00, where they were famous before they debuted since they are basically endorsed by SERA00. 

As for our system, it's tailored specifically for SERA00's large numbers so it's not one feature that CASUT00 will be adopting. You could almost compare us to an agency, with SERA00 being the company and us members being its roster...

The three main areas that members are trained in are academics, vocals, and dance. When you're accepted as a 00 rank, you're graded in each category, and there are certain gradings 00s have to obtain before they are considered for promotion. It doesn't stop when you're promoted though, we still attend lessons as members. 

The Academic sector is not like school lessons. Sometimes they teach that too, but it's not first priority. Academics are anything the management thinks you need to brush up on. Since SERA00 is managed under the Infinity Project, a collaboration with overseas distribution companies, we're always trying to break into the Chinese, Japanese, and Korean markets. For example, CASUT00's sub-unit CASU-J is located in Japan. 

As a result, the top members are required to study a range of languages as well as the conventional dancing and singing. Sassan was already fluent in Japanese in addition to  English, now she speaks Mandarin and Korean as well. Angel came with fluency in three languages from her ethnical background; English, Mandarin, and Italian. Like Sassan, she's learned Japanese and Korean, and can speak conversational Cantonese. And of course, since we're Canadian, French... Waaahhh, it's mind blowing thinking of the number of languages Angel can speak. (even without my Angel bias!!) However you guys probably know that it's a common occurrence amongst idols to speak many languages. 

So there are your Academics; if you're not learning languages you learn school stuff, which is mandatory for members 18 and under. Most top members are over 18. Then there's dancing and vocals, pretty straightforwards. 00 ranks have a lesson called Training, that's everything from how to take a photoshoot to acting to how to hold oneself in public. It's not usually the grade in Academics, Dance, or Vocals that holds back their promotion, it's the Training. But after you debut there aren't really any acting lessons anymore. 

Should I post a picture of our schedule? Each day we have to check the database when we make up to see which schedule we have. We have four variations of schedules (because there used to be four teams) and they are called S, E, R, and A. Each variation has the same classes, just in a different order, and are held concurrently. So each day a schedule will be assigned to each team to best meet their work schedule. Only schedule S has the SERA00 Stage; so whichever team is assigned schedule S will be performing that night's stage. So for example, S has a work block in the morning, E has it in the afternoon, R has it mid-day and A has it in the night. They're coordinated so that they don't clash - only one dance class at a time, so others are doing work, vocals, or academics, etc. 

00s have a different schedule, they don't have a work block. They have training, and they have the SERA00 Stage every single day. 

So we won't always go by the schedule. If we have a big scheduled event like group photoshoot or public appearance that requires the top members, we can't just send one team, as all the A ranks are spread out amongst the team. So I estimate we will use the schedules maybe 3-4 days a week? It's enough though, cuz the schedules are packed and they're extremely tiring. 

So if you've gotten this far in the post, yay! Check out guilunacademy.blogspot.com to find out more about our overseas Infinity Project counterpart; YS Entertainment. 

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