Anime Production Starts with Healing the Audience

"Here it comes, here it comes!"

"Damn it, I've never felt time pass so slowly!"

"The Akame ga Kill! I've been waiting for is finally airing, Big Shot Fang, I want to have your babies!"

"The screen is full of cheapskates who want to Peach!"

"……"

At 7 PM, Akame ga Kill! aired on schedule. Almost simultaneously, all viewers were refreshing the ACG Community page.

One moment, the ACG Community only had promotional PVs for Star Dream and Akame ga Kill!. The next, a full episode of Akame ga Kill! was added.

Without any need for further ado, the eagerly awaiting audience directly clicked on the player and selected play.

The moment Akame ga Kill! was opened, dense bullet comments flooded the screen, and many users' computers even lagged for a moment.

Out of necessity, many viewers could only choose to close the bullet comments and wait for the peak period to pass.

At the beginning of the anime, a carriage was traveling through a desolate wilderness when it encountered a terrifying monster halfway.

"An E-Earth Dragon~!"

Just as the Earth Dragon was about to attack the carriage, a young man wielding a sword instantly appeared.

The young man leaped into the air, and in a flash of sword light, the Earth Dragon was cut into eight pieces, dying while spewing blood.

"Holy crap, Tatsumi is so cool!"

"Burn, Tatsumi!"

"666, Big Shot Fang really didn't lie to us, this is truly a super exciting action anime."

"Who else dares to say my husband is the Ultimate Healing Mentor? Step forward, and I'll give you a buff?!"

"……"

As the anime began, Tatsumi made his first appearance, and the bullet comments exploded on the spot.

They had watched many action TV shows and movies, but due to technical limitations, those fight scenes always felt like something was missing.

But anime was different. Akame ga Kill! gave them a huge surprise right from the start.

The scene of Tatsumi fighting the Earth Dragon, with the sword light filling the screen, was exactly what they had imagined, perfectly showcasing the essence of combat.

Seeing this, many viewers even felt they might have misunderstood Fang Zheng.

Countless people had developed depression because of Star Dream, and Fang Zheng was even nicknamed the 'Ultimate Healing Mentor'.

But looking back, the Annual Best Creator Competition required an anti-war theme, and how could stories related to war be heartwarming and comfortable?

Many people in the bullet comments apologized to Fang Zheng, implying that they had misunderstood him and shouldn't have called him a "healing maniac."

"Something feels off~"

In a luxurious hotel room, a slender beauty was lazily sprawled on the bed, wearing a silk nightgown, her bare feet swinging back and forth in the air.

By the beauty's bedside was a poster, the 'Demon Possession' that Fang Zheng had given away as a prize during the show.

Looking at the poster with Fang Zheng's handwritten words, "Once dreamed of traveling the world with a sword, but died twice upon leaving the village," the beauty frowned. She watched the anime playing on her laptop and felt that something was not quite right.

As Fang Zheng's 'Number One Simp', she had fallen hopelessly in love with anime since Star Dream first emerged, and it continued to this day.

"Could it be that Big Shot Fang has really changed his style?"

The beauty looked puzzled. After Fang Zheng had playfully interacted with his fans on Weibo a while back, she felt that the Big Shot Fang she admired wasn't exactly a serious person.

However, the Akame ga Kill! playing on her computer was indeed not depressing at all; instead, it exuded a sense of excitement.

The exhilarating combat scenes, although slightly bloody, didn't seem depressing in any way.

The beauty shook her head, deciding to watch more before making a judgment, as the words Fang Zheng had written for her seemed unusual no matter how she looked at them.

Akame ga Kill! only released the first five episodes for its premiere, a decision made after careful discussion between Fang Zheng and Zhang Siyu.

In Fang Zheng's opinion, five episodes served as a watershed for Akame ga Kill!. In the first five episodes, almost all members of Night Raid, except for the later addition of Esdeath, had appeared.

Moreover, the darkness of the empire was well-established, the conflict between both sides gradually surfaced and sharpened, building tension and anticipation for the audience, and maximizing the visual impact.

Just as the audience expected the anime to depict the battle between Night Raid and the empire, Akame ga Kill! delivered a major plot twist in the sixth episode.

This major twist caused the eagerly anticipating audience to explode.

The beloved, moe, bespectacled girl in Akame ga Kill! met her demise, and in a particularly tragic manner.

Countless viewers were looking forward to the subsequent battle scenes, only for the author to deliver a shocking twist, leaving many viewers cursing due to the drastic contrast.

From the sixth episode onwards, Akame ga Kill! could be said to be the beginning of the entire work's tragedy.

Characters that the audience loved died one after another, exposing the most brutal and heart-wrenching scenes nakedly to the viewers. Many viewers even suspected that the author had suffered some real-life trauma and was specifically seeking revenge on society.

Therefore, Fang Zheng released the first five episodes first, and then continued to release them at a slow pace of one episode per day.

This release method allowed him to continuously capture the audience's anticipation, preventing them from experiencing a fleeting burst of excitement followed by a dull void, and also preventing them from becoming impatient due to excessively slow updates.

On the other hand, Fang Zheng could also use the broadcast period of Akame ga Kill! to prepare his new works.

Although he remembered that most new anime were updated once a week, he did not do so.

One update per week. A normal twelve-episode anime can take three months to complete, and that's enough time for Fang Zheng to create several works.

His goal is to promote the 2D world and build a prosperous era for it, so the quantity and quality of his works are absolutely the foundation of everything.

Therefore, as long as he keeps releasing new works and the ACG Community's anime is continuously broadcast, his goal will be achieved.

Five episodes of anime, over three hours, are enough for the audience to finish watching.

However, the night is long, and most of the viewers who finished watching couldn't sleep. Many even chose to go back and rewatch the version with bullet comments.

"Holy crap, Big Shot Fang, are you a demon? Just before, Aria was so kind and cute, and then she became a pervert?!"

"This anime just started, and Tatsumi's childhood sweethearts have already died twice. Doesn't something feel off here?"

"You're not alone upstairs, I feel the same way!"

"Big Shot Fang isn't secretly planning something big, is he~"

"..."

Aria is not a significant character in Akame ga Kill!; at most, she's a minor character, the kind that just passes through.

So when Fang Zheng drew the promotional poster, he didn't mention her, and the audience naturally knew nothing about her.

When Aria first appeared before the audience in the anime, many viewers were captivated by her innocent and kind demeanor. Many even grew fond of this simple-hearted young girl.

When the Night Raid members made their first appearance with an 'everyone is a villain' attitude, many viewers started to worry about Aria's fate.

But the next scene completely stunned the audience and made them once again experience Fang Zheng's malicious intentions and his world-shattering actions.

When Akame and the others laid bare the perversions and crimes of Aria's family in front of Tatsumi, all the viewers felt like they had been slapped hard across the face, their cheeks burning.

'Wuwuwu~ This isn't the Aria I like!'

This was the sentiment of all the viewers at that moment. Seeing Aria's personality collapse, everyone felt their young hearts had been traumatized.

What did I do wrong to deserve this!

Many viewers secretly cursed Fang Zheng, calling him inhuman for designing such a character for such a cute girl, claiming it was sheer madness!

"I knew it! I knew it wasn't that simple!"

In the hotel, the beauty who once declared herself Fang Zheng's 'Number One Simp' jumped up from the bed excitedly. Looking at the poster hanging by the headboard, she suddenly understood everything.

'Once dreamed of traveling the world with a sword, but died twice outside the village.'

"So that's what it meant. So that's why he wrote this sentence with this plot in mind."

The beauty looked at the poster by the bed, her fair cheeks puffed out. She could feel the mindset Fang Zheng had when he wrote that sentence.

This wasn't thanking her, his loyal fan, for her support at all; it was clearly teasing her!

The girl angrily patted the mattress beneath her twice, her lips pouting high. It was obvious she was a little unhappy.

She had publicly declared on a show, in front of all the viewers, that she greatly admired Fang Zheng. She had even changed her name to 'Big Shot Fang's Number One Simp' to express her adoration.

But in the end, her most admired Big Shot Fang was actually teasing her. This was too much!

No! She wouldn't let this go! This young lady had never suffered such injustice in her life!

Suddenly, the beauty's gaze swept over the scrolling recruitment advertisements above the ACG Community, and her eyes lit up.

"Hehe, Big Shot Fang, here I come~"

Her seemingly expressive big eyes were clear and sparkling, darting around. Due to her circumstances, she had used a voice changer when contacting the program over the phone, so they didn't even know if she was male or female.

Fang Zheng definitely wouldn't guess her identity either. The enemy is in the open, and she is in the dark. With this advantage, everything would be easier~

Achoo~!

In Qinghui Building, Zhang Siyu pushed open the door to Fang Zheng's office and walked in.

"Director Fang, the premiere viewership for Akame ga Kill! is out," Zhang Siyu said, holding a document as she approached Fang Zheng's desk.

"At 8 PM, Akame ga Kill! had been online for one hour, and the viewership reached seven million. By 9 PM, after two hours, it reached thirteen million. The statistics for 10 PM haven't been compiled yet, but it's estimated to be no less than twenty million."

Fang Zheng took the document Zhang Siyu handed him and read it carefully.

According to Zhang Siyu's estimate, Akame ga Kill! would not be less than twenty million in its first three hours, after all, Fang Zheng's own popularity was no joke.

Furthermore, before Akame ga Kill! was released, Fang Zheng had conducted a publicity campaign. Although the methods were a bit unconventional, the effect was quite good.

Fang Zheng had originally planned to lay low at home for a while, but the company was too busy. With insufficient staff, and with Zhang Siyu holding everything together alone, normal operations were impossible.

Reluctantly, Fang Zheng had to return to the company, risking being mobbed by fans.

"Very good, the viewership has exceeded my expectations," Fang Zheng said with a faint smile. Achieving over ten million views in just two hours on the first day of Akame ga Kill!'s release was enough to satisfy him.

"By the way, what do you think of the ACG Community membership system I mentioned earlier?"