Anime Production: Starting with Healing the Audience
Chapter 36

Is This What "Must-Read for Real Men" Means? (Please Subscribe!) (Continued)

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The last prisoner who knew how to fly a plane was Ayuyan from My Maid Is Annoying!, a military man who had retired because of an eye condition. He was also a crazed lolicon who, simply because he fell in love with the little girl Misha at first sight, harbored ulterior motives and went to her house to apply for a job as her nanny. He was practically the model and paragon of the prisoner community.

"Looks like although this world doesn't have anime, the audience's love of moe isn't lacking in the slightest."

Fang Zheng scrolled down through the comments, muttering, "In front of a cute little loli, sexy stuff is utterly powerless!

Soon, Fang Zheng found the hugely popular educational post from earlier. When he saw the original poster say that Tough Guy was a battle anime, Fang Zheng spat out a mouthful of old blood!

What the hell do you mean, a battle anime? Is that what Tough Guy means in your world?!

If Tough Guy means that, then does "Ah Wei Is Dead" count as a ghost story?

So many people asked Ah Wei to come out and go through the motions every day. With tens of billions of Ah Weis dying every year, Ah Wei's mass graveyard would have been overflowing long ago!

By that logic, if "Ah Wei Is Dead" isn't a ghost story, then what is it?!

Fang Zheng looked at the so-called educational material and helplessly grumbled.

He suddenly felt incredibly stupid. He clearly knew that people in this world couldn't even experience what moe was. Why had he still thought they understood the essence of Tough Guy?

Fang Zheng continued scrolling. When he saw the introduction to XX Orthopedics, his eyes rolled back, and he nearly fainted from anger.

What was this supposed to be?!

Why were this generation of netizens so hopelessly clueless? They were simply the worst generation of netizens in history, bar none.

Please, Big Shots, support me more~~~~~~~~

After a long while, a playful smile crept across Fang Zheng's lips.

Since the netizens' votes had given Tough Guy the highest number of votes, then the next anime would be Tough Guy.

"What the hell do you mean, a battle anime? It's time to show you what a real tough guy should be watching!"

With that, Fang Zheng logged into his Weibo account and clicked to log in.

"Hello, my adorable fans. Good morning! I'm your long-awaited Big Shot Fang. Moved by the selfless help of my many fans, I have no way to repay you except by bringing out my greatest talent to give something back to everyone!

"The voting event I started on the A Company forum a few days ago has ended. Based on the results, there are many tough guys among everyone here, so please look forward to my new work, When Prison Food Arrives Next to Me!"

After editing the post, Fang Zheng himself had no idea what mindset he had used to publish it.

To be honest, he was very much looking forward to seeing the expressions on those fans who called themselves tough guys when they saw the real Tough Guy.

It would definitely be interesting, wouldn't it?

Fang Zheng leaned back in his chair and closed his eyes, pondering which anime to make next.

After all, an anime could have many tags. Moe anime was a major trend, and there were even more anime featuring Tough Guy as something that absolutely had to be watched.

It wasn't that Fang Zheng didn't know which anime to make. He simply didn't know which one to choose.

Was Kanna not suitable for tough guys to watch? Was Kohinata not suitable for tough guys to watch?

Or, in this day and age, could there really be people who didn't know why the Dragon King went to jail?

Besides those, there were also Himouto! Umaru-chan, Illyasviel, Is the Order a Rabbit?, Laid-Back Camp, Gabriel Dropout, and so on. All of them were must-watch anime with tough-guy elements. (There are too many to introduce one by one. If any Big Shots are interested, explain them in the book reviews~)

As the Dragon King's fellow inmate, if you hadn't watched these moe-to-the-point-of-bleeding anime, then all he could say was that your cultivation was far from sufficient. You needed more training, young man!

Fang Zheng scratched his head in frustration. There were simply too many anime to choose from, enough to drive anyone with decision paralysis to death.

After agonizing over it for quite a while, Fang Zheng ultimately chose When Prison Food Arrives Next to Me. There was no other reason—Kohinata's repeated "nya-nai" was simply too infectious.

Calling it brainwashing wouldn't be an exaggeration.

Before watching this anime, Fang Zheng had never known that the two short syllables "nya-nai" could be spoken with so many different emotions.

"Nya-nai~ Nya-nai-ga~ Hehe, awsl."

"Director Fang, what are you—"

At that moment, Zhang Siyu walked in from outside. She had knocked on the door of Fang Zheng's office for quite a while, but hadn't heard any response from inside.

Without thinking much of it, she assumed Fang Zheng might not be in the office.

But when she pushed open the office door, the first thing she saw was Fang Zheng sitting in his chair with a perverted grin, staring at his computer and giggling foolishly.

The scene looked exactly like a sleazy man browsing something indecent!

"Director Fang, this is the company. Could you please be a little more mindful of your image? You can always look at that sort of thing after you get home!"

Zhang Siyu's face flushed slightly. She really hadn't expected Fang Zheng to be watching that sort of material, much less to be so engrossed that he hadn't even heard her knocking.

"What are you talking about?!"

When Fang Zheng saw Zhang Siyu enter and heard what she said, he froze for a moment before glaring at her in annoyance.

"I'm thinking about the new anime. After all, the netizens' voting results are already out."

A new anime?

Zhang Siyu simply stared at Fang Zheng, her eyes filled with disbelief.

What kind of anime could make someone wear such a perverted grin?

"Yes, yes, Director Fang is terribly busy. I misunderstood you."

Zhang Siyu spoke to Fang Zheng with extreme insincerity. Her expression and tone clearly showed that she didn't believe a word he was saying—not even a single syllable.

What else could make a man smile like that except that sort of thing?!

"You—!"

Seeing the obvious distrust on Zhang Siyu's face, Fang Zheng wanted to explain something, but ultimately shook his head.

No matter what he said now, Zhang Siyu wouldn't believe him. He could only wait until the anime was produced. Then everything would become clear.

However, Fang Zheng seemed to have forgotten that compared with a pervert, a lolicon wasn't exactly much better~

"What is it?"

Fang Zheng composed his expression. Since there was no point explaining, he decided not to bother.

"It's like this, Director Fang. The rumors TT Group spread online earlier have been disproven without effort, but they clearly have no intention of giving up."

As she spoke, Zhang Siyu placed a document in front of Fang Zheng and said, "This contains the remarks made by TT Group Vice President Sun Qian at the Press Conference. Director Fang, your post was just published, and they—

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