Chapter Summaries

Fang Zheng planned to use the Kantai Collection anime to build an audience for a game, then finished the anime and announced its release online. Fans greeted his return with complaints about his New Year’s prank, but their anger quickly turned to excitement over his new work.

• Fang Zheng decided to promote a Kantai Collection game through an anime, using his and A Company's reputation to build an audience before the game launched.
• Fang Zheng contacted a game company to produce the game while keeping the posters and original artwork under his own control.
• Fang Zheng and his team completed Kantai Collection after several days of work on artwork, storyboards, filming, and voice acting.
• Fang Zheng posted online to announce the anime's release, and A Company's official account reposted his update.
• Fans flooded Fang Zheng with angry comments about the New Year’s gifts he had promised, then noticed that he had announced a new work.
• Fans accused Fang Zheng of using Plastic Memories and its supposed romantic-comedy label to trick them and ruin their Spring Festival.

Fang Zheng announced a new anime after fans angrily remembered his New Year prank, then watched their anger turn to eager praise and anticipation. At seven in the evening, fans gathered on A Company’s forum to await the work he had teased as “Gentlemen Assemble.”

• Fans saw Fang Zheng’s post and initially flamed him over his New Year prank, then realized he was announcing a new work.
• Fang Zheng read the fans’ changing comments and privately joked about lowering the mobile game’s already-low drop rates to get revenge.
• Fans speculated about the new work and complained that Fang Zheng had posted too early, leaving them impatient for its release.
• At seven in the evening, fans gathered on A Company’s forum and joked with one another while waiting for the anime.

Fang Zheng’s anime “Fleet Collection” captivated audiences with its ship girls, Abyssal Ships, and dazzling naval battles, winning over even fans who had expected a different kind of show. As the anime’s popularity surged, A Company released a game based on it, using the series to launch Fang Zheng’s entry into the game market.

• Fans complained when the anime’s title, “Fleet Collection,” appeared, but stayed to watch its premiere.
• The narration introduced a world where Abyssal Ships had driven humanity from the seas.
• The ship girls appeared, and their designs, rigging, and battles thrilled the audience.
• Shokaku drew her bow and turned an arrow into fighter planes, further impressing viewers with the setting.
• Fans embraced “Fleet Collection” and discussed its world and characters across the anime community.
• A Company released a game based on the anime, and Fang Zheng used the series’ popularity to promote it.

A Company launched a mobile game based on the newly premiered "Kantai Collection," and fans rapidly spread the news as downloads soared. The chapter ended as Chen Qian's roommates returned to Modu University but had not yet opened the door.

• A Company's official Weibo girl announced the release of the "Kantai Collection" mobile game and urged fans to download it.
• Fans discovered the game was real, spread the news, and teased A Company's official Weibo girl by calling her a marketing account.
• A Company promoted the game through its platform, and downloads and registrations surged within minutes.
• A Company's technicians verified the rising figures were real and notified Fang Zheng as the download count climbed past three million.
• Chen Qian's roommates returned to Modu University after staying out overnight, but had not yet opened the door.

Chen Qian and Qi Yu discovered A Company’s new mobile game and became captivated by its characters and voice lines. After Qi Yu prepared to draw his free cards, he clicked the button, leaving the result unknown.

• Chen Qian listened to Kongou’s greeting after drawing her as a Golden Legend in A Company’s new game.
• Qi Yu caught a glimpse of Chen Qian’s phone and learned that A Company had released a mobile game.
• Qi Yu downloaded the game, logged in, and enjoyed its illustrations and Admiral voice lines.
• Chen Qian told Qi Yu about the free ten-card draw, and Qi Yu rushed to the bathroom before making a solemn luck ritual.
• Qi Yu clicked the draw button and watched the card pool change with excitement.

After "Kantai Collection" earned nearly a hundred million in a few days, Fang Zheng agreed to an interview with Modu TV Station to honor its past support and promote the game. He then reviewed the game's enthusiastic reception and considered how its generous free-to-play perks still encouraged players to spend.

• "Kantai Collection" drew huge crowds with its character art and clothing-damage mechanic, and some fans deliberately sent shipgirls to their deaths to see the effect.
• Fang Zheng celebrated the game's rapid earnings and heard from Chen Xianting that Modu TV Station wanted to interview him.
• Fang Zheng agreed to the interview, remembering that Modu TV Station had supported him when he was still unknown.
• Chen Xianting confirmed the interview with the station, while the media remained curious about A Company's construction plans in Zhuyuan District.
• Fang Zheng checked the game's forum and noted its popularity, its connection to A Company's anime, and the perks that let free-to-play players progress by grinding.

Fang Zheng went to Modu TV Station for a live interview and arranged for the program to promote A Company's new game. The broadcast opened to a huge audience of his fans, and the chapter ended as viewers flooded the chat with comments.

• Fang Zheng told the television station's person in charge that he was willing to answer questions without a prepared script.
• Fang Zheng asked the station to promote A Company's newly released game during the interview.
• Fang Zheng reassured the person in charge that A Company was not currently looking to hire voice actors.
• Fang Zheng greeted his old acquaintance Zhang Ying before she began the live broadcast.
• Fang Zheng introduced himself on camera, and the chat erupted as a massive audience tuned in.

During a livestream interview, Fang Zheng claimed A Company was on the verge of bankruptcy because of an ambitious plan to build themed structures for its anime works. Zhang Ying and the viewers were left unsure how seriously to take his explanation.

• Zhang Ying asked Fang Zheng why he had decided to make a game, and he replied that he made it to support his family, just as she worked to support hers.
• Zhang Ying and the livestream viewers mocked Fang Zheng’s claim, pointing out that he owned A Company and was wealthy.
• Fang Zheng said A Company was close to bankruptcy, alarming Zhang Ying and the viewers.
• Fang Zheng explained that A Company had hired construction teams to build themed attractions for its anime works, including Star Dream’s planetarium and Girls und Panzer’s Tank Battle Base.
• Zhang Ying understood that the construction plan would cost an enormous amount, while Fang Zheng joked that he might have to take the bus back to the company.

Fang Zheng explained that A Company’s major investments were paving the way for a summer Anime Carnival at Zhuyuan, and promised fans themed attractions from his works. He confirmed that the Plastic Memories amusement park and its Ferris wheel would be included, while the interview moved on to another fan question.

• Fang Zheng said A Company would hold its first Anime Carnival during the summer vacation, alongside its winter Anime Festival.
• Fang Zheng explained that revenue from the mobile game and merchandise would help fund Zhuyuan and the carnival.
• Fang Zheng confirmed that the Plastic Memories amusement park, including its Ferris wheel, would be built at Zhuyuan.
• Fang Zheng promised free Ferris wheel rides for couples as a tribute to Isla and Tsukasa.
• Zhang Ying introduced a fan question about how playing games could provide a sense of achievement.

During a livestream, Fang Zheng defended spending money in games and announced that his next anime would help viewers understand why people pay to win. He said the new work and later anime were already planned, leaving fans eager to see what he would release next.

• Fang Zheng bluntly told Zhang Ying that spending money could change a player's fate, prompting the livestream viewers to tease him about pay-to-win games.
• When Zhang Ying asked why spending money had not made some fans feel accomplished, Fang Zheng said they had not spent enough and promised his upcoming anime would show them why people paid in games.
• Fang Zheng revealed that A Company would release his new work soon, surprising Zhang Ying and the livestream viewers because Ship Girls had only launched two days earlier.
• Fang Zheng said he had planned the new anime long ago and had already planned later anime as well, leaving fans amazed at his productivity.
• The chapter described how Ship Girls and its mobile game had attracted fans, including players who had previously avoided spending money.

During a livestream interview, Zhang Ying asked Fang Zheng why his anime featured so few male characters, hinting at his interest in girls' love. Fang Zheng dodged the question by pointing to the popularity of his company’s Ship Girls game, leaving Zhang Ying puzzled about the connection.

• Zhang Ying asked Fang Zheng what the men were doing in the worlds of his anime, noting that he created few male characters.
• Fang Zheng joked about light girls' love anime and said everyone already knew the answer to the question.
• Fang Zheng thanked fans for their support, prompting viewers in the livestream chat to worry that he was about to tease them.
• Fang Zheng cited Ship Girls' more than seventy million registrations as the answer, but Zhang Ying could not see how the game related to his anime.

During a livestream interview, Fang Zheng joked that all the men had become admirals, then revealed that his next anime would be called Overlord and described it as extremely explicit. The fans were stunned and worried about the risky description.

• Fang Zheng teased Zhang Ying and the livestream audience by claiming all the men had gone to become admirals.
• Fang Zheng defended the absence of men in his anime by saying art transcended reality.
• Zhang Ying asked Fang Zheng to reveal the title of his next anime and explain how it would explore spending money in games.
• Fang Zheng announced that his next work was Overlord and called it an extremely explicit anime.
• Zhang Ying and the fans reacted with disbelief, and some viewers warned Fang Zheng that his description could get him in trouble.

Fang Zheng deliberately let his remarks about making explicit anime fuel a media storm, while Zhang Ying and Chen Xianting worried about the consequences. By the time Fang Zheng reached A Company, the controversy had spread widely and online outrage was mounting.

• Zhang Ying ended the live broadcast after Fang Zheng refused to walk back his remarks, and worried fans began preparing for a backlash.
• Zhang Ying warned Fang Zheng to brace for hostile media coverage, but he explained that he wanted the controversy to generate publicity and had no intention of making H-anime.
• The next day, Fang Zheng saw that media outlets had spread the story at extraordinary speed and suspected someone was amplifying it behind the scenes.
• Chen Xianting asked Fang Zheng whether the company should clarify his remarks, but he refused because the growing buzz suited his publicity plan.
• Online commenters condemned Fang Zheng and called for authorities to deal with him as the controversy continued to escalate.

As online attacks spread from Fang Zheng to A Company’s fans and the anime community, Fang Zheng ordered the company to sue the media outlets and urged fans to stay calm. The controversy continued as Overlord aired in Kantai Collection’s time slot.

• Netizens and media outlets attacked Fang Zheng’s fans and the anime community, while Fang Zheng grew angry at the harassment.
• Fang Zheng ordered Chen Xianting to have A Company’s legal department sue every media outlet attacking its fans, despite the likely cost.
• Fang Zheng posted an open letter asking fans to endure the attacks and a warning that A Company’s lawyers were coming for the media outlets.
• Online trolls mocked Fang Zheng’s posts, and the media outlets grew bolder as anime fans held back and trusted him.
• Overlord aired at seven-thirty in the time slot when Kantai Collection was broadcast, drawing curiosity because of the controversy.

Viewers watched the premiere of Fang Zheng’s controversial new anime, Overlord, and found its opening focused on the bittersweet end of an online game. The episode left them absorbed in the story as prominent A Company supporters filled the screen with colorful barrages.

• Fans gathered on A Company’s forum to support Fang Zheng while online arguments about Overlord continued.
• The controversy drove viewers to A Company’s site, boosting Kantai Collection’s views and bringing a surge of game downloads and registrations.
• Overlord opened with a narration explaining YGGDRASIL, a popular immersive game approaching shutdown twelve years after its release.
• Viewers connected with the protagonist’s solitude as he waited in his guild hall and remembered the companions who had left the game.
• A Company’s long-standing Till Death Do Us Part users filled the screen with colorful barrages repeating Fang Zheng’s claim that Overlord was explicit and thanking supporters.

Veteran A Company fans with the limited “Till Death Do Us Part” titles flooded the Overlord stream with coordinated bullet comments, overwhelming trolls who had come to criticize Fang Zheng and A Company. The trolls realized they had misunderstood Fang Zheng’s claim about the anime being “explicit,” were mocked by viewers, and blamed the media outlets that had misled them.

• Veteran fans with “Till Death Do Us Part” titles appeared together on A Company’s Overlord stream, alarming viewers with their coordinated comments.
• Longtime fans recalled how the title had been awarded to early supporters who defended A Company during the Akame ga Kill! controversy.
• A Company’s fans rallied behind the returning veterans and taunted the trolls who had previously criticized Fang Zheng and the company.
• The trolls understood Fang Zheng’s meaning when he called the anime explicit, and viewers mocked them for their misunderstanding.
• The humiliated trolls vowed to avoid anything involving Fang Zheng and blamed the media outlets that had misled them.

After the controversy around Fang Zheng’s anime was exposed, trolls and unscrupulous media turned on each other while their online feud boosted Fleet Girls and Overlord. Overlord became a hit as fans discovered that Old Bone behaved far more cautiously than the overpowered protagonist they had expected.

• The trolls and unscrupulous media blamed and insulted each other, while A Company fans watched and joined the fight under different usernames.
• The online commotion increased the number of Fleet Girls players, and Overlord also became a huge hit.
• Fans predicted that Old Bone would dominate his new world, but Overlord showed him hiding and cautiously thinking through threats instead.
• Viewers reconsidered Old Bone’s caution as reasonable given his uncertainty about the world and possible enemies.
• A popular A Company forum post jokingly argued that air was the Supreme Lord’s greatest enemy because it enabled decomposition and could weaken his bones.

Fans joked about the meaning of Old Bone battling air in Overlord and concluded that Fang Zheng was urging them to spend money on Ship Girls in case they transmigrated when its servers shut down. Fang Zheng then directly promoted a discount on ship girls, confirming their suspicions that he was using Overlord to encourage spending.

• Fans debated Old Bone’s battle against air, with one post portraying it as a scientific necessity and another claiming it symbolized his loneliness.
• Fans mocked the elaborate analysis and joked that Overlord encouraged grinding, bullying newbies, and spending money in games.
• Fans reasoned that staying online when Ship Girls shut down might let them transmigrate, so they should buy more ship girls while they could.
• Fans contrasted their imagined future as healthy admirals with Old Bone’s skeletal body and joked that they would have no trouble enjoying life with ship girls.
• Fang Zheng sent fans a message urging them to spend money and advertising a ten-percent discount on ship girls.

Viewers continued to be drawn to overlord for Old Bone’s cautious, comedic style of showing off, and Fang Zheng’s ship-girl promotions tempted fans to spend. Old Bone then left Nazarick with Nabe to become an adventurer, while viewers admired Nabe’s icy beauty and recognized how dangerous she was to ordinary humans.

• Fans complained about Fang Zheng’s limited discount but bought ship-girl items anyway.
• Viewers praised Old Bone’s unconventional, overly cautious way of showing off as overlord continued airing.
• Old Bone decided to leave Nazarick for a stroll and entered a human city with Nabe, preparing to become an adventurer.
• Nabe’s cold looks and blunt insults delighted many viewers, who joked about her fans’ masochistic tastes.
• Viewers realized Nabe might have killed an adventurer who teased her if Old Bone had not held her back.

Nabe nearly attacked an Adventurer's Guild employee for commissioning Old Bone, but Old Bone stopped her to protect his disguise. Comedian Sister challenged Old Bone while a necromancer faced Nabe, leaving both opponents on the verge of discovering how outmatched they were.

• Nabe reacted furiously when an ordinary person addressed Old Bone and learned he had been commissioned for a job.
• Nabe leaped to kill the Guild employee, but Old Bone struck her on the head and stopped her from exposing his identity.
• The audience delighted in Nabe's aggrieved, cute reaction after Old Bone chopped her.
• Comedian Sister and a necromancer entered the scene and opposed Old Bone and Nabe.
• Comedian Sister challenged Old Bone, convinced her hero-level strength would prevail, while the necromancer boasted against Nabe from atop his Bone Dragon.