The First Step

(I messed up the chapter title; this is 06, and the next is 07. It's too much trouble to find an editor to fix it, so I'll just mention it here!)

For Takeda Yoichi, last year was truly an unlucky year.

He was the president of this GT Animation Production Company, and he had hoped to expand the business last year to increase profits by thirty percent.

However... things went against his wishes, and several animations produced by the company flopped one after another.

In fact, even animation production companies understand that many works are destined not to make much money. Trashy animations have always been criticized, but the fact that they continue to exist means there must be a reason for it.

The most crucial point is... that there are indeed so many novice 2D fans who like these works. It's just like the reason why "low-quality" web novels never go out of style; it's not that the readers stay "low-quality" forever, but simply because every year, so many people graduate from kindergarten, enter elementary school, and learn how to read.

Judging by previous years, although the few works from GT Animation Company last year couldn't make a huge profit, they should have at least made a small gain, enough for him to add another small property in Tokyo, a place where every inch of land is worth gold.

It's just a pity... due to internal staff dissatisfaction with wages, shifts in market trends, a surge in works of the same type as those produced by his company, and his own gambling habit... all these factors combined... caused the company to suffer huge losses last year.

Dragging on until September this year, although they barely produced two animations in an attempt to turn around the loss-making situation... but... how