Surge

Initially, the bold and blatant way Chu Yu had the Female Lead, Aisaka Taiga, curse at the screen made everyone—including Huang Ming, Su Ruo, Zhao Qinyin, and the entire company—feel it was far too daring.

Wasn't Chu Yu worried that the fragile-hearted fans would just click away from the trailer in an instant?

But the final result was completely different from what they had feared...

On the contrary, the view count for the Toradora! trailer held a very clear advantage among the other January-broadcast anime released during the same period.

This situation left the veteran employees of GT Animation Studio feeling thrilled. Although a trailer doesn't represent the final quality of a work, for the past few years, the anime produced by GT Animation Studio had been crushed by all sorts of other works at the trailer stage, and then continued to be crushed until the series concluded.

Otherwise, if the works had even a shred of popularity, Chu Yu wouldn't have been able to acquire a twenty-year-old company at such a low price; the previous owner simply didn't see any future for the company.

The company's employees had grown accustomed to failure, but that didn't mean they wanted to spend their whole lives making failed anime.

This new boss was truly worthy of being a big shot in the mainland animation circle. Not only was he wealthy himself, but the female screenwriter he brought in was also incredibly talented... Many employees were already fantasizing about the scene of receiving acclaim from fans across the animation industry once the anime was released.

Just as mentioned in the behind-the-scenes footage, they wouldn't dare say that one out of the three works could break into the top ten most popular anime of the January season—those were seats permanently occupied by big productions