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Clearly, it wasn't just Kawasaki Masahiro who knew quality; the eyes of the audience who watched the first episode of Toradora! were sharp.

Among the seventeen works that aired on January 1st, the first day of the New Year, Toradora! was not the one with the highest popularity or view count...

But when the day ended, the Japanese Animation Industry strangely discovered the absurd nature of this work, Toradora!...

Across all major rating websites on the internet, this anime's score did not drop below 9.5. On the authoritative cultural work rating site Douban, after as many as ten thousand people rated the first episode of Toradora!, the score settled at 9.6. Meanwhile, on the same site, the second-ranked new show that aired on January 1st, Red Moon, only had a score of 9.1...

Low popularity and an unknown Animation Studio were related to poor promotion, but only the fans' rating data would not lie. After all, the cost of manipulating ratings is very high, and no company is stupid enough to do that.

In other words... does this anime really have the potential to be a dark horse?

Many industry insiders on the Japan Island were guessing as much in their hearts.

Viewers online who had watched the first episode of Toradora! scrambled to promote the work.

Many fence-sitters jumped straight into the pit...

And Nakamura Ryu, who had made a bet with his fans, suddenly became nervous...

In his fan group, a crowd of people was already heatedly discussing the cross-dressing livestream.

"Old Long, you never expected this, did you? The three works from GT Animation Studio have brought about a great start!"

"It's only the first episode, don't get happy too early. I guarantee that the pacing of this work will definitely collapse later and return to its