Ripples

Actually, for the anime fans of the Dragon Country, that period of time ten or twenty years ago was their happiest era.

The anime industry in the interior of the Dragon Country had not yet developed, and the sector was in a state of total chaos.

Therefore, the entire interior anime industry was basically crowded out by works from the Japan Island.

Of course, it was crowded out in a different way—yes, through piracy.

All sorts of pirated anime DVDs and low-quality manga books were the childhood staples for the current generation of active creators in the Dragon Country animation industry.

Did people have to pay to watch anime or read manga back then?

Are you joking? Everyone was a loyal member of the "free-loading" party!

It's nothing like today, where a single manga magazine costs thirty, and watching anime online is charged by the episode.

However, after the interior anime companies rose to power and suppressed those pirated goods, everyone assumed these interior companies would cooperate with the anime companies on the Japan Island to produce legitimate content.

Who could have guessed that the final outcome would be the anime forces of the Japan Island being squeezed out of the interior market by the authorities, while the vacated market was seized by the Modu Seven Greats Manga Companies and numerous animation production companies, forming an entirely different anime circle?

And this exclusion lasted for twenty years... causing the new generation of anime fans in the Dragon Country to know that the anime industry in the Japan Island region was very developed, yet they couldn't find a single work from that region on the market.

Although this kind of thing was absurd, existence implies justification, and everyone eventually accepted the situation.

After all, this situation seemed common in other industries