Time ticked forward bit by bit, and as the clock hands reached midnight, Sawai Miku refreshed the Raccoon Animation Network page on her computer.
Sure enough, in the so-called Shui Xin column, three works appeared all at once.
First was a stoic man leaning against a black-and-white panda-colored car, his gaze fixed calmly just outside the frame.
Initial D...
A strange name, Sawai Miku clicked on it to take a look.
Nearly forty episodes of content, and then one episode...
Sawai Miku blinked. Eight Dragon Country Coins per episode?
What the hell is this?
Sawai Miku felt that the pricing staff at Raccoon Animation Network had completely lost their minds.
Admittedly, in this new era of the internet, piracy had all but vanished. Even if some works had so-called pirated versions, it wasn't that the officials lacked the ability to wipe them out, but rather that they intentionally indulged them...
For instance, pirate websites were often run by insiders from the copyright holders themselves, much like antivirus companies creating and releasing their own viruses, or simply using piracy to boost a work's popularity. However, most works didn't have pirated resources at all.
Because of this, fans generally wouldn't scour the entire internet for pirated resources whenever a work was released, like they did in the Parallel World of Huaguo; they basically couldn't find any. Thus, everyone on Japan Island was accustomed to the pay-to-watch model.
But normally, the price for a standard work was around four or five Dragon Country Coins, and better ones might go for six. Only the big productions from major companies would set a price like eight Dragon Country Coins per episode.
But the question was, did these animation video websites really have that much confidence in this "Shui Xin" person's work? To actually dare to