Actually, animations like 5 Centimeters per Second and Voices of a Distant Star are relatively kind to the Night Owls.
Although the plots are quite cruel and make it hard for people to sleep, and they are rather soul-crushing, at least the runtime of these works is short!
Even though it hurts, it basically passes after a while.
It's not like Puella Magi Madoka Magica, which starts getting dark from the Third Episode and continues to depress the viewer layer by layer until the very last episode.
But all in all, the time Chu Yu's three works were released on the Japan Island website was very unfriendly to the audience. Viewers who chose to start with 5 Centimeters per Second and Voices of a Distant Star were easily drawn in by the exquisite Huafeng of both works, but after finishing them, they found it hard to fall asleep and were forced to become Night Owls.
And if the viewers started by watching Initial D... could they even escape?
Looking at all the works Chu Yu has serialized in Dragon Country, which one has the most attractive opening?
Undoubtedly, it is Lelouch and Initial D.
The Japan Island companies that imported Chu Yu's works are also quite calculating.
After all, having imported over a dozen of Chu Yu's works, if they want the audience to keep paying for them, they must have a good start.
If they had released Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day and Madoka Magica first, perhaps many viewers wouldn't have had the patience; after all, those works are too slow-burn, and they might have dropped them immediately.
But there is no need to worry about that with these three works. For those who want to watch a long series, Initial D is long enough, and for