Reputation

In this world, whether on the Mainland or Japan Island, the most popular works were still classic, passionate stories.

Even works that left people depressed were niche.

Calling something niche meant that few works of that type had ever become hugely popular. Otherwise, it wouldn't be niche.

So it was easy for anime fans on Japan Island to fall into the traps of Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day and Magical Girl Theme.

Both works had certainly started out heading in a warm, comedic direction. Who could have guessed that, as the stories unfolded, they would end up like this?

Anohana was easier to take. Meiko disappeared in the end, but in a sense, she was reincarnated, which was a kind of happy ending.

But Puella Magi Madoka Magica?

From the shocking death of the upperclassman in the Third Episode to the revelation of the Magical Girls' true nature, there was the touching bond between Sayaka and Kyoko—a friendship and something more, impossible to tell apart—and their deaths together. Then, at the end, the truth behind the mystery, the Witches' ultimate fate, the Karma surrounding Madoka, and the choice she made...

To the people of Japan Island, this anime was staggering.

In fact, the works Chu Yu had exchanged for were basically works from Japan Island in a Parallel World.

Many details might have gone unnoticed by people in the Dragon Kingdom's Mainland, but the 2D Fans on Japan Island could appreciate their significance much better.

Take Puella Magi Madoka Magica, for example. In the Parallel World's Huaguo, it was merely a somewhat popular work. Many people still considered plenty of other anime better.

But in the Parallel World's Japan, Puella Magi Madoka Magica was practically the pinnacle of its domestic animation over the past ten or twenty years.