Observations

Actually, plenty of people in the Mainland Animation Industry knew that its boom over the past few years had been propped up by Shui Xin alone!

Before Shui Xin rose to prominence, the most popular animated series in the Mainland Animation Industry in any given year might have averaged just over nine million views per episode. The quality simply hadn't been up to that level, and it was a difficult barrier to break through.

But after Shui Xin rose to prominence, things changed.

5 Centimeters per Second, Voices of a Distant Star, Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Initial D, Code Geass, Kaguya-sama: Love Is War, and White Album 2—seven works with over ten million average views per episode had appeared in just over four years!

Setting aside Kaguya-sama: Love Is War and White Album 2, the industry generally agreed that neither series was good enough to reach ten million average views per episode. At best, they were on the level of Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day. Since Anohana was Shui Xin's debut animated series, its numbers were more representative: just over nine million average views per episode. That was about what the Mainland Animation Industry's top works had achieved in previous years!

So why had White Album 2 managed to break through the ten-million mark? Mainly because it had aired alongside Code Geass. A large proportion of the people watching Lelouch also followed these two series by the same author as they were being serialized. That was why their final numbers had been so good!

But setting those two works aside, everyone had to admit that the other five were top-tier!

Still, if you set Shui Xin aside, during the period when he had dominated the Dragon Country Animation Industry, only one other work in the industry had actually