Six Hundred Ninety-One: The Returns

(I'm not splitting this into chapters anymore. Typing on my phone is awkward with such a small screen, and I forgot where I left off!)

Time flew by, and before long, it was June.

For Chu Yu, this period had brought back the feeling he'd had back in Modu.

Back then, in Modu, he'd juggled manga and animation while attending all sorts of events—livestream interviews, autograph sessions, and the like. After coming to Japan Island and switching to animation, his output hadn't decreased, but in practice, Chu Yu's personal workload had gone down!

After all, once he'd put the scripts together, all he had to do was oversee the animation's progress and quality. His company had so many employees for a reason—they were there to handle all the troublesome stuff!

But now... with AD's production on track, Chu Yu's workload was much heavier than before.

Still, he'd gotten used to working at this pace back in Modu, so it wasn't too hard to adapt.

By now, both of GT Animation Company's currently airing shows, Toradora! and Kimi ni Todoke, had entered their final stretch.

Kimi ni Todoke still had a little more story left to tell, but it would only take another two or three months. It would finish before AD began airing in October, and then... all the manpower at GT Animation Studio would be devoted to AD.

As for Toradora!, production would wrap up in about a week. At the same time, its Animation Production Team would move over to work on AD!

Just as Chu Yu had planned from the beginning, he wanted AD to start out airing at least three episodes a week. After all, he'd already noticed something.

Once a work reached A or S rank, with the exception of animated films like Your Name