A Rival

Three days after AD's animated trailer was released, Tianxing Animation Company, responding to calls from its fans, also released a trailer for its anime, Qingxian.

Honestly, compared with AD's trailer, Qingxian's really was stunning.

After all, this anime had a budget of sixty million. Although that was less than AD's, Qingxian had only a little over twenty episodes. Its average budget per episode was every bit as high as AD's.

And... Chu Yu suspected Tianxing Animation Company had spent nearly the past two months doing nothing but making this one-minute trailer!

Many animation companies put a great deal of effort into promotion, often caring less about the quality of the work itself. As a result, they spared no effort when making trailers, the first wave of a project's publicity.

Not just the visuals, but the characters' expressions, the color grading, the lighting, especially the way their eyes were drawn... it was all incredibly effective.

That was exactly the case with Qingxian's trailer.

Unlike AD's trailer, which revealed absolutely nothing about its main plot, Qingxian's style was unmistakable.

It felt a little like a combination of The Wallflower and Scum's Wish from the Parallel World.

At its core, it had a bit of a Mary Sue feel: a romance anime with three handsome men revolving around the heroine. But a true Mary Sue story would feel cheap, so they had dressed it up a little. They hadn't gone with the tired, nonsensical plot of three princes falling for Cinderella for no reason. Things didn't just happen without cause.

The characterization of the three male leads and the female characters was crucial. In the Parallel World anime Scum's Wish, which character left the strongest impression on viewers?

There was no doubt it was Akane Minagawa. You could say the work wouldn't exist