New Year's Eve

On the night of December 31 every year, people on Japan Island celebrated a day of great significance to them—much like Chinese New Year's Eve on the Mainland!

Chu Yu had given the company staff their holiday early, so everyone could get some rest.

After all, including Lannad, which had just finished airing three weeks ago, GT Animation Company had produced four animated series in a single year!

That number might not seem like much for a large animation company. Some studios produced more than four series in a single season!

But for GT Animation Company, it had already been a heavy workload. The fourth series, Lannad, had released four episodes a week, which was about as much work as producing four ongoing series at once.

Before the holiday, Chu Yu had asked the finance department to give every employee a holiday bonus. Lannad had only just finished airing, so after the New Year, Chu Yu planned to take the whole company out for a celebratory meal and hand out project bonuses.

It had become a tradition. Whether on the Mainland or Japan Island, the animations Chu Yu produced were almost always huge hits. He usually gave out less than three percent of the profits as bonuses, but even so, each employee's share could be more than their entire yearly salary. It was like how developed countries controlled high-tech industries and earned huge profits in every field, allowing their citizens to live comfortably! These days, Chu Yu had grown unwilling to work on ordinary animated series. Anything he took on was rated S or higher!

Because of their exceptional quality, his works easily became hits in both the Japan Island and Mainland animation markets. They typically earned returns of several hundred percent. For long-running hits like Kimi ni Todoke and