Japan Island's GT Animation Company and the Mainland's Tianxing had been trading insults, but to Dragon Country's 2D fans, the whole affair had taken on a different flavor ever since Teacher Shui Xin got involved!
And Zhao Qinyin's reply had pushed the whole thing to a climax!
Over the next few days, the story spread beyond animation forums. Media outlets and personal accounts on Douyin and other major short-video platforms competed to report on it.
Xin Man Net was especially active. How could all those uploaders pass up news like this? They churned out analysis videos laying out the tangled history between Zhao Qinyin, Zhao Yongbai, and Teacher Shui Xin, as well as the feud between their two works.
Chu Yu had taken a look himself, though, and most of it was nonsense. Some people even hinted in their videos that Teacher Shui Xin and Zhao Qinyin might be secret lovers, then dragged Gu Yan into it, scraping together all sorts of circumstantial "evidence" for this Shuraba. If there weren't so many brainless people, each one a hassle to deal with, Chu Yu would have sued them for defamation.
Regardless, the clash between Slam Dunk and Lan Feng had now become perfectly clear!
Thanks to this affair, most viewers and fans of the two works understood that the creative teams behind them were at loggerheads. Once their rivalry moved from the shadows into the open, both sides had torn off all pretense.
Tianxing's executives and employees appeared on all kinds of media and programs, with Yu Feng taking direct aim at Slam Dunk!
They rallied anime commentators who worked with Tianxing, directly or indirectly, along with current and retired creators from the Animation Industry, urging them all to speak up for Lan Feng and put down Slam Dunk!
After all,