Back in Modu, Chu Yu always felt a faint melancholy, to be honest. This time, though, his feelings were especially complicated.
That evening, Chu Yu, Huang Ming, and Gu Yan reserved a table at a hotel. Chu Yu rarely drank, but even he had a few drinks to celebrate his return to Modu.
Of course, by "return," he meant his comeback to the Animation Industry, not his actual return in person.
"Come to think of it, Chu Yu, even though Tianxing slandered you and came up with a ridiculous excuse to make things difficult for you, you were ultimately banned because of some sensitive elements in Lelouch. Isn't Attack on Titan even more outrageous than Lelouch? Will it pass censorship?"
As he ate and drank, Huang Ming eagerly took the fruits of Chu Yu's labor over the past few weeks from him.
His exaggerated expression made it obvious just how much the story of Attack on Titan had shocked him. In particular, Chu Yu had drawn a beautifully rendered color illustration to match the scene where the Smiling Titan swallowed the protagonist Eren's mother like a little candy figure.
Blood sprayed everywhere, and the protagonist's expression made the scene suitably intense. It was just a pity—
Seeing the table full of food and drink had killed Huang Ming's appetite. He was usually a pretty upbeat person.
When it came to gore, there were plenty of films, anime, and novels more graphic than Attack on Titan. But those were merely bloody scenes with no real story behind them. At least in this first episode's script, Chu Yu's illustration accompanied the moment when Eren's mother smiled and told the protagonist to run. But as Eren really ran, his mother covered her mouth, watched his retreating back in despair, and cried for him