On January 1, people across every industry in Dragon Country celebrated New Year's Day.
Although employees were on holiday, the video-streaming sites still updated their content right on schedule.
Seven anime series premiered at the same time that day.
Many anime fans got up early in the morning, ordered breakfast, then turned on their computers and watched anime while they ate.
On all the major sites, there was no doubt that Tianxing's Imbalance had the highest playback numbers.
A suspenseful mystery series with a touch of fantasy, Imbalance was very different from the overpowered-hero anime flooding the Dragon Country market.
Its story wasn't so obscure and hard to follow that it felt niche, but neither was it so straightforward that longtime anime fans would lose interest at a glance. In style, it was similar to Psycho-Pass from the Parallel World, but not nearly as bleak!
It had struck the right balance. Its screenwriter, Yin Xia, knew full well that he couldn't make everyone like the series; all he needed was to make it appeal to as many people as possible.
So, from morning to evening, the audience rating for the series rose from 8.9 at the start to 9.1 by nightfall.
The first episode's total playback across the entire internet also successfully surpassed three million!
Considering its first-day results, the series had done justice to its investment!
Five or six years ago, these would have been excellent results. If any anime production team had made a series that surpassed three million views on its first day, they could have popped champagne in a fancy restaurant to celebrate.
But after Dragon Country's 2D fans and media had witnessed the Final Episode of L hit an average of over twenty million views per episode, followed by Slam Dunk reaching an average of