Under Chu Yu's Buddha-like attitude, GT Animation Company hadn't made much of a fuss about The Garden of Words airing!
By all accounts, Tianxing's Lost Forest shouldn't have had to compete with The Garden of Words!
After all, an anime with an investment of seventy or eighty million, planned as a two-cour season, and a forty-minute standalone animated short would hardly be in competition during the three-month-long second-quarter anime market.
Chu Yu's side hadn't reacted much, but Tianxing had taken that as a green light to get even bolder. Compared to its earlier promotional strategy, it was now going all out to tie The Garden of Words to Lost Forest, unilaterally creating the impression that the two works were going head-to-head in the April anime market.
The stunt made many of Chu Yu's longtime fans frown, especially those from Chu Yu's home province of Luo. Unlike his relatively conceited fans, they had read the original manga of The Garden of Words. They thought it was a pretty good work, but that was all. Judging by the manga alone, they hadn't found anything particularly impressive about it!
That was exactly why they were so angry about Tianxing's behavior!
When The Garden of Words was serialized in a manga magazine, each issue sold only tens of thousands of copies. Chu Yu wasn't famous back then, and many people who had read the story had long forgotten the plot. Very few had kept the issues from its original run. Compared to Rurouni Kenshin: Trust and Betrayal, even fewer people in Dragon Country remembered the story of The Garden of Words!
It was fair to say that ninety-nine percent of Shui Xin's active fans online knew The Garden of Words only by its four-character title!
Tianxing surely knew the truth about The Garden of