It was fair to say that these two announcements, released in Japan Island and Modu on consecutive days, had left the entire Dragon Country Animation Industry—and especially Zhao Qinyin and Chu Yu's fans—stunned!
Ever since Attack on Titan began airing, it had held an overwhelming lead over its contemporaries. Now, with barely half the series out, it had already reached an average of eighteen million views per episode!
Though view counts became harder to increase as a series went on, judging by this trend, Attack on Titan might actually have a chance of surpassing Slam Dunk. And even so, Fullmetal Alchemist, whose world had been built up from the start, hadn't been left behind by Attack on Titan!
In other words, what Zhao Qinyin and Chu Yu had said during their livestream meeting—that the two series might surpass Slam Dunk in performance, if not in influence—could really come true!
All the fans thought the pair should be devoting themselves wholeheartedly to these two works. Attack on Titan had the lead for now, but Fullmetal Alchemist looked poised to catch up. Fans had even turned the competition between the two series into a showdown between two geniuses.
And yet, under these circumstances, the two of them had the time to come up with new series? Long-running ones, at that? They'd even already assembled the production teams?
"Hunter x Hunter? That title sounds like garbage. Is it about a hunter going into the mountains to hunt wild boar? Though I doubt that'd count as a full-time job. After hunting the boar, he'd have to sell it, and that'd take time away from his other job selling pork at the market!"
"And what's this Naruto thing? Aren't ninjas just the shameful business of local assassins from before Japan Island became part of Dragon