Now that Fullmetal Alchemist and Attack on Titan had reached this point in their stories, it was basically impossible to find any haters among the entire Animation Industry!
The trolls who had trashed those works in their early days had all but disappeared. By mid-January, both series had crossed the 20-million mark in Average Playback Volume Per Episode!
It was a record never before seen in Dragon Country's animation history. Two works had reached such heights while competing against each other. It was simply unbelievable!
A slew of media outlets reported on it!
Among them, a well-known outlet published a data comparison of the biggest hits to emerge from the Dragon Country Animation Industry over the past decade.
It was meant to be nothing more than a statistical article, but after publication, it spread across Dragon Country's 2D internet overnight!
Ranked by the Average Playback Volume Per Episode most closely watched by Dragon Country's 2D fans, the top five were Slam Dunk, Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion, AD, Attack on Titan (Ongoing Serialization), and Fullmetal Alchemist (Ongoing Serialization). These were the only five new anime works from the past decade to average more than 20 million views per episode!
Right behind them were JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Kimi ni Todoke, Initial D, and White Album 2.
The article seemed unremarkable up to that point. But once you thought about it, the ten best-performing anime from the past decade in the Dragon Country Animation Industry had all been created by Zhao Qinyin and Chu Yu. Then the article expanded the ranking to the top thirty, and something interesting emerged!
Among the top thirty works from the Dragon Country Animation Industry over the past decade, fifteen had been created by Chu Yu and Zhao Qinyin. The top ten