May. The sun blazed overhead!
It had been some time since Attack on Titan and Fullmetal Alchemist had ended, and many anime fans in Dragon Country had fallen into an anime drought once again!
Although Chu Yu's acquisition of Tianxing had kept fans talking for over half a month, 2D fans would always care about the works themselves, not the business dealings behind them!
His industry peers, on the other hand, were on edge. They knew the Dragon Country Animation Industry would surely see major developments in the near future. Chu Yu had been keeping a low profile, though! He had made plenty of internal changes at the company. For instance, he'd kicked out all of Yin Tian's loyalists at Tianxing, then promoted capable people to fill those mid- and high-level positions!
Although most people doubted Chu Yu's plan to carry on Yin Tian's legacy and continue developing the company's IPs across multiple media, the vast majority of Tianxing employees supported this round of personnel changes!
They no longer had to endure endless pressure at work while currying favor with those well-connected slackers. They'd had no time to go home and see their parents during the holidays, yet still had to send gifts to their bosses. As a big company grew, these parasites inevitably multiplied. But Tianxing had previously had more than a dozen shareholders, with complicated factions and alliances between them, so the senior management had turned a blind eye to many things. Now that Chu Yu was in charge, he didn't care who you were. If someone reported a person for their past misconduct, and an investigation confirmed it, they were out!
The company had also hired a whole team to renovate the offices. At the very least, Chu Yu had the workers gut Yin Tian's office and