For a long-running anime, it was perfectly normal for the story to take its time getting started!
But thanks to Chu Yu and Zhao Qinyin's popularity, Naruto and Hunter x Hunter had become instant hits as soon as they aired! The two series were about equally popular in the Animation Industry, and both were far ahead of the third-most-popular show that had come out around the same time!
Their fellow industry professionals had gotten used to seeing this by now, but many still couldn't help sighing in frustration and resentment!
After all, that was the state of the Dragon Country Animation Industry: two young people were dominating an entire industry, and none of the so-called veterans from the old days had managed to make a comeback! All kinds of once-great figures had been utterly crushed by the two whenever their works went head-to-head!
The most ridiculous part was that the two of them came from the same place, attended the same school, and had even worked on manga together back in high school.
They hadn't monopolized the Animation Industry, but given the current state of things, nearly every 2D fan in Dragon Country was a fan of one or both of them. What was the difference between that and a monopoly?
Naruto and Hunter x Hunter hadn't even gotten their stories properly underway yet! But everyone knew that even if the two of them made a pile of crap, their fans would love it so much they'd push the Average Playback Volume Per Episode past ten million! And for their fans' enthusiasm to fade, the two would have to feed them three piles of crap in a row!
That was how Chu Yu and Zhao Qinyin were seen by their colleagues in the industry now!
But for the time being,