Nakata Satoshi hadn't been wrong about one thing.
No matter how good a work was, the final say belonged to the audience.
Although Gu Xue's original goal hadn't been to please the audience at all, she'd started drawing storyboards out of love and spite. By the time she began working on the key animation, her passion had faded, and her desire for revenge had vanished without a trace. All that had kept her going was her sense of responsibility, which had stopped her from slacking off.
When it came to the second pass of key animation, even her sense of responsibility stopped working. Gu Xue could only tell herself that she had to give the audience better visuals.
So although Gu Xue's original motives hadn't been pure, in the end, she really had worked herself to the bone for the audience.
She was actually looking forward to seeing how the audience would respond once the episode aired.
But it was too soon to think about that. After finishing the explosion cut, Gu Xue went back to cleaning up the second-pass key animation.
She'd thought she could finish it in a day, but she'd overestimated her patience.
It wasn't until many days later that she finally finished the second pass.
Over the past few days, Miss Mihara had brought key animation to the CDD Animation Workshop bit by bit. Every time Zhu Chi saw Gu Xue's name written as the key animator, he had no reaction left beyond panic.
Nakata Satoshi, the director and storyboard artist for episode twelve, had stayed calm for a few days. But as more and more key animation bearing Gu Xue's name came in, he finally couldn't sit still. One day, he held a meeting with the main staff working on episode twelve and proposed redrawing