The eleventh episode of Invasion aired, and that night it became a huge topic of discussion in animation circles.
The show's ratings soared, and clips of the various robot fights were cut together into videos with explosive BGM, turning them into MADs...
A certain video-sharing website whose name started with the letter B—known as Bilibili—was flooded with posts. For a while, the excitement rivaled that of Attack on Titan airing back on Earth.
The front page was packed with discussions and animation analyses related to the eleventh episode of Invasion.
It was buzzing.
Shows like Ore-sama, with their otherworldly settings, were pretty common. Every now and then, a talented production team would make one really well.
So even though its final episode had been explosive, the discussion it sparked was fairly ordinary.
But this time, the mecha anime was different. Who had ever seen scenes like those? Who could possibly resist? And although "robots are a man's romance" wasn't quite as apt these days, most men probably didn't dislike this sort of thing—especially when it was drawn so well! It was exhilarating!
More and more videos about it appeared on Bilibili.
As the discussion grew,
the buzz soon began to spread elsewhere.
On Twitter, a discussion about the eleventh episode of Invasion appeared quietly, then quickly climbed to the trending topics list.
A great many viewers and industry professionals joined the conversation.
The most-liked tweet came from an animation director of a certain anime.
"I don't know how they did it. All I know is, I'm devastated."
Many industry professionals retweeted it, and, oddly enough, their comments were all exactly the same: "..."
Around that same time, a video about anime commentary quietly went live.
The uploader's ID was Tengu Dangdao. It was Kambara Kota's account.
Riding the wave of