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Sogo Doma's words were by no means empty. Akane Kosaka and Yukinoshita Haruno did indeed get along fairly well in private. Though their areas of expertise differed, they were both strong career women working under the same boss. Over time, they had naturally become acquainted.
Of course, half the credit went to Yukinoshita Haruno. As a social butterfly, even though Akane Kosaka was hugely famous in the anime creation circle, she was still, at heart, a shut-in. And Haruno had her reasons for lowering herself to befriend her...
Everyone knew anime was a massive cake, but it was not so easy to swallow. In this market, no one knew how many companies had declared bankruptcy over the production of a single anime...
For most prestigious families and conglomerates, the risk was simply too high. On top of that, anime did not have a particularly respectable reputation, which was one reason why so few prominent families got involved. With the money needed to make an anime, weren't there plenty of other industries with lower risks that could also boost their reputation?
With movies, they could even pull off some XXX casting-couch rules. What was there to gain from making anime? It couldn't be helped—this was a country where even smartphones had yet to become widespread. The older people were, the less able they were to accept new things, yet the grandchildren of most family heads were already old enough to run errands!
Yukinoshita Haruno had not thought highly of anime at first either, but after analyzing Akane Kosaka's return on investment, she was sold! If not for limitations in funding, distribution channels, and so on, Haruno suspected that the profits of the other party's circle could even surpass her family's construction materials company...
It was fucking absurd!
As a qualified