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Join the ServerHanabi thought doing this might really work.
“I wonder what the audience’s world is like.”
Considering that the world over there was largely similar to her previous life but had many differences, copying blindly wouldn’t work.
She needed to “customize” according to the audience’s situation.
Perhaps some plots she considered classic and passionate were actually cliché in their eyes? Or maybe cross-dressing culture was prevalent over there?
An excellent idol can lead trends, but as a supporting character, she currently needed to leverage these trends.
Naruto and Sasuke began climbing the trees, while Hanabi spread out a picnic blanket, sat down, turned the training mode to the maximum limit she could bear, and remained motionless.
“Stage, can I know the situation on the other side?” Hanabi asked the Stage.
[After becoming a Supporting Character, permissions will expand, allowing for market research or waiting for the Popularity Shop to refresh corresponding service options.]
It really was possible.
“Can’t an Extra even conduct market research?”
Theoretically, anything could appear in the Popularity Point Shop.
But counting on that had too low a probability.
“If the gender-bender culture is popular in the audience’s world…”
Then not just Naruto, but Hanabi would definitely make Sasuke wear women’s clothing too, and even Kakashi wouldn’t escape.
“Whoa!”
Naruto and Sasuke over there suddenly felt a chill and fell from the tree; Naruto’s Transformation Jutsu was also dispelled.
“Damn it! Bastard Sasuke, don’t affect me!”
“Ha? You touched me first just now, right!”
Naruto transformed into the blonde twin-tail girl again and continued climbing. Sasuke gritted his teeth and followed.
However, the two tacitly found two adjacent trees instead of continuing to train on the same one.
“Stage, then can I know other situations of the audience’s world, for example, watching videos from over there or something?”
Even if she couldn’t conduct market research, she could at least glimpse a thing or two through audience feedback.
For instance, Hanabi had already noticed that in the world over there, there seemed to be many detail-oriented lore enthusiasts who were quite professional, even getting to the bottom of outrageous things like the price of her shoes.
Besides that, there were also quite a few thrill-seekers (Le Zi Ren).
And previous bullet comments also revealed other anime series, hmm, that Bounding Heaven or whatever. Just by the name, it looked very bouncy, but at a glance, it gave off the feeling of a production disaster and massive flop, right?
[Discussing with superiors]
[Being blamed by leadership]
[Can view trending videos related to Ninja Road]
Hanabi opened the comment section and found a new video zone there.
“Let me see.”
Ranking first was a video by a content creator (UP host) named Molotov Cocktail.
Hanabi had seen many people roasting this UP in the bullet comments and comment section before. This person seemed to have a bad reputation on the website, with most people scolding him. But bad publicity is still publicity; amidst the scolding, he got on the trending search.
This new anime broadcast review guide seemed okay. Before watching the video, Hanabi scrolled down to check the discussion area and found no haters.
[This program is sponsored by everyone’s follows, likes, coins, and favorites (San Lian).]
[It’s the new anime season again; discussions in various anime-related groups must be in full swing, right?]
[Let’s look at everyone’s discussion content to see which new anime reigns supreme.]
In the video, a figure scrolled through a phone, but it was all some kind of chibi dragon. Bullet comments like “Done for (Tang Wan Le)” and “Milk Dragon (Nai Long)” floated by.
After the meme segment ended, the person began roasting.
[As everyone knows, after the massive flop of Bounding Heaven, the industry entered an era—an era of animation collapse, monotonous voice acting, and terrible direction.]
[With the failure of original works and the conclusion of One Piece, the pillar of JUMP, the entire industry has been in a slump for the past two years.]
[A demon, a demon of light novel adaptations, wanders above the ACG section.]
[Logic collapse, animation collapse, voice acting collapse. A few years ago, the production team would have had to come out and apologize, you know?]
After a series of roasts, this UP, Molotov Cocktail, finally opened fire on the new anime.
Highlighted were two works called Minority Withdrawal (Shousuuketsu) and My Sister, My Writer (Ore ga Suki nano wa Imouto dakedo Imouto ja Nai / Imo-Imo), one with logic and direction collapsed beyond repair, the other with disastrous production quality resembling elementary school drawings.
“The One Piece of this world has ended. Does lacking Naruto make the industry development so much worse?”
After roasting a round of new anime, the bullet comments suddenly increased.
Comments like “Main feature” and “Jump successful.”
[This year, in this already rotten industry, another long-running animation has actually appeared. As everyone knows, the last long-running animation that claimed it would have a thousand episodes was complete trash.]
[Bad anime at least has character in its badness, allowing people to roast it. That kind of long-running show was truly plain water with static frames the whole time; watching that stuff is simply wasting life.]
[So when I was asked to watch the livestream initially, I refused. A plain name like Ninja Road is even less impressive in this world where titles are getting longer and longer.]
[Later, my friend posted a thread criticizing the translation team’s issues. I also looked into it, thinking at the time, what kind of person came up with these terrible translated names?]
[But on second thought, after so many years, everyone has been numb for a long time. Since when did translation issues become a point worth roasting again?]
[Nowadays, people’s requirements for translation are just to be thankful if Starlight Breaker isn’t translated as ‘Watermelon Circuit Breaker’ and The Elder Scrolls isn’t translated as ‘Old Man Scroll Bar’. Things like translating Li Syaoran as Wang Xiaoming, does that even count as an issue?]
[When the audience starts paying attention to the translation of a new anime, I know this must be a new anime that has exceeded general expectations.]
[It was from that moment that I became interested in Ninja Road.]
[As everyone knows, long-running shonen anime haven’t appeared for a long time, and original long-running shonen anime are rare among rare.]
[The livestream format of this new anime is also unique: livestream first, then video version.]
[The livestream version can’t be recorded, but according to my friend Lord Eight, the shots in the livestream are actually different from the series uploaded to the website later. The video version has optimizations in shots and BGM variations.]
[Good wine doesn’t mind age; the old stuff is vintage.]
[Although I missed the livestream, at least the series version started official broadcasting a month later.]
[The first episode of Ninja Road gave me a big surprise. In one word: ‘Stable’.]
[How long has it been since everyone saw a new anime with no animation collapse throughout?]
[Although there were no action scenes in the main feature of the first episode, the action tension in the OP at the end was full, and the long take of being chased by the wild boar maxed out the visuals.]
[The most fun part is the plot. The first five episodes of Ninja Road gave me the feeling that there are a lot of boomerangs. Ten minutes after a character speaks, the boomerang hits them back.]
[Mizuki in the first episode was like this, and the team leader teacher Kakashi who appeared later was also like this.]
When saying this, a wave of “Will vomit” comments floated by.
This was what Kakashi told the three before the test, but after the test, the person who wanted to vomit became Kakashi himself.
[Even I am like this; I said I wouldn’t watch at first, but then I enjoyed it (True Fragrance / Zhen Xiang).]
[The clown is actually myself.]
[Today, when the industry is doomed (Yao Wan), the appearance of such a stable new anime really gives me expectations for the future.]
[Never seen such a wonderful opening.]
[Enjoy the wine today while we have it; if it turns terrible tomorrow, we’ll talk tomorrow.]
[In a few days, I’ll release a separate video introducing this new work Ninja Road. Rating 9.9, can’t be any lower.]
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