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Wang Hao's speech at the annual summit directly ignited the entire Chinese internet.

The top producer of Tencent Animation, an industry giant with 500 million yuan in investment, has publicly declared war on a rising star.

He defined Su Bai's works as artistic arrogance and pointless whining, and proclaimed himself as the king of data and the definer of happiness.

This highly charged confrontation instantly ignited everyone's enthusiasm.

Most of Wang Hao's supporters are business professionals who believe in the supremacy of commerce and a group of bystanders who are tired of the "Su-style healing" approach.

[Mr. Wang is right! Animation is meant to bring joy! What's the point of crying all the time?]

[I'm tired of Su Bai's old tricks. How far can he go by relying on sensationalism? Director Wang Hao, with his data-driven approach, is much more reliable!]

[With a 500 million yuan investment and a top-tier team, "Sword and Fairy Romance" is the hope for Chinese animation! Small, low-budget productions like "Healing Animation" should be phased out.]

Su Bai's supporters were enraged by this arrogant attitude.

[Bullshit! What do you know about art? Teacher Su's works touch the soul! Your industrial saccharin is not even worthy of comparison!]

Data? Can data measure the temperature of tears? Can it calculate the brilliance of humanity?

Just wait, when Clannad comes out, Teacher Su will teach you what true sunshine is!

The two sides argued fiercely on various forums and social media platforms.

Regarding the duel between Su Bai and Wang Hao, which comes out on top: melancholic aesthetics or the pursuit of happiness?

The debate over how to balance art and commerce quickly dominated the trending topics list.

The entire industry's attention has been focused on healing animation.

Just as netizens were waiting on the official Weibo account of the healing animation, anticipating how Su Bai would retaliate.

The official Weibo account's server experienced a momentary lag without any warning.

Immediately afterwards, the silhouette poster of the cherry blossom slope in Clannad on the homepage quietly changed.

A video playback window has replaced the original static image.

The video's cover features a short, brown-haired girl with two tufts of hair sticking up from her head. She is smiling, and there seems to be tear stains at the corners of her eyes.

The title consists of only one concise line of text.

Clannad's first official PV.

There was no lengthy explanation, nor a response to Wang Hao's provocation.

Caught in the eye of the storm, Su Bai chose the most direct and powerful approach.

Let the works speak for themselves.

"The official website has been updated! It's a PV!"

A roar echoed in the chat room of an animation forum.

The next second, countless links were frantically copied and pasted to every corner of the internet.

Everyone arguing, whether they supported Su Bai or Wang Hao, stopped typing at that moment and clicked on the video.

The video opens with a dark, gray background.

The camera slowly pans to a boy sitting by the window, his eyes languid as he gazes out.

"I hate this town."

"Young man," Okazaki Tomoya's monologue began, his voice tinged with detachment.

"Because this place is filled with memories I want to forget."

A somber atmosphere, a familiar formula.

The hearts of countless viewers instantly leaped into their throats.

Here it comes again! This kind of opening again! Old Su, don't go too far!

I started to panic.

The scene shifts to that long cherry blossom slope.

Tomoya walked uphill with his bag on his back and a blank expression.

Just then, a girl's voice, tinged with hesitation and timidity, came from ahead.

"that."

Tomoya stopped and saw a girl with short brown hair standing in the middle of the slope, her eyes filled with unease.

Do you like this school?

"Young girl, Nagisa Furukawa," she asked softly.

She seemed to be asking Tomoya, but also seemed to be asking herself.

Before Tomoya could answer, she lowered her head and tried to encourage herself in an even quieter voice.

"I have to come to like it no matter what. I wish I could find all the happy things, all the joyful things."

She clenched her fists tightly, as if she was about to cry.

To encourage herself, she took a deep breath and shouted the name of a food into the air.

"Red bean buns!"

After shouting, she was stunned and seemed to feel a little ashamed, so she changed to another one.

"Dumplings!"

Just as that adorable dumpling fell...

"Bang!"

A light, cheerful drumbeat rang out, instantly dispelling all the oppressive tones in the scene.

Warm sunlight streamed down the entire slope, and then some incredibly cheerful background music suddenly cut in.

The rhythm changes instantly.

In the scene, Tomoya Okazaki, with a wicked grin, tricks his friend Youhei Sunohara into the girls' dormitory, then closes the door. The next second, Sunohara is brutally beaten and kicked out by a group of girls.

With a head full of bumps and tears streaming down his face, Sunohara Youhei accused Tomoya of being a demon.

The scene shifts to Ichinose Kotomi, a beautiful girl with silver hair and purple eyes, playing the violin in a library. The deafening sound, comparable to a chainsaw, seems to shatter the entire world.

Fujibayashi Anzu, with her hair in pigtails, sped around the campus on her motorcycle, terrifying her passenger, Tomo.

Tomoyo Sakagami, wielding a wooden sword, kicked a group of thugs into the air.

Meanwhile, the blue-haired girl, Fuuko Ibuki, who was carrying a starfish wood carving and delivering it all over the world, spoke in a way that was completely incomprehensible to everyone with her extremely cute and innocent expression.

All the beautiful girls appearing in the trailer have distinct personalities and stand out as adorable.

The entire PV is set in the style of a school harem comedy filled with laughs, pranks, and beautiful girls.

Finally, the image freezes.

All the characters appeared under the cherry blossom tree, laughing and joking.

The background music also switched to the complete song "Tuanzi Daikazoku" (The Big Family of Dumplings).

"The whole family of dumplings, dumplings, dumplings, dumplings..."

The catchy melody is paired with adorable children's voices that are sure to melt your heart.

The smiling faces of everyone created a powerful healing energy.

The soft font emerges, forming the title of the work.

Clannad.

PV ended.

The entire internet was first eerily silent, then completely erupted in a frenzy.

Hahahaha!

[This is hilarious! That guy named Sunohara is so pitiful! He's provided me with laughs for the whole year!]

[A must-watch for tough guys! This is absolutely a must-watch anime for tough guys! Who says Sue is only good at wielding knives?!]

[Nagisa! Nagisa is so cute! My heart is melting! She even shouted "red bean bun" and "glutinous rice ball" to cheer herself on!]

[I hereby declare that from today onwards, I am a loyal follower of the Tuanzi family! This song is so catchy!]

[Where's Wang Hao's face? Is it swollen? Is this what he meant by "childish art style"?]

All previous debates about art versus commerce, and all doubts about Su Bai, seem so pale and laughable in the face of this PV.

The joyful atmosphere overflowing in the PV infected everyone.

Those fans who were hurt by AB before have now completely let down their guard and gone from being skeptical to being unwavering.

[I told you! I told you Teacher Su would definitely have a sweet and innocent love story this time! You didn't believe me!]

[I'm sorry, Teacher Su! My voice was a little loud earlier! Please make sure they're alright!]

The reputation was instantly reversed.

The PV's views skyrocketed, and the comment section was flooded with a tidal wave of joy.

in the office.

Looking at the enthusiastic comments and constantly updated data on the tablet, Shen Qingyue finally breathed a sigh of relief, a long-lost relaxed smile appearing on her face.

"Great, everyone's happy now!"

She was finally able to relax.

Su Bai took the tablet from her and calmly glanced at the ecstatic comments on the screen.

There was no surprise on his face.

Wang Hao believed that the audience was foolish and only needed to be fed cheap industrial saccharin.

But he was wrong.

What the audience truly wants is the right to fully immerse themselves in the experience and to believe in it.

Believe in goodness, believe in miracles, believe that there is always a story in this world that is prepared for you.

Su Bai murmured to himself.

And I want to give them the most perfect reason to believe.

......

Meanwhile, at the headquarters of Tencent Animation.

The atmosphere in the top-floor conference room was somewhat strange.

On the huge conference screen, Clannad's music video was playing repeatedly.

Wang Hao and his core data analysis team sat in a circle.

Finally, an analyst broke the silence, pointing at Sunohara Youhei on the screen with a hint of disdain in his voice.

"A typical clown, relying on acting stupid to create laughs. This technique was already overused ten years ago."

Another female analyst went on to say that.

"The character settings are too stereotypical: tsundere twin tails, quiet literary girl, airhead... all stereotypes, nothing new."

"And this music."

The chief music consultant shook his head.

"The melody is simple, the arrangement is childish, and the target audience is very clear: to attract young audiences who have no requirements for musical aesthetics. It relies on viral spread to create popularity, which is too low-class."

After everyone finished their analysis, they all turned their attention to Wang Hao.

Wang Hao leaned back in his chair, crossed his arms in front of his chest, and scoffed as he looked at the screen where Furukawa Nagisa was being raved about by fans.

"I thought he had some clever trick up his sleeve, but it turns out this is just his sunny, innocent love?"

He stood up, walked to the huge whiteboard, picked up a pen, and wrote his conclusion on it.

"The plot is childish, cobbled together from clichéd school harem comedy tropes; the character designs are outdated, using stereotypical cute characters to appeal to otaku; the music is catchy, but lacks any depth or artistic value."

He put down his pen, turned to face his team, and his face showed a confident and commanding demeanor.

"Conclusion: A fast-food animation with decent production quality but an empty core. Its target audience is young children whose minds are not yet mature, and older viewers whose aesthetic appreciation of animation is stuck in the past."

He paused, then spoke in a judgmental tone.

"It has no competitive relationship with our S+ level project, Sword Immortal Romance."

A relaxed chorus of agreement rang out in the conference room.

They firmly believe that their model, based on massive amounts of data, is absolutely rational and will not make mistakes.

Su Bai, however, was simply blinded by greed and ultimately had no choice but to retreat to his comfort zone.

Looking out the window, Wang Hao seemed to already see the scene after the broadcast of "Sword Immortal Romance," where he would completely end this farce and be crowned king.