Mobius walked straight up to Hessian with a tablet in hand.
"Look at this!"
Hessian glanced at the tablet. It showed market attention surveys, and Honkai Impact 3rd's anticipation rating had now reached the very top.
"Isn't this good news?"
Mobius said: "Keep scrolling down."
Hessian continued downward.
There were viewer comnts and ssages:
"Where's the second episode? I'm just asking—where the hell is the damn second episode? It's been a whole week—why hasn't it been released yet?"
"Damn it! When exactly is the second episode coming out? Are you trying to kill us?"
"If you don't release the second episode soon, I'm heading to your company today!"
"You can't even produce a second episode in a week? What the hell do you people do?"
"Do you have to wait until the whole thing is finished before releasing? Why not release one episode at a ti?"
"..."
Looking at these ssages one after another, Hessian could only describe the mood with four words: public outrage boiling over.
Mobius said: "I thought everyone would just be eagerly anticipating the broadcast or sothing, but look at this..."
Hessian smiled and said: "Don't worry. They're just venting online—this proves our advance release was extrely successful."
"Sigh..."
Mobius let out a sigh: "I wish it were just venting."
"What do you an?"
"Hessian, why don't you go downstairs and see for yourself? The viewers have already blocked the main entrance."
"Huh?"
Hessian was stunned: "Are the audiences here really this agitated?"
This was completely different from the world he knew before.
In his previous world, people would at most vent online and play keyboard warrior. In this world, they actually showed up in person offline?
Mobius nodded: "You'd better figure out a way to handle this quickly."
Kevin, who was eating noodles nearby, asked: "Director He, do you need to step in?"
Hessian patted his shoulder: "Not yet. I'll take care of it. You hurry and finish the remaining special effects."
"No problem!"
Kevin set down his noodles and imdiately started working frantically.
Hessian then headed downstairs to the company entrance.
Sure enough!
Just as Mobius had said.
Outside stood a massive, densely packed crowd. So were local viewers who lived nearby, so had co to watch the excitent, and so were reporters from TV stations...
At that mont, Elysia was also coming down from upstairs, just about to step outside.
Hessian quickly pulled her back.
"Husband?"
Elysia looked at him in confusion.
Hessian said: "It's not ti for you to appear yet. Leave this matter to ."
Whether for Elysia's own sake or for the subsequent plot of the drama, he couldn't let Elysia be exposed to the audience for the ti being.
He walked out of the company alone.
The crowd imdiately surrounded him.
"Hello, everyone. I am the overall person in charge of Honkai Impact 3rd, as well as the chief director and screenwriter. If you have any requests, just tell directly."
Hearing his words, the crowd's emotions stabilized a bit.
One person shouted: "I don't have any demands—I just want to see the rest soon. Tell us when it'll air."
Hessian replied: "My company is currently discussing two options. One is to film and release one episode at a ti, on a weekly schedule. The other is the traditional TV drama approach—film everything first, then broadcast all at once."
"How long would we have to wait for everything to be fild?"
Soone imdiately asked.
Hessian answered: "We've only just finished filming the second episode. Following normal TV drama production tilines on the market, it would still take about half a year."
Hearing this, everyone grew anxious.
"No way!"
"Too long!"
"We can't wait—we absolutely can't wait. After that opening, who could wait half a year?!"
"Exactly—release it right now, imdiately!"
"Can't you film faster? Why drag it out like this?"
Hessian spread his hands: "My friends, it's not that I don't want to go faster. But you know the quality of this drama. Our company has limited funds and staff—this is already the fastest speed possible."
"Then film while releasing! So many ani do it that way now—TV dramas can learn from that too!" soone shouted from farther away.
The others all echoed in agreent.
"Yeah, yeah! We can wait for one episode a week."
"It's just money, right? We'll donate—film faster for us!"
"As long as you don't pull any disgusting mbership-exclusive viewing nonsense, I'll donate money directly for you to film!"
Amid these voices of agreent,
the crowd had sohow unified around hoping for weekly episodes.
Hessian spoke at the right mont: "Then we'll go with your suggestion. From now on, Honkai Impact 3rd will adopt a weekly release schedule. The second episode will air tonight—please look forward to it."
"That's more like it! If you'd done this earlier, we wouldn't have blocked the door."
"This director's not bad—he knows how to adapt. Nice, nice!"
"You know what? I suddenly feel like I quite like this director."
"Hey! Director, do you appear in Honkai Impact 3rd yourself?"
A young girl standing closest to him asked.
Hessian gave a warm smile: "Of course—and very soon, I'll et all of you on screen."
The girl pressed further: "Director, what's the na of the character you play?"
Hessian replied: "Otto, Otto Apocalypse! I hope you'll like him."
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