In March, Kamiyā Yuu lived a leisurely life. While 'Puella Magi Madoka Magica' was stirring up widespread discussion across Japan's internet, on the Chinese mainland across from the narrow island nation, a somewhat famous video website quietly went online.
According to the plan, the 'BIUBIUBIU' bullet-comment video website had spent a full three months in preparation. With the powerful funding chain, qualifications, and technical support provided by Kamiyā Yuu, the video site showed a rocket-like vertical rise from the very beginning.
"Exclusive agency rights for Japan's hottest construction and cultivation game 'Warship Girls Collection'! Register a site account and play freely!" — Advertisement on China's large gaming forum, Longteng.
"The latest work from animation director Kamiyā Yuu, creator of 'RWBY' and 'Magical Girl Nanoha': 'Puella Magi Madoka Magica', exclusively streamed legally across the entire internet! The long-awaited divine reversal in Episode 7? A complete subversion of magical girls!" — Banner promotion on the Youshi video site.
"Three hundred eighty-one licensed Japanese anime, one hundred seventy-two European and American animated films, and seventy licensed Hollywood blockbusters introduced for free viewing!" — Pinned external link on the large film and television discussion platform Window.
"A new revolution in video viewing: the bullet-comment function you never knew about!" — Pre-roll advertisements on video sites such as Youshi, Dami, and Qule.
"'BIUBIUBIU' bullet-comment video website is back online! Click to learn what bullet-comment culture is!" — Advertisement on the Window to the Soul browser.
"Famous Japanese-Chinese animation director Mr. Kamiyā Yuu personally designed the original character art for II-chan. We are now officially recruiting original character designs for BB-chan and UU-chan. Once selected, the artist will receive a one-time reward of 200,000 RMB!" — Announcement on the Huizhe key animator website discussion platform.
"A brand-new website operation model, giving users the perfect experience. Never worry about not finding friends again! Come create a 'Settlement' based on shared interests." — Partner promotion on the Qianyan search engine.
"A warm welcome to the Fantasy video team for joining our site." — Headline on the 'BIUBIUBIU' test website.
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The promotional advertisements spread overwhelmingly. Even several large video websites that should have been competitors were playing advertisements for 'BIUBIUBIU'.
In their view, this video site was nothing more than a small website using a new gimmick as its selling point. Such small video websites appeared endlessly online, and almost none of them could survive. Since 'BIUBIUBIU' could afford the expensive advertising fees, they were happy to watch it waste money.
For a while, 'BIUBIUBIU' advertisements were almost comparable to those low-quality browser game ads from Kamiyā Yuu's previous world. The first reaction of every internet user who saw them was annoyance, wishing they could close them immediately.
This was also one of 'BIUBIUBIU's ways of filtering users.
Fans who knew about 'Warship Girls Collection', fans of 'RWBY', Japanese anime enthusiasts, European and American animation lovers, invited uploaders, and others who saw the ads and learned relevant information about the site all eagerly awaited its March launch.
At present, China's online video users are basically monopolized by the three top video platforms: Youshi, Dami, and Qule. They possessed powerful video resources and user bases, making it nearly impossible to carve a piece of flesh from them.
'BIUBIUBIU's strategic development plan was to first attract a targeted portion of users, then slowly expand the website's influence.
The plan Kamiyā Yuu provided integrated an extremely rich website experience and theoretical knowledge from his previous world.
From the very beginning, the 'BIUBIUBIU' bullet-comment video website was close to perfect in terms of operation model, management, and site design.
Aside from videos, the website's most important feature was the 'Settlement' function. To put it plainly, it was an optimized version of Tieba.
This feature not only increased social interaction and user retention but also perfectly integrated with the video site's operation, creating mutual promotion between the two.
Some parts of the 'Settlement' function were not yet complete, but compared to the large-scale discussion platforms that had barely developed in this world's Chinese internet, and even compared to popular Western platforms like "Fakebook," it was far better.
In a not particularly popular commercial district in SH City's East District, the Snowstorm Network Technology Company, which operated 'BIUBIUBIU', had rented a newly built office building three months earlier and started recruiting talent externally.
China was vast and rich in resources. With the banner of high salaries, there was no need to worry about failing to recruit relevant talent.
In just one month, the company's game operations team, customer service team, 'Settlement' management team, technical team, and video management team had all been recruited.
With the complete development plan and materials provided by Kamiyā Yuu, along with a large amount of funding support, the 'BIUBIUBIU' bullet-comment video website was officially completed in just over a month. After that, several more weeks were spent testing and fixing site vulnerabilities.
In mid-March, at the moment the site was about to launch, Lin Ye sat in a chair in Snowstorm Company's spacious and luxurious conference room with his arms crossed, his eyes fixed on the data displayed on the laptop screen before him.
After a while, he casually asked a chubby employee beside him, "Xiao Hu, how are preparations going on the game operations side?"
The chubby employee called Xiao Hu sat in the chair beside him, cracking sunflower seeds. Hearing Lin Ye's question, he couldn't help rolling his eyes.
"President Lin, why do you like worrying blindly so much? You just asked that ten minutes ago. Brother Feng is watching over that side with the technical team. They're using independent high-end commercial servers bought from overseas at over a hundred thousand per set. What problem could there be?"
"What about the customer service team?"
"Aside from ten full-time staff, we've already hired more than a dozen temporary customer service reps. They can handle things for now. President Lin, it's almost ten o'clock. Even if something goes wrong now, there's no way to fix it. Let's just wait calmly."
Xiao Hu looked at the computer screen with interest.
Ten o'clock was the launch time their company had set for 'BIUBIUBIU'.
Lin Ye grabbed some sunflower seeds from the conference table and threw them at Xiao Hu indignantly.
"The emperor is anxious, but the eunuch isn't. What kind of situation is this?"
Xiao Hu shrugged innocently.
"My fault? Before that Japanese girl left, she basically finalized the company's operating model. We just need to go through the motions now."
The Japanese girl Xiao Hu mentioned was, of course, Busujima Murasaki.
The establishment of Snowstorm Network Technology Company had been personally planned by her from beginning to end.
After all, she had once been a business elite who followed Uehara Etsuki. Her business mind was not something a greenhorn like Lin Ye, who had just entered society, could compare with.
For one month, she had also acted as half a teacher to Lin Ye, responsible for teaching him company management knowledge.
During that period, if Lin Ye had not introduced Busujima Murasaki's identity, most people would never have been able to tell her true nationality from her standard and fluent Mandarin.
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At Yosuganosora Animation Studio, Kamiyā Yuu, who already had an internal test account, was browsing the 'BIUBIUBIU' video website on his laptop in the lounge with great interest.
The webpage design was simple and clear, yet did not look overly plain. Its pale-blue background layout gave off an elegant and refined feeling. In addition, viewers could freely customize the structure of their own homepage.
There was not a single comment or bullet comment on any of the site's videos. Everything quietly awaited the arrival of the first user.
Online users: 3
Latest uploads: 1,728
It feels nostalgic. Basically, it's the old version of 'BILIBILI'. With Lin Ye's video site as its predecessor, the video library isn't exactly lacking. Next, just what kind of impact will the bullet-comment function bring to this world's Chinese ACG field?
After thinking for a while, Kamiyā Yuu clicked open the video section for 'Puella Magi Madoka Magica', waiting for the first reactions from Chinese users once 'BILIBILI' launched.
"Mr. Kamiyā, you seem rather happy."
Beside him, Busujima Murasaki watched Kamiyā Yuu's restless appearance and covered her mouth with her delicate hand, smiling lightly.
Kamiyā Yuu turned his head and chuckled.
"Murasaki, aren't you looking forward to it? After all, you were involved too."
"Compared to that, I'm looking forward even more to my kendo match with you the day after tomorrow."
A faint, unusual blush appeared on Busujima Murasaki's elegant cheeks as she looked at Kamiyā Yuu with gentle eyes.
But Kamiyā Yuu sensed something deeper and darker hidden beneath that gentle gaze, something enough to make one's hair stand on end.
Kamiyā Yuu's keen spirit could sense that what Busujima Murasaki felt toward him was not hostility, but a pure and intense desire to destroy.
Why are all the people around me abnormal...
Kamiyā Yuu frowned, then relaxed again.
Ever since he had shown a few moves on the rooftop, Busujima Murasaki's attitude toward him had clearly changed.