As soon as the promotional PV of "Sailor Moon" appeared, it was like a rainbow, making Hiroshi Okada feel that he had won the battle.

However, half a day later, as soon as the second promotional PV of "Madoka Magical Girl" appeared, the situation immediately took a sharp turn for the worse.

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Tadahiro Shimizu, 35 years old, office worker.

He is 1.69 meters tall, weighs 72 kilograms, and is slightly chubby.

Six years ago, I married my wife on a blind date, and I have a five-year-old daughter at home.

No matter how you look at it, Shimizu Tadahiro is an ordinary man. However, he has a hobby, but it is not very ordinary.

Tadahiro Shimizu is an otaku, and he's also an otaku who is very fanatical about magical girls.

At the beginning, because of this hobby, he once talked about falling in love three times. If it weren't for the fact that his current wife is more open-minded, Shimizu Tadahiro feels that he may not be able to get married in his lifetime.

After all, in the eyes of ordinary people, it is unbelievable that a big man and a little girl like the same thing.

Now, Shimizu Tadahiro's monthly income, in addition to the living expenses handed over to his wife, is almost all the pocket money he keeps on hand to buy all kinds of magical girl peripherals.

After more than ten years of accumulation, the magical girl peripherals collected by Shimizu Tadahiro were piled up, so much so that he had to rent a single room near his home to place these things.

And in Shimizu Tadahiro's view, this single room full of dreams and love is also a holy place for him to heal his tired body and mind after work.

However, since June of this year, Tadahiro Shimizu has not purchased any peripheral products related to magical girls.

Because he has to work hard to save money for the coming year.

For a magical gentleman like Tadahiro Shimizu, next year will definitely be a year full of expectations, but very unfriendly to the wallet.

In January, several magical girl-themed anime will be released, including his favorite "Sailor Moon" and "Madoka Magical Girl".

As a big fan of the "Sailor Moon" manga, Tadahiro Shimizu not only bought all the single books published so far, but also did not let go of all kinds of art books, posters and other peripherals.

Therefore, he is also extremely looking forward to the animation of "Sailor Moon".

And "Madoka Magical Girl", in the mind of Tadahiro Shimizu, the expectation is no worse than that of "Sailor Moon".

Although the first promotional PV of this animation came out, many people felt that the content was a little different from what Qin Han claimed, and there was no big innovation, and it was still a magical girl animation with a very ordinary style. However, in the eyes of a fanatic fan of magical girls like Hiroto Shimizu, this is not a big problem.

For a magical gentleman, it is enough to have cute girls, gorgeous magical girl costumes, and heart-warming transformations.

Qin Han personally played the character design, and the characters of "Madoka Magical Girl", from the five magical girls to various supporting roles, are all too cute. In addition, the production cost is extremely generous, and the picture is the top of the animation industry in terms of frame rate, fineness, or art design style, and it is even comparable to animated movies.

With such a high quality of painting, coupled with the extreme appetite of the characters, Shimizu Tadahiro felt that he couldn't find the shortcomings of "Madoka Magical Girl" at all.

"Sailor Moon" and "Madoka Magical Girl", the main creators of the two animations, Hiroshi Okada and Qin Han, fought a war of words on the Internet, and even agreed to decide the winner by the number of PV clicks, Tadahiro Shimizu didn't care at all.

Today, the only thing he cares about is the quality of the promotional PV released by these two cartoons, and what new information is revealed to the audience.

At lunchtime, Tadahiro Shimizu was in the company lounge and finished watching the promotional PV of "Sailor Moon" with his mobile phone, and he was hooked.

"This is exactly the magical girl animation I wanted! It's worthy of Toei, and the general meeting is stable, although it rarely can bring surprises to people, but it knows how to play to the advantages of the original work and make a popular animation. ”

While Tadashi Shimizu cheered for "Sailor Moon", he was also faintly worried about "Madoka Magical Girl" in his heart.

After all, both SHAFT and Qin Han are trying to produce animation independently for the first time, and they definitely lack experience in terms of experience. They just released the first promotional PV not long ago, and now they will release the second promotional PV immediately, will the quality be poor due to the hasty production?

With this somewhat complicated mood, Shimizu Tadahiro returned home from work, and after eating, he played with his daughter for a while before he finally became free.

He turned on his mobile phone and logged on to the niconico barrage video website, and he saw that the second promotional PV of "Madoka Magical Girl" appeared on the homepage.

"Released at 17 o'clock, there have been 60,000 hits by now? No, this data is too exaggerated. Could it be that SHAFT found someone to brush the data?" Shimizu Tadahiro thought to himself.

As a veteran otaku, he naturally understands the little tricks that various animation clubs will play when promoting.

"Forget it, let's see the content first. ”

Tadahiro Shimizu clicked on the video.

A burst of gorgeous, hymn-style music rang out.

A girl with blond curly hair and a double ponytail sat at a round table and tasted a cup of black tea elegantly.

Suddenly, an evil cry came. The blonde girl put down the teacup and stood up, a flash of light appeared in her hand, and a gorgeous and delicate smoothbore gun appeared in her hand.

"A magical girl actually uses this weapon!" Shimizu Tadahiro's eyes widened in surprise.

In the magical girl animations he had seen before, magical girls generally used magic wands to fight, and no one ever used a smoothbore gun, a weapon with a sense of reality and history.

Tadahiro Shimizu recalled the first promotional PV of "Madoka Magical Girl" that he had seen: "The character portrait that SHAFT announced in the PV before, this magical girl called Basumi, is indeed holding a smoothbore gun in her hand. ”

At this time, Ba Asami in the video has started a battle with a witch with a strange shape and a completely different art style from the entire animation world.

The sharp and smooth editing, and the extremely delicate and delicate footage of each explosion, make the battle appear bold and make the viewer's adrenaline secretion accelerate.

In particular, the scene where Asami summoned countless smoothbore guns in the air and fired them all with all the bullets, bombing the witch to the scum made Shimizu Tadahiro slap his thigh excitedly.

In the video, countless barrages that use simple onomatopoeia to express their excitement also fly overwhelmed, making people almost unable to see the picture.

"It turns out that the battle of magical girls can still be made like this!" Shimizu Tadahiro sighed, and simply turned off the barrage.