Chapter 915 - Chapter 915: Chapter 854 Teacher's Halo Upgrade
Chapter 915: Chapter 854 Teacher’s Halo Upgrade
Xian Yu’s twelve consecutive championships across the Five Continents hadn’t even cooled down yet, and Shadow’s newest manga release stormed into the spotlight with its eleventh debut.
The industry was stunned!
The media was stunned!
The netizens were stunned!
The topics had spread like wildfire, from comic forums across Qin, Qi, Chu, Yan, and Han, all the way to Tribe and blogs, and even onto various social media platforms online.
All of it revolved around Shadow, around Shadow’s six new manga creations.
Endless discussions, countless reports, and countless analyses flooded the scene!
As the shockwaves of this seismic event in the manga industry spread, its aftereffects exploded with undeniable ferocity!
Tribe!
Readers were defecting in droves—
“My favorite manga artists have all joined the Alliance; there’s nothing left in Tribe Comics for me to care about. I’m heading over to the Alliance to follow their work.”
“The quality of Alliance’s manga is higher than Tribe’s now. Of course I’d choose the Alliance.”
“I’m absolutely in love with Shadow’s new manga, ‘Death God.’ I’ve decided to follow the Alliance just for this series!”
“I used to manage both sides—following three manga series from Tribe and three from Alliance. But now, Tribe only has one series worth following. Moving forward, I’ll focus primarily on the Alliance.”
“Off to the Alliance, all for ‘Gundam’!”
“The manga from the Alliance is so thrilling, especially ‘Saint Seiya.’ Shadow has single-handedly become my source of joy. Tribe Comics can shove it!”
“Let’s go, guys! Heading to the Alliance now!”
The hottest, most entertaining manga are all with the Alliance—it’s totally understandable why readers are making this choice!
Almost the very same day.
Tribe Comics experienced a historic nosedive in traffic!
Not even during Tribe’s initial founding days did its traffic dip this low, illustrating just how dramatic this impact was!
As one rises, another falls.
With Tribe Comics’ traffic plummeting, the Alliance’s traffic skyrocketed in response!
In just a few short days.
The Alliance’s user registration numbers surged uncontrollably.
Particularly on December 12th, the Alliance’s traffic astonishingly surpassed Tribe Comics’ previous peak.
The manga world was truly experiencing a paradigm shift.
The entire industry was in turmoil.
Manga creators at Tribe Comics were panicking—they could see subscriber stats for their work via the backend. Over these few days, subscriptions for every creator at Tribe Comics had been dropping like crazy!
*What did this mean?*
*It meant a mass exodus of Tribe Comics’ readers, flocking entirely to the Alliance for their manga pursuits. Why wouldn’t they, with the Alliance offering Shadow’s eleven-debut lineup, where every single manga was spectacular?*
“What the hell are we drawing for anymore?!”
“The readers are all gone!”
“The Alliance already had Shadow’s crew drawing massive traffic, and now they’ve added six top-tier mangaka to their roster. Their appeal for readers is invincible! Unless Tribe Comics somehow lands someone of Shadow’s caliber, it’s going to be next to impossible to bring these readers back.”
“We need to start planning ahead.”
“Shadow God is totally insane. Not content with carrying an entire website on his shoulders, now it looks like he’s carrying the entire manga industry too. My current series is wrapping up soon—once it’s finished, I’m switching to the Alliance for a new project. Tribe Comics just doesn’t have enough readers left anymore.”
“I’ve decided to drop my current manga and head to the Alliance with a fresh new series!”
“I really regret it now. The Alliance editor tried to recruit me before, promising some pretty decent terms. I turned them down because I thought they were just a new platform. Now that the tables have turned, I’ll have to go beg the editor who contacted me last time for a shot.”
“Damn it, same here!”
“If I’d joined the Alliance before, my conditions wouldn’t have been bad at all. If I switch now, though, my deal will probably be pretty basic!”
Previously, the Alliance had attempted to poach talent from Tribe Comics.
Unfortunately, not many creators at Tribe wanted to jump ship back then.
Now, times had changed!
Creators at Tribe Comics were scrambling and tripping over each other trying to secure spots at the Alliance!
It was almost laughable—once, the Alliance would have sent grand invitations and begged these people to come, only for them to refuse. Now, these same creators had to sheepishly chase after the Alliance themselves. It was both awkward and unfortunate.
Utterly tragic.
Though some were even worse off!
Take the creators who jumped ship from the Alliance to Tribe Comics.
These people were miserable, gathering together right now in utter trepidation to discuss what to do:
“I betrayed the Alliance before—would they even take me back?”
“I’m probably already blacklisted by the Alliance. Damn it, I was scouted and joined Tribe less than two months ago, and now Tribe’s been completely crushed by the Alliance!”
“You’re kidding—Burning Star has it worse than you!”
“Burning Star barely lasted a week! He was poached by Tribe from the Alliance just last week. Rumor has it he even got into a heated argument with his editor at the Alliance over the move. Now that he’s at Tribe, he hasn’t even had time to start a new project before all hell breaks loose. It’s beyond tragic.”
“Pfft!”
“Joining Tribe Comics days before Shadow leads the Alliance to take over the manga world?”
“Alright, fair enough—actually, our situation isn’t even the worst. Even Burning Star has people below him. The ones who truly have it the worst? Those few individuals.”
Who were the few people being referred to?
Everyone knew exactly who they were.
They were Tianmen, Yeshenchen, and He Dajun.
He Dajun had previously had a massive falling out with Shadow over the title of “number-one competitive manga artist.”
Now, with Shadow’s status and influence in the Alliance—heck, within the entire industry—it was impossible for He Dajun to develop at the Alliance.
And as for Tianmen and Yeshenchen?
They were an even bigger disaster!
These two had actually agreed to join the Alliance back then, but just as the platform launched, they turned their backs and sabotaged it nearly to the point of collapse. If not for Shadow stepping in and single-handedly saving the fledgling Alliance, its future might have been dead in the water.
Source: Webnovel.com, updated on N𝘰vgo.co