Is this mangaka crazy?

Kenji had just finished watching Edgerunners a few days ago, and his love for the work hadn't faded.

Therefore, he remained curiously hooked.

The account that posted this video was, in fact, the official account of the B Station website.

"With my shattered body, turned into a raging fire..."

Kenji looked at the title and felt an inexplicable excitement.

And it's truly fitting for Edgerunners. Aren't those who undergo prosthetic transformation simply "shattered bodies"?

Even if only this shattered body remains, it must become a raging fire to illuminate this dark world!

Even if... it's just for a moment!

The hymn of humanity is the hymn of courage! Kenji thought of David and the others, and his eyes inexplicably welled up with tears.

"I have... nowhere to go."

Lucy's familiar voice sounded from the black screen at the beginning of the video.

At that moment, the video was already filled with bullet comments:

"They kissed under the moon!"

"Love is the greatest inhibitor!"

"This drink is for the eternal legend of Night City: David Martinez!"

"Celebrating the completion of Edgerunners!"

...

At first, Kenji didn't like these so-called bullet comments.

But now, seeing them, he inexplicably felt a sense of participation.

The screen gradually lit up, and David's slightly immature face appeared:

"I'll take you to the moon!"

Suddenly, the background music kicked in! "I can't love you in the dark~"

At the music's climax, Lucy and David kissed fiercely! Kenji felt as if a bullet had pierced his heart, and the next instant, he saw David's scarred face after Maine's death.

At that moment, the bullet comments were filled with:

"David! A legend forever!"

"My heart is about to break!"

"Wuwuwuwu, I'll kill you with a knife!"

"Turn my body into flames!"

...

The video continued, and classic scenes from Edgerunners appeared one after another.

The scene before Maine's death, the scene of Dolio's cyborg burning on a pile of detonators, the scene of David screaming at the top of his lungs...

Finally, as the background music slowly faded, only the beautiful and colorful street scenes of Night City that night followed one after another.

"Congratulations on the finale!"

"Congratulations on the finale!"

"Edgerunners! The best animation of the year!"

...

Watching the bullet comments floating above, Kenji couldn't help but follow suit and post one:

"Congratulations on the finale!"

"This bullet comment is really interesting."

After seeing his comment also appear in the video, he couldn't help but feel a strange sense of satisfaction in his heart.

At the same time, Kenji felt that besides watching anime, other videos on B Station were also quite good.

He then looked at the other videos being promoted below.

Then he watched other videos, one after another, all related to Edgerunners.

It seemed they perfectly understood his preferences.

Kenji watched several more videos, one of which was a parody of Adam Smasher, and the method was very strange:

it repeated the images and dialogues of Adam Smasher from the animation and reassembled them.

It was a rap with a very peculiar voice, indescribably funny.

"One step, two steps, I'm unique!",

Kenji burst out laughing, feeling relieved and refreshed.

Then he watched other videos, such as one by an Edgerunners fan who drew a series of images of a happy ending for Edgerunners.

Adam Smasher was defeated by David, and then David went to find Lucy in a lunar rocket, and the two kissed passionately on the moon.

With the background music from the official "Moonlight Romance" animation, this happy ending seemed dreamy and romantic.

It was very well drawn, although Kenji knew that wasn't the real ending of Edgerunners.

But... he was already very satisfied.

Even one fan, after finishing Edgerunners, was wiping her tears with a tissue, complaining about the cruelty of the original author, Ren, and, of course, criticizing Adam Smasher and the Arasaka Corporation.

Even a video that seemed to be a simple emotional vent had tens of thousands of views and nearly a thousand comments.

In addition to these animation-related videos, Kenji also found many other interesting videos.

What strange interviews! Like one about a man who went to a barbershop for a haircut and was scammed out of more than 200,000 yen for an eyebrow trim.

Seeing this video of a scammed consumer, Kenji thought he shouldn't laugh.

But the man named Xiaowu, after his eyebrow trim, looked so funny.

Furthermore, the comments were also spreading with phrases like "Holding his eyebrows with a thousand fingers," "There's a way to trim eyebrows," and "Eyebrows to the extreme."

He couldn't help but smile.

There was also Ren's "Subway Judge" video, which had gone viral online and was also uploaded to the website by an unknown person.

Kenji followed the comments and discovered that the "righteous" man in the video was actually the original author of Edgerunners.

He is also known as the "mental patient" in the manga world.

This also allowed Kenji to understand Ren, the original author of Edgerunners.

He then reviewed Ren's "sick flying" video from his early years, and now he had a deeper impression of his "mental patient" personality.

At the same time, he laughed even more happily.

Besides Kenji, other users attracted to B Station also became loyal users of the website for a short time after watching these videos.

And they also began to notice that the creative incentive for posting videos on B Station seems to have many benefits.

Especially for relatively popular videos, like Edgerunners animation edits, parody videos, talks, etc.,

they began to learn from the popular videos on B Station, creating videos and uploading them themselves.

Of course, at first, everyone uploaded videos for fun.

But it is undoubtedly good to have incentives, and the ACG cultural circle is mutually contagious.

Suddenly, B Station became known among more people in the circle.

A large number of new users began to flock to B Station, and various types of videos began to appear.

For example, beauty and cosplay related to ACG culture, cosplay costumes, prop making, home dancing, and game tutorials.

Furthermore, they taught in various fields that were no longer limited to ACG culture, including computer science, mechanics, mathematics, English, chemistry, and other courses, as well as experimental teaching.

While spreading what they were passionate about or good at, they also received a certain remuneration.

This also began to attract a large number of creators to join the website.

Thus, gradually, B Station began to develop in the direction that Ren expected and was familiar with.

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