After waking up, veteran anime planner Lin Mo discovers that he has transmigrated to a parallel world with a badly skewed technology tree: Blue Star.
VR is widespread here and the internet is lightning-fast, but the entertainment culture is appallingly barren. Childish cartoons are full of stiff moralizing, domestic animation is a wasteland, and works that can bring the whole family together for a good laugh? They simply don't exist.
Just as Lin Mo thinks his dream is destined to stall, the Classic Anime Revival System forcefully binds itself to him. The beginner's gift pack turns out to be the complete series of an animated show called Boonie Bears.
So when Logger Vick's chainsaw first roars across Blue Star's internet, nobody expects this to be just the beginning of a revolution.
Starting with an animation the industry mocks as "childish," Lin Mo builds a platform and brings together like-minded creators, rallying artists from all over under the banner of Starsea City.
From Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf to Monkey King: Hero Is Back, from Ne Zha taking the country by storm to Kung Fu Panda conquering the globe... he turns one classic after another from another world into the brightest cultural icons of the age.
Years later, children laugh as they hug their limited-edition Briar Bear plushies at the world's largest anime theme park. His works always claim a place near the top of the annual box office charts. And Starsea City, born from bullet comments and creativity, has long since become a spiritual home for countless people.
When reporters press him for the secret of his success, Lin Mo, now an entertainment mogul, simply smiles and looks toward the tech queen at his side, who stood shoulder to shoulder with him from the very start of his business: his wife, Su Jin.
"It all began that winter, with a bear and a lumberjack's story"
A bit like AI. But at least not rampant I like it. I recognize it as AI.