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Quote by Tetsuya Komuro
I created the story. If you don’t get people to create a boom, it’s hard to have a mega-hit.
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The speaker says that creating the story is only the first step. A very successful work also needs people to create a “boom”—broad excitement and attention around it. Without that wider response, the story is unlikely to become a “mega-hit.”
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