Episode 4 onward postponed, no return date announced

Rimuru0001 said:
Except the popularity of 86 was not that good in Japan sadly, which means we won't get any sequels soon .. Damn after that final I really wish we would get an announcement for second season .. it's an underrated anime with underrated Male and Female leads. 

Unleashed_SM said:
How is it only A1 with this problem? If Covid is an issue, wouldn’t more studios delay their shows as well?

Andan210 said:

To clarify why COVID is still relevant in China in 2023: China had a very, very strict policy of "zero COVID" since early 2020, which meant they would lock down entire cities or regions in order to keep poeple from interacting with each other and getting infected. However at the end of 2022, after 3 years of this, there were massive protests and social unrest in many major cities of China because the population was tired of the lockdowns, with the prospect of things getting uglier unless something was done. And so, the Chinese government entirely backtracked it's "zero COVID" policy in order to calm down the population.

It's important to note that China doesn't use any vaccine produced in any Western country, and studies show that the Chinese vaccines are generally less effective. Also, the most vulnareble population in China, the elderly, has mostly rejected vaccination. And finally, you have a huge number of infected Chinese people traveling to other cities and regions because of the Chinese New Year this month.

That's why the number of infections and deaths related to COVID in China has been massive since last month, and it's going to keep rising in the inmediate future. Basically, China is experiencing what the rest of the world experienced in 2020, only they are doing it almost 3 years later.

With this I don't mean to say that Aniplex isn't lying to our faces about COVID being the reason to delay the episodes. For all we know, it may be COVID, or it may be that they have a really shitty work schedule. I just wanted to give some context about the situation.

Kockorzo said:
Yes certainly, staff members could have had been infected 2-3 weeks ago when infections were officially on an increase. But that was 2-3 weeks ago, while trying to contain it, they are also trying to hide the epidemic spread of injections. One may even say they have succeeded in doing so. Come three moons and the world has revolved a thousand, your information seems to be outdated.

Kockorzo said:
Coming back to China and Chinese production, it is unlikely^3  in itself that they weren’t prepared for a global broadcast as to only air 4 episodes and go on an undefined hiatus owing to that virus which has put blemish enough already. If China was involved, they wouldn’t be producing episodes while airing and if they were involved in animation of a global broadcast, the whole project certainly wouldn’t be turned upside down due to a 2 week discrepancy. Something like this has to pass through the keen eye of the regulators and it simply wouldn’t be approved to air if incomplete.

Something has gone terribly wrong and it definitely is not COVID.

Kockorzo said:
Either you clicked read more, scrolled to the bottom and read this first or you actually did read in whatever mind that which I wrote above, I was quoting in perspective of the animation supposedly being done by China though the person did say, made in China so it’s an entirely different thing, even though your words just flew in the air I am glad that you wrote such a comprehensive response and though I did intend to start a baseless argument, something just tells me that your aren’t gonna respond to it... Though I wrote because I wanted to write you may still find some truth in my baseless talk given current context, a delay after just 4 weeks of airing is pathetic, it shouldn’t happen.

Spoof_490 said:





The studio that's making Ayakashi triangle is also postponed because of covid

V1P3R0P said:

Well, we can't just brush this off as a fake news since COVID is spreading at a heavy rate in China and most of Japan. China, afaik is under a stirct lockdown due to this. But then again, it's a good coverup as you told. But I'd want to believe its former rather than the latter.

deg said:
im not gonna be surprise if this is fake news to hide the bad production schedule again since there were other anime that made thesame covid excuse but was revealed by some leakers to be fake news

zekuOnTheWay said:
There is no reason to believe any company using Covid as an excuse in 2023. Stop acting like it is a plague bruh.

Kockorzo said:

Yes certainly, staff members could have had been infected 2-3 weeks ago when infections were officially on an increase. But that was 2-3 weeks ago, while trying to contain it, they are also trying to hide the epidemic spread of injections. One may even say they have succeeded in doing so. Come three moons and the world has revolved a thousand, your information seems to be outdated. Coming back to China and Chinese production, it is unlikely^3 in itself that they weren’t prepared for a global broadcast as to only air 4 episodes and go on an undefined hiatus owing to that virus which has put blemish enough already. If China was involved, they wouldn’t be producing episodes while airing and if they were involved in animation of a global broadcast, the whole project certainly wouldn’t be turned upside down due to a 2 week discrepancy. Something like this has to pass through the keen eye of the regulators and it simply wouldn’t be approved to air if incomplete.

Either you clicked read more, scrolled to the bottom and read this first or you actually did read in whatever mind that which I wrote above, I was quoting in perspective of the animation supposedly being done by China though the person did say, made in China so it’s an entirely different thing, even though your words just flew in the air I am glad that you wrote such a comprehensive response and though I did intend to start a baseless argument, something just tells me that your aren’t gonna respond to it... Though I wrote because I wanted to write you may still find some truth in my baseless talk given current context, a delay after just 4 weeks of airing is pathetic, it shouldn’t happen. Something has gone terribly wrong and it definitely is not COVID.

zekuOnTheWay said:
There is no reason to believe any company using Covid as an excuse in 2023. Stop acting like it is a plague bruh.

ineser said:
Only this studio has the problem and the rest dont have?

M7md_Shoura said:
is there any chance that they redo the cgi in later epidsodes?

Andan210 said:

To clarify why COVID is still relevant in China in 2023: China had a very, very strict policy of "zero COVID" since early 2020, which meant they would lock down entire cities or regions in order to keep people from interacting with each other and getting infected. However at the end of 2022, after 3 years of this, there were massive protests and social unrest in many major cities of China because the population was tired of the lockdowns, with the prospect of things getting uglier unless something was done. And so, the Chinese government entirely backtracked it's "zero COVID" policy in order to calm down the population.
It's important to note that China doesn't use any vaccine produced in any Western country, and studies show that the Chinese vaccines are generally less effective. Also, the most vulnareble population in China, the elderly, has mostly rejected vaccination. And finally, you have a huge number of infected Chinese people traveling to other cities and regions because of the Chinese New Year this month.
That's why the number of infections and deaths related to COVID in China has been massive since last month, and it's going to keep rising in the inmediate future. Basically, China is experiencing what the rest of the world experienced in 2020, only they are doing it almost 3 years later.
With this I don't mean to say that Aniplex isn't lying to our faces about COVID being the reason to delay the episodes. For all we know, it may be COVID, or it may be that they have a really shitty work schedule. I just wanted to give some context about the situation.

Euthymia_Gerv said:
The CGI is fine.
Since you seem to have a problem with it, how about you do the CGI? Show them how it's done. I'm sure lots of people would be interested in seeing your amazing CGI work.

Memore said:
Thank God. According to schedule the next episode will air on the 18th of February: https://cal.syoboi.jp/tid/6601/time

Noko- said:
I'd take it with a grain of salt considering they haven't announced anything yet. It could be a placeholder.
And I have a distinct feeling that if they do release episode 4 on the 18th, they'll just end up pushing the delay two or three episodes further back and we'll end up in the same situation  again after episode 5 or 6. 
It really depends on how far into the pipeline each episode was at the time of release, but considering the almost complete lack of marketing material featuring anything beyond episode 3 and the rushed-looking animation, I doubt that they were anywhere near ready.

Euthymia_Gerv said:
The CGI is fine.
Since you seem to have a problem with it, how about you do the CGI? Show them how it's done. I'm sure lots of people would be interested in seeing your amazing CGI work.

There was unreset everywhere due to lockdowns and vaccines for a while. Mostly because people are generally science illiterate and have no idea what a vaccine is or how it works, which is why to this day you still get people saying "I got all the vaccines and still got it, it was obviously garbage." They assume that vaccines protect you from getting it, which isn't the case. That's not how vaccines work. Not a single one of them.

Vaccines are like putting up wanted posters in an old west down. It doesn't stop the bank robber (the virus) from strolling into town (your body), but the town's sheriff (your immune system) knows what they look like and is ready to have a shootout at high noon when/if the bank robber does show up.

Noko- said:

I'd like to disagree that it's "fine".

The fact that Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex from over 20 years ago managed better looking CGI robots than Nier should be shameful.

I've seen independent animators on Youtube repurpose video game assets better.

It's just not okay that the animation is of that quality for an adaptation of a beloved franchise by one of the largest studios in Japan.

Euthymia_Gerv said:


You seem to be such a great CGI expert. Why don't you do better? I mean I'm sure they'd appreciate the help, and would probably even pay you for it. Maybe. At the very least, you can show them up and put them to shame.

I'm sure that whatever you did, I could nitpick crap about it and berate you for what a terrible job you did as would many others.

Seiya0890 said:
Aren't episodes made months ahead though ? How come a few weeks delay would help ?

Euthymia_Gerv said:


Even 200+ million dollar Hollywood films have things going on pretty much until the last minute these days. We don't know what exactly was being worked on at the time of the shutdown. For all we know everything is done and all it was was some last-minute deliverables, and the delay was simply that they couldn't get into the office to actually deliver them.