'Yuri!!! on Ice: Ice Adolescence' Anime Movie Cancels Production

@Lucifrost, indeed, Tadaima and Twilight are not as good as Yuri. Let's hope that the movie will be RELEASED in future, maybe by another studio, it doesn't matter to me.

@Memore imo both of them are pretty solid (bl) manga (as well as the authors in general), but yeah, YOI is just something special in a way how influential it was and an original at that. Another studio taking the anime instead is common enough (AOT, OPM, Highschool dxd etc.), so I hope we hear the good news soon.

@Icebreaker93 we got csm movie and jjk s3 though? That is manga adaption.

@CrazyFrogz
I prefer Vinland going back to WIT's hands than MAPPA.
Season 2 of Vinland was a passion project, hardly MAPPA will want to do a sequel, lately they are focusing on their cash cows and original projects, bcs original IP brings more money to the studio than manga adaptations.

@CrazyFrogz
I prefer Vinland going back to WIT's hands than MAPPA.
Season 2 of Vinland was a passion project, hardly MAPPA will want to do a sequel, lately they are focusing on their cash cows and original projects, bcs original IP brings more money to the studio than manga adaptations.

I wonder if we'll ever get some behind the scenes details on what actually happened. As for the news, in a sense it was expected but still sad. I guess YoI won't be anything more than a single cour anime.

I really don't buy the "money" talk because they keep producing mediocre fujo anime that sell like absolute shit and no one cares about (like I doubt Bucchigiri made them more money than YoI even with them having a better contract). Even if they were not interested, it was a franchise literally shitting gold, I find unlikely no one thought of milking it in some ways (even just getting a different studio which happens all the time).

@CrazyFrogz
I prefer Vinland going back to WIT's hands than MAPPA.
Season 2 of Vinland was a passion project, hardly MAPPA will want to do a sequel, lately they are focusing on their cash cows and original projects, bcs original IP brings more money to the studio than manga adaptations.

@Jin_uzuki why not? Otsuka, the CEO, literally said in an interview that despite how big the YoI was, the revenue from it returning to the studio was very low in comparison, and yeah, they could on paper make more from Bucchigiri than they did with the YoI. 

I know that they will never be as good as Yuri on Ice, but considering that BL anime are still rare (unfortunately) I'll have to take what I can get lol (I still hope that series like I cannot reach you, My love mix-up, I hear the sunspot, harukaze no etranger, hirano to kagiura, etc, will get an anime adaptation in future)

I'm glad I never got into the franchise, imagine waiting seven years for this.

I'm glad I never got into the franchise, imagine waiting seven years for this.

@M-T_S Clearly it made enough for them to announce a sequel, milk the characters in a bunch of gacha and people even speculate rewrite the ending at last minute for a sequel.

Bucchigiri is an high production value that is a literally money black hole, YoI was the biggest anime of the last ten years that sold so much even 10% of that is gold.

Good. hope that means CSM s2 and Vinland saga s3 in process

It was made by MAPPA, it was bound to happen.

really sad news considering yuri on ice was such a phenomenon for BL anime. I'm curious to know how far along production was though. 7 years in the oven and they cancel it just like that? was work on the movie so slow that it couldn't justify continued funding? or was this just a decision from the higher-ups to save money because some of their other projects failed...

Gay bait anime are more trendy than ever, they could definitely have made some profit here. Especially now that all the fujos will stop watching jjk cuz it's gojover. Oh well

Not even the fujo power could fund this?