'Tokyo Babylon 2021' Suspends Production, Plans Restart

by ImperfectBlue
Mar 28, 2021 8:38 PM | 47 Comments

The production committee behind the Tokyo Babylon 2021 television anime announced on Monday that it has cut ties with everyone involved in the production.

The decision was reached alongside CLAMP following an internal investigation triggered by plagiarism accusations. The investigation uncovered potential plagiarism beyond the November costume design incident, and the two sides agreed to restart the project from the ground up.

Tokyo Babylon 2021 was initially slated for an April 2021 release. The current official website and Twitter will close on April 30, and new production staff will be announced at a later date.

The anime will adapt CLAMP's fantasy shoujo manga Tokyo Babylon. CLAMP serialized the manga in the South and Monthly Wings magazines between 1990 and 1993. A sequel manga titled X ran in Monthly Asuka from March 1992 to March 2003.

Madhouse adapted Tokyo Babylon into an original video anime, releasing an episode in October 1992 and March 1994, and produced an anime film for X in 1996. A 24-episode television anime re-adapting the sequel manga aired in Fall 2001.

Source: IT Media

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LordPonczek said:
If the studio will continues to make such mistakes, it will go bankrupt soon.

Good, Gohands is the joke of the anime studios. Scandals of tracing and fugly CGI.

Let them all fade in irrelevancy.

Apr 2, 2021 9:10 AM by Fabris

How stupid of a studio do you have to be to plagiarize COSTUMES for literally THE ONE GROUP THAT CAN MAKE AN INFINITE AMOUNT OF THEM????

Like, do they not know CLAMP? The women who gave Yuuko different outfits EVERY SINGLE FUCKING APPEARANCE that it's actually a PLOT POINT when she wore the same thing twice?! They could have designed Hokuto and Subaru a gazillion outfits by themselves, why the hell did they need to ruin their 30th freaking anniversary and plagiarize some shitty kpop outfits?!

I am literally boiling mad right now. How can they treat such VETERANS like this?! This is motherfreaking CLAMP we're talking about. Have they no shame?!

Apr 2, 2021 1:43 AM by gwendal738

GoHands's habit of plagiarizing outfits & tracing poses from commercial photos rather than getting their own reference materials was a ticking bomb. Bizarre part of their studio culture that was inevitably leading here when they pissed off a big fanbase
https://twitter.com/Yuyucow/status/1376491900874727426

Mar 29, 2021 10:07 PM by deg

What a waste of time and money for this project.

Mar 29, 2021 5:10 PM by Taffy_x3

fifty-one said:
nice. can they please do same to Tsubasa RC?

God I wish. The TRC OVAs were really good and it's a shame we never got an ending.

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Aleph199X said:
Honestly I am a bit sad but not that much. They missed the mark in terms of designs. CLAMP are probably the best at making great and fashionable designs, and this is what we get? A rip off of a crappy kpop costume? And they can't even give subaru a hat?
Good riddance, I do hope whoever gets this now does a better job.

I did also read that Gohands barely even collaborated with CLAMP, which explains the really bad cosutme designs.

That explains a lot of things.

Mar 29, 2021 1:27 PM by Aleph199X

It's not even surprising that giving a project to GoHands will incure THIS levels of atrocity.

Hand Shakers and W'z looking almost the same, because they're in the same universe.
SCARD and K looking almost the same, inspiration from K, because their "glorious" 3DCG production is a one-way street and cannot be diversified.

Disappointing, please give another studio and a new production committee that can do the job better.

Mar 29, 2021 1:11 PM by KANLen09

nice. can they please do same to Tsubasa RC?

Mar 29, 2021 11:55 AM by fifty-one

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Piromysl said:
GoHands is on the verge of bankruptcy for quite some time now. They can't milk SYD forever and I'm afraid, this might be the final nail to the coffin.

Wait, what happened for them to end up on the verge of bankruptcy?

Its mostly cuz they are loosing trust from the production committiees and higher up ppl wont be wiling to entrust them any projects to work on which means no money to make for them which basicly means ur fcked once no more work is incoming to earn money and pay ur animators etc ur pretty much doomed.

Mar 29, 2021 11:02 AM by KurumiNightmare

I mean, Praeter felt like GoHands was plagiarizing themselves and trying to recapture K, even before I knew about the clothing controversy. It's disappointing but not surprising.

Mar 29, 2021 10:38 AM by LadyElwing

lmfao hopefully this means a different (better) studio will be taking over. i'd rather wait longer for an actually good anime than wait for a little and getting a disrespectful dumpsterfire

Mar 29, 2021 9:59 AM by fizzytastic

Good, we deserved so much better than this.

Mar 29, 2021 8:46 AM by Aeradae

Wow, embarrassing.

Mar 29, 2021 8:27 AM by Punkero

Hope it comes next year in time for the OVA's 30th anniversary. GoHands taking L's

Mar 29, 2021 8:04 AM by ChartTopper60

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GoldenDevilGamer said:

Since the anime is a retelling of the original manga in modern times, either GoHands or the production committee thought that the manga's character designs were outdated for a 2021 setting. I can sorta see why they would want to change it, since Tokyo Babylon's character designs have a very 90's feel to it and it would've looked off in a 2021 setting.

I love 90's design!
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I also love it too, however it may not fit with the modern setting of the anime. Though honestly, it would've been better if the anime would take place in the same setting as the manga. That way, CLAMP's designs can be used without any conflict.

Mar 29, 2021 8:04 AM by GoldenDevilGamer

GoldenDevilGamer said:

Guthem said:
I really REALLY can't understand this
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I love 90's design!
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Mar 29, 2021 8:02 AM by Guthem

Guthem said:
I really REALLY can't understand this
Clamp has worldwide attemption about fashion style (I love her drawing style), and WHY change design?
Someone can explain me?

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Mar 29, 2021 8:00 AM by GoldenDevilGamer

I really REALLY can't understand this
clamp has the attention of the whole world, when it comes to design, and fashion clothes (I love her drawing style), and WHY change design?
Someone can explain me?

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Mar 29, 2021 7:49 AM by Guthem

If this scandal prevents production committees from hiring this studio, I guess you can say GoHands is gonna GoBankrupt...

Mar 29, 2021 7:41 AM by GoldenDevilGamer

Good lord, looks like the situation reached an irreversible point.

Hopefully, things will head to the right direction until the end of airing now.

Mar 29, 2021 7:23 AM by _MushiRock11_

Gohands is still my favorite studio <3

Mar 29, 2021 7:16 AM by Sealshark122

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