We may never know why Kyoto Animation’s Tonari no 801-chan was cancelled. It is quite the shame, considering I was hoping for a possibly more experimental and certainly out of the norm work for KyoAni. As much as they do great work, it’s mostly standard direction with their own twists. I’d much rather see divergent works coming out of there and Tonari was seeming to be that trigger.
Who knows? Maybe it’ll resurface under another studio in a year or two or less? SDS has some amusing thoughts on the cancellation.
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August 31, 2008 at 10:00 pm
Jeff Lawson
It sounded like such an odd project when it was first announced that I half expected to hear it had been cancelled, or farmed out to a different studio, or reduced to an OAV, etc.
I’d be curious to know the reason, though. Probably something mundane, like a funding source not coming through.
September 1, 2008 at 1:06 am
wildarmsheero
“Wait wait– we asked them to animate some webcomic? Fuck that, project’s closed”
September 1, 2008 at 1:54 pm
Link
Yeah, I was surprised too when I heard it was a TV series, by KyoAni no less. Very odd.
I didn’t expect it to be cancelled, given that you don’t see studios reneging on upcoming series much. Not from a high-profile studio either. You’d think that they wouldn’t have made public plans for it in the first place.
September 1, 2008 at 5:11 pm
karry
“We may never know why Kyoto Animation’s Tonari no 801-chan was cancelled.”
Are you for real ? Why would they care about any new series, when there are ARMIES of bozos praying to overhyped crap like Haruhi.
September 1, 2008 at 5:41 pm
Link
Kyoto Animation doesn’t make those decisions. Their sponsors do, as with (almost) all animation studios.