Tokyo Babylon 2021 Anime Canceled With Restart Planned, After More Plagiarism Uncovered
The official website for studio GoHands' Tokyo Babylon 2021 television anime announced on Monday that the anime's production committee has completely canceled the current production of the anime, with the intent of starting fresh with an entirely new production for the anime. According to the committee's statement, its investigation into plagiarized character costume designs resulted in the discovery of more instances of plagiarism beyond the original two examples.
The announcement added that the investigation resulted in the production committee's loss of faith in the production, but that CLAMP and the production committee will work to start a new production as quickly as possible.
The anime was originally slated to debut in April 2021, but was delayed due to the aforementioned incident. Staff had referenced costume designs for two characters from other sources without permission.
The anime's previously announced cast members included Shouta Aoi as Subaru Sumeragi, Nana Mizuki as Hokuto Sumeragi, and Yuichiro Umehara as Seishirō Sakurazuka.Shingo Suzuki (K: Missing Kings, K: Return of Kings, Coppelion) and Susumu Kudo (K, Coppelion, Hand Shakers) were directing the anime at GoHands, and Jun Kumagai (Aquarion Logos, Persona 3 the Movie series, Shōwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjū, Bungo and Alchemist -Gears of Judgement-) was in charge of the series scripts. Makoto Furuta (Seitokai Yakuindomo, K: Seven Stories - The Idol K) was designing the characters, and Furuta and Keiji Tani were credited as chief animation directors. Noriyuki Asakura (Rurouni Kenshin, Knights of Sidonia) was composing the music at King Records.
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