I can’t believe I haven’t seen anyone else pointing this out but like…it’s cause it’s gay. Like guys? It’s cause it’s gay. No one in their right mind would just FORGET about a world famous success after one season. They didn’t put the effort in because it’s gay. They don’t want to be the gay studio. I feel like I’m going crazy that no one else is pointing out that this is only happening to the one popular gay anime
Look, I'm not a Yuri on Ice fan nor do I have a business degree. I understand that studio Mappa wants to produce more Shounen Jump properties because those are super profitable. I understand that.
But how in the fuck is it more profitable to cancel the Yuri on ice movie???
It was a cultural zeitgeist.
It breached containment from the anime community.
It's music was featured in the Olympics.
How in the fuck could it not be a profitable franchise????
The crazy thing about mappa fumble is they could have released like, a music video every two years of characters skating and then some merch and the fanbase would take it. Remember Yuuris welcome to the jungle video? Image they released like just that and some Yuuris merch. Every few years. They had a golden fucking goose and let it rot in their basement. I'm not saying milk the fandom but Studios kill to have the dedicated fanbase that YOI has and mappa squandered it. I hope the keep fucking up and sell the IP to someone who'll actually DO SOMETHING. Shit dude imagine a manga? Like just a straight up manga? So much cheaper to produce than an anime and it'd do fucking numbers.
Mappa growing on the back of a (censored)queer show that had global reach, then rebranding itself as a shounen studio, keeping the intellectual property for 8 years, then cancelling it after a lot of baiting and promising, is certainly a way of doing things. They really said fuck your pink money lmao