Forum - View topic

NEWS: Ayakashi Triangle Anime Delays Episodes 5 & Beyond

Ayakashi Triangle is the third Aniplex television anime this season to suffer from delays, following NieR:Automata Ver 1.1a and UniteUp!.

Quote:

Ayakashi Triangle is the third Aniplex television anime this season to suffer from delays, following NieR:Automata Ver 1.1a and UniteUp!.

Three different animation studios, same producer, same trouble.
How does this happen? If this happened to a single studio, I would understand. But this?

What are the other two anime delayed this season?

Three different animation studios, same producer, same trouble.
How does this happen? If this happened to a single studio, I would understand. But this?

Certainly makes isekai uncle look more legitamate for also having these problems. Though I don't think anything will keep some people blaming the studio for how often it was delayed. Turns out lots of people sick with covid makes it hard for production to meet their airing schedule.

[And yes, COVID actually affected the situation... except we talking about not just the COVID situation in Japan, but also China - because the major outsourcing workflow comes from there, especially on the shows with crazy tight schedules - and by whole irony, that is exactly the case of why now Aniplex literally put the whole circus with their production committees.

Just like with the gaming industry when it comes to the ever increasing production costs and scale I have to wonder how sustainable this all is. It would be easy to just blame it all on Aniplex and be done with it, but it feels like a larger problem.

I'm a bit more inclined to think that it's less Covid (though that may be a partial reason) and more mismanagement on the part of Aniplex considering that non-Aniplex shows don't seem to be stalled because of Covid.

Was just about to say this. I get it that many people are desperate to be ~insider~ on anime production and how it's collapsing because too many [insert genre they don't like] shows are being made etc., and sure, I'm not saying there aren't huge issues with anime production in Japan, but in this particular situation with all these delays the main problem is in fact with China. Like you said, China is the main provider of outsourced work, and China is not only a pretty damn bad situation right now re: covid, their communication has been completely untrustworthy for months now, and they're restricting information about the real situation in the country. Plus, for obvious reasons Chinese companies/freelancers that handle the outsourced work won't say something like "hey guys, we think you shouldn't give us too many jobs in the next few months because we may not be able to handle it." What they usually do is accept all the jobs, do their best, and then throw in the towel when they inevitably can't keep up, by which time it's usually too late for production to be able to find an alternative.

So as much as conspiracy theories and doomerism re: anime production may be fun, I think the most plausible explanation here is that many production committees/staff saw the vague and likely not entirely trustworthy info re: the situation of their Chinese vendors, weighed the pros and cons, and decided to push ahead with the already super tight schedules on their way too many shows, hoping for the best... and the best didn't happen.

Just recently Kanta Kamei gave some small ranting on Twitter by mentioning Aniplex - describing the situation that giving the job of outsourcing cuts to the Chinese studios during the holidays is nearly impossible during that time, even if they increase the payment to work in holidays 3-5 times the initial price per cut.