Japan ramps up the remakes with a Tokyo Babylon TV anime

[Jman]

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2020-10-25/clamp-tokyo-babylon-manga-gets-tv-anime-in-2021-by-gohands/.165573
 

Yes, the show best known as the prequel to X/1999 is getting a bigger adaptation than the old OVA.

[DragonSinger]

I AM NOT READY! *Breathes into paperbag* Oh sweet mama, give me all those fucked up relationship tropes. Woo! Tokyo Babylon, Ai No Kusabi, and Mirage of Blaze were what made me a little weirdo who loves dark romantic shit every now and then. Please be done well and rip out my heart 😍.

[PokeNirvash]

It amuses me that so many people think every new GoHands anime will be as bad as Hand Shakers just because it has the same visual aesthetic the studio uses in even their more well-received works.

What I'm trying to say is, those people are simple-minded.

[Chapinator_X]

Haven’t seen the original, but it looks promising. I’m more familiar with GoHands based on K and Coppelion, and I enjoy the “too damn bright” art style they’ve done for themselves. Their plots aren’t the best, but with pre-existing source material from CLAMP, I think this time around, it’s GoHands’ time to shine. 

[Ric]

Not feeling those character designs, but if it's good I'll get used to it.

[Distinct Lunatic]

Never heard of it.

Considering the state of things where shows are coming back with either sequels, remakes, next generation things and so on, for some reason I feel like we could see a return of FMA, not sure why I feel that way of all anime out there, maybe it's because Inuyasha got one and it makes me think of FMA.

Going off that, I do think Hiromu Arakawa did a lot of worldbuilding with the FMA franchise to where she could easily return to it with a new story. Whether that be a next gen thing with kids of the originals, or a fully original setting that's in the same world. There were a lot of other countries in the series, with only a glimpse at a few of them.

[Jman]

Anime canceled due to massive amounts of plagiarism.

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2021-03-28/tokyo-babylon-2021-anime-canceled-with-restart-planned-after-more-plagiarism-uncovered/.171243

[PokeNirvash]

When they say "restart", does this mean the Tokyo Babylon anime will be given to another studio, or that GoHands will use this opportunity to make Hand Shakers 3 instead? Maybe both?

Edited March 29, 2021 by PokeNirvash

[DragonSinger]

Clamp's designs were RIGHT THERE for inspiration, so I don't understand the need to piss off K-Pop stans who are damn near religious about protecting their favorite artists from being ripped off.