{"id":231304,"date":"2021-04-20T09:26:13","date_gmt":"2021-04-20T06:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/no-funding-for-stars-align-continuation-yet-says-director\/"},"modified":"2021-04-20T09:26:13","modified_gmt":"2021-04-20T06:26:13","slug":"no-funding-for-stars-align-continuation-yet-says-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/no-funding-for-stars-align-continuation-yet-says-director\/","title":{"rendered":"#No Funding For Stars Align Continuation Yet, Says Director"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#No Funding For Stars Align Continuation Yet, Says Director<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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No company willing to fund the continuation to the soft tennis anime<\/a> series<\/a> Stars Align <\/em>has been found yet, its director and writer Akane Kazuki revealed.<\/span><\/p>\n

Kazuki, who also directed 1996\u2019s The Vision of Escaflowne<\/em> and its 2000 movie retelling, shared the information in an English Twitter<\/a> thread for overseas fans, in which he wrote about the continuation for the anime and provided clarifications for some of his previous Japanese tweets.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m very sorry to say that I still haven\u2019t found a production company or a company willing to fund the production of the sequel to \u201cStars Align\u201d,\u201d Kazuki wrote. \u201cTherefore, I have not yet been able to gather the animators to produce \u201cStars Align\u201d.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

However, he added that he was \u201cpreparing to make episodes 13 to 24 someday.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

In the thread, Kazuki also clarified that Stars Align<\/em> will not receive a full-length movie continuation as some overseas fans believed, and that the special fan movie<\/a> that was released in 2020 was made out of scenes from the 13th episode\u2019s scenario that he had completed. Kazuki said that the special fan movie was made \u201cso that fans of \u2018StarsAlign\u2019 who couldn\u2019t watch the rest of episode12 could get a sense of the main characters after that.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhy did the story suddenly start two years later, and what happ<\/a>ened to the story of Maki and Toma that was directly connected to episode 12? I plan to make it so that you can understand it when you watch the completed episode 13,\u201d Kazuki wrote.<\/span><\/p>\n

Stars Align<\/em> was first broadcast in 2019. The anime, which had 8bit in charge of the animation production, ran for 12 episodes and ended on a cliffhanger. In December 2019, Kazuki (via Anime News Network<\/a>) tweeted that<\/a> the anime was meant to have 24 episodes with a second cour airing three months after the first.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIn spring, there was a last-minute change in the schedule to make the show 12 episodes long, but we\u2019ve been working on this anime for over two years, and the animation production was already proceeding, so I deemed it impossible to turn it into a 12 episode structure at that juncture,\u201d Kazuki was quoted as saying. \u201cThus, we made 12 episodes with the 24 episode structure intact.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Hulu describes the show as:<\/span><\/p>\n

Toma Shinjou has one mission: save his school\u2019s tennis team. And his only hope rests on the racket of Maki Katsuragi, who\u2019s reluctant to part from his studies. This will be the team\u2019s last summer together unless they convince Maki to step on the court!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Source: Akane Kazuki Twitter<\/a>, Anime News Network<\/a><\/span>\n <\/div>\n