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Aug 23, 2012 3:31 AM
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Anime production studio Encourage Films has announced that they have suspended director Sato Junichi's original anime project "Wish Angel". Ikeda Toyo, the President of the studio, explained that they decided to give priority to other projects, which have been running in parallel with Wish Angel.

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Wish Angel was announced in 2010 as an original anime project about a high school cheerleading club produced by the staff of Kaleido Star series.

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Aug 23, 2012 4:02 AM
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don't mind -w-
Aug 23, 2012 4:05 AM
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Never actually heard about this, but damn. It was a cheerleading anime? Why suspend something so awesome.
Aug 23, 2012 4:06 AM
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Wow, I wonder how great those projects must be for them to suspend Sato Junichi's.
Aug 23, 2012 4:20 AM
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I kind of feel disappointed. I really loved Kaleido Star so I got really excited when I heard that they were going to make a somewhat similar series.

Don't talk to me about character development if Kaizuka Inaho or Slaine Troyard are in your favorites.
Aug 23, 2012 4:27 AM
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I know. who will be my favorite character xDDD

funny cat...xDD
Aug 23, 2012 4:33 AM
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The background from the website looks like tamayura's and the cat character does look really unique, to bad it will take time for it to come out.

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Aug 23, 2012 4:34 AM
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whaaa? why?
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Aug 23, 2012 4:42 AM
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I agree with that judgment: after all, this is the same studio that gave us Symphogear!
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Aug 23, 2012 4:43 AM

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I love Sato. This is sad news :(
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Aug 23, 2012 5:01 AM
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Been waiting since Wish Angel was first announced, and now to receive this news is so sad. At least they finally gave more word instead of just letting it sit idle. Hope the suspension isn't too long as I am still looking for to this!
Aug 23, 2012 5:58 AM

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Bad news :(
but on the other side, more time to work on second season of Tamayura :)
Aug 23, 2012 6:03 AM

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At least it's not cancelled =)
Aug 23, 2012 7:37 AM

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Bro, you don't do that to Sato. :<
Aug 23, 2012 8:16 AM

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jmal said:
I don't know if I want to live in a world where Satou Jun'ichi is not a top priority.


You fucked up Japan, you fucked up bad.

If they are doing this to work on something Symphogear related of all series I will be mad as hell (Though admittedly I loved the character songs).
Aug 23, 2012 8:57 AM

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jmal said:
I don't know if I want to live in a world where Satou Jun'ichi is not a top priority.

Though, yeah, if this means a faster Tamayura 2 (though it's unclear it would) then I'll survive.
Me too... but I think it may help with Tamayura, at least that one is announced.

And thinking about it... series like Kaleido Star drawn by people who were working with Symphogear o.O tha would be interesting, remembering it's quality (it wasn't so bad but it had epic moments).
So hopefully he'll make something new with TYO Animations :)

PS. But it would have another weird cat
Aug 23, 2012 10:19 AM

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Doesnt look interesting sorry
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Aug 23, 2012 10:56 AM

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Don't care about the studio, but passing up the work from such an individual, buhbuh..
Aug 23, 2012 11:59 AM

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sayami said:
At least it's not cancelled =)


Gotta love that optimism.
Aug 23, 2012 12:55 PM
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Doesn't sound like something I would have watched anyway.
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Aug 23, 2012 1:05 PM

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kinda ok with that
Aug 23, 2012 2:05 PM

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Looks cute but the name Wish Angel for a cheerleading anime?


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Aug 23, 2012 2:23 PM

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Well, f*ck. Kaleido Star is one of my favorite anime and I hoped that this would become something like that, but no. They won't do it for a while >_>
At least it was suspended not cancelled.
Aug 23, 2012 2:50 PM

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Well, that sucks.
Aug 23, 2012 3:01 PM

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Kaleido Star's one of my all time favorites and I'd have loved to see what they could've done with this project...but I'm not surprised considering how long its been since it was originally announced.

I just hope that team gets to do something someday that shares the same magic KS had :(
Aug 23, 2012 3:28 PM

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Smileeyface said:
Wow, I wonder how great those projects must be for them to suspend Sato Junichi's.



she wasn't ready for the series either, she never will be.

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Aug 23, 2012 3:38 PM

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Shame it wasn't cancelled.
Aug 23, 2012 3:59 PM

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I still hope that Sato would stop making slices about jspaneese schoolgirls for something more "Aria-type". But... what? Encourage films have some new projects coming? Ontama was good. Symphogear had a great start and concept but scenario failed in latter half. But I still want to see smth new from this studio. They have a potential.
Aug 23, 2012 5:37 PM

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I'm sorry, but putting off a new original anime that is being made by the same crew who made Kaleido Star (which is magnificent) is kind of like saying, "Hey, let's delay possible cash flow."
Aug 23, 2012 6:04 PM
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Kaleido Star was a piece of shit anime that lasted 51 episodes too long so I am not shedding a single tear.
Aug 23, 2012 7:13 PM

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Don't care, it looks kind of lackluster
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Aug 23, 2012 9:11 PM
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jmal said:
I don't know if I want to live in a world where Satou Jun'ichi is not a top priority.


It's a matter of sponsorship. Remember that Encourage Films announced Angel Wish before a project was even viable. That's rare in the anime business, and it screamed to me that that they were fishing for fan support (not enough interest among sponsors, so they needed to generate some excitement).

Also, this was a personal venture for Toyo Ikeda (it would've been his third creation with Kaleido Star and Romeo x Juliet being the other two) and not some forgettable contract job. I'm sure that it would've been top priority had the financial backing been in place.
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cheerleading ? it must be have a lot of fanservice xD
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