It is already April 11 in Japan, making it three years since
the premiere of the anime adaptation of Asato Asato 's light
novels , “ 86:
Eighty-Six .” Although the story captivated viewers from its first
episode, to date there has been no news about the production of any
continuation. In fact, although there is a lot of material available to
adapt in the original light novels, the reasons why a continuation might not be
produced would rather go towards planning issues.
When “86: Eighty-Six” premiered its anime adaptation
in Spring 2021 (April-June) , it was announced as a two-part
series, with the second scheduled for the Fall 2021 season
(October-December) . But it was in this second part where the problems
began on the part of A-1
Pictures , the studio in charge of the adaptation.
In fact, the anime adaptation was originally scheduled to
premiere in 2020, but was delayed due to production issues. Then,
during the second part, “86: Eighty-Six” went through numerous suspensions due
to production problems, which caused them to “run out of time on television.” To
explain this, it turns out that the series aired its “Episode 21” on December
26, 2021, so they could no longer broadcast the remaining two episodes during
the two weeks following that date, because they were already going to interfere
with the premieres of Winter-2022 (January-March).
This caused these final two episodes to be
delayed until March 2022, and although they were much better in terms of
quality (of course, the studio had an additional three months
to complete the work), many had already left “86: Eighty-Six ” in the
past considering that the new season brought “Kimetsu no Yaiba”, “Shingeki
no Kyojin”, and “Sono Bisque Doll wa Koi wo Suru”, to name a few.
Anyway, the only season so far of “86: Eighty-Six” adapted
Volume 1 and part of Volume 2 in the first part, while the second part finished
adapting the events of Volume 2 and also Volume 3 in its entirety. As
we already mentioned, there is enough content for a second season, since there
are a total of thirteen volumes published to date.
While there is plenty of material, perhaps the
same cannot be said for A-1 Pictures' availability for this project. Having
the massive project of “Solo Leveling”, in addition to other franchises such as
“Sword Art Online”, “NieR: Automata” and the eventual return of “Kaguya-sama:
Love is War”, it certainly seems difficult for them to make time to
produce a continuation of “86: Eighty-Six” , which although it was
well received by specialized critics, Blu-ray/DVD sales (the only financial
aspect of a public nature) were average.
Will this franchise return in the future? We
just have to wait.
