This is one
of those news that turns your stomach. If you were saving your copium pre-orders
for the upcoming premiere of the yuri anime Let Me Fix You (Kimi wo
Tsumugu), I bring you lousy updates. A few weeks before its release,
the project has just crashed into a concrete wall after one of the heaviest,
darkest and most murky funas we have seen this year, forcing the studio in
charge of the animation to completely dissolve.
A Funa
That Destroyed an Entire Studio
All the
chaos erupted in early May when a person under the pseudonym Maryco dropped an
atomic bomb on social networks: he directly accused Federico Antonio Russo, CEO
and co-founder of the European studio Buta Productions, of grooming.
And no, they were not simple corridor rumors; The victim stated that this
subject systematically manipulated her for more than four years, starting in
2021 when she was just 14 years old and he was 23. As if that were not enough,
he backed up his testimony with a 33-page document full of screenshots and
messages, leaving the director totally cornered and forcing him to delete all
his networks to escape public scrutiny.
As
expected, the team behind the animation was not going to sink with the ship. In
a timely move, all workers immediately cut ties with Russo, causing the company
to collapse overnight. The animators released a statement clarifying that none
of them had any idea of their boss's baseness and revealed the internal hell
they were experiencing, as another former co-founder admitted that the CEO
already had a toxic history of labor manipulation and lack of transparency.
Now, the staff is organizing themselves as freelancers to try
to rescue the work they had already advanced with other empathetic clients who
are supporting them in the transition.
About
Let Me Fix You (Kimi wo Tsumugu)
For those
who didn't have it on their radar, this project was going to be a short-format
adaptation of a beloved dojin manga of the yuri genre. Its
premiere was very scheduled for the end of May on YouTube, with the team's
ambition to expand it to something much bigger in the future. However, with the
studio dead and all this scandal littering the atmosphere, the creative team
asked for time out to discuss if it is worth reviving the work under a new
independent scheme or if they definitely cancel it.
