tokyo babylon, not in 2021

the tokyo babylon 2021 saga continues: after discovering more plagiarism, they’ve stopped all production and are planning to start anew.

“modernizing” tokyo babylon was a mistake. the original costume designs were iconic, if they’d just gone with those they would have never gotten into this problem in the first place. the story itself was woven around the peak of the bubble economy and how it influenced the mainstream: the independent fashionable teen, the failure of the social net, the occult anxiety. the revival of city pop and popularity of orientalist retro-futurism means it is the perfect anime to become a new cross-cultural cult hit.

anyway, i hope they’ll keep shouta aoi on the cast as subaru, if only for the possible photoshoots.