Ufotable has been hard at work on Demon Slayer for the past five years, and there’s one project from the studio that fans aren’t sure will come to fruition.
Today, September 16, 2024, marks two years since the Genshin Impact anime was announced by publisher Hoyoverse. In 2020, the free-to-play open-world RPG inspired by the anime attracted a massive audience on consoles and PC by offering a huge amount of gameplay without requiring users to pay a dime.
Since then, the Honkai franchise has been maintained, with development studio miHoYo continuing the franchise in the meantime, and now offering two massive MMO games on modern platforms. As part of Genshin’s meteoric growth, a TV show was unveiled along with a short concept trailer.
Ufotable, the company behind the legendary Demon Slayer film adaptation as well as Fate/Zero and God Eater, is animating the series, which is being billed as a “long-term collaborative project” between the two studios. We haven’t heard anything since.
There has been no release window or animation updates, or even an official title. Of course, Ufotable has been busy preparing for Demon Slayer Season 4 and moving on to the Infinity Castle movie trilogy to complete Tanjiro’s battle against Muzan.
This only raises more questions about what’s going on. Has there been any progress? Or will this quietly fall by the wayside as the zeitgeist shifts away from Genshin Impact as the number one game?
“Nobody ever did this shit to us. It was an ad for the game lol,” reads one of them. answer for the second anniversary on X/Twitter. “They took so long to do this that I hate Genshin now,” said another.
“And the Switch port was announced like 4 years ago, Hoyoverse can’t deliver, they can hype it,” another added.
There’s always a chance that this project is still in development, but since there’s nothing to go on, people are starting to get cynical. Spin-offs sometimes fall through, and we’ll just have to keep waiting to find out what the fate of this one in particular will be. Our upcoming anime list can fill you in on which releases are definitely in the works.
