Magical Girl Raising Project Returns After Decade-Long Wait, Director Says
A decade after the original run, the sequel's greenlight was unlocked by a change in the primary animation production company and a viable business case, not by creative readiness.
Reporting from 1 source: Anime News Network.
Director Hiroyuki Hashimoto confirmed that Magical Girl Raising Project Restart, a sequel to the 2016 anime, is in production. In an interview, Hashimoto said the series' dark premise, where magical girls are culled, required viewers to have mental preparation before a sequel could work. The long gap came down to the business side of anime, with the project finally greenlit after a change in the primary animation production company and EPX Corp expressing interest.
Ten years after the first season's brutal finale, the battle royale is back on the table. Director Hiroyuki Hashimoto told Anime News Network that Magical Girl Raising Project Restart finally got the go-ahead after EPX Corp expressed interest in a new season. He had wanted to continue the story since the original run, but the pieces never lined up.
Hashimoto was blunt about the delay: anime is a business, and without a clear prospect of recouping the investment, a sequel could not move forward. A change in the primary animation production company, along with shifting circumstances, made the project viable at last.
The new season brings a fresh cast of magical girls, which Hashimoto called part of the appeal. Original author Asari Endo's characters are all eccentric and hard to read, he said, and with so many dying each arc, most of the original cast is gone, replaced by a new group that challenges the production side.
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