The official site for the Anime adaptation of the Manga written and illustrated by Hotondo Shindeiru, Isekai Oji-san (Uncle from Another Life), announced that The broadcast of the thirteenth and final episode of the series will be suspended indefinitely due to the new spread of COVID-19 in China.. The production team will announce the air date of this final episode soon.
The series has been airing in Japan since July 6, but its production has been a complete disaster. The series was put on a two-week hiatus beginning with its fifth episode in August, followed by an indefinite hiatus from the eighth episode in September due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The series resumed from its first episode on October 6 in Japan, and then reaches its second indefinite suspension.
The case of Isekai Ojisan highlighted Japan’s dependence on animators hired independently from abroad. For her, Hotondo Shindeiru publish the manga through the service ComicWalker from the publisher battlefield as of June 2018, after publishing independently for a while through Twitter and Pixiv.
Production team
- Shigeki Kawai is in charge of directing the anime in the studios Atelier Pontdarc (founded by Tsunaki Yoshikawa, one of the White Fox producers who left the company this year).
- ihara sensation (Death Parade, Vinland Saga, Zankyou no Terror) is in charge of writing and supervising the scripts.
- Kazuhiro Oota (Kimi or Iru Machi, Negima!?, Paniponi Dash!) is in charge of character design and animation direction.
Isekai Oji-san Summary
Autumn 2017. The nephew, Takafumi, went to the hospital to visit his uncle, who has just come out of a seventeen-year-old coma. However, he seems to have lost his mind, as he claims to have been in another world called “Grand Bahamar” all this time, and even seems to be speaking a strange language. But everything changes when his uncle, an ordinary man, shows him that he learned to use magic in the other world. So when Takafumi realizes that the magic his uncle uses is completely real, he suggests that he use his skills to become a successful YouTuber. Now taking care of him, Takafumi and his uncle begin to participate in the streaming world, and his uncle occasionally tells him about his life in the afterlife.
Fountain: Official site
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