BL Anime Ten Count Canceled Due to Production Issues
Time has run out for the Ten Count anime adaptation as it has been canceled due to production reasons.
After years of delay, the BL anime adaptation of Ten Count has been canceled.
As announced on their X account, the production team revealed the anime adaptation of Ten Count has been canceled due to production issues. Ten Count has suffered a number of delays ever since it was first announced in March 2018. Initially, it was supposed to be an anime series but it was delayed in December 2020 as the production team was reconsidering the format. Two years later, in October 2022, Ten Count was announced for an anime film adaptation with East Fish Studio and SynergySP signed on as the studios. The film was expected to premiere in 2023.
Created by Rihito Takari, Ten Count is an adult boys’ love manga series that debuted in July 2013 in Dear+. The manga concluded in November 2017 with six volumes. The story follows Tadaomi Shirotani, an extremely mysophobic young man, who seeks help for his OCD from psychotherapist Riku Kurose. Shirotani lists out the things he can’t do and Kurose suggests that, through exposure and response prevention therapy, he’ll be able to lessen the severity of his mysophobia. Ten Count has sold 2 million physical copies as of March 2018 and ranked first on the National Bookstores’ Top Recommended Boys’ Love in 2015 and 2016. The manga won third place for Best Manga in the Sugoi Japan Awards in 2017.
The manga has inspired two video games with the first called Ten Count: Another Days for Ameba which ran from December 2017 to November 2019. A puzzle game called Ten Count for App React ran from August 2018 to June 2020.
Although fans are surely disappointed at the cancellation, they can read the Ten Count manga via Viz Media’s SuBLime imprint.
Source: X, formerly known as Twitter
