Bad news for Bofuri season 2 (for those that care)

Updated on February 13, 2023 By Ken Begg 12 Comments

Covid is still running rampant in Japan, and certainly in anime productions houses. I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say that upwards of a third of all this season’s currently running shows have by now announced delays. I imagine the insanely tight production schedules of the anime industry is as much part of it as the Covid thing, but it is what it is.

Sadly, this trend now includes Bofuri. Starting (I think) next week, the show will go on hiatus for two weeks, with repeats of season 2 episodes 1 & 2 being rebroadcast instead of episodes 7 and 8. Then the show will pick up where it left off.

This is going to have dire consequences for the upcoming Spring season starting in April. I think I’ve mentioned before that anime in Japan is still mainly disseminated via broadcast TV, not streaming. Moreover, the anime production committees for each show buys time in several cities to run their shows. If, say, a dozen shows end up being delayed, it’s going to be very tough to find slots to show the last episodes of those shows when a good 30 or 40 new shows are already booked to start in April. So when and how Bofuri’s last two episodes will broadcast (and also subsequently stream here) has yet to be reported.

So…not great.

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  • kgb_san_diego

    :-(

    I guess we will survive. Somehow.

  • Jeez, that sounds grim. Even if they allow a push back on the new shows to allow the current ones to finish, that’ll have a ripple effect down to next season. There is literally no good way of solving this, unless the companies “cancel” the low rated shows and put the more popular ones in their slot instead. Assuming, of course, that’s sort of things allowed.

    Makes the summer rerun dead zone we had over here seem a lot better.

  • Ken_Begg

    Aside from the (so far) seven or eight shows suffering delays or just complete reschedulings, in the last week I’ve seen two shows whose latest episodes featured markedly inferior animation. I watched one last night that suddenly looked like an old Scooby Doo episode, with groups of people in static poses and only one person’s mouth moving as they talked. So even shows that aren’t delaying are obviously just grinding things out to stay running. I guess the problem is too many anime now and too few people working on it. (Also the sweatshop conditions of anime production in many cases.)

  • Gamera977

    So worse than the old Scooby Doo? From what I’ve been hearing of the new ‘Velma’ series it couldn’t be any worse that that.

  • Ken’s talking animation, not quality of story. Velma has very good animation from what little I’ve seen of that God awful show.

    Oh, here’s a thought for you.

    Firefly, one season.

    Brisco County Junior, one season.

    My Mother, the Car, one season.

    Velma, two seasons.

    This has to be the worst of all timelines. TV show wise.

  • Gamera977

    Yeah, I was just being snarky. Sorry.

  • No worries. You’ve been exposed to Velma, it makes everyone a little off. (And I realize you only said you heard of it. That’s enough. Trust me.)

  • Ken_Begg

    I think they pre-ordered two seasons of this (because you have to offer a huge contract to lock up Mindy Whatserface). Remember when they kept renewing Batwoman? Good times.

  • Ken_Begg

    The thing is, that sort of thing has been done successfully. Venture Bros is generally a *great* show. Hell, they did their own black comic version of the Scooby Gang. So you can pull that sort of thing off, although (here’s the rub) you have to be really talented and still have a deep affection for the thing you’re making fun of. Also, note that they used stand ins for Jonny Quest, the FF, etc., rather than tarnishing the actual characters.

  • What also helped was that they were on the whole truthful and consistent with their presentations. Plus the characters in Venture Bros. more or less knew they weren’t the best of people and would occasionally make moves towards improvement.

    Velma in Velma, on the other hand is mean spirited, self centered, and borderline evil. Okay, maybe not borderline, maybe well within the realms of hanging out with Satan evil. The audience is not only supposed to root for her but also identify with her. A person who, in the real world, would be rightfully shunned.

    (Oh, and to be fair, Action Jonny originally was Jonny Quest when he was a cameo. When they started using him as a semi-regular they kindly moved him away from the real deal.)

  • Yeah, I don’t understand Batwoman‘s longevity either. At least that was just CW terrible.

  • Ken_Begg

    Partly because they presold the rights to several seasons to some streaming service or other (I think that’s right). Also, if half or more of a reason you do a show in the first place is to dunk on the Chuds, then you can’t just hand them a victory but cancelling a show just because it has appalling ratings.