Apparently the anime adaptation of The World Ends With You hasn’t started under one lucky star in 24 hours after the debut of Episode 1. A scandal forced production to change course at the last minute. But what exactly happened? Here you can find all the details about what happened.

The world ends with you tomorrow, April 9th, was exactly in Japan. However, the premiere appeared to be in jeopardy as the staff announced through a statement posted through their official channels that they were forced to change the opening song to be that Drummer of the group ALI, a band that had previously been entrusted with the task of he was arrested. The old opening can be heard in a short excerpt in one of the trailers for the anime of The World Ends With You.

The exact reasons for the arrest have not been disclosed, but the man is suspected to be involved in a variety of illegal activities. In any case, the news had hypothesized a postponement of Episode 1, but the staff made it known through a post published an hour ago The anime is regularly released on April 9th albeit with some changes. In fact, we don’t know if the team preferred to directly remove the opening sequence and wait to replace it, or we just decided to keep the sequences but with one of the original songs on the soundtrack.

So we just have to wait until tomorrow to find out. And you can’t wait to follow the anime of Square enix? Let us know with a comment below.


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