Sekai Project Cancells GATE Manga Publication After Second Volume

GATE, the battle-isekai anime, has canceled its upcoming manga release. Yoji, the anime’s protagonist, is an otaku who has to venture out into a different world through a portal.

Yoji has to earn the favor of the people from another world.

Although the first episode sets the motion for a serious war, the next episodes prove themselves to be more comic in nature with fantasy creatures who do not know about Earth’s lifestyle.

Sekai Project has canceled the manga series of the GATE franchise after its second volume. Sekai Project is a North American novel publisher, and licenser and GATE was its first manga initiative.

The second volume of GATE had a delayed release due to quality-related problems. Sekai Project admitted that the company didn’t realize the full ordeal that came with manga publication.

GATE’s manga has been stopped; however, the company is open to cooperate with any company that wants to relicense the manga.

Pre-orders for the first two volumes were booked in January 2016. However, the company was able to ship the second volume just recently.

Issues with the print quality and various other problems led to the delayed release of the second volume.

The anime adaptation of the GATE series aired in 2015, and a second season premiered in 2016. Crunchyroll streamed both seasons of the anime. Sentai Filmworks released the BluRay and DVD versions of both the seasons in 2017.

The original light novel series of GATE was very well-received in Japan and had sold over 4.2 million copies.

The political views in the series are praised very often for being heavy-handed. The series was also famous enough to prompt the Japanese military to use the characters as mascots.

About GATE

GATE follows the story of Youji Itami, an off-duty JSDF (Japan Self Defence Forces) officer, who was on his way to an otaku event in Ginza, Tokyo, when the city is suddenly attacked by an army of supernatural creatures in medieval attire.

The source of these supernatural beings is a mysterious GATE that opens up in the middle of the city. He saves as many civilians as he could, but the city is left shattered after the attack.

Three months after the accident, Itami is assigned as the leader of a task force.

The mission of the force is to venture into the mysterious land through the GATE in order to gather more information about the strange land and hopefully save the world from a devastating future.

Source: Sekai Project Blog

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