The anime film Yuri has been cancelled!!! on Ice: Ice Adolescence

Initially scheduled for 2019, the anime film’s official website Yuri!!! on Ice: Ice Adolescence (Yuri!!! on Ice Gekijō-ban: Ice Adolescence) revealed that due to “various circumstances” the film was cancelled.

When the film was delayed in 2019, the justification was given that it would be “to substantially increase the content more than originally planned”, however, the studio MAPPA and the production committee withdrew from the project.

Yuri!!! on Ice: Ice Adolescence was announced in April 2017. The 12-episode anime series premiered in Japan in October 2016.

Yuri!!! on Ice It was a phenomenon that became the most watched anime in Europe and America in autumn 2016.

The animation for the anime series is by the studio MAPPAthe direction is Sayo Yamamoto (Lupin III: The Woman Called Fujiko Mine, Michiko & Hatchin), the story is by Mitsuro Kubo (Moteki, 3.3.7 Byooshi) and the character design is by Tadashi Hiramatsu (Parasyte -the maxim-).

The story revolves around Yūri Katsuki, who represented all of Japan’s hopes of winning the Gran Prix Finale ice skating competition, but suffered a crushing defeat. Discouraged, he returns home with thoughts of giving up but ends up crossing paths with Victor Nikiforov, who has won the world skating championship five times, and Yuri Plisetsky, a young Russian who can already defeat other skaters with more experience. Victor and the two Yuris are going on an adventure to win the figure skating Grand Prix series.