Anna Daniels
While survival games are a popular genre in Japan, that doesn’t always translate over to anime. For example, in Btooom!, Ryota Sakamoto awakens to find himself on a tropical island. Somehow, he’s become trapped inside a real-life version of a combat game, and now, along with other players who are also stuck on the island, he must fight to stay alive and find a way to escape from the deadly game. However, Btooom! didn’t exactly perform well in Japan, selling only 338 copies of the anime on DVD and Blu-ray.
With only 12 episodes in total, the Btooom! anime was a relatively short-lived series. However, by the time the final episode rolled around, fans of the series were hoping for a second season. After all, not only did the anime fail to answer important questions regarding the fate of the players, but the finale also alludes to future events that take place in the manga. More importantly, the final episode ends with a literal “continue?” screen, implying that there were probably plans for a season two at some point, but for one reason or another, fans never got it.
As it stands, the cliffhanger is a massive slap in the face for anyone hoping for a continuation of the series. And the “continue?” screen adds insult to injury for anyone who was looking forward to an additional season, seeing as it’s highly unlikely we will be getting a new one in the near future, especially since the mobile game flopped in Japan.
Written by: Looper
