What Occurred to Netflix Anime Tasks ‘Woman Napoleon’ and ‘Beat & Movement’

There are a lot of new and exciting anime series headed to Netflix in 2025, however what about two initiatives we’ve been ready years for updates on? It’s been a sizzling minute since we discovered extra about Woman Napoleon and Beat & Movement. So, what’s occurred to the initiatives? Sadly, Woman Napoleon has been shelved, however we’re nonetheless anticipating to see Beat & Movement on Netflix someday quickly. Beneath are all the main points relating to each initiatives.

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No matter occurred to Woman Napoleon?

First introduced in 2021, we’d been ready a very long time for any updates on Woman Napoleon. Nevertheless, after we obtained a tip from X person letsmaybeLP92, we regarded additional into the anime sequence, and followers can be unhappy to study that Netflix has silently canceled the challenge.

Whereas Netflix by no means made an official announcement, the one phrase we’ve had got here from the web site fullfrontal.moe, who, in a tweet in Could 2023, revealed that character designer Hisayuki Tabata (Destiny/Keep Evening) had mentioned at a panel on the Conference Jonetsu {that a} challenge he had been engaged on had been canceled. Though they couldn’t share the images from the occasion, they supplied detailed descriptions of every little thing that was mentioned. 

Sorry, we’re late with our article this week; we have been busy attending @JonetsuConv, the place character designer Hisayuki Tabata was invited as a visitor of honor!

Mr. Tabata gave to panels in the course of the con, one the place he introduced his canceled challenge and one alongside Yukio Takatsu.… https://t.co/46XCksBS50

— fullfrontal.moe (@fufuro_moe) May 8, 2023

 

Listed below are the main points from the tweet associated to Woman Napoleon:

“This manufacturing, an order from some streaming platform he couldn’t share the identify of, was sadly canceled a number of months again. Nevertheless, he received particular authorization to share his design works on the occasion. Sadly we aren’t allowed to share any photos, however we’ll do our greatest to explain them to you. It was essential for him to have the ability to share this work with a French viewers because the work was speculated to be a couple of lady named Sophie, a descendant of Napoleon, who would chase after three artifacts having belonged to Napoleon which, as a result of as a descendant of Napoleon, she feels entitled to this treasure. A number of concepts and designs have been reminiscing of Destiny.

Mr. Tabata was a personality designer on the Destiny Limitless Blade Works sequence and Heaven’s Really feel films. An illustration of Sophie driving a motorcycle was proven, which instantly reminded of Saber in Destiny/Zero. Sophie had two sidekicks, a good-looking butler named Butler, who would typically use disguises and was impressed by Lupin III’s Jigen, and Ninja Gai, a ripped black dude in a knight swimsuit, who would additionally make use of disguises akin to a cop or firefighter uniform. There are different supporting characters, akin to Sakura, a Japanese actress starring within the Hollywood film Ninja Angels; Nelson, a wealthy millionaire with a prosthetic hand and his help Mark; and Talleyrand, who, regardless of his good and sort seems would possibly conceal one thing else.

The primary antagonist proven was Geita, who regarded like an previous noble with a mustache and would have had his place as an antagonist in Code Geass. There was additionally a younger boy who was proven sporting a Man Fawkes masks and labeled as « Nameless (Terrorist) » whose design regarded fairly just like Destiny’s Shiro. The principle antagonist was named Gilgamesh. He’s a good-looking man who seems calm and composed, however some sketches confirmed him in a match of rage. Different characters appeared within the sequence, akin to Rasputin and his henchman Pugachev, Anastasia, Lalo, and a personality sporting a uniform of the imperial Japanese military. There was additionally Gilgamesh’s father, a loopy professor who was proven to have fused with a chicken, having the physique of a chicken and his human head an inversion of Egyptian gods (he would put on Osiris’s eyes). “

So, whereas Netflix by no means made any official affirmation relating to the canceled challenge, suffice it to say we gained’t be seeing any Woman Napoleon anytime quickly.

No matter occurred to Beat & Movement?

One other anime challenge we’ve been ready years for an replace on, there isn’t a clear indication from Netflix that this challenge has been shelved, so we’re underneath the impression that Netflix nonetheless has plans to launch Beat and Movement. However right here’s somewhat extra background on what has occurred with the franchise lately.

Earlier this 12 months, the Beat and Motion manga came to an end with its forty eighth chapter. Its run started in Shōnen Soar+ on February 25, 2023, and concluded on January 25, 2025. A complete of six volumes have been launched for the manga.

Beat and Movement can be ending on January 25, with chapter 48.

The Manga is the Winner of Soar+’s MILLION TAG competitors and is assured to get an anime adaptation which is able to stream on Netflix. pic.twitter.com/YKz5Czb7v6

— Anime Information And Details (@AniNewsAndFacts) January 10, 2025

 

Whereas the sequence was given an opportunity to finish with the forty eighth chapter, each followers of the manga and manga readers, usually, reacted to the information as if the serialization had been canceled. We will’t present the figures to say in any other case, however phrase from followers is that the manga offered poorly, which might clarify why it got here to an early finish.

However what does this imply for the anime? Provided that the anime was ordered before the manga even started serialization, we’d have anticipated an replace by now. The closest factor to an replace we’ve obtained is a page from the 48th manga chapter on Shōnen Soar on-line, which states the anime continues to be coming.

An important a part of the web page, when translated from Google Translate, states the next:

“The animation manufacturing and worldwide distribution that they gained by successful the audition program “MILLION TAG” is presently underway behind the scenes! Please sit up for the inventive enthusiasm of Tatsuhiko, Nico, and the others depicted within the animation!”

When translated, part of the web page additionally states:

“CURRENTLY UNDER CONSTRUCTION!!”

So, provided that info from Shōnen Soar, we’re underneath the impression that the anime continues to be on the way in which. The variety of seasons we’ll see stays to be seen. The manga’s abrupt ending might have impacted manufacturing if there had been extra to the story that creator Naoki Fujita had deliberate. For now, we await additional updates straight from Netflix.

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