Danica Davidson
January 19, 2024 
If you’re a fan of the Ten Count manga and have been waiting for its promised anime adaptation, then there’s some disappointing news. The anime was cancelled, and the reason given is “production issues,” which is a pretty vague explanation.
The Ten Count anime was meant to debut in 2020, but we all know how things in 2020 went. It got delayed, and then apparently the crew was rethinking the work’s development form. The early indication was that it was meant to be a TV anime, but then in 2022 there was a statement that it would be released as a movie in 2023.
2023 obviously came and went with no Ten Count movie (or TV show for that matter), nor any word on when we might expect it. Then we got the proclamation of an official cancellation.
The anime was being made at East Fish Studio and Synergy SP, with So Toyama helming the project as director and writer. Credit for character design went to Tomomi Shimazaki, who is known for working on Elegant Yokai Apartment Life. Distribution was supposed to be taken care of by Pony Canyon.
The original Ten Count manga was created by Rihito Takarai and published in America by SuBLime, VIZ Media’s yaoi imprint. SuBLime gave this description for the first volume:
Corporate secretary Shirotani suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder. One day he meets Kurose, a therapist who offers to take him through a ten-step program to cure him of his compulsion. As the two go through each of the ten steps, Shirotani’s attraction to his counselor grows.
Ten Count debuted in 2013 in Dear+ magazine, from Shinshokan. The series concluded after a four-year run and consists of six manga books. You can take a look at Otaku USA’s review of the first manga volume, titled “Ten Count Manga Embraces Love and Phobias.”
Source: ANN
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Danica Davidson is the author of the bestselling Manga Art for Beginners with artist Melanie Westin, plus its sequel, Manga Art for Everyone, and the first-of-its-kind manga chalk book Chalk Art Manga, both illustrated by professional Japanese mangaka Rena Saiya. Check out her other comics and books at www.danicadavidson.com.
