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Back in the 2010, TV Tokyo's anime department and Aniplex began a project
called _[Anime no Chikara](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anime_no_Chikara)_.
After producing three anime with original stories, [Sora no
Woto](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_of_the_Sky), [Senkou no Night
Raid](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senkou_no_Night_Raid) and [Occult
Academy](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occult_Academy), the project was put on
break and never resumed.

The president of Aniplex [Koichiro Natsume said in
2012](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interview/2012-12-19/aniplex-koichiro-
natsume/), "unfortunately I cannot say that this was a success", but he didn't
say exactly what was wrong with the project.

Are there any sources or data explaining why _Anime no Chikara_ was aborted?
Is this suspension related to _Senkou no Night Raid_ controversies regarding
the interpretation of [Manchurian
incident](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mukden_Incident), causing the [episode
7 to be released online only](http://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=207499) or
there are more practical reasons behind this decision?


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Why was the "Anime no Chikara" project interrupted?


One thing that Koichiro Natsume said was that it was a one year project. It's
difficult to tell from what he said if it was planned to be one year from the
start or if it ended up being one year, but if it was planned to be one year,
then it wasn't aborted but instead just ended.

One thing that he said was that there were supposed to be four projects. Only
three were released, which may have been the failure that he was talking
about.

In regards to episode 7, they actually played a replacement episode (episode
7.5) the same day that episode 7 would be released, so they actually did have
an episode that day. From reading about it, it doesn't seem as though they
were forced to stream it online but chose to instead, but it is difficult to
tell.

It is difficult to tell exactly how voluntary ending the program was, but
Koichiro Natsume at least implies in his
[interview](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interview/2012-12-19/aniplex-
koichiro-natsume/) that it was intended or at least ended up more as a
learning tool than anything else.


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