Announced back in 2016 was an anime movie based on the classic Bandai Namco franchise, Klonoa. The movie was to be a major step for the series, which hadn't seen a new game entry since 2008. Henshin, an American animation studio was in charge of the production, with Japanese manga artist Hitoshi Ariga to provide storyboarding and character concept art. A year after the reveal in mid 2017, it was rumored that the project was in jeopardy and facing financial issues, though it was never confirmed by the production team. In January 2019, it had been finally announced by Ariga that the project was being cancelled, ending the hopes for something new for the Klonoa series.

This is a notification that the Klonoa animated project has been cancelled. There was no choice, and we’d like to apologize to everyone who has waited this long.

Still, it’s the truth that such a project was proposed and worked on. Klonoa is a character who is able to wield that sort of influence.

I hope Klonoa will be able to begin another journey sometime…

Thank you to everyone for your support up to this point

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[osaka35]

I quite like this series. hopefully their work can be salvaged and rolled over into a game or something. that'd be nice.

 

[DarkCoffe64]

I FUCKING KNEW IT
I never really had high hopes for the movie even if I'm a hella big fan of Klonoa, but I knew the poor cabbit can't get anything nice.
Why u hate Klonoa so much Namco

 

[kuwanger]

Why u hate Klonoa so much Namco

Because they haven't yet to slap "Tales of" in front of it yet (not counting Klonoa Heroes because again, no "Tales of" in front of it). At least we can Dream Traveler Presea.

 

[Ericthegreat]

I loved Klonoa, but the game in 2008 was the Wii version I think, and that was a port of the ps2 game I'm pretty sure.

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NUUU

At least re-release the older games.

They already released Klonoa 2(?) on the Wii, these games are probably older then most gbatemp members.

 

[CJmario of the Myst]

I loved Klonoa, but the game in 2008 was the Wii version I think, and that was a port of the ps2 game I'm pretty sure.

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They already released Klonoa 2(?) on the Wii, these games are probably older then most gbatemp members.

It's was a remake of klonoa 1 that was released on the wii (which in my opinion was worse than the original). I figured this was already canceled after not hearing about it for a while, which is a disappointment because now we can say klonoa is dead. I don't see them ever making another game at this point, sadly.

 

[BLsquared]

Am I the only one who saw this and is mainly disappointed because Ariga is involved? That it's one of his projects being canned?
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Just adapt Megamix/Gigamix already!
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Ok, I'm good now.
Anywho, he's a great artist and writer, hate to hear this. Good luck with the next one!

 

[Ericthegreat]

It's was a remake of klonoa 1 that was released on the wii (which in my opinion was worse than the original). I figured this was already canceled after not hearing about it for a while, which is a disappointment because now we can say klonoa is dead. I don't see them ever making another game at this point, sadly.

Probably, if anything they would have to reboot for a younger audience. Though who knows.

 

[raxadian]

Considering we haven't got Klonoa 3 yet and all the remakes the first two games got instead of new games, at least outside of Japan, who didn't saw this coming?

 

[WaterBlad64]

Such a shame, really. Maybe he'll get his chance another day.

 

[Deleted User]

What a great way to find out about a movie you didn't know could have existed.