Recently, evidence has been mounting that Inifinite Stratos author Izuru Yumizuru and Media Factory have had a massive falling out, with the publisher suddenly discontinuing the highly popular light novel from retailer order lists and cancelling the release of the latest volume, which was to be the 8th volume and previously scheduled for an April release.
Media Factory has also begun to remove references to IS from its webpages, actively scrubbing any references to the title anywhere on its domain, though the master title list still displays references to the title for the time being.
Retailers are also alerting customers that any remaining stock of light novels would be the final copies available, which has led to runs on stores in Akihabara as well as online stores.
To add to the situation, Yumizuru previously confirmed in a tweet that the 8th volume would be released soon, then backtracked and tacitly admitted that it would no longer be published by Media Factory via its MF J Bunko imprint, which marks the first semi-official response from him regarding the situation.
Anyone surprised by Media Factory's actions and the respective silence on both sides? I'd like to see the next volume get released since I was reading it, but who knows when that will happen now.
If the volumes are to stop printing, would the anime go down as well or would it continue just without the author then make their own story along the way?
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