On November 5 2023, roughly four years after her series run on Crunchyroll, Onyx Equinox creator Sofia Alexander confirmed the show was cancelled.
This is beyond tragic for me. I loved this series with all my heart, and what it represented for me.
As someone with indigenous heritage and a love for mythologies and cultures, Mesoamerica is seldomly represented in media, let alone its rich and vast pantheon and legends. To have a fantasy show set in a non-European setting is rich enough, but Onyx Equinox really went the extra mile on being accurate to the various cultures it depicted as well as their gods and overall humanised civilizations that are still demonised for the blood sacrifices, offering a human window into this amazing, now lost world.
Further, it had a gay main character, still a rarity in animated media, and that made me feel even more seen.
The series ultimately inspired my own magnum opus, Lands of Fire, and even beyond that it has rightfully earned love and community of dedicated fans, many of which actual historians.
Onyx Equinox stands as a timeless gem, and it breaks my heart that its story was not completed.
This is beyond tragic for me. I loved this series with all my heart, and what it represented for me.
As someone with indigenous heritage and a love for mythologies and cultures, Mesoamerica is seldomly represented in media, let alone its rich and vast pantheon and legends. To have a fantasy show set in a non-European setting is rich enough, but Onyx Equinox really went the extra mile on being accurate to the various cultures it depicted as well as their gods and overall humanised civilizations that are still demonised for the blood sacrifices, offering a human window into this amazing, now lost world.
Further, it had a gay main character, still a rarity in animated media, and that made me feel even more seen.
The series ultimately inspired my own magnum opus, Lands of Fire, and even beyond that it has rightfully earned love and community of dedicated fans, many of which actual historians.
Onyx Equinox stands as a timeless gem, and it breaks my heart that its story was not completed.