Serendipity is very close to not meeting the funding mark

Back around the 10th of the month a new crowd-funding  website popped up on the Internet, It's focused specifically on Japanese Animation/ Anime.   Their very first project  is called Serendipity. 

Anicool seems to borrow quite a lot from the more well-known Kickstarter. The most obvious similarity is the various rewards offered to people that give a certain amount of money to the funding goal.

 Anicool  funds projects in Yen as opposed to USD.   In order for Serendipity to be fully funded "they" need a total of 1,000,000.00 Yen. I ran this through Google and it converts to around 9,818.84 USD. Valid exchange rate at the time of this post.



So what is Serendipity about?
A Young depressed  college student decides to take his own life and  encounters an Angel of Death (that takes the form of a Bishounen.) From the rest of the plot summary, it seem to be going for "It's a Wonderful Life" feeling.


With only 3 days left the amount of money currently raised just over 800,000 Yen, from 100+ supporters.  I have chosen not to back this initial project because the plot summary doesn't really appeal to me. Dealing with death and suicide. A big problem in Japan according to the various news items I've read off of the English-translated Japanese news sites.



You can count me in once an Action or Comedy Anime project  appears on this site.



Update: The project was successfully funded by July 30th, 2014. With a handful of hours left.





Source:
Otaku USA website 
Aicool website