Man, the 1st page commenters are braindead.
"The axe!"
It's an adaptation. They always end like this. It wasn't axed, it was budgeted.
Personally, this was a cute, short story, that had a bunch of nice characters, but it out-stayed its welcome. It'd have been better as a really long one-shot, rather than drag it out as much as they did.
Also, damn the TL note at the end there dishing some real harsh brownies, but you're not wrong! derp