Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-110.33.230.229-20150327050225/@comment-26653902-20151228173338

Chilopoda wrote: If they aren't making season 3 now, they probably never will. With how much Pierrot likes to milk its media and how impossible it is for them to follow the manga now, if they wanted to make it they would have done it a year ago.

Sorry, it's truth. We're most likely gonna have to wait until the rights expire and a different studio remakes the entire series. I'm just gonna put this here again. If Pierrot really wanted to make a season 3, they would have done it already. With how Root A went, there's literally no way they can even remotely follow :re faithfully. If they wanted to profit, instead of making just these 2 OVAs, they would just continued down the "original" alt story path where the characters and basic plot points of :re are used.

Since that clearly didn't happen, that leads to two possibilites: Pierrot finally realized they hit a dead end because they (unnecessarily) thought they were better than Ishida by chucking 99% of his drafts for Root A or the rights for TG:re are separate from that of TG (since by technicality they are separate series) and Ishida is not giving it to them after their poor handling of the anime.

Either way, it is extremely unlikely Pierrot would make another season without admitting they screwed up the whole thing unnecessarily (seriously, the manga was approaching its final arc by the time the anime was announced; they had ample material to adapt all of season 1 faithfully and then do the rest faithfully as well).

Whatever the case, we most likely won't be seeing any new anime series material until the rights transfer and we get a remake. Until then, anime fans, I highly recommend you jump into the manga. It's much better anyway, and there's a new chapter every week barring holidays.