Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-110.33.230.229-20150327050225/@comment-26409128-20151228180435

The reason might have been the budget since they did not know how popular it could be and then decided to stuff everything into 12 epsiodes. But at the other hand there are also anime with fewer episodes that have a faithful adaption and they just make several seasons.. This only applies to Season 1, though and I have no idea what happened in S2. According to Ishidas original drafts for Root A he even wanted the anime to end because Hide and Kaneki both died together surounded by flames... I have literally no idea why they decided to almost completely disregard his draft. If they wanted to sell it they could have went by the manga. Or was it a rule to use the draft? But then they actually didn't... I just don't understand.