Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-98.148.134.142-20150525075125/@comment-25047329-20150525155444

Eeehhh...don't trust any information about a season three right now, they're all rumors. If there's an s3, it would be on :re which is currently only thirty chapters long. Sources might also be confusing s3 for Jack, an OVA coming out in a couple of months, a prequal following a different character. There's no release date for s3 right now (if ever).

Apparently, the manga-ka, Ishida, didn't like what they did with the anime, so he made a new draft for the studio to base season two off of, a sort of "what if" if Kaneki made one decision that would change everthing. From what I can tell though, because the seasons only have a dozen episodes each a lot had to be cut and left out. We were supposed to see what happened to Rize in s2, and there might be a draft and images depicting it somewhere out there, but s2 never got to it, among many other things (there was supposed to be a whole subplot about Kaneki being an under cover assassin and wanting to kill the One-Eyed King and everything).

The first season of the anime follows the first half of the manga and the second half is where it really diverges btw. First season is still pretty anemic though. D;


 * re is the sequal to the first series, so yeah, don't worry about reading that yet. Then you have Jack, and another short manga that follows Juuzou, but I forgot the name of that one.

You can read the manga on Bato.to.