Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-79.119.178.144-20170218114753/@comment-10733658-20170919054811

It happens all the time in the anime industry, actually. The primary purpose of an anime that is adapting a manga is to essentially serve as a glorified promotion. Many anime leave things unfinished and unresolved, since its primary goal is simply to attract people to the manga.

If a series does really well, they may continue to adapt the manga. Root A did not do well, making it less likely to pick up a third season. As people have discussed, the anime-original direction kind of painted itself into a corner in many ways. They can't really adapt :Re without major issues.

Unfortunate that you didn't like the manga, but I suppose that's a matter of taste. But since you abandoned the series at a critical point, you missed out on considerable information which....unfortunately the anime completely sliced out. Many of the things that might have confused you in the anime are because they kept elements from the manga without bothering to keep their purpose/explanation.


 * Did you wonder who that random shirtless Dude Kaneki fights is, that never appears again?
 * Did you wonder who those twin girls were, that show up and then vanish after fighting Juuzou?
 * Why is Tsukiyama so upset, and why was Kaneki so nice to him?
 * What's up with Dr. Kanou?
 * What happened to....well....everyone?

Yeah, those things would make sense if they'd made one or two different decisions about adapting the series. Literally one choice different, and they would have gotten a more coherent story that answers those questions. That, and Kaneki wouldn't have spent the whole season basically moping around without any clue what he intended to do. He's just....there in Aogiri, and then runs off to Anteiku, and then.....something?

Instead of Kaneki having a concrete goal, actively pursuing it and developing his character in the process. And instead of him actually hunting down answers about his situation.

And the anime took out one of the most epic battles of the series, which everyone was anticipating. Arima vs Kaneki happens off-screen in the anime, which is such a....??? decision.

It frustrated fans of the manga, and wasn't a very good/coherent story on its own. It didn't sell as well as the original, nor the manga series. As such, it's unlikely to get picked up again since it didn't make a lot of money.