Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-110.33.230.229-20150327050225/@comment-24494906-20151002154412

Well, the issue is that we now have a half-official source, namely a press release by Funimation + GameSamba (though these two are basically the same company). You can find this press release on the website of GameSamba: http://gamesamba.net/announcements/GameSamba-and-FUNimation-Entertainment-to-make-TOKYO-GHOUL-mobile-game.html.

The problem with this press release is that it's not really an announcement of a third season. Someone at Funimation fucked up. Either they didn't know if there's a third season, hence the statement is completely unreliable, or they accidentally made the third season official.

Asking Funimation now won't help, because they'll correct their statement in the same way no matter what the reason for the original blunder was. And while I think it's unlikely that the Japanese production committee told them about it, it's also not completely out of the question that they gave them a hint (for example during the negotiations for the license to produce the game) if they're planning a third season.