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I have a question for you:



What if a great anime suddenly got a sequel after 4 years. What then?




Here's a story. Having next to no expectation for the latest boring, trivial anime news, I was scrolling up the aniPodium news thread to find out what the most recent comment on someone called Sawamura is about. Then I read something about Ippo getting a third season. That was ashock. Quite a big one. Froze me. Naturally, I clicked on the link to verify things because boy, no way that couldn't be an outright, despicable jo-

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A: "Hey, guys, I kinda pity that poor Zaku fellow. Only crappy anime get released these days and nothing he likes ever seems to be doing well."

B: "Yeah, I kinda agree with that. But what should we do about it?"

A: "Well, you see, he keeps sending in Christmas wishes for Santa Clause each and every year anew, it's almost getting obnoxious. Why shouldn't we fulfill one of his them?"

B: "HE'S NOT GOING TO GET THAT UMINEKO SEQUEL. NEVER. EVERYONE HATED THAT SHOW."

C: "Well, considering the hatred it would get, he'd probably hang himself anyway. Wouldn't want that to happen. Besides, Chiru would be fucking hard to adapt."

A: "Then how about that DenYuuDen sequel?"

C: "Eh, people like that show but that didn't even do well sales-wise. Besides, that would mean that ZEXCS ever produced more than one good show and we can't let that happen."

B: "Ah, right. I see where you're coming from."

A: "Well, any other ideas?"

B: "He did seem to like noitaminA before Fractale and its bastard friends happened. Why don't we save that and produce a sequel to a show he liked?"

C: "noitaminA's dead, boy. It's practically the new Anime no Chikara. Besides, there's Silver Spoon airing right now and the next two shows might actually turn out to be decent."

A: "Oh. Isn't there any other way to help him?"

B: "What other things does he like?"

C: "Eh, well, let's see. His MAL account says he took a liking to stuff like TEXHNOLYZE, Mouryou no Hako, Gankutsuou, Bokurano, One Outs, Le Chavelier D'eon and such. Maybe we should produce more of those?"

A: "This is not 2007, dude."

B: "Yeah, good niche titles like that no longer get produced."

A: "Does he like any popular anime?"

C: "Well, he thought DEATH NOTE was great."

B: "That doesn't help. That thing's finished and the author has practially spend the last years being too busy drooling over how awesomely manly and cool shounen manga are."

A: "Eh, doesn't he like Yoshiura's anime?"

C: "Oh, yeah."

B: "Nah, no good. That one's going to have the Patema movie which Zaku doesn't have too much hope for. But hey, at least he's getting his own Anime Mirai project."

A: "I guess this is looking bad for him then. We just can't produce unprofitable anime an-"

C: "GUISE GUISE! I FOUND SOMETHING!"

B: "What?"

C: "Ippo! He likes Ippo!"

A: "Ah! Now that's a deal!"

B: "Oh, brilliant!"

C: "Now that would be great!"

A: "Correction: It WILL be great. Next season even."



And that's probably how things happened.

Thanks, A, B and C. You have my utmost gratitude.



*ahem*



I guess this is where capslocks come into play so bear with it: ONE OF MY FAVORITES? GETTING A CONTINUATION? WHAT IS THIS WITCHCRAFT? SEASON SAVED, YEAR SAVED, ENTIRE MEDIUM REDEEMED. FOREVER AND EVER. ZUTTO, ZUUUUTTO. NEXT SEASON EVEN.

Maaaaan, the next season is going to be a fest for fans and lovers of sports anime, that's for sure.



Also, I like how, even in its weakened state, MADHOUSE still beats every other studio out there at producing decent or good stuff:

-Gravekeeper loli

-HxH

-Death Billiards

-Ippo S3



Time for me to watch S2. And time for you to watch season one if you haven't already.
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