Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4436931-20190311030429/@comment-38207693-20190318025829

yeah I definitely remember articles about the new series having no less than 127 episodes (counting reloaded) way back before ares was even released and comments about hino anouncing orion would be the longest anime in the series a little before IJ was even revealed. I have seen people say since this is a new series they changed the formula and that’s why orion would have 100+ episodes instead of leaving some room for a third season, but I don’t see how this being a new series has anything to do with them changing the formula. I don’t understand why people were so quick to put down the possibility of a third season (the usual, for inazuma) just because orion is supposedly going to be really long. not that we need a new season (especially with the numbers orion is doing) but...yeah, I don’t see why they would change that. personally, I’d like a third season.

I thought it was funny that in that December 25 video apologizing for the ares delays, hino said that they expected the game to come out no earlier than May, and that he acknowledged that it would mean ares would be released at the awkward point when orion is reaching its climax, so they’d include dl orion content in ares. if I ask you when you’re graduating and you tell me no earlier than May or sometime around May, I’m expecting you to graduate some time from mid May to late July, not freaking November or January of the following year. but orion reaching its climax around the ares game’s mid May-late July release would mean it clocks out at around 40 episodes, nowhere near being the longest inazuma season. so all these comments about orion being the longest and last season or having 100 episodes are still very confusing to me, lmfao, especially since they recently announced another ares delay. I thought if he was ready to apologize and explain why ares was taking so long it meant they were pretty much on track now, but I guess not. (I might be remembering wrong though)