Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-4435241-20140521165801/@comment-4916528-20140809200844

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No need to say goodbyes just yet. Hino has rumored multiple times that another game was in the making. He also noted that if they'd make a new game, the mechanics would be renewed in order not to give the players another game that'd be the same like its predecessors, as they did really well with the transition of Inazuma Eleven 3's pixely style to the smoothed out 3d style and keshin system of Inazuma Eleven GO. And if you compare older Inazuma designs to the GO ones, you can defenitely see they got even more creative and widely varied (both main and scout characters!). Level5 knows they can likely get success with a new game as long as they don't fall back on what they did with GO and GO2 especially; Keshin, Keshin Armed, Miximax and Second Stage Children and all sort of abandoned the basic elements Inazuma Eleven is based on; hissatsu techniques. They added to them, but a keshin could stop a superpowered hissatsu with its bare hands if powerful enough, and that kind of defeated their point. Keshin hissatsu were cool, no negative comment on that. But GO and GO2 dissapointed an amount of fans by their more- fictional? i believe fictional is a good word, here- approach to the story. Like Aliea not being actual aliens, in contrast to the Grand Celesta Galaxy. But GO also attracted alot of new people, so perhaps if we get a new season and they take care to note what the fans want, they'll attract both new people, please the fans that joined during GO and the ones that have been there from the earlier series too like me  (i started watching when GO was at the hakuren match, i think, but I started watching GO wayyyy later on because i didnt want to abandon the old series for GO) while also maybe even convincing old fans that disliked GO to give Inazuma a try again.

Plus, with their recent enormous success with Youkai Watch (really enormous, we're talking over 1.2 million copies sold in the first four days of release) they have enough money to fund another Inazuma project by a long shot. Add the profits of the second Youkai Watch games, and fundings won't be a problem. Plus, Level5 already recently stopped Danball Senki, which dissapointed alot of fans (especially the opening band's final concert, it was really tragic for them and i can say i got quite sad about it from watching) so they likely don't want to dissapoint another of their stronger fanbases. Inazuma Eleven's fandom isn't yet done with this colourful series and its enormous universe (+-5000 characters, with scouts counted along) and I feel Level5 will recognize that. Both ways, if Inazuma Eleven had truly ended, we'd likely have gotten signs of it, like Danball Senki having been scheduled for its defenitive ending and their opening's group giving an ultimately final concert before disbanding as their contract ended. T-Pistonz+KMC hasn't shown anything of the sort- they may be going on independantly, so I'm not sure if it's valid to say, but I believe that there's not enough reason to assume Inazuma Eleven is ending just yet.

Let's not forget that Kuroiwa is still out there and several of his players (Stin, Hazard, Venom, Garshya, Vanfeny, Janku and Hasshu) never had their stories explained- or rather, not just yet (hopefully).

All in all, I'm pretty certain Level5 is going to take the leap and give us another game. Their Inazuma merchandise is still selling to occasional points of being sold out (even danball senki's LBX line is even still ongoing in production, even after the series ended, and is still selling well and increasingly popular among Gundam model fans) and the games are widely recognized and played- and take into thought the fact Level5 will be earning profits from the european and american releases of GO now, too, same for GO2 and GO Galaxy when they come out. I don't think it's over just yet.

tldr; level5 has enough money from youkai watch and is currently earning from dub GO plus the fanbase is hoping for another game. no proof has been given that inazuma has ended, in contrast to steady rumors that new games are in the making. inazuma isn't over.