Unexpectedly, S3 will have 24 episodes. (UPDATE December 16th, the anime was a split cour, so the remaining 12 episodes will air in Spring 2018)

EGOIST said:
Yeah, the AFAIK they were the same site who said Youjo Senki would be 2 cour. I'd rather doubt something than be let down after expecting something more. I'm not going to trust this info just yet, hope it is true though. As for the 2nd season of Osomatsu-san's episode count. It was listed for 13 episodes (BD) at the time of my original post and they later changed it to 25 (just recently)

alpha_shadow said:

Osomatsu s2 is confirmed to be 2 cours, actually. It was recently confirmed, check on ANN if you want to.

EGOIST said:
Yeah, I said that already XD, I'm talking about Shokugeki in this case

TheEnhancedExe said:


Tbh, idk as I don't have the amount of manga sales for the last few years prior to the cancellation of the anime. All I know is that the manga sales were declining which is probably why they stopped producing the anime. Or they initially planned to make it seasonal like Gintama at first, but then the sales dropped so much that they decided it wasn't worth to continue the anime at all.

This is just speculation as I don't have any numbers. However if an anime gets a new season mainly depends on how the manga sells. That's why you barely see continuation of animes years after their manga ended. Usually they end the anime a few months after to boost the sales of the last manga volumes. Naruto was probably one of the only exceptions, but that's probably because they could boost other sales by continuing the anime. If an anime is popular enough as in Naruto's case, it will boost for example merchandise sales as well.

Other anime that weren't as big such as Bakuman, Kuroko no Basuke and Assassination Classroom all ended shortly after the manga ended.

The reason why anime sales don't matter is because the studios get a budget from a production committee. Shueisha, the publisher of Shounen Jump, is usually part of the committee. They invest money into the anime and get it back through the boosted manga sales. The anime studio usually doesn't invest any money in the anime which is why anime sales don't matter that much. Unless the anime studio itself is part of the committee, but usually this is only the case with some bigger studios, for example A1's mother company Aniplex and Sunrise (idk about any other studios being part of anime committees).

Shueisha will request a new season from the anime studio as long as the manga sells and they get the money they invested back. Sometimes it might also fail because other companies, such as music companies, don't want to invest in a certain anime anymore because it's not worth it for them. So this would increase the amount of money Shueisha would need to invest to keep the anime going. This means losses for them in the most cases, which is why this could lead to no new season being produced.

So it all depends on the anime committee in the end, not the studio.

Monish_Psycho100 said:
In case of Shokugeki manga sales are increasing its not cuz of anime but popularity of shokugeki is much in Jump currently 4th best selling in Jump(if we exclude HxH)

TheEnhancedExe said:


Manga sales usually are increasing when new anime seasons get released. They often just go back down after the anime ends though. If the anime didn't increase the manga sales, this wouldn't have gotten a 3rd season. Shueisha is investing money in the anime, so of course they want to get that money back somehow. The only way they can is if the manga sales increase.

Monish_Psycho100 said:
I know but in case of Shokugeki and ofc in Haikyuu manga sales are so much intensifying so they made anime series but still it has no effect of boosting(anime may not that discussed) but manga of Shokugeki is heavily selling 😁😁
Which is a good sign for Shokugeki

AP24 said:


It's confirmed 12 episodes.

NINJA-LORD117 said:
but if you look on the episode list it says 13 so far and if you look it doesn't say when it will stop airing plus why would they already be making a s3 blu ray when it's not not done and they haven't even made a s2 blu ray yet

Stark700 said:
12 episodes...? iQIYI removed the 24 episode count.

https://twitter.com/LiveChart_me/status/940691195176484864

Maitoz said:
I still think its gonna be 24 EPs

_NTx said:


Soundtrack album is titled "Original SOundtrack 1" (or Vol. 1), so there must be a 2nd CD of music for this season. I doubt they had comissioned 2 discs of music just for a 1-cour sequel so I think you could be right.

Adam_Blazar said:


VGMDB is very reliable, they get the sources from official (http://shokugekinosoma.com/bddvd/)

JizzyHitler said:
yeah looks like its only 12 episodes but we'll see, if its only 1 cour i question why the production looks so cheap

NotThisShitAgain said:


Probably all J.C. Staff budget goes to Index S3 and OPM S2. They're seems J.C. Staff highest priority now.

FireFistYK said:
Well, they've adapted 27ish chapters in 6 episodes of the Central arc. So they will probably conclude this within 2 episodes, before taking a break an moving on to the Promotion Exam arc.

The promotion exam arc is tbh the one which actually needs the 2 cour season the most, as it's huge. 74 chapters and counting

ImAWeebUwU said:


Yeah that's my best guess too. They will wait a bit for the arc to end then adapt it in 24ep. And considering s1 adapted close to 100chaps, I think it should be fine as well.

alpha_shadow said:

No, that's not how budgeting works and JC staff don't fund the anime themselves, different production committees do fund every anime any studio makes. The whole budget thing is a meme, it really comes down to how busy the studio is overall and how much time they had to make the anime they're solicited for.

Playcool said:


I have heard about it before, curious how does that exactly work, mind sharing some more info?