As far as the ending for the second season is concerned, I saw it as an advertisement from the animators to encourage the producing company to continue (look what we can still make episodes about). Hopefully it will work.
I am also quite concerned about these two new episodes that they are releasing on DVD. The new anime season starts in Japan sometime in April, and if they are waiting on the sales of these new DVDs to determine whether to make a new season, I have a difficult time understand how they will make it in time...
As far as how much of the manga is still available to be made into the anime, let's do some math....
For the past two seasons, they covered an average of 2.72 chapters per episode (roughly). Over the course of 50 episodes.... thats 136 chapters. Right now there are 228 chapters of the manga available, so about 91 are still untouched. Right now, this would translate into about 33 new episodes, enough for a third season.
Also consider that Kosuke Fujishima is still making new chapters (approximately 12 a year). If a fourth season were to be made, is would start production in late 2008, giving the chance for about 12-15 chapters to be made. This brings the total to 243 chapters, translating to 89 total episodes in the series, quite short of enough for a fourth season. So I would say that if a third season is made, it will be the final one.
10-Sep-2007
10-Sep-2007