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To LN reader without spoiler, is the "counter Attack Arc" the same length as the "Attack Arc" Because since the "Counter Attack Arc" is gonna start at episode 18, it would mean like max 7 episodes with that arc. But if it's just as long then it would line up with the rumoured 3 cour that got leaked over a year ago.

It's been some time since I've read 16, but I'm pretty sure most of it is just setup to the actual conflict, I suppose you could fit that neatly in a 90-minute special, and then adapt the other four books with the remaining 15 episodes?

LukaTheLancer wrote:

To LN reader without spoiler, is the "counter Attack Arc" the same length as the "Attack Arc" Because since the "Counter Attack Arc" is gonna start at episode 18, it would mean like max 7 episodes with that arc. But if it's just as long then it would line up with the rumoured 3 cour that got leaked over a year ago.

The terminology being thrown around is abit confusing because everything is an "Arc"

To be clear, both the "Attack" (8 episodes in 2024) and "Counterattack" (8 episodes in 2025) arcs comprise the adaptation of Arc 5 (volume 16-20) of the written story, which brings the total episode count of the Arc 5 adaptation to 16 episodes (19 if you consider episode 1 to be worth 4 episodes).

Now, while not outright stated, the S3 announcement materials (mainly the LN illustrator Ōtsuka's celebratory artwork) strongly implied that the goal of S3 would be to adapt both Arc 5 and Arc 6 - and the leakers for their part have confirmed this to be the case and continue to do so. This means that there will be a yet-unannounced set of episodes after the "Counterattack" arc, still under the "Season 3" umbrella, which will cover Arc 6.

That said, given that Arc 6 is bigger than Arc 5, I honestly wouldn't be suprised - and the leakers don't discard it-- that they rebranded the Arc 6 part to a "Season 4", either that or the SnK style "Final Season Part 2" shenanigans.

As for the original question, it's a bit hard to tell exactly where they'll split Arc 5 off (it being an arc with an odd numbered book count doesn't help lol). I kinda wanna say Counterattack is bigger but 1) there's really no hard boundary and 2) Arc 5 is fairly fight and action heavy, which can distort the "pages per minute" ratio, if you will. Either way, there's 0 chance of a rushed adaptation with this episode count.

Hmmm but they said in the article that the counterattack arc will start on Feb 5th, so unless they are planning to do 8 episodes, go on a 8 weeks break and then do 8 episodes. it soud more like this is gonna be 3 cour and it is only gonna cover Arc 5