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turboFriend
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Last season of the entire franchise? Is isekai over?
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DerekL1963
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Nope and nope. The next arc is still being published, so we'll have to wait for the next anime installment. |
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Pedram
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It's the "last season" of the Alicization Arc.
not "last season" of SAO series... Their site is all about Alicization, it count Alicization as it's own series lol it regard the early parts of Alicization as "1st Season" you can see their menu links in the sites. https://sao-alicization.net/ Their "Last Season" is also about the alicization Arc. SAO only been getting more and more popular recently and you can say we are in it's golden age tbh. new arc is being written and Progressive is also there. A-1 also confirmed they will make new seasons as long as Reki write it. |
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Chrono1000
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Cool looking poster and while it isn't surprising that the next cour will air in the spring I do wonder if they planned it this way to encourage people to pick up the light novels.
Alicization was a large enough story arc that as other people mentioned it was treated as a series and it will have about the same number of episodes as the previous story arcs put together. The SAO light novels in English are about 2 years behind the Japanese releases which are currently covering the next story arc which is called spoiler[Unital Ring].
Genres rise and fade in terms of popularity but for now isekai is doing well and earlier today it was announced that Cheat Kusushi no Slow Life was getting an anime adaptation. |
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Key
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Based on Kim Morrissy's piece about light novel trends, you can expect an eventual cooldown in isekai titles as more romantic comedies start to filter back in. However, it's going to be a year or two before that starts impacting anime productions.
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Cardcaptor Takato
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Isekai was a thing long before SAO when we had titles like Escaflowne, Twelve Kingdoms, Magic Knight Rayearth. Next year we have the long awaited return of ReZero. Also technically SAO is more VRMMO than isekai. I think the modern isekai genre owes more to Familiar of Zero than it does SAO.
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scowler
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SAO isn’t isekai to begin with.
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ErikaD.D
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So many animes had 12 episodes nowadays. It's kinda odd to me that new seasons of Food Wars and SAO airing 12 episodes instead of 23 or 24 episodes. Are animes with 24-26 episodes will become more rarity in the future?
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Pedram
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SAO Seasn 3 is basically 47 Episode. but due to the whole anime being very hard on production and have high standard for animation, they need more time to animate it all. so they turned it into a 24 EP first, then a 12 EP now and a 11 EP in spring 2020. |
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Nodz
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Mairimashita! Iruma-kun, Mugen no Juunin, Nanatsu no Taizai, Boku no Hero Academia, Dr. Stone, Enn Enn no Shouboutai, Vinland Saga, Fruits Basket... All of these have a first season of 24-26 episodes. |
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Emerje
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Glad we're getting a break, it gives us time to get through the English release of LN 18 in January (which seems to be the end of the main story line). I wonder if this will only cover volumes 17 and 18 or if it'll also include the post war story from 19 and 20 since my understanding of that story makes it sound like a better fit as a movie or OAV. 17 and 18 are pretty dense covering battles on multiple fronts, I could see them easily filling another 12 episodes.
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Key
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With where they stopped episode 12, they have 179 pages of volume 17 and all of 18 left for 11 episodes. Past pacing suggests that volume 17 will take four more episodes to finish, leave seven for vol. 18 and any follow-up that they might want to tag on. |
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MFrontier
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I remember reading the final episode is supposed to be an hour-long so they'll probably try and fit in as much content as they can in the next cour. Then the question comes what they'll do with the anime next with the current Light Novel arc only in it's early stages. Given how difficult the production for Alicization has been, I could see A-1 taking a break, although I can't imagine they'd want to wait too long before doing another SAO anime. I know a lot of people want to see Progressive adapted. |
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Lobokendo
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maybe A1 will pick up progressive while they wait for the next arc to finish
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Fred Lougee
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At least there is an end in sight to the overwhelming deluge. |
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