Board Thread:Anime/@comment-5774380-20180427103154/@comment-1327106-20180427213651

The 7/22 start date is extremely odd, but when I look at the previous episode to volume ratio I see this:

Season 1 - 25 episodes/8 volumes (~3 episodes/volume) Season 2 - 12 episodes/4 volumes (3 episodes/volume)

If Season 3 is 24 episodes and covers up to Volume 22 we end up with this:

Season 3 - 24 episodes/10 volumes (~2.5 episodes/volume)

This would make Season 3 highly compressed as each episode has to cover more chapters. While a three cour season would drag (and have no good breaking point), maybe we're getting something like a two plus?

By starting three weeks late and running two cours after summer, we could end up with something like 31 episodes for Season 3

Season 3 - 31 episodes/10 volumes (~3 episodes/volume)

And it matches which the adaptation ratio of previous seasons.

Doing this would be extremely unusual, so there's no proof that this is actually what they had in mind. But that kind of a late start is probably happening for a reason. They're not going to premiere with the rest of the summer season and I imagine that comes with a visibility hit when it comes to news coverage. (Obviously not here, but in regards to the more general anime fanbase.)