User blog comment:Yumiru sama/Chapter 55 Review ( All Hail the Queen ! )/@comment-24521263-20140308205306/@comment-179280-20140309025923

@ Yeah, shenanigans, because Tumblr is filled with people who assume that things all around the world function just the same as in the US. In the case of the anime, Isayama was paid for the production rights, and it was beneficial for him, because it was such a worldwide success, millions of people are buying the manga now. That's how things work in Japan: a manga is becoming successful, they make an anime out of it and it serves as an excuse to create merchandise, but mostly advertise the manga so people will go and buy it. Of course, adaptions are never perfect and sometimes authors will not be fond of them.

The thing is that most people in Tumblr are in denial and hope that things worked like this: a ground-breaking success happens, and it automatically means that the author will start milking his work so we can have more omgsowonderful anime. That is, of course, partly true; he will get advertisement for his work and sell manga like crazy, but nothing asures us that he wants another anime adaptation of his work.

Would he love more money? Probably. Would he be happy with another anime adaptation? Probably not. The manga has always been quite graphic, but since the anime started airing, it has become proggresively more, to the point where removing the violence will severely mess and cripple the plot. Don't get me wrong, I've said multiple times I'd love to see another anime of SnK (mostly because of Ymir), but Isayama's priority is clearly finishing his work, whatever it takes, even if it becomes unbearable to be read (and near impossible to adapt into animation because of the high levels of graphic violence).