Board Thread:Anime/@comment-26303790-20160122022129/@comment-24036697-20160402014636

BlouseGirl wrote: A little late to the party, but I'm just thinking that if AoT wanted to make a second season on a whim given the potentially high budget, they would have done so a while ago. And if season two were to be created now, they would probably just have had twelve episodes, or a few episodes of original content, filler episodes, or even having episodes half as long. This gives me hope that perhaps the second season would follow closely to the manga, or just meet our expectations. That point is probably a given since AoT does really commit to following the manga. I daresay it's one of the only shows that I've seen so far to have portrayed its manga so accurately. The PV's extras covering Mikasa and Annie's fight scene as trainees and the No Regrets OVA supports my point.

I'm pretty sure I'd be saying stuff like, "Wow the wait was worth it" in the end. Still, waiting is going to be the death of me and I'm not sure how much longer I'm going to hold out. ;-; Fall seems like a promising time, though, as we're hopefully nearing the end of the Return to Shiganshina arc and starting a new one. But good news that did make me tear up a little - there are videos taken from a French anime convention that have shown clips of season two.

Regardless if AoT crams more than two story arcs and increases the episode count, I still have high hopes for season two. Actually, they could release it now and have just as many episodes as season 1 had, but they're waiting until more of the story is finished so we won't have to wait another 3 years for season 3.