Board Thread:Anime/@comment-5774380-20190630165114/@comment-1327106-20190701000350

CiscoTheSoto wrote: Wow... A year and a half. I get that they need to wait for the manga to finish, but can't it be like early spring of 2020? Or at least early summer of 2020? Is that too much to ask? I guess it is, since it's very difficult to create such an amazing anime, and they don't wanna rush it or anything. I suppose we're all going to have to be patient.

Anime studios are always heavily booked. It's common for a studio to know what's on its slate 2-3 years ahead of time. This means that they're not particularly flexible even if they really like the idea of picking up a new project. This is also why there was such a long break being AoT Season 1 and Season 2. Wit literally had no room in their schedule.

The fact we're getting a late 2020 release means that regardless of which studio is doing it, the production committee had them locked into a contract months ago, if not a year or more. So if Wit is bailing after Season 3, the committee had enough advance warning to get a replacement on board (which makes sense, because they would have been thinking ahead to Season 4 while Season 3 was already in production). If it is Wit doing Season 4, then likely the brouhaha was over staffing/outsource changes that resulted in Season 3 being their last for some people, but not necessarily all of them.