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Ultimate N
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As an anime only I admit I’m actually surprised there is another season following what I had thought was going to be the FINAL SEASON. Like yes I know we live in a post Attack on Titan world where the Final season is actually only part one but I thought that was going to be a unique case only to it. Tho I’m not actually going to complain about it because I love Golden Kamuy and if there really is that much more story left then I’m all for it. Also can’t deny this misdirect helped to motivate me to catch up on the anime as prior to this season I still hadn’t started season 4. Either way I look forward to the next season!
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Glordit
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This winter, so... December or January? Not that it matters much since they both are technically "Winter" in Japan.
Also would be interesting to know if it's going to be 12 episodes, there can't be that much left. |
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Greed1914
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Well, I guess that answers how they were ever going to cover so much material after the movies were repurposed into four episodes. They weren't. I suppose we do live in a post-Attack on Titan Final Season world where Final Season might still mean multiple parts.
Not complaining since getting rushed for the sake of hitting the end doesn't work out well for any adaptation. It's also nice to get the confirmation now. I've always come out of each season expecting that the series would quietly fade away as so many adaptations do, and I'm pleased to have been wrong about that so many times. |
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ab2143
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12 chapters so it’ll either be a long special or 3-4 episodes
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Greed1914
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I don't think it will be a full season going from what is left. Something like 3-4 episodes would do. It does leave me still thinking that making the Sapporo Beer arc as long as it was to fill two movies threw off the plan. Longer seasons aren't unheard of, but with how Japanese tv works, I could see that call coming too late to be given the extra weeks after the winter season. |
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WizardOfOss
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Glad we still get more, this season was once again a blast and I was dreading the thought that the series was coming to an end.
That said, can we please stop calling something the "Final Season" if it is obviously not the final season? And no, if there's a 9 month gap between the parts, it's not the same season. |
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Glordit
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I'm down for a special like Undead Unluck or Iseleve, maybe they squeeze it into the End of Year Broadcasts. |
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Wyvern
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Could anime studios please stop calling things "the final season" unless it's actually the final season? Attack on Titan had like three final seasons, it's just getting silly.
I know that there are production reasons why the term can technically be accurate, but 99% of the viewing audience neither knows nor cares about that, and at the end of the day those are the people you're trying to reach when you promote your show as the "final season." |
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Greed1914
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I do agree. The audience usually does not know or care about the behind-the-scenes reasons for calling it what they call it. Whatever is chosen leads to expectations. Having Jujutsu Kaisen The Culling Game Part 1 at least tells me to expect more of that arc later. Here, the main question that was coming up in discussion is how the anime would possibly cover what was left without skipping things. Calling it Final Season sets the expectation that it will, indeed, be final. |
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thekingsdinner
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Techinically, I suppose this could be a case where it is the final season as a TV series and perhaps the Runaway Train will be a movie. At least, that's what I thought, but there's no confirmation on that.
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Sobe
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This is getting confusing and I would have hoped the ANN article covered this but, as usual, these articles are less than stellar when it comes to what AI slop could conjure.
1.) Is the "Runaway Train" climax canon? 2.) Are the movies canon? 3.) Should viewers watch the movies before starting the not so "final season"? |
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EmeraldSaucer
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It would be very odd if this isn't a movie/special, since there absolutely isn't enough material to account for a full season unless they add on a lot of original content or find very strange places to shove in the material that was skipped over in prior seasons
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blahmoomoo
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To answer the questions: 1.) Yes. The anime ended near or at the end of volume 30 of 31. 2.) Yes, but: 3.) No need. The Sapporo Beer Factory arc movies were also the first several episodes of the "final" season. The details about how this final season has been released has been very confusing. I'm sure that has reduced the size of the audience who thought that Crunchyroll was holding back on releasing the movies, when really there's no need for them to release them. The thing is, as far as I can tell, official news articles/press releases have not been clear on these details. You'd have to be watching the show to know. I don't think it's reasonable to expect the ANN news writers to watch the anime to know details about the show that are not in the press releases. |
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Kadmos1
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Thank you. Something like "Final Arc Part 1" might be a better term to use marketing wise. |
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Greed1914
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Yeah, I am expecting one of those since the only way to fill more than a few episodes would be the skipped content, which would either mean waiting to see the conclusion even longer, or hoping that interest is still there following. I also wouldn't expect the audience to remember details well enough to go back to scenes from season ago without some heavy narration.
Unfortunately, some sort of production issue has plagued every season to varying degrees. Here, the issue is weird and vague handling of the "Final Season." I'm sure that any ticket sales for the movies would have suffered if it was clear that you'd see the same thing in January, but anyone worried about getting lost in the plot might have passed on watching right away. And now we find out that something more was planned, despite the labeling. Personally, I had the benefit of already reading the manga, so if the series had skipped Sapporo, I would have still known what happened, but watching the first episode was how I found out that those movies were just previews for the season. I suppose my big frustration with how this has been handled is it injects the question of how Crunchyroll will handle it. Each new season/project/whatever is usually its own license. Crunchryoll's handling of movies that tie into a series it previously licensed is all over the place. For Golden Kamuy, Crunchyroll did go and get three OAD episodes out of nowhere, but it also hasn't seen fit to do a home video release for season 4 and allowed prior seasons to go out of print. Maybe this is part of the "Final Season" and therefore Crunchyroll already has streaming rights to it. Or maybe it's a whole new thing and we'll have to see what they do. |
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