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Viz Media Senior Director: 'Another Season of Tokyo Ghoul Coming Shortly'

Yeah, trust whatever the Viz guy says, even if he isn't competent enough to remember the name of the series he's talking about. It doesn't make much sense to believe people from the west side of the industry since they clearly don't know much. The guys at Viz also said that the Black Clover anime is coming out in 2017 without having a confirmation. This is why I only believe in reports which have Japanese sources and confirmations. They also obviously posted this to get that traffic, even if the source of the confirmation was pretty sketchy, they could've waited a bit, but instead they immediately posted about this to attract attention to this article.

Edit: It's OK to make mistakes, but this is the second time they announced a season 3 for Tokyo Ghoul when it wasn't the case, if I wanted to get my hot anime rumors, I'd go to some forums or something, reminder that this is a news website. But you know, Tokyo Ghoul is super popular, why not capitalize on that, am I right?

reminder that this is a news website.

Thorfinn wrote:

reminder that this is a news website.

See, I thought for sure you were being serious, but then I got to this part, and there's no way I can bring myself to believe that you typed that with a straight face. News websites are expected to keep their readers in the loop when representatives from major English-language anime and manga distributors make statements about big-name franchises.

When it turns out that those representatives misspoke or were misquoted (which, I might add, has not been corrected by ICv2 yet), readers want to hear about that, too.

The vast majority of them couldn't care less whether those representatives are Japanese or American.

As much as ANN does of course want traffic, they wouldn't post something fake to get it. That would be counter-intuitive for them as a credible news source. What they did was take the word of someone in the industry IN AN OFFICIAL INTERVIEW, which is something that ANY professional news source would do. And I don't know if you noticed, but the title and the entire article has been updated to clarify the situation. This isn't saying a 3rd season is coming at all, it's clarifying that one is NOT coming.

What's with this ANN bashing O.o' If you want news fu***** go search for them yourself instead of bitc**** about it here.

The article was corrected, got a problem with that? You know where the little cross is located, just click there.

I don't take issue with their decision to run the story. The prior incorrect announcement was noted in the original article, which is sufficient indication to treat the news with skepticism, without outright saying it was likely incorrect. As a Western anime news site, they cannot afford to just ignore the statements of Western anime companies, even on such matters.

As to the timing, perhaps they could have waited until Viz cleared up that it was a mistake. However, considering they contacted Viz for comment and they did not respond in a timely manner, I'm inclined to think Viz wanted to gloss over the misstatement by one of their higher ups made, but once the news broke they had to clarify it, as if they were inclined to clarify it as soon as possible, they would have. Releasing the story when they did put Viz in a position where they had to clarify the statement was a mistake, quashing the rumor sooner than had they taken a wait and see attitude on the story.

AksaraKishou wrote:

What's with this ANN bashing O.o' If you want news fu***** go search for them yourself instead of bitc**** about it here. The article was corrected, got a problem with that? You know where the little cross is located, just click there.

Oh, God forbid any criticism towards the most reliable anime news website.

[They could've taken their time with reporting this though, like they do with a bunch of confirmed anime, sometimes it takes them days or even weeks to finally report news of an adaptation or a new anime that's coming out, so they can take their time.

If it does happen, please let some other studio handle it.