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'Is it Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in the Dungeon?' Franchise Teases 'New Project'

This problem is why it took forever for any more To Aru Majutsu no Index to be announced (and honestly, it's kind of surprising that it ever was), and it's almost certainly related to why we haven't seen any more Haruhi Suzumiya in years even though it was extremely popular (no new novels are being written, so they don't feel the need to promote the series any further). Sometimes, anime series are continued in spite of this whole attitude, but I think that I could probably count one one hand the number of light novel adaptations that have gone past two seasons. Manga does slightly better in that some that aim at a younger audience (e.g. Conan or One Piece) and which are made on a continual basis rather than using seasons do end up adapting large amounts of material (sometimes even all of it), and sometimes shorter manga series get fully adapted (though that happens less now that they don't do 26 episode seasons as much), but light novels really get the short end of the stick.

The result is that in most cases, we're pretty much ultimately stuck getting just getting the first part of a story when an anime adapts a light novel or manga series and that unless the original material is in English (or you can read Japanese), you'll never get the whole story. And that really sucks.