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Originally Posted by Cosmic Eagle
...............What.........3 years without an anime adaptation.....and it's doing relatively well before this.
Clearly you have no idea about the LN industry...
If anything, it's anime studios looking for something new to turn into shows that go to the LN publishers. Not the other way round.
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The negotiation process on most anime projects typically begins 1.5 to 2 years before broadcast (i.e. directors for Hourou Musuko and Yumekui Merry were lined up in late 2008 and early 2009, respectively). Nowadays, that's often shortly after a title has started being published.
If you've read on the relationship between the anime industry and light novel publishers, anime producers are actually asking the latter to produce content for them from the getgo. They've burned through so many of the popular sources that they can no longer afford to wait and evaluate. It's a reciprocal relationship in which publishers provide something that's fan friendly and easily adaptable, while the anime producers provide shows that advertise those sources a couple years down the road.