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Originally Posted by Akka
It could be argued that the time, money, work and art for five episodes has been lost.
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No. We lost something else. The fan bases psychotic enthusiasm. You need to remember how nuts everyone went when they found out they Bamboo leaf was airing for real. It was insane. You had explosive energy there that was untapped and it seemed practically infinite. Back then it seemed like the fandom would stay continually enthusiastic through out the new batch of episodes.
...now we stand on E8 #6 with prospects of going onto #7, and I frankly don't think people really care anymore. They'll still watch it, but there won't be any of that genuine enthusiasm for the entire affair. There will be a mini surge after E8 finally ends, but it won't balance out the huge wave we had with Bamboo Leaf.
Even if it turns out that all of the episodes we thought were gonna get animated due end up getting animated anyway (by dumping the airing of the S1 episodes), it won't change it. People will just nod off about how interesting the entire ploy was and go back to doing something else.
The season will make money sure...but it won't have the cultural stopping power the first one did.