Oh see, in that case. It's perfectly fine for them to wreck a show's quality with filler or a bad ending because it's only just a promotion for the manga!
It all makes sense now! They're not assholes because it's a marketing strategy. /Sarcasm maximum
Yes it's a marketing strategy, but there's also "Are the sales going to be good enough if we wait for the manga to end, or end it so we don't have filler, and just do adaptions every once in a while?". Sales are a big deal. You can bet if Bleach didn't sell, it would end prematurely. It wouldn't be airing on Japanese TV still, despite the manga still being on-going.
Yes it isn't really an excuse, but there are so many things you have to consider (Like how manga has and always will be more popular than anime in Japan, no matter what.).
Pretty much this.
Wanting to cash in on popularity doesn't excuse ruining an anime adaptation of a manga. And if a show's genuinely good, it shouldn't matter if the popularity of the manga has since died down. People will still watch it, and people will still buy it.
You're forgetting that if not enough people buy (After the manga ends, less people will be interested in seeing an anime adaption, especially since they pretty much lost all hope on one after all those years.), it causes them to LOSE money. If you have a show sell as badly as The World God Only Knows-based off of a best-selling and popular Weekly Shonen Sunday manga-(A few hundred copies of each volume, most have their first volume sell a few thousand, TWGOK's 6 volumes combined sold under that.), they
will not earn enough money back.
Many shows need each volume to sell at least 3,000 copies (At Japanese prices, our's will not work.) to break even.
As much as I like you, RYK0, I wouldn't consider you for a second.
Anyway, AnimeCalendar says:
Nisemonogatari premieres tomorrow
Another premieres next Wednesday
Mirai Nikki is back up
Guilty Crown gets moved to Friday starting next week
NO TIME SLOT FOR BLACK ROCK SHOOTER?! This madness will not go unheard! *throws a table*
It's not being pushed back, it's always been airing on Fridays. That calendar is in Japanese time, not time here. They're like 12 hours ahead of us. When Guilty Crown is premiering on Japanese TV, it's Thursday here.
Conversion, Shakugan no Shana III (Final) for example premiers on Tokyo MX at 1:30 in the morning on Saturdays. For us, that time would be Friday, 11:30 AM Eastern Time.
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Impressive CR, you got Another, and the final season of The Familiar of Zero (I won't be watching as I need to see the other seasons first, hopefully CR picks them up for streaming as this is a sign they could be streaming it.).
http://www.crunchyroll.com/forumtopic-746832/new-winter-titles-familiar-of-zero-f-and-another
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