The winter anime season is looking pretty good, but just imagine what it could be if I were dictator of Japan. There wouldn't be any original content. Instead, it would all be sequels and remakes of series we know are good.
Some series don't really need a sequel, even though there is more content that could be used. Series like Bastard or Flame of Recca aren't actually good enough to merit sequels even though the mangas continued much further. But some series are so good it's absurd that they aren't being animated. What if we were to combine all of these into a Christmas Wishlist? Just imagine how great a season like this could be:
A second season of Claymore.
A Ranma 1/2 remake.
An adaption of Key's Rewrite visual novel.
A third season of Working.
A third season of The World God Only Knows.
A fourth season of Full Metal Panic!
A third season of Baka to Test.
A second season of Papa no Iukoto wo Kikinasai.
A remake of Negima that actually follows the manga.
A new season of Hayate no Gotoku that actually follows the manga.
A third season of To aru Majutsu no Index.
Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha - Vivid + Strikeforce.
A third season of Haruhi Suzumiya.
A continuation of Rurouni Kenshin to its actual ending.
A continuation of Fate-Stay-Night, this time covering Sakura's arc.
The rest of the story behind Valkyria Chronicles 3.
A second season of High School of the Dead.
A second season of Baccano!
A third season of Yuru Yuri.
A third season of Spice and Wolf. (You know, where they actually reach their destination?)
Out of this wishlist, I made sure to avoid sequels or remakes that have already been agreed to by Japan, like the coming remake of Sailor Moon or sequel to Haganai. These are all things that specifically won't happen, even though they clearly should, and anyone in their right mind would endorse them. An episode of anime costs very little to make, 13 episodes cost on average $3 million to produce, so each episode costs on average $231,000 to produce. Imagine if just one billionaire on Earth, like Donald Trump, loved anime instead of hotels or casinos or whatever. Out of his own savings, he could fund all twenty of these series even if they never made a single dime. Let's say the average number of eps for all these extra series done all the way to the completion of their source material = 50. So 50 * 20 * 231,000 = $231 million dollars. This is just chump change to the super rich, they spent more than that donating to the latest US election. All of that money was simply thrown into a black hole, producing zero results (Four billion dollars were spent last election, but the House, Senate, and Presidency remained the exact same as before the election). Imagine if just $231 million of that wasted money had been diverted to an anime charity, making orphaned works that Japan refuses to continue to produce for fear of not making a profit. Haruhi, Negima, Rewrite, Ranma, Nanoha -- can you imagine what a cultural treasure would be left behind for all the generations to come? Can you imagine how many people's lives would be enriched by a project like that? But instead another Christmas will come and go, another four billion dollars will be wasted lobbying Washington D.C., and the ghosts of Christmas future will simply keep muttering into the wind:
O, what could have been! What could have been!
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