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The Edur had also fought the Malazans back in House of Chains on Drift Avalii.

Furthermore, back in Memories of Ice Ganoes Paran got some dire prophecies from the Deck of Dragons about how Edur fleets had begun sailing the seas ravaging places, were seeking out the throne of shadow, and how awful it would be if they found it, plus some general bad vibes suggesting the new Edur-Letherii empire was bad news for everybody. That information probably hasn't percolated from Ganoes to the rest of the Malazans directly, but he did tell some others like Quick Ben about it (or at least part of it), plus who knows if other Deck Readers, seers, prophets, etc, in the Malazan Empire or perhaps in the Bonehunters themselves have been reaching similar conclusions.

So you finally acquired an actual luxury yacht and now you're too good for us, huh

Look what just arrived

QuickTidal, on 26 June 2026 - 11:19 AM, said:

Yes and no. Some fans will blather on about how it doesn't even matter if the anime makes money or not, it only exists to advertise the manga/light novel source and the producers don't care if it doesn't even make a dime, and that most certainly is not true. Most anime *are* expected to be profitable (with often a good half of the anime's direct revenue coming from licensing it to global/western streaming services), though not necessarily by very much. But yes also the publishers and other otaku companies loooove their intermodal media cross-integration, so an anime that can also hype up manga sales, that they can do tie-in merch sales, that they can spin up a "collab" with some local tourism town for promotional events, that they can do product placement in, that they can use to promote some singer signed to the music label... well, all the companies that join the production committee to finance an anime are much more likely to want to pay for *that* anime rather than for some original anime project which has none of those benefits for them.

When it comes to doing a season 2 of an anime, a lot of those cross-integration benefits are gone. Sure, you'll see some small surge in sales of the source manga/novels, but none nearly as big of one as you got from season 1, and likewise across the board. Combine that with how there's no limit to the number of anime that can be aired at a time anymore now that we're in a streaming service model rather than a TV model, and the tendency has become that publishing/etc companies nowadays go for a 'scattershot' approach of greenlighting a lot of season 1s, get the small profit and cross-modal benefits from those, but only greenlight season 2s for the very few anime with huge season 1 successes which forecast that seasons 2, 3, 4, etc will be very profitable just from the anime alone. If there's any sense of risk that a sequel season won't be profitable... well, why take the risk when you have 10 million other manga/light novels waiting to be adapted instead.

That's also why it often takes a really long time for a season 2 to come out. If the director/lead writer/studio making the show knew right from the start they were greenlit for a second season there's a ton of pre-production work they would be doing for season 2 early on while season 1 is being made, and the staff that will work on season 2 could start working on it as soon as season 1 is done. Instead, they make season 1 with no idea if it's a one-off or will be continued, the production committee waits to see how the show does, finally the committee says they want a season 2 sometime around when, say, the 7th episode is airing. By that point the writers and storyboarders have been gone off to other projects for over a year, the director's already started doing pre-production on some other show, likewise the character designer and colour designer and art director are on other jobs, the production desk team will have to make all new contracts with the voice actors and find times in their busy schedules, the studio itself couldn't take the risk of just sitting around doing nothing so it's already booked 3 new shows to produce for the next 12 months... the whole production cycle has to be started over from scratch for season 2.

QuickTidal, on 25 June 2026 - 03:05 PM, said:

I enjoyed this one. It's cute. A bit tropey at times but not too much. Wish it had a season 2!