User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail 544: You're the King, Review/@comment-7418318-20170718145640/@comment-24039234-20170720170410

Well, I know nothing, but for the sake of conversation...

If I had to wager money on it, I'd say the FT anime will not continue. Today a very large portion of the anime industry exists as a big-budget advertisement for light-novels and manga, not as a standalone product. This can result in situations that are just unimaginable from our western point of view: LN sells well? Okay, let's don't produce an anime then, since our sales are good any way. The first time I heard this I wasn't even angry, or didn't even think it's stupid because it's so out of the field my brain simply shut down while processing the sentence. I was like: what...? Come on, any proud capitalist worth their two cents knows that reproducing your already successful franchise in another medium is basically printing free money. But, nope, not for the Japanese. Which is, again, bullshit because I want my Konosuba third season GODDAMIT*NERDRAGE*

My impression is that a complete adaptation needs either a short original, a dedicated studio (for example, Shaft has been heroically marching on with the Monogatari adaptations since years), or extensive author involvement. Or, most preferably, all three. However, those projects are getting increasingly rare.

With all this, I don't think FT will continue, since there is no product left to advertise, and neither Mashima, nor the past animation studios, nor the publisher strike me as particularly invested in this project l'art pur l'art, as self-fulfillment.