User blog comment:ChecoHinojosa/2nd Season/@comment-1419424-20160724082311

2-3 years later, nobody will care about the GE anime. Hell, I doubt many of us will give a damn about GER/GE2RB at that point if GE3 is out. The GE anime isn't important now and it never was; it only served to advertise GER.

What you seem not to realize is that the anime was a failure in every possible way. It got awful reviews from fans and non-fans alike, both in Japan and out. It was delayed more times than I can keep track of off the top of my head, including THE FIRST EPISODE, and Ufotable actually had to take a one-cour break to finish the season. I know I can speak for at least some watchers of the anime when I say that I only watched the last four episodes because, god, I JUST WANTED IT TO END.

Leaving aside that it hardly adapted the game at all... the animation was weird and off-putting, the character designs were largely overdone, Lenka was edgelord supreme, and by and large it's just so disappointing that people routinely forget that the same studio that did it also did such masterpieces as Fate/Zero and Kara no Kyoukai.

I WANTED the GE anime to be good. I REALLY did, because I'm a big GE fan in spite of realizing that GE isn't a very deep game franchise. But the more I watched, the more I felt like I was only watching it to write the episode synopses and less out of enjoyment (of which there was none).

If, I say IF there is ever a sequel, it'll more than likely be an OVA, with a budget even less than they somehow managed to squeeze into the anime.