Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-80.132.99.68-20150329114408/@comment-26580819-20150910172203

Shadydragon1 wrote: Based on previous release dates, the trend is the 4-5th October the series starts; however, this is just a guestimate. It's unlikely to be this year, due to not having enough source material.

The Light Novel volumes covered in season 1, were written well before season 1. When season 2 started airing, everything up to the last story arc had been published (though Kanami's part was a side-story which was later made into a volume). Pretty much everything existed up until the kids' return home after their quest (up to & including ep. 21 of season 2).

The stuff from season 2, episodes 22-25 hasn't even been published in novel form yet (it's just available in web-novel form, which isn't even the finalized version). The author just released a couple of chapters of the first volume of what would be season 3 over the past couple of months [and a season is about 5 volumes long]. There's not enough material to even think of making a series, and it's not unusual for Japanese series to have a year or two (or more) between seasons [the same seems to go for British t.v. series]. Season 3 might start in October, but it highly unlikely to be October of this year. We probably have a year or two to wait.

Also, at the end of Season 1, they announced Season 2, but they haven't said anything about a 3rd season. I'm sure there will be chatter about the 3rd season being made well in advance of it's release.