Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-223.27.94.3-20130830163221/@comment-1705035-20140405162745

SS3 is not totally a failure since they follow the story of Movies. Skipping was attracting more attention. But not enough like SS1 did. In my opinion, SS4 is a bit more failure since it's break the timeline except the last 2 eps.

And In fact, Not all fans want hayate anime to adopt manga again. In my opinion, Most Japanese's fan didn't want that, like you said. But, the income of the anime mostly come from Japanese's fan. Not international fan. So I think this is the right way for now to attract more attention.