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I enjoyed the Ga-Rei Zero anime and the Ga-Rei manga (now finished) quite a
bit.

With the anime industry seemingly grasping at straws for manga to adapt, why
was a prequel animated instead of the actual source material?


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Why was a prequel made instead of an adaptation for Ga-Rei?


Ga-Rei: Zero was released in 2008-10-05. If the marketing and industry people
want to work on a 6 month lead time, this puts decision time at 2008-4-01. At
that time, the most recent tankōbon release was volume 5 back in 2007-10-26.
Also, the mangaka took longer to publish material as the series progressed.
See below:

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    1   05/26/06    days
    2   07/26/06    61
    3   11/25/06    122
    4   04/26/07    152
    5   10/26/07    183
    6   04/26/08    183
    
[/code]

Maybe the manga was popular and they wanted to get that target audience but
didn't have a lot confidence in how the current story arc which was still
being written would adapt to a 13 episode series they decided to hijack the
plot and audience and make their own version of it. It's just speculation
though. I did like this series. The first episode had me totally lost after
having read the manga though :/


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