User blog comment:B214/Season 3 confirmed!!!!!!/@comment-24502975-20141214005952/@comment-24502975-20141215230121

No no, you're misunderstanding what I was saying. Or perhaps I didn't explain it clearly. My original post was just a theory I came up with based on what I've noticed; what I personally want is 12 episodes of high-quality amazingness. 5 & 6 aren't a problem to cover in 12 episodes, it'll just be a faster pace than season 2 (which I most certainly approve of); I do wonder how they'll fit the new development with Ise and Rias in though. Maybe we'll get a few things cut out that will be covered in the BDs again to make room for it.

Season 4, on the other hand, I think would need to be 24 episodes to adapt both volumes 7 and 9 without leaving anything out. But that's still a bit away, we'll see how TNK handles it then.