User blog comment:Crimson and Darkness/DxD Updates 2~/@comment-30924344-20170603181025/@comment-30924344-20170604024013

You have to know though that Japan refers to animations as just animations, well anime, as anime means animation. So it's not totally strange for Ishibumi to refer to a new season as "new anime" because it would make sense as a new season is a new animation.