Prob more the latter. A lot of original titles can get cancelled either due to low ratings or low viewership. With remakes you're more likely to get viewers solely from the previous existing fanbase. I think there are plenty of good writers/animators who don't many chances because the mainstream market is so competitive.
I wonder how the chapters in the Spice and Wolf manga correspond to the actual books. Further, I wonder how similar the english scanlations are to the offical english books.
I understand that they wanted to make it clear that "this jail cell contains pirates", but maybe it got slightly ridiculous (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif)
Re-read Watashi no Ookami-san and Dear, still regret the latter was so much more serious, but these heroines are so cute (IMG:[invalid] style_emoticons/default/wub.gif)