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How anime has gone from 65-episode seasons to 26-episode seasons


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Simple answer - smaller budgets and higher costs, higher pressure and smaller deadlines, and using only one season to check if the anime is a hit.

It's very sad IMO :(. I feel some animes nowadays should get more episodes.


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I think shorter attention spans too.

Some people really don't want to watch a series that is long, even though 65 isn't that long to me.

I prefer long animes in the 50-100 range, as long as they don't do many lame fillers. Dragon Ball Z I loved and that was way over 100 but that was my first anime so I give it a pass. Yu Yu Hakusho is only a little bit above 100 and is awesome no fillers. Hunter X Hunter is probably over 100 too but I think it is great.

I think older animes were able to do it because of no rush. The fan bases could not really bother the creators. The mangas and the animes did not have to run at the same time, they were allowed to finish the manga 1st. Now People have no patience and are afraid if they don't make the anime while the manga is hot they won't be at their peak popularity.





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Depends on the series,some 20-30 ep series can do what they need to do within that range like Romeo X Juliet Future Diary, Gungrave,Death Note,Akame Ga Kill,Claymore,Bebop,Escaflowne etc
Some of those series I could have seen getting about 20 more EPs,but still I am fine with the length.



Sailor Moon,Inuyasha, Dragon Ball franchise, and Yu Yu Hakusho
Are series that have been able to do over 100 EPs and work.


I am fine with 20-30 EPs and 50-200 if the series does not get repetitive and is still good. Some series are only 12 EPs,now that's too short








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If I come to like the characters, settings, and the plots after the first episode, or the first several, then I prefer more longevity for the series' living existence. It's unfortunate sometimes to come across a nice little series that does so much right, even compelling enough for a new season, yet nothing else happens; only one season, likely a shorter 12 or 26 episodes length, and arguably, it may not have reached its full potential (or ended very well, yet so soon to the point we never witness these characters after that). For this reason, I'm glad that Attack on Titan is getting a second season, soon. I was similarly glad to see that Full Metal Alchemist got the Brotherhood series, and InuYasha got The Final Act to properly end it.

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Actually, you're lucky if an anime runs for 26 episodes these days. Typically they only go for about 12, and very rarely get a second cour. Even though some anime becomes highly successful overseas, many fail to see popularity in their native Japan, which is where they need that fanbase in order to justify further episodes.

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We still have One Piece with like 800 episodes and Naruto Shippuden, that I don't know why it hasn't ended if the manga ended years ago.
They will make a series with profit endless.

Also, remember most anime series in Japan consists in just one season, despite how many arcs or sagas it has.

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