| So this season we’ve got two really standout shows: Takopi & Food Court. Both are just 6 episodes. Not 12. Not split-cour. Just a tight, digestible 6-ep run. At first I thought it was just a quirk, but now I’m starting to think this might actually be the future of anime. 6 eps means they can run two shows instead of a single show with 12 eps. And people's attention span are shortening making 6 an optimal amount of eps. |
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Reply to valico
No. they'll skip straight to 1 minute clips and only release on tiktok and reels and shit.
| @valico is that a good or bad thing? Please tell us. |
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And people's attention span are shortening making 6 an optimal amount of eps. I don't think you understand what the word attention span means. |
| Takopi is fairly well paced and every episode is packed with relevant content, that's how it should be. |
| Its not the future at all, the way both series were written, call to such short runs. In fact the future is already here, now that everything is 12-13 eps as a cour or standalone season or 24 eps. Some are a bit longer and hit 30s at most. In the past, we had long running and we saw how that affected the anime industry and their staff. These two examples are simply anomalies that get their job done without overdoing it. |
 "Hard work is worthless for those that don’t believe in themselves" - Naruto Uzumaki |
| God no! Takopii was super inconsistent. 6 eps is so short for most stories that at that point I may as well watch a movie which are around as long. |
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| No, 6 episodes is too short and takopii's first episode was an hour-long episode. |
| I actually want longer anime's. I prefer 24 eps (Not curs), or even longer. |
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| you haves shit taste for liking those 2 garbage shows, go watch good anime , you pantomime! |
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| More like it was already a thing in the past like with OVA series. |
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| I think Takopi suffered slightly because of 6 episodes. Maybe not 12 is not needed but 1-2 more episode was needed to pull off the ending better way. Felt rushed, inconsistent and way too happy go lucky. Ik it's based on Manga so that's why it's short. But still applies same for manga with more chapters to flush out the last timeline. |
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Reply to WaterMage
I think Takopi suffered slightly because of 6 episodes. Maybe not 12 is not needed but 1-2 more episode was needed to pull off the ending better way. Felt rushed, inconsistent and way too happy go lucky.
Ik it's based on Manga so that's why it's short. But still applies same for manga with more chapters to flush out the last timeline.
Ik it's based on Manga so that's why it's short. But still applies same for manga with more chapters to flush out the last timeline.
| @WaterMage Episode length varied from 21 to over 37 minutes long. First episode was longest nearly the length of two episodes. So technically it was equivalent to 7 episodes. They did it how they did to fit the episode formatting it maybe would have not split up well with more episodes, I dont know. So if cutting out repeat OPs and EDs 2 hours and 30 minutes very roughly. |
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| We could have discussed about the advantages of an irregular amount of episodes not constrained by the cour schedule, but OP always has to make the most disingenuous bait threads (but he's not the n°1 at doing this on MAL, I'd say he's in 2nd place). |
NirinboYesterday, 7:52 PM
| Well, I don't think so. 6 episodes is just too little time to tell a story (generally). Of course there are exceptions like Takopi but I would never make 6 episode animes my main form of entertainment and I think most people would tend to think that way. |
| "Those words are meant for those that dare defy god's final warning... An epigraph of their stubbornness" - Maho Hiyajo (Steins;Gate 0)  |
| It wouldn't make sense given the television seasonal schedules. If it became the norm, you'd be having shows abruptly end halfway through the season and would require another show to start up in its time slot. And generally shows that start late in the season tend not to get picked up by viewers or have the hype that seasonal openers do, so I couldn't see the producers wanting that. |
| I don't think 6 episodes is long enough; it is too short. |
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| they aren't even better in the present. |
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| I dont really think so, some animes takes 6 episodes just to get you to know the characters. And about the attention spam is really simple: No, we shouldnt be rewarding mediocrity so it gets worse. We must search to improve it. And animes are like 25 minutes long, it is not a full 3-4 hours documentary. |
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| 6 x 24 minutes is the same as 12 x 12 minutes we've had for a long time |
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| I wouldn't mind it to be "the future" if each episode is 48 mins long or so |
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| I genuinely hope that will not be the case. |
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| I haven't seen the respective anime series, but that sounds awful. I like to think about the things I consume, and I don't think we should be reinforcing shortened attention spans. Auron said: I may as well watch a movie which are around as long. I often think this might be the better option for some things that are produced today, maybe the production quality would be higher this way, too. |
 Another hero? Oh, please! You're a god-damn philistine. |
| I don't care about the format as long as it's good for an adaptation. |
| No,but it's nice to see a show shorter than the usual 12/24 format once in a while |
| The reason Food Court is only 6 episodes is because the manga only has 25 chapters. |
| So I am assuming they are shortening the length of anime episodes because the attention span of anime viewers is rapidly shrinking? |
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| The future is 1 episode per year, just look at Fate/strange fake. |
| God, I hope not. 11 - 13 episode one cours is already far too short and rushed for most series. But I think it's fortunately just a quirk unique to these series. Which, I'm not watching Takopii yet, but I am watching and have seen all five episodes of See You Tomorrow at the Food Court which are out so far, and I think this series actually isn't rushed for what it is and this choice of length and episode count might fit it well. It's a pure dialogue-driven no-plot Slice of Life. And even for the longer one full cours, I've always said that Slice of Life are some of the only series for which it's appropriate and which can usually successfully pull it off. And those SoLs I'm referring to and thinking of when mentioning that in the past still have more plot than Food Court (because virtually anything would/does). I'm actually in favor of more and more series disregarding the traditional constraints of more standard length episode counts and doing whatever is deemed most suitable for them. For example, I've appreciated and remarked several times how I've appreciated that we seem to have start getting an increasing number of two cour series again for the past two years since around the summer of 2023 or mid-2023. But I've liked how even they don't feel the need to always neatly conform to 24 - 26 episodes either. Some have been 28, some have been 23, some have been 20, etc. If it works for a series and I'm interested in what it has to offer, say, and present, then I'll be pleased if it's 700 episodes or two episodes or one episode (though I guess one would just be a short film). |
| No. Unless it’s a ONA / OVA 1 cour is still the standard. |
| HACKs! 🤢🤮 |
| I say 12 episodes is the optimal length for anime shows. |
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| 6 episode being the future? I doubt that most anime seen is 12-13 episode with a run time of 22-25. Which received meh to great reception. Though special exceptions are known like takopi and food court are known. But I never heard of food court being talked so yeah. |
Reply to Roixesae
6 episode being the future? I doubt that most anime seen is 12-13 episode with a run time of 22-25. Which received meh to great reception. Though special exceptions are known like takopi and food court are known. But I never heard of food court being talked so yeah.
| @Roixesae so what do you think is the optimal length for an anime series? |
| Here is my Pixiv account of my hentai drawings..... https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/104739065 Here is my blog.... https://theendofindustrialcivilization.blogspot.com/?m=1 |
| Probably someone has mentioned this, but the original source of Takopi (manga) doesn't have many chapters (only 16 chapters), and 6-episode format is ideal for the pacing. Not sure about the source of Food Court. But it will be interesting to see more of this format, since there are many good short manga out there which haven't been adapted yet. The prime example is Three Days of Happiness (18 chapters), i'm sure many people will be overjoyed if it gets adapted (and if so, hopefully it falls into capable hands). The Gods Lie is also good, but it only has 5 chapters so a movie format probably suits more (6-episode format is still possible depending on the direction). |
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