Mar 12, 2014 · The most popular hypothesis is that it derives from French cours, cognate to "course" as in "lecture". 3 Note that the English "cour" is effectively a back-formation from …

The reason Angel Beats seems so rushed is that the show was originally planned for 2 cours (24-26 episodes) before being cut down to 1 cour (13 episodes) late in production, at which point it …

However, the split took 2 cours, from 29.03.2008 to 05.10.2008. If not for the 3 months condition, I'd say that this was indeed first series to air in split-cour format.

So a 26 episode series can be referred to as "2 cours". But as far as the length of an anime "season", a 12 episode series run can be referred to as a "season", yet sometimes a 26, or 36, …

Mar 31, 2017 · Even if anime season lengths were randomly either 1 or 2 cours, we'd expect to see 50% of two-season anime be "symmetrical". In reality, there is a moderate bias towards 1 …

Sep 27, 2016 · Both cours of Active Raid are now over, and I still don't know who Baba Micchi is! As you will recall, Baba Micchi is apparently some person who Sena Souichirou knows, and …

May 3, 2016 · Anime releases are also split into cours, 13-week blocks of episodes also sometimes referred to as "seasons". (As described in What is a "cour"? and What defines one …

Jul 9, 2013 · 9 It's the same as Japanese Television seasons (or sometimes referred to as "cours"). There are 4 of them each year and each one lasts roughly 13 weeks. The Wikipedia …

I've heard it said that Blu-Rays are highly profitable, but I think it takes more than just profit to encourage sequels, follow-ups, additional cours, OVAs, etc.

Nov 20, 2016 · It also happens with the joint Chinese-Japanese productions that've been springing up lately, where pretty much everybody's name is Chinese - for example, Hitori no …