Long animes or short?

Navizel

Joined April 2011

Navizel 2014-05-22T03:59:35+00:00

Depends, really. Some anime is good enough with only 12-13 episodes while some really needs to be 24-26 episodes. Two seasons with 12 episodes each works sometimes.

also, adding the letter "s" on japanese words just to make it look plural really irritates me.

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Rio-

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Joined March 2013

Rio- 2014-05-22T05:00:11+00:00

I think I'm good with most of short animes (12-13 or 24-26)... but for the long animes, if Their story is good than It's good for Me

Justykanna

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Joined April 2011

Justykanna 2014-05-22T05:48:38+00:00

Navizel wrote:
also, adding the letter "s" on japanese words just to make it look plural really irritates me.

Lol, same here.

Anyways.
I personally like ones that hover around the 25 mark - if the anime has content to make it good enough.
Making an anime longer just to put some boring filler in isn't worth it. Quality > Quantity. Number of episodes in an anime doesn't really factor into how much I like an anime.

Mind you, my top anime are Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood, Gundam 00, Sword Art Online and Soul Eater, all but one with at least 50 episodes, lol.

naliem

88 posts

Joined September 2013

naliem 2014-05-22T06:35:38+00:00

13-26 episodes. I like them more because of I think the long ones are too slow.

Maybe 50-60 episodes is right, like Clannad or Code Geass, but not more.

DahplA

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Joined March 2014

DahplA 2014-05-22T10:20:25+00:00

20-30

Just so I can get a good hit out of it

Revy-

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Joined February 2014

Topic Starter

Revy- 2014-05-22T15:00:26+00:00

Navizel wrote:
Depends, really. Some anime is good enough with only 12-13 episodes while some really needs to be 24-26 episodes. Two seasons with 12 episodes each works sometimes.

also, adding the letter "s" on japanese words just to make it look plural really irritates me.

Then stop going into my threads

FlyingNeko

244 posts

Joined September 2013

FlyingNeko 2014-05-22T15:17:59+00:00

3 episodes min and 26 episodes max.
500 episodes? Ew

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Witch Mercy

474 posts

Joined August 2011

Witch Mercy 2014-05-22T15:52:43+00:00

The only long anime I'm fine with is Inuyasha.
I haven't watched any anime that consists of more than ~20 episodes max in a while.
I always end up getting lazy and give up...

Navizel

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Joined April 2011

Navizel 2014-05-22T16:28:18+00:00

osuAzpey wrote:
Navizel wrote:
Depends, really. Some anime is good enough with only 12-13 episodes while some really needs to be 24-26 episodes. Two seasons with 12 episodes each works sometimes.

also, adding the letter "s" on japanese words just to make it look plural really irritates me.
Then stop going into my threads

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Taadashi

230 posts

Joined January 2011

Taadashi 2014-05-22T16:57:47+00:00

If it's going to be long, it better be worth my time watching it tbh.

Sapphiire_old_1

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Joined July 2013

Sapphiire_old_1 2014-05-22T18:46:14+00:00

Yeah also 12-25 for me , i do watch some 100+ but it need to catch my intrest around the 5th episode mark ore else i wil drop it

RedRain

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Joined November 2013

RedRain 2014-05-22T22:12:49+00:00

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kirueggy

1,196 posts

Joined April 2014

kirueggy 2014-05-22T22:52:51+00:00

no damn budget cuts

lunarblue

lunarblue 2014-06-01T10:47:53+00:00

like another ppl..

12 to 26

kagaminelenz

106 posts

Joined March 2013

kagaminelenz 2014-06-01T12:09:12+00:00

same by me :3
12-26 episode per season. 50 is okay, but must have an unusual and good plot with good design and splitted for several season
50+ in one season. Meh. Hate them, because I'm the marathon type watcher

Julie

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Joined March 2013

Julie 2014-06-01T14:29:26+00:00

It also depend, I love 12-13 or 25-26 (if is a really good anime) episodes....but I always feel empty when a really good show end T^T...
Or when a short anime end with a super crappy ending or end without even completing the story (mahou sensou, one of the new anime that didn't even finish or announce a S2...just hated this kind of ending)

But if it come to my favorite anime and stuff, I will wish a 50 episodes long without cutting to S1 and S2, like the new Fate/Stay Night 2014 coming out, I'm hoping it wont cut into season like F/Z and making all their fan wait so badly for S2, since they already waited so badly for a remake <3 (Still hoping is HF's route, but with the trailer I don't think so anymore...).

yxn

45 posts

Joined February 2014

yxn 2014-06-02T17:22:42+00:00

I prefer ~24 episodes but if it's a top tier anime then I don't mind up to ~72 episodes.

Granger

835 posts

Joined April 2014

Granger 2014-06-02T20:22:14+00:00

I prefer 1-2 seasons for my animu, thats about 12-24 espiodes, not counting OVA.

The really long ones like One Piece progress way too slow, i watched One Piece for a while just to see when they're finally gonna escape that one simple port, took like 8 espiodes where you could have easily put it into 2 espiodes. Also their animations and art style are really sub par and with a lot of recycled animations. But hey, thats massproduction for you.
I dont get how people can enjoy these, if it were your averange anime it would get horrible ratings because this...

Sethlied

98 posts

Joined July 2013

Sethlied 2014-06-02T21:22:25+00:00

I personally prefer 52 episodes like Kaiji but if it's complete shit and doesn't have a plot, 13 episodes.

EasyMillions

EasyMillions 2014-06-03T05:13:35+00:00

Short and if it gets good reception, a second season.

Drowned Crow

84 posts

Joined May 2013

Drowned Crow 2014-06-19T10:21:00+00:00

24 Episode´s are fine for me,but i wont cry about any OVA´s =3

tanteiRE

179 posts

Joined March 2014

tanteiRE 2014-06-20T03:36:27+00:00

I guess either really long or pretty short..
I'm up to date with One Piece, and I've watched 700+ episodes of Detective Conan before switching to the manga.
I have yet to watch a 12 episode long anime that I did not like-all are totally amazing. (Kyoukai no Kanata, Another, NGNL, Henneko, et cetera..)
The rest of the good stuff I know are manga. Once again, either really long or really short.. With the exception of Ansatsu Kyoushitsu.. And a few more..

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Doodle99

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Joined September 2011

Doodle99 2014-06-20T09:20:27+00:00

i prefer 12-24

Ichi

277 posts

Joined July 2013

Ichi 2014-06-21T05:29:54+00:00

Almost 90% of the cases the animes with 12 episodes aren´t enough and leave me wanting more. I like 25-26 lenght animes but i also really enjoy long ones that are good (fillers aside) they tend to have more time to develop characters, storyline and such and it makes you alot more attached to them to the point where i enjoy them more.

[_TetsuyaKuro_]

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Joined December 2013

[_TetsuyaKuro_] 2014-06-21T06:01:22+00:00

depends whether the anime is good or not....

Ceph23

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Joined September 2013

Ceph23 2014-06-22T11:40:56+00:00

[_TetsuyaKuro_] wrote:
depends whether the anime is good or not....

Pretty much this.

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Noonit

Noonit 2014-06-22T13:28:56+00:00

Uhm.. I don't really mind, as long as I like the anime ^^

Yuuribo

104 posts

Joined April 2014

Yuuribo 2014-06-28T11:17:24+00:00

I prefer series' with below 20 episodes.
But I also watch some that has over a hundred episodes. As long as I don't find the story getting sloppier by the minute.

Jazz

674 posts

Joined March 2011

Jazz 2014-06-29T12:41:47+00:00

doesn't really matter as long as you don't get bored watching it
and as long as it doesn't have A LOT of filler episodes *cough* Kill la Kill *cough*

AoUsagi5

6 posts

Joined May 2014

AoUsagi5 2014-06-29T13:00:57+00:00

Morancha wrote:
Uhm.. I don't really mind, as long as I like the anime ^^

same

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Rilke

220 posts

Joined August 2013

Rilke 2014-06-29T21:15:55+00:00

Short ones all the way.

Spiller_old

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Joined February 2012

Spiller_old 2014-06-30T18:48:16+00:00

I find the ones that I like the most usually have 12-13 episodes total, though sometimes 24-26 episodes works as well. I would rather have one solid story with a proper ending, and the longer it is, the more likely it ends up having more or less pointless arcs in the middle. They can still be enjoyable, but that is not enough for me to call them good.

Akari-

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Joined May 2010

Akari- 2014-07-02T13:58:09+00:00

long are fine if it's shonen type anime done right, i.e. make the pacing not so dreadfully slow that something relevant actually happens every episode and ease up on the fillers

otherwise i prefer short, 10-15

20-50 is always that range where it doesn't have that shonen formula which keeps you coming back for the next episode so unless it's very damn good i'll be uninterested after a short season's worth of watching

Myxo

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Myxo 2014-07-03T11:31:11+00:00

Hmm, I definitely prefer short animes over long ones.
10 - 30 episodes is the best in my opinion :3
Since most of the animes I watch are mystery / horror or things like that, they fall in that category almost everytime, so yea.
I wouldn't mind watching something longer though o: If I have the time and it's really interesting....

I hate endless animes though... I think you can only watch these if you started watching it from the beginning when it came out, but when I'd think of watching 500 episodes of something that all lies before me I would get crazy

Also, pupa (12 x 5 minutes? or something like that) was too short.

Gumpy

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Gumpy 2014-07-06T10:03:20+00:00

If it is good i dont mind how long it is.

Lanturn

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Lanturn 2014-07-06T11:53:22+00:00

Long. If I get into something, I literally want it to last forever. People might say, well then you'll just get a bunch of crap filler and a never ending story... but that's exactly what I want. I might be one of the few people who just enjoy watching stuff just to relax. Besides, I get to see more of my favorite characters this way. And yes, I don't get tired of formulas being reused over and over. :3

When a show ends, I'm really all like.. well that's it? Well that sucks.

Really though, I don't mind anime taking their time to finish. Like Pokémon for example. I know for a fact that I have something to watch every week and look forward to, foreverrrrrr.

Shipreck

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Joined October 2013

Shipreck 2014-07-06T23:21:41+00:00

I don't mind the length at all, it can be from 11-653, but as long as the story is good and there isn't any retarded filler (A certain scientific railgun, episode 14-20) then I will probably watch the show. But most of the shows I watch are 12 episodes and have 0 filler episodes in them.

VoidnOwO

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Joined August 2012

VoidnOwO 2014-07-07T19:37:41+00:00

length isn't an issue

[-Tsubomi-]

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Joined January 2014

[-Tsubomi-] 2014-07-26T17:54:27+00:00

i like animes that around around 12-13 eps but i dont mind a 23-26 once in awhile , i've watched a few that were around 50 (the ones that i can remember are Soul Eater and Magi: the Labyrinth of Magic)