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There were a few anime released in this format in Japan, including Brave Story from Warner Bros Japan

On the "lost in a fire thing" you could name several dozen anime people have claimed that fate for like Lodoss and A-ko.

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This is a manga, TV show and feature film that was made for ten-year-old boys, that is so ludicrously gory and violent that it often crosses the line into tongue-in-cheek comedy.

It remains popular because it has an emotional, touching story filled with great characters on-par with the likes of the Iliad and Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

In Japan the french term cours is used

Both of these can be true at the same time, and I think that in the case of Fist Of The North Star they are. The show is completely serious and sincere about its characters and themes, but it's also obvious that the creators put a certain level of cartoony Evil Dead 2-style fun into some of its scenes of ultraviolence, as evidenced by some of the exploding mooks's reactions (not to mention the silly noises they make when they explode).

Shiroi Hane wrote:

In Japan the french term cours is used

I see this get mentioned a lot, but I have never seen any Japanese usage of the term. Can you point me to an example?

Japanese TV anime does have clearly defined seasons, one for each season unsurprisingly, although anime do span multiple seasons.

It's easy to see where "lost in a fire" comes from, considering how flammable original film stock was (there was that story about some Japanese pornography has seen the light of day recently because the police who confiscated it decades ago realised they essentially had a big bomb in the basement and passed it over to some archive or other). There has been at least one case of British anime materials literally being lost in fires though, most recently in the London Riots although I don't believe any masters were affected (and nothing would have been stored there that couldn't conceivable be replaced using original materials from America and Japan) and a fire at VDC caused similar problems 10 years ago.

I don't use "Cour" either, just because it's too confusing.

In Japan the french term cours is used

I see this get mentioned a lot, but I have never seen any Japanese usage of the term. Can you point me to an example?

Aldnoah.Zero's official site - go to "ABOUT" -> "ON AIR"

A tweet from Durarara!! x2's official account [Japanese] about how the series will be split across 3 cours [３クール].

I heard that many analysts thought HD-DVD would defeat Blu-Ray. Mostly, they remembered the VHS vs. Betamax format war, where Sony backed the Betamax, but consumers favored the VHS, despite having worse storage and picture quality, since it was cheaper and easier to copy than Betamax. Shows just how difficult it is to predict the future.

Blu-ray was better, but Blu fans were facepalming and bashing heads against walls at how badly Sony was promoting Blu-ray at the beginning, selling explosions and goofy-action in the hopes that the Playstation gamers would come to their rescue singlehandedly just like they had for DVD.
The company was doing a better job of selling HDDVD than the competition was.

HDDVD was inferior, and Toshiba was insufferable (there's a reason that Angry Hitler YouTube videos were invented the day Warner tossed Toshiba over--We got the joke), but they at least believed they were the "prestige" home-video format, for grownups who'd moved from laserdisc to DVD. Warner was releasing Casablanca and Robin Hood in the fancy format for the film buffs with the plasma screens, while Sony was hoping the Gamer-D00dz would go for Will Ferrell comedies and Spiderman 3.
If Toshiba hadn't fumbled their own ball, if they hadn't put such embarrassing faith in their Transformers disk, that "betrayed" the Sony gamers they were trying to court, and if Disney hadn't had Steve Jobs on their board to do all the "classics" selling for Blu that Sony couldn't or wouldn't, we might never have classics on Blu today, period.

Really, the only reason Blu-Ray 'won' over HD was because Sony lobbied for it.

While that helped, I think it was more that every family that bought a PlayStation, got a Blu-Ray player. There was no need to spend more money for another HD player, since you already had one. That was Sony's slickest move and the winning one.

Sure, you can focus on one tiny aspect and pretend it's influential, but on the whole, Blu-ray one for one tiny fact: Sony gathered all its corporate might and charged like an elephant in must. Toshiba never stood a chance.

EricJ2 wrote:

I don't use "Cour" either, just because it's too confusing.

Cour isn't confusing at all. A cour = 1/4 of a year. It is that simple.