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D.Gray-man Hallow Anime to Have 13 Episodes

There are various reasons shows have different episode counts. Who was testing the waters with World Trigger's 73 episodes? While Boku no Hero Academia which is extremely popular only got a 13 episode first season.

If you want to claim how businesses work then explain why everything that is first coming out isn't 13 episodes. I'll wait on that one.

A lot of people still don't know how the industry work it seemed. D Gray Man isn't exactly a really famous work, and by doing 13 episodes first, they have a better chance in reducing losses if the anime ended up not garnering much fame. Like someone above said, they are gauging interest first, before perhaps heading out with more content adaptation if the condition work well. That's how the entertainment industry does business, presenting it products to see the result before making the next decision. It's really not that hard to figured out, not to mentioned there's Shirobako out there that everyone should watch to learn about some things related to the industry.

Feel free to correct any assumption that I might have made.

Guess most people doesn't understand that this is done to gauge interest. They weren't sure to make a long-running sequel for an already long show,

13 episodes that doesn't sell is way better than 100 episodes that doesn't sell.

That's rather disappointing, but I can understand why. The manga barely updates as it is, and more than 1 cour would mean that eventually the anime would run out of material and we would have some intense filler like the first anime. I rather have the reboot end at Alma's arc than have that,

That's... a shame. I thought they had at least enough material for 2-cours but I guess that's not the case.