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Answerman - Why Do Some Series Have Long Gaps Between Seasons?

What about NHK anime (Bakuman, Major, Rinne, Log Horizon, etc)? Those air during the day (often on Saturdays, with occasional evening or late-night reruns). Since those are on public television, wouldn't they follow a third model?

I am much more satisfied with anime that operate on an intermittent schedule rather than a continuous schedule.

I understand that One Piece is a phenomenon, but there are some episodes that are 22 minutes long and only 10 minutes of it is new content. I would rather watch One Piece on an intermittent schedule so that the animation team doesn't depend on 12 minutes of introduction, outro, and recap to fluff the episode's content.

I have enjoyed the schedule that My Hero Academia is produced on, and I hope they don't intend to speed it up.

"Everybody's happy, and as long as the sponsorship money holds (i.e. the toys and stuff keep selling), the show continues."

I'm not. I'm not happy about what has become of One Piece (the anime). The pacing has gone to heck. The anime is too close to the manga, and the manga doesn't go at a very fast pace. I understand that the guys on the money side are pleased as punch, but people like me, who enjoy a good story, the pacing has become so bad that I can't bear to watch it anymore, despite owning several seasons of the show.

Do you know how many anime had more than 3 seasons? And how many more seasons they had? And how much more popular than My Hero Academia they were/are?

Major is the anime with more seasons and has 6 seasons(You have Tekkyuu!! with episodes of 5 minutes that has 8 seasons), also is important to note that between seasons Major only stopped for 6 months.

But you understand that guys in the money side only receive money from guys like you right?
So the reason One Piece is still selling and the TV series is still be watched a lot, is because people like you are happy.
Please don't assume you are the "people" nor an important representation of the many people included in there.

What about NHK anime (Bakuman, Major, Rinne, Log Horizon, etc)? Those air during the day (often on Saturdays, with occasional evening or late-night reruns). Since those are on public television, wouldn't they follow a third model?

vanfanel wrote:

What about NHK anime (Bakuman, Major, Rinne, Log Horizon, etc)? Those air during the day (often on Saturdays, with occasional evening or late-night reruns). Since those are on public television, wouldn't they follow a third model?

Well, many of the long running anime also dont air in the weekend and in the morning or primetime(look at boruto, and previously Naruto) and many of the short running also dont run in what you can say late-night, but afternoon/evening, and some even morning.
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Actively false.

Pretty Cure has been running at 8:30AM since February 2004 on Sundays. Future Card Buddyfight has been airing on Saturdays 8:00AM for a number of years now. Card Fight Vanguard was also on Saturday and Sunday weekends during the morning hours for a long time. Same with Duel Masters.

Disney Time, while not anime, has aired a lot of Disney content, such as their TV shows, on TV Tokyo during two of the Weekday mornings for a number of years, before returning after a hiatus on 7:30AM Sundays, which it continues to have this slot.

Not to mention, Japanese Folk Tales was airing at 9AM on Sundays for the longest time and was probably one of the longer shows to stream on Crunchyroll.

Yu-Gi-Oh! reruns have also made it a staple to rerun the older stuff at 7:30AM on Saturdays.

A large percentage of this is just TV Tokyo alone. But other networks have dabbled in long runners on weekend mornings before over the years. TV Asahi for instance, used to have Battle Spirits running at 7AM on Sundays for the longest, before Sunrise switched networks to TV Tokyo and started putting new projects on that old slot. Not to mention, there's some other projects that don't get brought up that NHK runs during the morning hours, and still does to this day. Fuji TV also runs one of their children shows at 4:55AM on Sundays (god knows why, but they do) and it's been running for quite some time now. Chuggington also airs during the morning hours too on Fuji TV and it's dubbed content.

Now, a lot of the above? Obvious children shows. But at the same time, most popular shonen targets similar audiences, even if it's only just slightly older.

Regardless, still... There's plenty of long runners in the morning hours of the weekend. Some are anime. Some are licensed content. Couple are reruns. Still, they all count.