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NEWS: Demon Slayer: Swordsmith Village Arc Anime's 70-Minute Finale Airs on June 18




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Mushrinku



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PostPosted: Sun Jun 11, 2023 11:08 am Reply with quote
how much is an actual "70 min" episode after you remove all the commercial breaks? 40 min as it is usually is?
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TheSleepyMonkey



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PostPosted: Sun Jun 11, 2023 11:49 am Reply with quote
And this comes off as a surprise to.... absolutely nobody.
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SP654



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PostPosted: Sun Jun 11, 2023 11:57 am Reply with quote
Mushrinku wrote:
how much is an actual "70 min" episode after you remove all the commercial breaks? 40 min as it is usually is?

I thought the same thing, it could be 48 minutes long For all we know
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 11, 2023 1:26 pm Reply with quote
Mushrinku wrote:
how much is an actual "70 min" episode after you remove all the commercial breaks? 40 min as it is usually is?

Speaking of which, how long is an commercial break in Japanese TV shows depending on the length of each episode? 3 to 5 minutes?
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 11, 2023 1:27 pm Reply with quote
SP654 wrote:
I thought the same thing, it could be 48 minutes long For all we know

Do commercials lasted three to five minutes or shorter if you were actually watching Japanese TV?
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 11, 2023 2:56 pm Reply with quote
Custom Apex wrote:
Speaking of which, how long is an commercial break in Japanese TV shows depending on the length of each episode? 3 to 5 minutes?

Small ads and commercial breaks take ~5-6 minutes, considering the usual 24-minute length of the episode in the 30-minute slot. So yeah, from this "70 minutes episode" it's safe to say that it's gonna be actually a 40-45 minutes long.
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gumbaloom



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PostPosted: Sun Jun 11, 2023 3:38 pm Reply with quote
The more important question is will like last time there be an announcement at the end of broadcasting re what’s next like last season

In m putting money on a 2 part finale film to cover the remaining arcs:
spoiler[
- Hashira training
- 1 infinity castle
- final battle
]


Would be better than a series

Or maybe TV special followed by film

[EDIT: Added spoiler tags as a courtesy. -TK]
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Mushrinku



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PostPosted: Sun Jun 11, 2023 3:44 pm Reply with quote
You are absolutely bugging if you think spoiler[ hashira training + infinite castle + final battle can be done in 2 films. just the infinite castle needs 24 episodes. it's a very long arc. ] current arc was much shorter and it had 12 episodes.

[EDIT: Spoiler tags added. -TK]
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Mushrinku



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PostPosted: Sun Jun 11, 2023 3:48 pm Reply with quote
WANNFH wrote:
Small ads and commercial breaks take ~5-6 minutes, considering the usual 24-minute length of the episode in the 30-minute slot. So yeah, from this "70 minutes episode" it's safe to say that it's gonna be actually a 40-45 minutes long.

is there only 1 commerical break per episode? if so it doesn't quite add up.
assuming 2 or even 3 commercial breaks in this "70 min episode", then the episode should still be about 50 minutes, a little more
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 11, 2023 4:31 pm Reply with quote
Usually 2 - one after the OP and then a half way one.

If theres post ED stinger there can be 3 - OP, half way and after the ED
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Mushrinku



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PostPosted: Sun Jun 11, 2023 4:48 pm Reply with quote
they really take a commercial break right after the OP? must be brutal watching anime on tv over there.
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Superfield



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PostPosted: Sun Jun 11, 2023 6:02 pm Reply with quote
Since the first season was two cours, I expected that to be the default moving forward... the second season had the bizarre episode count of 18 (probably a consequence of the Mugen Train arc covering what had already been done with the movie), and then this season only goes for a single cour... sure, the beginning and ending are longer, but still, that's kinda weird, right?
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WANNFH



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PostPosted: Sun Jun 11, 2023 6:13 pm Reply with quote
Mushrinku wrote:
they really take a commercial break right after the OP? must be brutal watching anime on tv over there.

Yeah, though that is pretty short and takes only around a minute.
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 11, 2023 6:46 pm Reply with quote
WANNFH wrote:
Small ads and commercial breaks take ~5-6 minutes, considering the usual 24-minute length of the episode in the 30-minute slot. So yeah, from this "70 minutes episode" it's safe to say that it's gonna be actually a 40-45 minutes long.

OK. So it's not really 70 minutes long but 40 to 45 minutes without commercials?
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