It's Time for New Anime On Air in Japan

It's Time for New Anime On Air in Japan
It's near the time for new anime on air in Japan's television.
Today we would talk about the period for new anime starting.
Japanese are used to it but foreigners just have no idea huh.
Firstly, the television policy in Japan. We basically change our programme every 3 months. A 3-month period is called 1 cours. If the programme is hot it would continue, otherwise it would end after 3 months.
Not only for anime, drama and news programme adopt the same policy.
And the time for changing are January, April, July and October. All broadcasters use this schedule.
As it is October now, there will be new programme huh.
And new anime too. Anime start in October will end in December. If it is a 2 cours thing, that will end in March next year. We need to pay attention on how long an anime is.
How can we know how long is it?
No idea.
What the...
The producing company of course know the truth, but those anime magazines never reveal that. We can only know an anime is going to end when we got the December issue of those magazines in which the story digest states there will be a final episode.
We've got many rumor on Internet, but official announcement is very little.
If it continue after January, it probably last until March. If you grasp this schedule, the way you check Japan's anime may change.
I am looking forward to the new anime.
I don't know what new stuff we will have in the coming season.
Please be more interested in anime...

October 2, 2009 4:35 AM | Anime | Anime

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