- What is a cour? - Anime Manga Stack Exchange
The most popular hypothesis is that it derives from French cours, cognate to "course" as in "lecture" 3 Note that the English "cour" is effectively a back-formation from cours (which is singular in French), and the singular plural distinction between "cour" and "cours" is an English innovation
- How often do multi-season anime break their previous cour count?
Even if anime season lengths were randomly either 1 or 2 cours, we'd expect to see 50% of two-season anime be "symmetrical" In reality, there is a moderate bias towards 1-cour anime (at least in the present day), so that even absent other factors, we'd expect more than 50% to be "symmetrical"
- What was the first anime that used a split-cour format?
However, the split took 2 cours, from 29 03 2008 to 05 10 2008 If not for the 3 months condition, I'd say that this was indeed first series to air in split-cour format
- Is it true that Angel Beats was originally set for 2 cours before being . . .
The reason Angel Beats seems so rushed is that the show was originally planned for 2 cours (24-26 episodes) before being cut down to 1 cour (13 episodes) late in production, at which point it was too late to re-pace everything correctly for the shorter length
- What defines one season of anime? - Anime Manga Stack Exchange
So a 26 episode series can be referred to as "2 cours" But as far as the length of an anime "season", a 12 episode series run can be referred to as a "season", yet sometimes a 26, or 36, or 201 (Gintama) episode run is called a "season" It's technically not tied to a specific length, which is why some people prefer to use "cours"
- What are typical release cycles? - Anime Manga Stack Exchange
Anime releases are also split into cours, 13-week blocks of episodes also sometimes referred to as "seasons" (As described in What is a "cour"? and What defines one "season" of anime? ) Some shows, such as Madoka, Bakemonogatari, and Ore Imo, run one cour in length
- How are anime seasons released? - Anime Manga Stack Exchange
It's the same as Japanese Television seasons (or sometimes referred to as "cours") There are 4 of them each year and each one lasts roughly 13 weeks The Wikipedia page for Japanese Television Drama says: Japan has four television seasons: Winter (January–March), Spring (April–June), Summer (July–September), and Autumn or Fall (October–December) Some series may start in another month
- Why are Chinese names in anime sometimes rendered in English using the . . .
It also happens with the joint Chinese-Japanese productions that've been springing up lately, where pretty much everybody's name is Chinese - for example, Hitori no Shita: The Outcast, Bloodivores, and Soul Buster from the past few cours The thing I find weird is that sometimes, Chinese names are localized using the Japanese spellings
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