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What's the market for the really short (3 minutes long) anime episodes? [message #326172] Wed, 17 August 2016 18:13 Go to next message
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Originally posted by: Yes

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As someone who is used to U.S. TV programming - TV episodes usually
shown in blocks of either 30 or 60 minutes in length, I'm curious about
how it works in Japan with respect to the broadcast of anime.

I've found three or four anime series on Crunchyroll in which each
episode lasts 3 minutes or less. I've also run across one or two that
consist of 15 minute episodes. In the U.S. scheme, I can't see any of
those as being commercially viable, but obviously there's a demand for
such short titles elsewhere or they (the anime series) wouldn't have
been made in the first case, right? So who shows and where are such
short episodes shown?

Just trying to understand where such short episodes fit into the
general scheme of things.

Thanks,

John
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Re: What's the market for the really short (3 minutes long) anime [message #326173 is a reply to message #326172] Wed, 17 August 2016 18:17 Go to previous messageGo to next message
David Johnston is currently offline  David Johnston
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On 8/17/2016 3:13 PM, Yes wrote:
> As someone who is used to U.S. TV programming - TV episodes usually
> shown in blocks of either 30 or 60 minutes in length, I'm curious about
> how it works in Japan with respect to the broadcast of anime.
>
> I've found three or four anime series on Crunchyroll in which each
> episode lasts 3 minutes or less. I've also run across one or two that
> consist of 15 minute episodes. In the U.S. scheme, I can't see any of
> those as being commercially viable, but obviously there's a demand for
> such short titles elsewhere or they (the anime series) wouldn't have
> been made in the first case, right? So who shows and where are such
> short episodes shown?
>
> Just trying to understand where such short episodes fit into the
> general scheme of things.
>
> Thanks,
>
> John
>

There's certainly a market for such things on the web itself.
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Re: What's the market for the really short (3 minutes long) anime [message #326189 is a reply to message #326172] Wed, 17 August 2016 20:19 Go to previous message
Rick Pikul is currently offline  Rick Pikul
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On Wed, 17 Aug 2016 21:13:58 +0000, Yes wrote:

> As someone who is used to U.S. TV programming - TV episodes usually
> shown in blocks of either 30 or 60 minutes in length, I'm curious about
> how it works in Japan with respect to the broadcast of anime.
>
> I've found three or four anime series on Crunchyroll in which each
> episode lasts 3 minutes or less. I've also run across one or two that
> consist of 15 minute episodes. In the U.S. scheme, I can't see any of
> those as being commercially viable, but obviously there's a demand for
> such short titles elsewhere or they (the anime series) wouldn't have
> been made in the first case, right? So who shows and where are such
> short episodes shown?

Things in the ~3min range are going to be filler, something to pad out
things instead of adding that much in the way of PSAs. Something in the
10-15min range will generally be bundled with things of similar length to
make up a longer block.

The same sort of thing has long been used in North America, especially
with children's programming. And, TBH, many of the 'half hour' cartoons
of the past decade or so are really a pair of 10min episodes rather than
one 22min one.

--
Chakat Firepaw - Inventor and Scientist (mad)
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