Same way with anime. They used to be 24-26 and then they invented a new word “cour” (I know, probably not new) for 12-14 episodes and acted like series were always that short.
But what was even more annoying is that for a lot of series after about 2010-2013 they would do one cour and leave you on a cliffhanger to try to entice you to go buy the light novels. They used to be fully self contained arcs and stories with 24 episodes to work with.
That was very frustrating. I eventually stopped watching Naruto Shippuden when, in some filler episode, they had a flashback about a time when they had a flashback to remember some sort of technique.
Same way with anime. They used to be 24-26 and then they invented a new word “cour” (I know, probably not new) for 12-14 episodes and acted like series were always that short.
But what was even more annoying is that for a lot of series after about 2010-2013 they would do one cour and leave you on a cliffhanger to try to entice you to go buy the light novels. They used to be fully self contained arcs and stories with 24 episodes to work with.
tbf, 50%+ of the runtime used to be filler too
iirc narutos is like 70% shorter if you cut out all the flashblacks and shit
That was very frustrating. I eventually stopped watching Naruto Shippuden when, in some filler episode, they had a flashback about a time when they had a flashback to remember some sort of technique.
That is the main reason I stopped watch nowadays anime.
I will say, after about ‘24 it started getting better and back to self contained arcs with no large cliffhangers.