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Edens Zero Franchise's Staff: 'Shiki's Adventure Will Continue'

Did anyone really expect it not to? Big Shonen anime these days just like to do these 2 cour blocks at a time instead of running a long time like the old days.

Did anyone really expect it not to? Big Shonen anime these days just like to do these 2 cour blocks at a time instead of running a long time like the old days.

Did anyone really expect it not to? Big Shonen anime these days just like to do these 2 cour blocks at a time instead of running a long time like in the old days.

Albion Hero wrote:

Did anyone really expect it not to? Big Shonen anime these days just like to do these 2 cour blocks at a time instead of running a long time like in the old days.

i rather have them do 2 cour blocks so we get better quality and less filler shown in MHA and Edens Zero. Black clover , Fairy Tail, One Piece, Bleach etc suffered all from quality issues. Dont take me wrong i like them. But for exampleif they had more time Fairy Tail last seasons would've looked much better than at times playing a slide show.

Considering that MHA had lots of production issues during S5 you shouldn't take the seasonal format at face value. According to some animators some later episodes were finished last minute. Seasonal stopped being a guarantee for consistent quality a long time ago. And while Edens Zero was well produced it wasn't devoid of limited animation either. On the other side of the coin long runners like Boruto and One Piece show that you can have consistent and ambitious production values on a regular basis too. A notable animator said that seasonal shows nowadays tend to have tigher schedules in comparison. It's not black and white like it used to be in the past.

On the other side of the coin long runners like Boruto and One Piece show that you can have consistent and ambitious production values on a regular basis too. A notable animator said that seasonal shows nowadays tend to have tigher schedules in comparison. It's not black and white like it used to be in the past.

Matros wrote:

On the other side of the coin long runners like Boruto and One Piece show that you can have consistent and ambitious production values on a regular basis too. A notable animator said that seasonal shows nowadays tend to have tigher schedules in comparison. It's not black and white like it used to be in the past.

This makes sense, actually. For something like One Piece, with a consistent episode a week, more or less, every episode gets basically the same amount of time to work on it and the pre-production period has been over for decades. But a studio that works on four shows a year…the pre-production period for the later shows is going to be happening at the same time as active production for the earlier shows. Obviously, an animation team isn’t gonna be the same for all four, but it’s pretty easy to see how that approach compresses production time in a way that an endlessly running show won’t need to deal with.