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Originally Posted by Arabesque
I think that usually has more to do with the skill of the writer and the scope of the story being more suitable to fewer or more episodes, but I do think that having both series be two cours this time is better, if to only to experiment with the idea of having longer shows and seeing if they get to be better overall than shorter ones, even if I personally prefer the shorter approach.
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While I tend to concede that the skill of a writer can make a single-cour show work I'll have to agree with Reckoner there: in the cases of Sakamichi no Apollon and No. 6 there was a clear mistake in limiting them to such short number of episodes. Both were adaptations with rather interesting settings that were let down by a severe lack of time to develop the story. Single-cour works but the industry has been having significant problems telling more complex stories because of it being the most used format lately. Luckily the split-cour approach seems to be correcting the problem (mostly).