Why did this dumb term become normalized? What was wrong with "season" or "part"?
>seasonRetard.
How many seasons does One Piece have
>seasonnot all anime start airing at the same time or have the same number of episodes>partparts can be longer than a season or a cour
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>>287443810About tree fiddy years ago
We hating on cours now?
>Why did this standardized unit of measurement become normalized? What was wrong with these units that are so ambiguous as to mean nothing?Dumbass.
>>287443810Has nothing to do with either of them and just tells you that an anime is being released in separate seasons.
>>287443810A season can have 2 cours.
>>287443810Because it's a word the Japanese use that helpfully describes how their broadcast schedules work in a way that "season" and "part" do not.
>>287443810Season is already used. Cours are part of a season. Part is just confusing.
>>287443976So why not just call them Season 1 and Season 2?>>287443980So why not just call them Season 1 Part 1 and Season 1 Part 2?
>>287443810It's French and you gobbled an s, OPCOURSwith Smeaning courseget it right.Cour without s means yard or court.
>>287444010What separates the parts?
>>287444010Attack on titan did that, now list the watch order without googling it.
>>287444032A time-break?
>>287444027It's Japanese actually.
>>287444027The fr*nch language is unworthy of respect.
>>287444090So you don't use ANY French words, right anon?
The time before "seasons" and "cours" was better. Back when a show got one run of either roughly 12-13 eps or 24-26 eps and an original ending and that was it. With the bizarre exceptions like shounen fighting and mahou shoujo shows.
>>287443945>We hating on cours now?I prefer Jager but I'll drink it
>>287443810Just popping my head in here to tell you that you're right and all these french wannabe fags are cringe and gay.
>>287444061There aren't necessarily any breaks between cours.
IIRC a cour corresponds exactly to a 3-month period broadcast.
>>287444148Are the japs, gay too? , they use cours.
>>287444063In the same sense that miruku is japanese.
>>287444198Glad we agree.
>>287444180>french wannabeYes.
>>287444180Correct, the east has fallen.
>>287443984>>287444178These.
>>287444010Part implies there's a break between them. When an anime airs 24 episodes straight, that's one season. And it lasted for 2 cours.
Sad that then those trying to correct OP are getting it wrong The last /a/non who was even vaguely aware that anime comes from the real foreign country of Japan caught AIDS from an otokonoko hooker and died
>>287444063It's Japanese originating from the French word cours, actually actually.
>>287444271Everyone knows japan isn't real, anime comes from the anime dimension.
>>287444272What do western tv shows call it when the show only lasts 12-13 eps?
>>287444271>real foreign country>JapanNot even /a/ will fall for this.
>>287444010Part has no clearly identifiable length. Part 2 could be one cours, two cours, less than a cours and whatnot.
>>287444255What is the point of making this distinction? Episodes 1-12 and 13-24 are all a part of the same season. When talking about season n, you're not going to be referring to the second half as some kind of separate entity.
>>287444354Whatever could be the use case for a unit of measurement
Is this the best hipsters can do?Make a fuss about an easily understandable term?What's next? Crying about using "they" for a singular, unidentified person?
>>287443810Its french, the Japanese copied it over from them so since that's how they format it that's how we format it. And it has an actual use, a season of television as we would define it in English as well as how the Japanese would define it can span multiple cours which are literal seasons. Brits avoid this by calling seasons series, but in English that also refers to a show as a whole so it can be a mess either way.
>>287444400Well go on then, list them.
>>287444354>When talking about season n, you're not going to be referring to the second half as some kind of separate entity.But we do? End of cour climactic episodes are a thing too.
>>287444354>>287444426Because you want to talk about how cours 1 starts at a particular time then even continuous shows often have a small break between the cours to align with broadcasting schedules so cours 2 can start at another time. If you are talking about seasonal anime seasonally then it has a use case, and since that's mostly what this board does it has a use case. Also relevant for the fairly common split cours, one half airs in spring and the second in fall and such things.Obviously nobody gives a fuck about cours for anime that have finished airing.
>>287444426Gnosia is a 2 cour anime. You hear that and you instantly know it's not over once the 12th episode airs. It's not 2 seasons, it concluded after one. It's not made of 2 parts, it was made in one production cycle and aired mostly uninterrupted.It's an easy way to say how many episodes you can expect.
At least it's not as annoying as that bullshit AoT did.
Anime X consists of two parts, each with two different protagonists:- Part 1, featuring Protagonist 1, consists of two seasons, each with 24 episodes.The first 12 episodes of the first season air in the summer of 2025; this is the first cour.The remaining episodes air in the winter of 2025; this is the second cour.- Part 2, featuring Protagonist 2, consists of two seasons, each with 24 episodes.The first 12 episodes of the first season air in the summer of 2026; this is the first cour.The remaining episodes air in the winter of 2026; this is the second cour.
>>287444354Many series don't get a full season or the season is broken up in between. So you get 12 eps straight and then a break of 3 months and then 12 eps again. So this would be a split cour show.
>>287444010You want us to talk like ths USB council
>>287444497>AoTEotena Onslaught*
>>287444354Cour is used to describe the duration. When they announce a new anime, they'll usually say it will run for 2 cours. So you know that means it's going to air for 6 months straight, so you're getting 23-26 episodes. And some people might say "I hope the second cour is better" instead of "second half".
>another thread where a retard says something retarded, farms some (You)s and then says he was only pretending
>>287444112No, I disrespect them by pronouncing them all wrong. Beef. Liberty. Niche. Arch. Clergy. Regime.
>>287444590It's cours, singular and plural.
>>287443810Doesn't that word just mean heart?
>>287444938that's coeur
>>287444938Does this mean TV scheduling is based and Kubo-pilled?
why not just "course"?
>>287444440That's just what a story arc is.>>287444476You are practically twisting yourself into a knot there by desperately avoiding the word "part" or even "half", which would perfectly fit your scenario.>>287444478So what you're saying is that newfags simply aren't used to shows having more than 12 episodes. Also, they can just announce that an anime will have x amount of episodes to avoid the future confusion. >>287444520But that's still just what a "half" or a "part" is. There being a break in between is largely irrelevant. >>287444590So is it going to air for six months straight or will there be a three moths break in between? I'm getting mixed messages here. >And some people might...Cuz they've conditioned themselves to use this word to sound smarterer, I guess.
>>287445066>they can just announce that an anime will have x amount of episodes to avoid the future confusionHow many episodes is Liar Game going to have? I can tell you it's going to be 2 cours.
>>287443810Blame MAL for splitting entries of shows which have season long break and adding parts.
This fucking thread:
>>287445094You sound like a skubist.
>>287445094Hey, at least Skub cured my puppy's cancer.
>>287445084That was my point? They should just announce the exact number of planned episodes to avoid the confusion.
it's just a fancier way of calling it a "half"
>>287445066If a series has four cours then a half will have two cours. In some cases we don't know how long a series will run, this was especially true in the past when series were longer.
>>287445152Okay? Go tell people in Japan that.
>>287445045Course just sounds like your going on a ship or something.>X anime course 1.
>>287445156Stop using the word "cour". GOD. It doesn't have any fucking cours. It has 128 episodes. That's it. Split it into seasons if it makes sense and if the showrunners actually made this distinction.
>suspected it was by the french>confirmedAlways them, the bastards.
>>287445249Hiding your head in the sand and yelling loudly that it doesn't exist won't stop it being a term that people find useful.
>>287445066>But that's still just what a "half" or a "part" is. There being a break in between is largely irrelevant.But other series only run 12-13 eps total. They cannot be called half or part. Because that is all they are. They are a 1 cour series.
>>287445249Where in my post did I say "cour"?
>>287445291You still haven't explained why the word "part" or even "half" can't be used in its stead. Aside from alluding to it making Americans confused, I guess.>>287445305That's just a one-season show. Whether it was split or not is irrelevant. >>287445314Take a break.
>>287445431>You still haven't explained>>287444478
A cour is a designation of time, i.e. three months.
>>287445431>That's just a one-season show.It doesn't last a full season if its only 12-13 eps
cour blimey
/a/nons have lost the art of saying "lurk 2 years before posting, retard" instead of getting bogged down in weird arguments like this
>>287445452According to this guy >>287445305 a show can have only 12 episodes and be a one cour show. You guys seem to all have your own definition for this cour thing. How convenient.>>287445491What?
>>287445582Cours can have 13 episodes. A cours corresponds to a three month broadcast season.
>>287445463Stop saying cour like the ignorant retard. It's cours.
>>287445752Cours is plural.
>>287445763And singular.
>>287445723You just literally said "season" in your very post. I'm sorry, I am struggling to understand what you are trying to communicate to me here.
>>287445431>why the word "part" or even "half" can't be used in its stead.There have been several explanations for that. There's still no real reason why cours shouldn't be used.
>>287445846Do you understand the difference between a broadcast season, e.g. spring season, and a season of a show, e.g. season 4 of Iruma-kun?
>>287443810Because when you ask how long a show is, "one season" doesn't give any information. "Cour" is cleaner than saying "10-14 episodes", "two cour" is cleaner than "20-28 episodes", and "split cour" is cleaner than "20-28 episodes, but they're not airing continuously and will instead be split into two batches of 10-14 episodes".It's also useful for longer shows like, let's say, Hirogaru Sky Pretty Cure, where the general is defeated every 13 episodes and replaced with a new one. So the series is naturally split up into chunks of 13-ish. "Second cour" makes it clear they're talking about the Battamonda episodes, while "part 2" could mean a LOT of things. Especially in stuff like Kodocha where there are ACTUAL second seasons.
>>287443810>implying cour is a newer term than partNewfag.
>>287445855Well, judging by the replies, most people here who use this term don't actually know what it means. Some think that it's used to denote an amount of episodes; some insist that it's to show a break between them; others believe that it's to make it clear that a show will run for six months straight. No offence, but you guys need to come to some kind of agreement here before insisting that the term has a legitimate usage.>>287445916Yeah, seasons do matter. A single season is the sum of all its parts. The actual time of year a show takes place in doesn’t matter. Even if it aired in separate parts over multiple seasons (spring and summer for example), it still comes together as one complete season for a show.
Are there seriously this many people on this board that think the singular is cour?
>>287443810Tourist
>>287446363Nouncour (plural cours)A three-month unit of television broadcasting, corresponding to one of the four seasons.https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cour
>>287446359>some insist that it's to show a break between them;Who said that? All talk about breaks is trying to understand what a season or part is supposed to be.> others believe that it's to make it clear that a show will run for six months straight.That's what two cours means and that's how >>287444590 and >>287444255used it.Talking about seasons of a series is a complete mess and parts is hardly any better. The only one who seems to have trouble understanding cours is you, everybody else knows that it's three months worth of episodes, normally 12 or 13 episodes.
>>287446442I'd give ANN more authority on that than Wiktionary. Some idiots even use cour as a plural form but that doesn't make it correct.
Why does OP love it so much? What was wrong with "eating pussy"?
>>287447791>What was wrong with "eating pussy"?Everything. Sucking dicks is fun and cum is delicious. I would know.
>>287444497This
>>287443810I hate the French too, but Japan's language consists of 70% loanwords from other languages so we're just going to have to deal with it in this particular case. It is common for the Japanese terms for unique Japanese concepts, regardless of their origin, to be used outside of Japan, rather than attempting to localize them and lose their meaning. Nobody else does cour except the Japanese, a cour is neither a season nor a part, so we use the term cour to describe what cour are.
>>287449409OP please, this is a hetero board. Tone down your flaming homosexual faggot tendencies
>>287449849>this is a hetero boardHahahahahahahaha faggot.
>>287443810Season and part imply a distance, cours can air consecutively.
It's color, not colour.
>>287443887Always wondered how the eternal shows were renewed. Be it a 48-52 week/episode basis or if they bought/ordered enough slots to finish arcs at a time, or if they still worked on 13/26 blocks.
>>287446442You forgot the important part>Anime News Network's Lexicon Encyclopedia dictates the original cours to be unchanged in singular form, though that has been reanalyzed as a plural form.The important bit here is reanalyzed - in this case it means that a word with ending -s is wrongly recognized as a plural form and an incorrect singular form without -s is created and used. Yes, it is used. No, it is not correct.Corps? final -s, that's a plural form, corp is the singular, right?Anime and manga? no final -s, must be singular, the plurals are animes and mangas, right?Both wrong, but the dictionaries are undermining our valiant efforts to keep the original and only correct form ANIME and MANGA.And in this case, COURS.Oh well, languages change. Only headdesking left.
Cour is not really used anymore, retards, and even retarded official sources, just use "seasons" to refer to anything,
Did you know that OP and ED are japanese invented terms?
>>287452218>and even retarded official sources, just use "seasons" to refer to anything,>letting netflix dictate what language you use
>>287443810Season =/= cour, precure is the perfect example of that you massive retard
Nigga just say "13 episodes"
>>287443810>"Cour">"When we fucking feel like releasing it"Because episodes releases are measured in years now.......
>>287452218https://www.witstudio.co.jp/works/2026/04/1659.html>4月4日(土) より2クール連続放送開始！https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dv3ZhzxtbQY>第2クール本予告https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P68RS8F1MXk>第3クール第26話https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clEGvS_ZOOw>第1クールhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcDdRr_1R-w>第2クール}Sure thing, bud.
>>287443810Because cours is the term that japanese broadcasting companies use to refer to the 12-13 week bundles that programming slots can be booked in.Shows are produced to fit into programming slots so it both determines how many episodes will be in a single run and how those runs will be spaced out. Some shows run only 1 cours, others run 2 cours back to back or split cours with a gap in the middle to avoid an expensive or highly competitive programming slot.Since cours inform both how anime are produced and how they are distributed, it's the most sensible way to talk about shows that you follow as they air.
>>287452786I was mostly referring to online discussion when I said it's not that used anymore. Also, note the "retarded official sources" part the post, the ones you posted don't fall in that category.
>>287452466Yeah how about that Attack on Titan season 3 part 2 and Fire Force season 3 part 2 shit?
>>287452524>Nigga just say "12 doughnuts".No, we have specialty terms for a reason.
media piece -> series -> sagas not sure which one is more wrong to use that or season -> cour
If I can't call them cours I'm going to start calling them laps. You've been warned.
>>287454361>unfrenching yourselfDon't threaten us with a brighter future.
>>287449768>English speaker complaining about Japanese using french loanwoards>Estimates vary, but the general belief is that 35%, 40%, or possibly as many as 45% of the English dictionary have words of French origin.[1]
>>287444295A season.Netflix will also call a 24 episode production season released in two cours two distinct seasons of a show.
You can have a cour air back to back, with a 6 month gap or even a fucking year gap. It's a nonsense term that gets people confused on where a season starts or ends so now you can't go based on broadcast date you have to look up a wiki to talk about anything.
>>287455627But not as confusing as having say Season 3 'part 1' and then 'part 2'. It's so fucking annoying what this industry have become ever since SnK started that shit.
>>287455627Correction: you can have 2 cours air back to back, with a 6 month gap, or even a fucking year gap.A cours will never be split into parts, that's the whole point of it. It's a single broadcast season, and anime is produced in cours-based blocks. Like a baker baking in batches of a dozen, two dozen, four dozen, etc. It's a perfectly simple, reasonable term, and only complete retards or trolls seem to have an issue with it.
je ne sais quoi, chuu
>>287456304>It's a single broadcast seasonSo why not just say season then? >"The winter season of attack on titan was ass.">"Attack on titan will air for two seasons."
>>287455085I don't hate the French language, I hate the French.
>>287456422Because there's a term for it, and that term is cour.
>>287454238>for a reason.brevity is a weak reason, more words should always be used over less when possible.
>>287457234No.
I just want to mention something.Anime tend to NOT announce the total true episode count until after the show finished. This is because they are giving themselves breathing room to have recap episodes if things go wrong. So cour number is what is announced for how long it is. Most of the time if we know the episode count then cour is less useful. But as it is anime studios just refuse to tell us any more than how many cours are booked.
>>287457118That's something the Japanese and possibly the French specifically use because of how their broadcasting blocks work over there. The word "cours" doesn't communicate anything special about a show's structure or overall runtime that words like "season", "part" or "half-season" wouldn't also convey.
>>287457349It's far more accurate and precise than the terms you're using.
>>287457796In what way? >"Gnosia is a two cours show.">"Gnosia will have 24 episodes.">"Gnosia will air for two seasons.">"Gnosia's second cours starts in April.">"Gnosia's second half starts in April.">"Gnosia's season 1 resumes in two moths.""Cours" is not some 1000 times folded term that you need to be this japanese.jpg to understand. You yourself used the term interchangeably with "season" in this very thread.
>>287457921>Tensura's 4th season will air for five seasons.>The fifth half will air in 2027.
>>287458054>Tensura's 4th season will being in April 2026 and will air till winter 2027Why do you insist on splitting a single season into these tiny pieces as if it matters? These are all just parts that make up a single season. This is ridiculous. I am going to bed.
>>287458116>will air till winter 2027Not even remotely accurate.
>>287443810It's a cour because it's a cour-ter of the year.A season or part isn't necessarily 12-13 episodes, so it's an important distinction.
>>287456422Because a season of anime is a single production, regardless of length. S1 is produced all in one go, whether it's one cours or two (or more). S2 is a separate production started afterwards, etc.Imagine a baker can only bake donuts in batches of twelve. One person orders one batch, another orders two batches. Both are just a single order, but they're different sizes, and that's important information. You could speak in terms of exact numbers ordered, but since everything is standardized in batches of 12 it's far more convenient to use 'dozen' instead - first guy ordered one dozen, second ordered two dozen. It's far simpler to talk about batches of one, three, or seven dozen than batches of twelve, thirty-six, or eighty-four.Conversely, a person orders a dozen donuts one day, then comes back later that week and orders another dozen - two dozen total. But that's not the same as ordering two dozen all at once. Simply referring to each dozen as 'first dozen, second dozen' etc. loses important information - and now you're eating week-old stale donuts you thought were freshly baked.
>>287444010is cour is just a term's worth of episodes
>>287443810the strangest part of it all is claims like >>287443980 where you look at a "season" with 2 "cours" and the cours are split up by literal spring/summer/winter/fall seasons.if anything cour=season but we use season wrong.
>>287443810I dunno, I got over it. They said the japs said it, that was good enough for me.
After the absolute mess that was Attack on Titan's release I stopped any annoyance I had with cour. Season does not work for anime and you have Attack on Titan to thank for that.
>>287457921I haven't used the word season once in this thread, nor am I a weeb. I just care about using the correct terms for things, that convey the accurate meaning. A cour is not a season, no matter how much you screech about it. It is a distinct concept.
>>287443810Cour has a specific meaning (12 or 13 episodes), whereas season does not.
>>287458370In the West, the term season traditionally refers to three whole seasons, autumn through spring, with specific breaks made at specific times, more-or-less, in accordance with holidays, and when people are more likely to watch the advertisements accompanying the series and write in a physical journal about what they watched then turn in to a company that collects these and sets advertising prices accordingly.Now with streaming services and "prestige television", seasons are now 7 or 8 episodes because that's all they can afford to make, which start airing at random times throughout the year, with the first two episodes airing together because they need to pad the watched hours metric that first week, after which they show the next two episodes a week apart, then take a three week long break so people subscribe an extra month to the subscription service, and the actual content is just a movie that's been stretched out with a bunch of useless filler and long pauses where the characters stare at each other because nobody knows how to write for TV anymore and really should have just made a movie with a 100 minute runtime.The Japanese cour system is clearly a distinct thing. In Japan a season is a production, which closes up shop as soon as it ends, regardless of how many cour it is. If they decide to make another season, they restart, possibly with some of the same people involved, as an entirely new production. Cour remains a useful term for indicating the length of a production.
>>287443810I will never use this word
>>287458738If anything I'd say the term 'season' refers to the same thing in both the West and Japan - it's a single production block of a show. It's just that the (traditional) Western system is a year-long cycle, with the vast majority of shows having one production block per cycle, hence one season per year. But there are exceptions, with the occasional western show airing at odd times of the year, being split into multiple production blocks and having more than one season per year, etc. The Japanese system has the four-cours-per-year system, so measuring seasons (aka production blocks) in cours makes sense.
>>287456475oh okay
In Japanese tv there are 4 seasons. There's a winter season. There's a spring season. There's a summer season. There's a fall season.If you have an anime that's 4 of these seasons long do you simply say it's 4 seasons long? What's that mean in English? Is it 4 years long? Is it 1 year long? Is it half that? A quarter of that? Some other number arising from a different combination of seasons? What if there were 48 episodes done by one studio, an intervening 5 years, and then 24 done by a new studio? What do you call those? When you say cour everyone knows what you mean. A four cour anime is a single season season spanned over a year worth of Japanese tv seasons. A 2 cour anime is a single season spanned over half a year. A split cour is an anime that runs for one season, takes one ore more seasons off, and then resumes.Notice how my post is droning on and on as I have to explicitly explain this shit to you? Know how you avoid that? You just say cour and everyone knows what the fuck you mean, which is why we still say it after 20 years.
