In comparison, according to [1] MyAnimeList has 17′868 entries.
Wikipedia states that "As of 2008, the site claimed to have 4.4 million anime and 775,000 manga entries" - this has to be an error.
[1] https://www.quora.com/How-many-animes-are-in-the-world [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MyAnimeList
Which means, for example, Attack on Titan/Shingeki no Kyojin doesn't count as only one entry. It counts as at least 6 entries based on seasons/cours alone, and more if you count OVAs, specials, and recap movies.
MAL Search Result for Attack on Titan/Shingeki no Kyojin: https://myanimelist.net/anime.php?cat=anime&q=attack%20on%20...
I know weebs go nuts for for "just according to keikaku" *keikaku means plan but this one is just baffling to me.
Why use a loan word that itself is a loan word that just comes back to season?
For all their "improvements and updates" Anime Taizen doesn't seem to be holding up very well against the traffic.
I was curious about the 100 year claim. It's likely anime existed much longer but Namakura Gatana is often considered the oldest surviving Japanese animation and it's on youtube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jybHrUxO78g)
> Kamishibai (紙芝居, "paper play") is a form of Japanese street theater and storytelling that was popular during the Great Depression of the 1930s and the post-war period in Japan until the advent of television.
> Kamishibai were performed by a kamishibaiya ("kamishibai narrator") who travelled to street corners with sets of illustrated boards that they placed in a miniature stage-like device and narrated the story by changing each image.
The oldest surviving clip of Japanese animation from 1917 (which was delightful by the way, thanks for posting the link) - I think we can recognize that there's already a visual language established, the way the characters are drawn. It's crude, but there's surprising sophistication, which seems to imply a historical context of trial and error over generations.
> Kamishibai has its earliest origins in Japanese Buddhist temples, where Buddhist monks from the 8th century onward used emakimono ("picture scrolls") as pictorial aids for recounting their history of the monasteries, an early combination of picture and text to convey a story.
anidb is a (truly wonderful) monster.
> 13898 Anime
The new site does seem to have more entries, but I haven't checked what the differences are exactly (e.g. are some things counted in one but not in other). For example the table shows 36 movies from 1910s, in AniDB there is only 26 (search with start time between 1.1.1910 and 1.1.1920, the only entries are movies).
The files are fansubs/rips/etc. Each file has hashes and information about container and the streams in it (codec, resolution, bitrate for video, also the language for audio and subs). Also whether the ep is censored if applicable, whether it's a dvdrip/bdrip/streamrip... a ton of information.
anidb.net and cal.syoboi.jp seemed more complete with cross references.
Well, or rather, consider the following (Ascention of a Bookworm S3): a 26 episode series airs in fall and winter, making it a two-cour anime; it's not a two-seaon anime because it's actually the third linearally related show.
We could call it the second sequel instead of the third season, but this doesn't seem to happen.
It's been widely used long before Shirobako. But otherwise yeah. It's the subdivision of a season of a show (group of episodes produced together) that fits within a season of television (around 12 weeks). The options in English are too clunky or not specific enough for the context in which people say "cours".
I always get a kick of hearing people hesitate when deciding whether to pronounce it French-like, English-like, or Japanese-like.