Magi

[Buffalobiian]

They are called cours, and yes, it usually lasts 12-13 episodes. 24-26 episode ones are called 2 cour shows.

That's a less ambiguous alternative.

I had a look on wiki (for whatever credibility that has), and it argues that a season is the US equivalent of a series in the UK. I suppose that validates the use for season to mean more than 13 episodes, but I dislike it since it doesn't make logical sense. Just like how housemates share a house, but the US use roommates to describe people who share the rooms (of a house) when it could be misunderstood elsewhere (due to logic) to mean people who share a room.

[DarthEnderX]

Yeah, in the US, a "season" of TV is all the episodes they make for a year in one continuous chunk.

And since most chunks in the US start in the Fall and continue through to Spring, that's counted as one Season, even though it stretches across two years.

In anime, I just count seasons where every time the series stops, when it starts up again, assuming it actually picks up where the previous one left off, that's a new season.

So shows like Naruto and One Piece don't even have seasons that I recognize. So I just divide it by story arcs in stead.

[lelouch]

Wowww I'm 9 episodes into Season 2. What an improvement! This show is getting awesome. I'm having reminiscences of Yu Yu Hakusho with this 3-way training split.

EDIT: -------------

Just finished marathoning the series (there go all my plans for the day). Holy shit, this was awesome. Why the fuck did I let this slip through my radar? I think when it first came out I saw a little kid on the cover pic and it turned me off. This was like, a mix of game of thrones / yu yu hakusho / FMA. Fking awesome awesome awesome show. When is S3?

I can't help get the feeling that Sinbad will end up as the show's ultimate main antagonist. Anytime these shows have an ally that is so goddamn OP, they end up being the final antagonist. Which makes me sad, I think he's one of my favorite characters of all time.

Good to see that the racist grandpa finally came to his senses, although I can't help but agree with him somewhat. A lot of what he said made a lot of sense. The only hypocrisy in his philosophy was treating the humans the same way they treated the magicians. He should have created a country for magicians without feeding on the weak. Sure the city wouldn't have as many high-tech tools to rely on, but it would have the moral high ground and be free of human corruption.

[DarthEnderX]

Jesus. That's a lot of gushing praise for a series I just thought was okay.

I can't help get the feeling that Sinbad will end up as the show's ultimate main antagonist. Anytime these shows have an ally that is so goddamn OP, they end up being the final antagonist. Which makes me sad, I think he's one of my favorite characters of all time.

I think it's more likely he'll end up killed off at some point when the time comes for the protagonists to become the strongest force of good in the story.

[Buffalobiian]

It could go either way I think. He may not go completely evil (even though he's half-fallen, whatever that means), but he's a direct competitor to Alibaba as far as this "Ideal King of the World" race is concerned. That said, he doesn't have his own Magi so I'm not sure if he's in the race for that or not.

He's an irregular.

I still maintain that the light adventuring days of this series was the best part. All the political stuff gets a bit heavy.

[lelouch]

Jesus. That's a lot of gushing praise for a series I just thought was okay.

I have a thing for fantasy political action series with more than 2 factions (hence why Game of Thrones is my favorite show of all time).

Also, I think "Halhare Infigare" is the coolest casting chant ever. I'm not exactly sure why, but if a girl said it to me I'd prob cream myself.

[Munsu]

Well, I had forgotten to watch the final 2 episodes of the second series, but now I'm done.

I didn't care much for the final fight with the medium or whatever, the fight between the nations preceding it was really good though, quite enjoyed that. And there wasn't enough Morgiana either.

Oh well, time to see if more manga content gets done to warrant another series.