Oldtaku: Anime for Grownups

Unfortunately, shows tend to round up to a full ’season’ of 13 episodes, generally 13, 26, or 52 eps.  Even if they don’t have enough content to sustain that. So you end up with a great opening, great ending, then a middle in which you can tell that several episodes were placed there just to fill things out. Noein: To Your Other Self is a prime example of an otherwise decent anime that suffers from this.

Some series know they don’t have enough content right up front, so they pad things out from the start. Prime examples are Revolutionary Girl Utena and Fushigi Yuugi, both of which are twice as long as they should have been. No big loss for Fushigi Yuugi, but imagine how much better Utena could have been.