Anime uses continuous episode numbers and the new arc starts with episode 25. Please use the following episode group if you want the episode divided into seasons: https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/210879/episode_group/66fbdc94f2b9c97c1dd63513

So, please make this as a standard. change ONE Piece, Pokémon, and all others anime to episode group please.

@matthewchu said:

So, please make this as a standard.

It is standard and has been for years now.

change ONE Piece, Pokémon, and all others anime to episode group please.

Both of those entries are on our internal anime merge list.

One Piece will be merged into a single season whenever Travis, the admin, has time for it since he's the only one that can merge seasons.

Travis will also consolidate the 1997 Pokémon anime into 8 seasons, one season for each series aired in Japan.

Official website state this as second season with its own season name.

You are actually removing information from the official source because you think you know better than the creators of this anime...

Yes, it is a huge loss of information in addition to being incoherent...

I believe this decision is unfair and insulting to Japanese animate. Each season of Japanese animate has its own representative works, and it cannot be represented by just one season. E specially since sometimes the producers for each season are different. Instead of saying that Japanese animata cannot be divided into seasons, it would be better to say that all TV shows cannot be divided into seasons.

The only one that would make sense, in addition to respecting the seasons (and the real ones), would be to add an absolute number field.

The official site https://rurounikenshin-anime.com/ (in English) also has this as two seasons. The second season has a separate title. This is not like the one in the late 90's. It needs to be separate.

I also believe it was superboy97 who got on me about the Dr. Who citing the official site for that as the reason for starting a new series (based on Disney's ownership and move from BBC). This is the exact same. We are going by the official site. To say otherwise means you're being disingenuous and hypocritical. Basically what you are saying is we mean nothing, what you say goes and you'll use any excuse at the time to justify your responses.

@raze464 said:

Anime uses continuous episode numbers and the new arc starts with episode 25. Please use the following episode group if you want the episode divided into seasons: https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/210879/episode_group/66fbdc94f2b9c97c1dd63513

Not in all cases. This is what you mods don't seem to understand. In a lot of cases this is true, however, as anime became popular further west and much anime was created for/by/in The West, the western method of seasons was adopted. There are a lot of cases of season split anime now.

And for a further addition to the point, even Crunchy Roll has split it off. Note that it's not the episode numbers that we are complaining about as CR does continue the episode numbers. However, if you click "Next Season" The whole season has a new name. So you need to split off the season just because of the season title. https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/G0XHWM1NK/rurouni-kenshin

And one more from your own side. This is the 1996 version where seasons also had different names. They are split because of that. https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/28136/seasons?language=en-US

@RoiDesRois said:

The official site https://rurounikenshin-anime.com/ (in English) also has this as two seasons.

Only the Japanese website matters. And that website uses continuous episode numbers. Please see TMDB's anime-specific guidelines, which supplement the regular TV guidelines that also apply to anime, to understand why this anime has only one season.

I also believe it was superboy97 who got on me about the Dr. Who citing the official site for that as the reason for starting a new series (based on Disney's ownership and move from BBC).

Disney doesn't own Doctor Who nor did the show move from the BBC to Disney. Ncuti Gatwa's incarnation of the Doctor was given its own entry because the BBC website gave the show a new listing, separate from the 2005 revival, and restarted the episode count from S01E01.

@RoiDesRois said:

@raze464 said:

Anime uses continuous episode numbers and the new arc starts with episode 25. Please use the following episode group if you want the episode divided into seasons: https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/210879/episode_group/66fbdc94f2b9c97c1dd63513

Not in all cases.

You are absolutely right that it's not all cases as, for example, Blue Exorcist: Beyond the Snow Saga does not use absolute numbers and actually has the episodes listed on its official website starting from 1, unlike this anime.

This is what you mods don't seem to understand.

We understand it just fine, which is why some anime are merged into single seasons while others are not. Any anime that should be merged but isn't is very likely because it's an old entry that will eventually be merged.

In a lot of cases this is true, however, as anime became popular further west and much anime was created for/by/in The West, the western method of seasons was adopted. There are a lot of cases of season split anime now.

And they would still follow TMDB's TV and anime-specific guidelines based on how the episodes are listed on its official website.

And for a further addition to the point, even Crunchy Roll has split it off. Note that it's not the episode numbers that we are complaining about as CR does continue the episode numbers. However, if you click "Next Season" The whole season has a new name. So you need to split off the season just because of the season title. https://www.crunchyroll.com/series/G0XHWM1NK/rurouni-kenshin

And however Crunchyroll lists the anime is irrelevant because it's not the official website. Anime are not exempt from the regular TV guidelines so the first episode of a season cannot be an episode numbered as 26; it needs to be an episode numbered as 1.

And one more from your own side. This is the 1996 version where seasons also had different names. They are split because of that. https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/28136/seasons?language=en-US

The 1996 anime has 3 seasons because it's an old entry, not because the seasons had different names. The 1996 anime is on our list of anime that need to be merged and the 3 seasons will be merged into a single 94-episode season at some point.

Old anime or not, should be two seasons, that’s all.

@raze464 said:

Anime uses continuous episode numbers and the new arc starts with episode 25. Please use the following episode group if you want the episode divided into seasons: https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/210879/episode_group/66fbdc94f2b9c97c1dd63513

OK, Just one question. How can I set the poster to be used after episode 25? I also believe that there will be exclusive posters for the Jinchu and Hokkaido arcs. How can I load the posters into the episode group? https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/original/oSCASeRJ1NiFUlFSI8X1Nasi4Dl.jpg

I join @matthewchu one season is a huge loss of information and a mix between the different arts.

@raze464 Why no reply? No advice? Or there is no other way to do that without "seasons"?