The most popular hypothesis is that it derives from French cours, cognate to "course" as in "lecture". 3 Note that the English "cour" is effectively a back-formation from cours (which is singular in French), …

However, the split took 2 cours, from 29.03.2008 to 05.10.2008. If not for the 3 months condition, I'd say that this was indeed first series to air in split-cour format.

The reason Angel Beats seems so rushed is that the show was originally planned for 2 cours (24-26 episodes) before being cut down to 1 cour (13 episodes) late in production, at which point it was too …

Mar 31, 2017 · Even if anime season lengths were randomly either 1 or 2 cours, we'd expect to see 50% of two-season anime be "symmetrical". In reality, there is a moderate bias towards 1-cour anime (at …

So a 26 episode series can be referred to as "2 cours". But as far as the length of an anime "season", a 12 episode series run can be referred to as a "season", yet sometimes a 26, or 36, or 201 (Gintama) …

Sep 27, 2016 · Both cours of Active Raid are now over, and I still don't know who Baba Micchi is! As you will recall, Baba Micchi is apparently some person who Sena Souichirou knows, and whenever this …

9 It's the same as Japanese Television seasons (or sometimes referred to as "cours"). There are 4 of them each year and each one lasts roughly 13 weeks. The Wikipedia page for Japanese Television …

May 4, 2016 · Anime releases are also split into cours, 13-week blocks of episodes also sometimes referred to as "seasons". (As described in What is a "cour"? and What defines one "season" of …

7 According to Japanese Wikipedia, the 3rd season has 2 cours which cover chapter 120-217 (?). The first cour (The Third Plate) covers chapter 120-166: Chapter 120-121 Chapter 122-125 Chapter 125 …

Aug 18, 2015 · @Aʟᴀɢᴀʀᴏs Nothing in the post you linked appears to address the particular question of why shows would be specifically split-cour (as UBW and F/Z were) as opposed to two consecutive …