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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WizarDru" data-source="post: 469484" data-attributes="member: 151">Well, the thing to keep in mind with DB/DBZ/St. Seiya and their ilk is that the anime covered much more ground than the manga, time-wise.  Dialogue is much slower in anime than manga, but fight scenes (which DBZ is centered around) take far less time...the solution the animators devised (remembering how successful the franchise was)?  Filler episodes and padding.  This was especially a problem when the manga was still in production, and the anime would catch up to it, as often happened with St. Seiya and DBZ.  Ranma is like Urusei Yatsura, in that the main way the plot changes is that extra characters are added.  Eventually you have a gargantuan cast, and most plots boil down to 'add event X, and show how everyone reacts'.  There's nothing wrong with that, but Ranma didn't really have a central story so much as a central relationship, and it's resolution was the only real issue.  This is markedly different from something like, say, Blue Gender, where it's pretty obvious the story is headed somewhere, and that lots of changes occur with the characters.Agreed.  If shows are forced into a certain length, it can really affect their quality.  That said, I think this is a combination of budget constraints and consumer demand.  Further, shows like Big O, Vandread and others are using the 13-episode format as more like a season the way the BBC does.  If the show is successful enough, it gets another season.  If it doesn't, then they had a reasonable run.  The animation quality certainly seems to be higher on the 13-run series that I've seen.  However, having come in on the boat a long time ago, I'm not as tied up with the visuals as some fans are.  Some of today's fans just refuse to watch anime from before the 90s, for this very reason.  Which is a big loss for them, but to each his own.</blockquote>

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