User blog comment:WarrenWitch/Yang nails it, Pyrrha gets her man, Weiss chooses the lesser of two evils...and Ruby hits a crow/@comment-86.12.85.232-20130816192335/@comment-32390199-20130818100149

They said that 16 episodes will be produced before they take a break. Thus meaning season 1 will have 32 episodes. It seems much for a season, but seeing the length of an episode I think that would justify it.