Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-25266931-20161117022318/@comment-25936766-20161118223034

KNN005 wrote: If every episode was a full 30mins I would make the whole series one long 50 episode series and be done. The problem is the budget. Money. It's one of the main reasons most animes these days have 12 episodes-long seasons, at most around 24. It's become too expensive to make a good-looking anime with dozens of episodes. Most of the ones that still do are long-runners, backed by big companies and popularity built over years or decades.

Now, let's compare how RWBY in Vol.1 barely even had a budget. Hence the terrible visuals, cringeworthy animation out of fights, inconsistent episode length (unless you treat both halves of an episode as just 1 episode, but that's arguable), yada yada.

It got better later, but it makes the difference in quality between Vol.2 and 1 more shocking. We should be glad the episodes now can be all -18+ minutes long.

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For spinoffs, there are many options available. One focused on STRQ in their in-training days as a team, one focused on the villains's backstories like I saw My Little Pony: FiM do, and so on.