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What are typical release cycles that are used for manga chapters or anime
episodes?

I'm not asking for specific mangas/animes but simply how often on
chapter/anime could be released, eg weekly or monthly.


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What are typical release cycles?


The most typical release cycle for a manga chapter is either weekly or
monthly. A lot of times the magazine will have its release schedule in the
name--[Weekly Shounen
Jump](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weekly_Sh%C5%8Dnen_Jump), [Monthly Shounen
Magazine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monthly_Sh%C5%8Dnen_Magazine). Others,
like [Ribon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribon) or [Manga Time Kirara
Carat](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manga_Time_Kirara_Carat) (which are both
monthly) don't offer such clues.

Some magazines operate on other schedules: [Hana to
Yume](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hana_to_Yume) comes out twice a month,
while [Dengeki
Moeoh](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dengeki_Daioh#Special_editions) comes out
every other month. Wikipedia has a [list of manga
magazines](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_manga_magazines) that give
the release schedules of various magazines.

If you buy tankoubon such as the ones released outside Japan, you can usually
tell which manga were weekly and which were monthly by the length of the
chapters. One volume of a weekly manga contains about ten chapters. One volume
of a monthly or bimonthly manga will only contain 3-5 chapters, but the
chapters will be longer so the page count is about the same.

Anime pretty much are released one episode per week, every week, barring the
occasional preemption by a sports game that runs late or delay due to natural
disaster. You can go on the page for a simulcasting show on Crunchyroll and
see the exact day and time when new episodes of a show come out. For instance,
the current season's [Flying Witch](http://www.crunchyroll.com/flying-witch)
comes out Saturdays at 3:00 PM Pacific Time.

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"?](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/7977/what-is-a-cour) and
[What defines one "season" of
anime?](https://anime.stackexchange.com/q/1971/7579).) Some shows, such as
Madoka, Bakemonogatari, and Ore Imo, run one cour in length. Others, such as
Kill la Kill, Fate/Zero, and Monogatari Series Second Season, run two cours,
or 24-26 episodes. Still others, such as Full Metal Alchemist 2003, run four
cours, or about 51 episodes. And some, like One Piece, have completely
transcended the cour system and just run until the generation of viewers who
were alive when it started has died off and no one remembers how Zoro and Nami
joined the crew anymore.


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